The Sunday News
DECORATING your space using leather items can be daunting at times. Use too much and your home looks heavy and bulky, select the wrong colour and your space looks cold and plain. When correctly done, however, using leather items creates an elegant and welcoming look.
Since many people own leather sofas it is important to make sure that your space does not feel visually heavy. Here are some ideas to create a habitable space around your leather sofa.
Traditionally, leather sofas feel heavy visually, they are dark in nature. So it is important to select other furniture items with are easy to the eye. This means that those items should lighten the space. The easiest way to balance that out is to surround it with plenty of light for desirable contrast. A lighter hue on the walls, soft cream or white accent pillows, and a light or white coffee table will accomplish just that.
Another way to minimise the visually weight of a set of leather furniture is to break it up. You can keep the sofa and add other pieces and upholstered chairs are the way to go. Placing chairs next to the leather sofa can bring a stylish and collected look instead of having the same look all around the room. By so doing you will create a room that is balanced with clever layering and accessorising leather sofas can be both attractive and comfortable. By so doing you will create a room that is balanced
