How To Transform A Big Living Room Space

When faced with a big living space, it can be quite overwhelming. It’s not necessarily something that’s loved by everyone because the challenge of a big room comes with filing it without cluttering it at the same time.

Not only that but it’s easy enough for a big room to feel cold, especially if you’ve not decorated it or furnished it in the right way. With that being said, there are a number of ways in which you can transform a big living room space. Here are several tips for transforming your living room space this year.

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Designate zones

Firstly, try to designate zones. These zones each have a contribution to the space, whether it’s a zone for your sofa where you can sit in front of the television. Another zone might be a dining space that you’ve incorporated into the room, rather than keeping it separate. A lot of home decorating and design is embracing more open-plan spaces in 2024.

By designating zones, you help to manage the space easier and when planning out your home design, you can take it one bit at a time. When you’re trying to tie all of these zones together, it’s worth trying to find an anchor, a feature of the room that ties it together. That anchor might be the fireplace, the sofa, or a big rug. 

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the space you have but designating areas helps cut down the space into workable chunks.

Get creative with lighting 

Lighting is important because it can influence the size of the space itself. When you have a big living room, you might not want to spend a lot of money trying to fill it, so playing around with lighting can be helpful.

For those with tall ceilings, you might want to look into larger lighting options like chandeliers for example. Floor lamps are great for highlighting pockets of space around the room.

You might want to look at different colored lighting depending on the mood you’re looking to create but it also influences the size of the room itself. Dimmer switches are also ideal when you’re looking to create ambiance within the room and to remove that cold feeling that comes when tackling larger spaces. 

Adding different lampshades to lights can make a big difference to how a space looks too, so experiment with that also.

Order a custom-sized couch

To help fill the space but to have furniture that fits the space just right, it’s worth investing in a custom-sized couch.

Custom-sized couches are a great option when it comes to filling space and having a central area for all of your household to get together. The standard-sized couches might only fit up to two to four people at a time. With a custom-sized couch, you can opt for bigger ones that cater to as many people as you’d like.

The size doesn’t have to be the only thing that matters either but the shape of the couch. Consider what couch shapes would work within the space you have available. It might be that your large space is an odd shape and therefore requires a couch that can fit into the space as a result. A green sectional, for example, is a great shape and style to fit within any living room.

Add plenty of other seating options

Seating options are great when you need to fill the space and provide enough room for all your loved ones to take a seat. A couch is not the only type of seating that you could incorporate into the space. Other options for seating could be love seats, armchairs, and dining room chairs.

Try to find ways in which you could add different seating options to the room. For example, if your living space benefits from bay windows, then it might be worth looking at bay seating to help take advantage of this extra space. A snug is also a good option if you want to incorporate some more areas to the room like a reading nook.

You can never have enough seating, especially when it comes to making it feel cozy in the space. Consider what seating options you might be lacking and incorporate these into the space.

Avoid hugging the walls too much

While it might feel natural to push furniture up against the walls, you want to avoid doing too much wall hugging as it’s often referred to. By pushing everything out and up against the wall, you’re just highlighting how much space you have.

Therefore, it’s good practice to move certain furniture from against the wall, to a space in the middle or off-center perhaps? There are some furniture items that look best against a wall, but others that would probably be quite versatile in how they are positioned in the space.

Experimenting by rearranging furniture in the space is a great way to find what works for the living room you have that needs furnishing and designing in order to make it more appealing.

Decorate your walls with artwork and mirrors

Decorating should be extended to your wall space. When it comes to transforming a large living room space, don’t neglect the parameters that are the walls in the room. If you decorate them in the right way, you might be able to curb the expanse of the space and avoid it feeling so large as a result.

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From artwork to mirrors, these are all great options for decorating the space in the best way possible. Mirrors should be selective and determined carefully on the basis of size. 

You don’t want them to be too big or take over the whole wall as it might end up giving the illusion that the room is even bigger than it is. With mirrors, you tend to use them to trick the eye on smaller spaces.

Incorporate a spacious area rug

To help bring more warmth into a big space, it’s worth incorporating a spacious area rug. This is a great way of helping make the space feel a little smaller and less invasive. There are some beautiful rugs out there, whether you’re looking for art deco, vintage, or modern and contemporary options.

The bigger the rug, the more it’ll feel like an inviting space to be in. These rugs tend to be placed underneath the sofa or just in front of it. If you have the dining room space incorporated into the living room, then it could always be a rug you put under the dining room table and chairs to collect this area together.

Add in some nature

Don’t forget to add a bit of nature to the space. There’s nothing like injecting a bit of color and what’s not to love about nature such as an indoor plant or two, for example?

Experiment with different plants and try to find plants that you can look after with some success. The ones that take less maintenance might be your preferred choice! Place the plants around the space, remembering to not hug the walls in order to fill the space in the most successful way possible.

Transforming a big living room space can be challenging but these tips will certainly set you off in the right direction. Use these tips to ensure you maximize the space but also fill it in a way so that the room feels less like a gigantic space that’s not so inviting to your guests. While a big room can be beneficial, you can easily get lost in it.

This is a contributed post.

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