Room Layouts - Maximise your Space!

Do you find yourself bumping into furniture or unable to get your rooms to "feel" right? The notion of moving furniture is appealing but feels oh-so-time consuming! Try this handy hint.

1. Measure the pieces of furniture in your room and make a scale cut out of them, for example your dining table is 1800mm x 900mm, cut out a square that measure 18mm x 9mm (this means your furniture is now scaled down to 1:100). Do this with everything in your room (using the same scale of course!)
   
2. Then measure your room and do the same; draw a scale outline of the room. Remember to include doorways, windows, entry ways and existing built in furniture.
   
3. Then taken you cut-outs of furniture and move them around your room so you can see if you can configure it to work better for you.

Remember furniture doesn't have to be up against a wall, lounges can be used to divide a room and rugs can be used to define areas too - just play with and have some fun before you start moving things around.

The golden rule is always "less is more"!