Sectional Design Ideas

Considerations

• Sectional sofas work well in both casual and more formal settings, depending on fabric and shape. Sectionals offer extra seating space for small rooms and large sectionals fill space in larger rooms, often reducing the need for other furniture. There may be only a few choices of arranging your sectional sofa in your room. To save time, make a small mock-up on paper with a scaled-down sectional, to determine the most appropriate size, style and arrangement.

Sofa Additions

• Decorate the sectional sofa by adding color and charm with different embellishments. Colorful throws in textures and patterns not only coordinate colors of your room, but keep you warm on cool nights. Place a few different color throws in strategic places, if the sofa is large enough. Add pillows to your sofa for comfort and beauty. Neutral color sofas are enhanced by pillows of different prints and textures. With a plaid or print fabric, add different pillows picking up the different colors in the sectional.

Surrounding the Sectional

• Add a narrow library table, behind the longest area of the sofa, with a small lamp, a vase of flowers and other decorative accessories. Many sectionals come with large ottomans that substitute for a center coffee table; add a large tray to hold glasses and snacks. As another choice, a glass top coffee table will add a feeling of space to the room. The shape of the coffee table could follow the shape of the sectional.

Room Background

• Large paintings over the sofa add to the attractiveness of the room, giving the room a finished appearance. With a contemporary leather or micro suede sofa, add large abstract paintings with simple frames. If you opt for a more traditional sectional, hang representational art with ornate frames. Get creative with the wall decor and paint the walls with coordinating colors in different textures and stripes.

Miscellaneous Ideas

• Your sectional can be divided into two or three different pieces of furniture to create a more open look, permitting space for extra chairs as well as floor pillows for extra seating. If you are limited in space, nesting tables or functional TV tables take up little room. Add different rugs around the sofa if the floor is not carpeted.