Don't be afraid to mix and match pieces
Mixing different styles and pieces of furniture can create a unique and personalized look - just make sure they are of similar materials and colour tones to ensure your living room doesn't look cluttered.
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This will be our number one tip. Contrast your sofas, but then pull in different patterns with pillows. It's an instant way to mix and match as you please. Bonus point: If you keep a neutral background with two different sofas, it's easy to switch these out on your latest whim.
Choose Complimentary Colors
My best suggestion would be to choose two complementary colors and a neutral to tie them together and go from there. When looking to match mismatched pieces, it's important to not get carried away! You know me - I'm not saying don't add color, but make sure you don't go overboard.
If so, here's some good news. You don't have to match all the wood furniture in a room. In fact, your design may actually look much better if you throw away this old rule and go with pieces you love in the finishes you love.
Create a Cohesive Color Story
“Layer by adding colorful pillows, throws, lampshades, artwork, and unique accessories for the room, and the design starts evolving and becoming cohesive. It is very much like a painting; you have to keep adding color and forms to integrate the parts that do not work.”
Is it OK to mix and match sofas and chairs? Contrary to what you've been told, it really is possible to style those potentially mismatched items together in a way that is personal, homely and coordinated. Your sofa and chair don't have to match perfectly.
You can have two different sofas in your living room. You can mix and match the colors of your sofas. Use complementary colors from the color wheel. As long as you follow those rules while decorating, then your non-matching sofas will look great.
By far the most common furniture layout mistake is poor flow. Every commonly walked “path” within a space (to closets, outside doors, other rooms and major pieces of furniture) should be comfortably clear—a good rule of thumb is to keep 3 feet of space open.
Your furniture doesn't necessarily have to match. However, you need to find a combination that ensures cohesion for your room despite the differences in colors or patterns. Make sure the different pieces coordinate well so that your room doesn't appear chaotic.
The answer is yes and no because it all boils down to your personal preferences! Mixing and matching different styles and pieces of furniture can create a more personalized and unique feel, while opting for living room sets create a cohesive look.
The trick is to ensure that everything ties together. The whole point of mixing styles is to create a space that truly defines you, and can't be re-created somewhere else. It's all about finding the right balance of color, texture, style and proportion to create a unified and visually appealing look.
You can have two different sofas in your living room. You can mix and match the colors of your sofas. Use complementary colors from the color wheel. As long as you follow those rules while decorating, then your non-matching sofas will look great.
While the average sofa should last between 7 and 15 years, signs of wear and tear are likely to appear before then – especially if it's a well-loved sofa. Luckily, there are ways you can make your sofa appear just as beautiful as the day you bought it.
As a general rule, you don't want to place a sofa in front of a door because you don't want to block it, and you don't want people to walk into the back of the sofa.
By placing a floor covering in the middle of the room, you can bring those staple pieces of furniture together and make the space more cohesive. An area rug will connect the furniture in your living room. Throw pillows make a comforting statement on any piece of furniture.
While mixing wood tones is perfectly acceptable—and in fact, we encourage it—it always helps to pick a dominant wood tone as a starting point to help you choose other pieces to bring in the room. If you have wood floors, your work here is done — those are your dominant wood tone.
The key to mixing woods is keeping the undertones consistent. Woods with warm undertones will look yellow or red - think Cherry, Mahogany, and Hickory. These woods will work well together, even if they vary in darkness and grain. Cool-toned woods will look a little bit grey, like Ash, Maple, Poplar, or Pine.
No plywood, particle board, MDF, veneers, engineered woods or other composite wood products allowed anywhere in our furniture, because they can pollute indoor air quality, including with high levels of formaldehyde (a human carcinogen).