1. How to Make a Furniture Plan Deborah Ogden

4. Please, please, measure and plot the furniture, to scale, on a plan, before you buy!

13. The focal point in this room is the fireplace:

14. This sofa is in a “floating position”

16. This pair of chairs, plus the loveseat, makes a “U”-shaped arrangement.

21. This furniture looks like it is floating away through space…

22. This arrangement also ignores the fireplace.

24. How is this for a warm, friendly room?

25. Use some square-ish and some rounded shapes

26. Use some soft edges and some harder edges, some shapes on legs mixed with some all the way to the floor

32. Balance can be achieved with items that are not identical

36. Some rooms need more than one furniture grouping

37. Here is a smaller grouping in addition to the main grouping

38. This room has one grouping near the fireplace and another closer to the viewer

39. This room has one group near the window and one that is closer

44. This corner grouping uses a pair of chairs with a small table and lamp.

53. Objects have an actual footprint size and a “visual weight”. These chairs have different visual weights.

54. These tables have different visual weights

55. Same footprint but different “ visual weight”

56. This room has several large blocky items, and a couple of airy, visually-lighter chairs

61. Here is one way to get a cozy conversation group and book storage in a room

62. Think about the view from room to room…

63. What if the entry was painted one of the colors in the art work?

66. Desks are ideal in a “floating” position instead of facing a wall