A. Rudin’s luxury sectional sofas can make any living room stand out among the rest. With their attention to detail and outstanding craftsmanship, A. Rudin’s furniture naturally brings an air of elegance to the room. It’s true that decorating a room with large furniture can be difficult, as it can sometimes make a room feel a bit heavy, so here are a few tips to make your living room feel bright, spacious, and beautiful with one of A. Rudin’s luxury section sofas.

One of the most important factors to making a room feel more open is light. If you already have large windows in your room, you’re in luck! Adding sunlight into any room naturally provides a warm, inviting atmosphere and opens the space. If you have limited windows in the room with your sectional, you can also achieve this feeling with color. Adding a light-colored rug, cream or gray curtains, or a bright white throw blanket to the room are just a few options. You can also paint the walls a radiant color like light lavender, sky blue, light yellow, or even one of many off-white tones.

Lightness in a room can also be achieved by the furniture you surround your luxury sectional sofa with. Adding a wooden coffee table or a complimentary cool-toned nightstand can bring warmth and simplicity to the room, while a wall art piece with a natural wooden frame or a brightly colored photo can liven it up. Art pieces aren’t the most affordable decoration in the world but take a trip to your local second-hand store and you might be surprised at what you can find. Sometimes it’s just about adding your own knickknacks and personal touch to the room that can give provide the most comfort — the piece of driftwood you found on your trip to the Pacific Ocean last Summer, an old family photo-album, your hand-me-down grandmother’s cookbooks, and some favorite table-side magazines.

Patterns and textures also aid in breaking up the room, adding flair and brightness. You can easily achieve this virtually anywhere in the room, from your rug to throw pillows to the materials you choose for the surrounding furniture. As it was mentioned earlier, wood can increase the warmth felt in a room, but it can also add texture. A coffee table made with a raw cut of wood, with its grooves and natural feel, is just one idea. Pair it with some modern steel table legs to add another layer of texture. You can also choose a rug made from different material than your luxury sectional sofa, like shag or wool, and some throw pillows with a converse pattern, like circles or zig-zagged lines. Most of all, don’t be afraid to mix and match. If you stay within the same color family, clashing patterns can help liven up the space.

Plants and light fixtures can also add an eclectic vibrancy. Have you ever noticed that most of the time our faces are looking straight-forward or down? We seem to forget all about the space above us. Hanging plants can especially make the room feel bigger. By directing your eye upward to the tops of windows and high ceilings, you realize how big the room is. Suddenly, it feels much more open. Try adding some trendy hanging Edison bulbs that line the wall or droop down from the ceiling, or some Devil’s Ivy with its long hanging vines. Too busy to take care of plants? Air plants should do the job — they only require a water soak everyone — two weeks and no soil at all. Plus hanging them in a clear glass orb only adds to the spaciousness in the room. In addition to making the room vibrant, plants also have many health benefits. By decreasing carbon dioxide, breaking down harmful toxins, and releasing oxygen into the room, they act as a natural air purifier. Surrounding yourself with nature can also improve your mental health by reducing stress and increasing productivity. Not to mention, they also provide beautiful color and an aliveness unlike any piece of furniture.

At A. Rudin, we not only care about quality, we also care about your home looking the best it can around our furniture. It can be difficult to achieve lightness in a room with a large piece of furniture, but these tips will help your luxury sectional sofa harmonize with the rest of the room, creating an open, comfortable environment. If you’ve been thinking about getting a sectional sofa, let A. Rudin guide you to the perfect piece for your home today.