8 Great Ways To Create A Focal Point In A Living Room
What’s the first thing you look at when you walk into your living room? The window view on to the street or the garden? Your fireplace? Maybe it’s the tv? All of those things are classed as focal points in your living room.
Perhaps there is nowhere in particular your eye catches first. You might have no focal points in your living room. Or more than one feature in your living room. Here are all the tips and some ideas on how to create a focal point ideal for your living room space.
WHY HAVE A LIVING ROOM FOCAL POINT?
You might be thinking that your living room is fine and there is no need to have a focal point. But having a main focal point is a good starting point in how to arrange your living room layout. It’s the starting point around your living room design. And it’s a central point or feature that stands out the room.
It maybe that your living room already has built in features that can serve as you main focal point. If that’s the case it makes choosing a main focal point a whole lot easier. A focal point is a feature that is the first place to draw a person’s attention. It helps invites a person into your living room.
Can a living room have two focal points?
With a larger living room space, you might have more than one focal point.
You should still only have one main focal point. If this is the case you can make one a secondary focal point. Meaning it doesn’t draw as much attention as your main focal point.
Decide what the main function and purpose of living room space. That will help you decide what your main focal point should be.
If you want a more calming space it might be a window view. So you’d arranging your seating area and the rest of the room around the window. For a cozy living room you main feature might be the fireplace.
When you have two feature points that are close together, consider bringing the two together to make one main focal point. For example hanging the tv above your fireplace mantel. This is instead of having a main and a secondary focal point.
How To Choose Your Focal Point
Stand in the main doorway or entrance into your living room and make of note of what you see straight away. You might have more than one feature in the living room. Especially if it’s an open plan concept living room. So just make one feature stand out more than the other so they’re not competing against each other.
For the primary focal point pick out a feature that is easiest to see when walking in the room without having to turn your head. And make that the feature to grab the most of the attention.
1. Fireplace FOCAL POINT
If you have a fireplace in your home, that can be a beautiful feature to focus on. Whether its a modern fireplace or an original feature if you own an older home. You might want to leave the fireplace as is and just style it with a few personal features.
2. Window View
A garden view helps connect you to the outside even when your indoors. So if you have a garden view from your living room this might be the natural thing to draw attention. Make the most of the view by choosing your window treatments to frame the view.
Or add a bench seat or a small seating area with a side table and chair close to the window. And make sure your main seating area is arranged around the window view. So that wherever anyone sits the view is what they’ll see.
3. A Large Piece Of Furniture
Using a large piece of furniture like a sofa or a large sectional might be ideal for your living room. This can work well if you haven’t got any built in interior features like a fireplace or not such a great window view.
A large statement mirror can also work wonders in creating a point of attention for the living room space.
4. Interior Niche
You might have an interior niche in your living room. Depending on the depth of it you could turn it into something functional or just a decorative feature for your living room. The same thing applies if you have bookshelves you can decorate.
5. ArtWORK FOCAL POINT
Using art is a great way of creating a focal point. It maybe a large canvas or a gallery wall that you want to your guests to notice first. Or the art piece maybe of significance or of importance to you that has an impact on you every time you see it.
6. FOCUS ON THE Ceiling
Your living room may have gorgeous high ceilings. And that’s something you can also use as a focal point. You can draw attention to the ceiling with colour making the space seem extra open and airy.
Using wallpaper, pattern, contrasting colours or detailing on the ceilings is another way of creating interest in an unexpected place.
Other house features like beams original or faux is an idea you can use when creating interest in your living room.
7. Light Fixture
Choosing an amazing light fixture is one of the top ideas for a focal point. As it’s something you can see from more than one angle in the living room. Adding a beautiful chandelier or pendant light could be your primary focal.
Just make sure you check the weights of light and if your ceiling can hold up the weight and size.
8. Incorporating Your TV
The television is a common focal point for the living room. Although a tv maybe not the best focal point to focus on. Instead of having a black screen floating about, think on how you can incorporate the tv as part of a bigger element.
You could have a media wall that includes the tv. Or painting the wall your tv is on a darker colour to fade the tv out. If you have a smart tv, you could even make the tv a part of gallery wall so when it’s turned off it could be part of your feature wall.
Another option is having your tv above the fireplace. Or use sliding doors to create a focal point when the tv isn’t in use.
Think about what your living room is mainly used for. You might do a lot of reading in your living room. If so it’s more like a reading room. So picking out a feature other than the tv would make sense for you as your living room focal point.
But if the living room is mainly for relaxing then picking out the tv would be the better option for your space. Remember if you have no focal point you can create one.
Hope these tips for creating a focal point in your living room helped.
Chloe
For many inhabitants of studio apartments and small homes, the question is not just how to make the living room furniture layout work; it s how to make it all work in a way that serves ten purposes while still leaving room to breathe. A living room is often the hub of a house, but when it’s cramped and narrow, choosing and arranging furniture can feel like an impossible math problem. The good news is that it’s possible to have a small living room that can do it all and still feel (relatively) spacious.
Yes with small space you definitely have to get more creative!