After my last post on Copenhagen Design Week, I've been thinking about how to incorporate some great functional design into my living room.
Danish designers have got it so right, and I think the simplicity of such clean design is missing in a lot of living rooms - especially mine right now. Naturally, the living room is where a lot of time spent - so we usually need to incorporate several parts of life into the interior design of one room. But what most of us forget is that it doesn't have to be fussy to be functional and nice to look at. Just because you want to relax and watch TV there every night, doesn't mean you need a sofa with a hundred pillows on it. And impressing guests isn't neccesarily going to be done with a highly patterned carpet.
If anything, the living room should be kept more simple than ever, to accomodate the wide range of activities that may have to take place there - from socialising to relaxing, from eating a meal to playing with the children of the family.
It's a sofa I need right now, and it's hard to draw myself away from the big squishy designs that you could sink into and never get back up. But I know that what I really want is something well made, simple and classic. Luckily most sofa retailers have caught on to the trend for simple and clean design - which should make things easier. I've been looking at some simple black and white designs and plan to keep the rest of the living room just as simple. Just need to stay away from the pillow section now.
What do you think of simple design in the living room? Should it be kept clean and minamilist or cosy and cluttered?
