How you choose to decorate your home is based on the theme and atmosphere you want to create throughout. While there are different types of styles available, many homeowners choose to decorate their homes with traditional furniture. The details in traditional furniture are found within the woodwork and engravings. These pieces are meant to be used regularly, and maintain their integrity, for years to come.
Unlike other furniture styles and options, traditional furniture gives those residing in the home and their guests a chance to take in a classic atmosphere that is calming and timeless. Having that warm and casual feeling allows your family and guest to be comfortable. If traditional furniture is your home decoration direction, below are some tips to help you with decorating and catching the total ambiance.
1. Neat & Orderly Are at the Foundation of Decorating
Traditional furniture is meant to have a neat layout in your home. Pieces like traditional dining room tables have chairs to match, and each chair has the same amount of space as the next. Each room has a focal point, and tables consist of centerpieces. Having that clean look and matching the other furniture in the room is essential to decorating traditional furniture.
2. Find the Focal Point
Each room has a focal point that the furniture pieces lay out around.
- Dining room — Chandelier or light fixture
- Living Room — Fireplace/TV
- Bedroom — Bed
When you are laying out these different rooms, your traditional furniture placement must mirror these focal points. It is essential to have these focal points established first before arranging your room with traditional furniture. Otherwise, you will spend more time rearranging your room.
Dining Room Placement
For example, beneath the chandelier in the dining room sets the table, completely symmetrical beneath. Even the placement of chairs on either side and around the table are spread evenly. The dark wood is illuminated by
Living Room Placement
In traditional living rooms, a fireplace was always the focal point of the room. All the furniture housed in that room would face that direction. Even if your living room does not currently have a fireplace, chances are you do have a TV on a wall, and all of your traditional furniture should be centered around that focal point. To keep the theme of symmetry going in the living room, you want to have a set with either two love seats or a chair and lounger couch that are the same pattern and design.
Bedroom Placement
When you are organizing traditional furniture in your bedroom, you want to keep your bed the room’s focal point. With it centered, usually against the wall, any dressers and wardrobes in your room will center around the bed.
3. Go With Natural Colors
Bright and bold has no place with traditional furniture.
- Color Scheme
- Hardwood/Natural Dark Wood
- Cream/Off-white/White
Color Scheme
Pairing the colors in your home with traditional furniture is usually done with neutral tones. Colors like beige, tan, and white are at the core of walls and fabrics paired with this furniture.
Even if the furniture has colored features outside of wood, the color palette will be soft. This is also true for leather furniture since traditional leather would be more of a black, brown, or beige tone. When you paint your walls, you want to stick with neutral covers not to take away from the traditional furniture and allow these pieces to keep that neat and orderly foundation. Using bold colors will clash with the texture and colors of the traditional furniture, making your room appear loud and, for some, unsettling.
Hardwood / Natural Dark Wood
Most traditional furniture pieces have a wood base or are made of wood. In many cases, this is a darker wood or natural wood that has not been stained. Bed frames, dining room tables, coffee tables, and end tables are some of the most common traditional furniture pieces.
Leather Seating
The preferred fabric of traditional furniture, leather is used in many traditional pieces because of its comfort and longevity. It pairs beautifully with hardwood and brings together a classic but comfortable feel in traditional-style homes.
5. Layer Your Fabrics
If your home has a hardwood floor as the base or even carpet, consider adding an area rug to your space. The color schemes and warmth found in these are rugs that complement your traditional furniture pieces’ tones and wood grain.
Layering these accents comes with having matching blankets, shawls, and throw pillows on your furniture as well. Any additional layers of fabrics that you want to apply to your living space will add a level of warmth and comfort that traditional furniture pieces embrace naturally.
6. Patterns Are Important
If you want a blend of colors to pair with your traditional furniture, consider patterns as a way to capture color and warmth all at once. Patterns are prevalent when it comes to traditional settings and home designs. Plaid, checks, and stripes line couches in blankets and area rugs to keep that traditional feeling.
Maintaining the pattern is important also. If you are purchasing a large area rug with a pattern, then your accent pieces around your room should have at least one or more colors to match. If you are fortunate enough to find the same pattern in these pieces, that only adds to the warmth.
7. Keep Your Accents Traditional, Too
When you add lamps and decor to your living spaces, they must also be traditional pieces to appeal to your furniture and your home’s theme truly.
- Wood-based candle holders
- Lamps
- Traditional Mirrors
- Metal Fixtures
When you pick out fixtures and decorations for your walls and tables, the same theme should still apply. Everything from the lamps and candle holders to the traditional mirrors should reflect that traditional theme. Throwing in some metal fixtures are also features of a classic look with traditional furniture. Brass and bronze pieces pair well with the hardwood floors and wood-based furniture.
8. Add Some Green To Your Space
These natural and traditional furniture pieces are brightened up with some greenery in the room. Whether you want to use real ivy for your mantelpiece or pick some faux pieces, tuck away some greenery in the corners of your rooms. You can even add greenery to your dining room with a bright bouquet as the centerpiece.
Are you looking for great traditional furniture options for your home? At the Florida Leather Gallery, we have the perfect leather tones to help you grasp that theme and bring it to life in your Tampa home. Feel free to contact us today for more information.
