Choosing Items to Complement Furniture

When you buy new furniture, whether it’s to furnish a new home or to revamp the style of your current home, the decision-making process doesn’t end there. Now you have to decide how you will decorate around the new pieces, including accessories, paint colors, area rugs, and more. It can be a daunting task, but there are tricks that can help you achieve the perfect look for your style. The Couch The couch is the single most important design element in your living room, as it is the piece of furniture around which you will build the rest of the space. It also serves as the focal point. Choosing a couch depends on many elements, including the size and layout of the room. What works for one place may not work for another. Versatile and stylish, a black leather couch is a classic choice, popular for good reason. This one from Bel is crisp, cool, and modern. Before deciding what to pair with it, begin by identifying what sort of style statement suits you best. Are you bold and modern, daring and edgy? Choose accent colors and pieces that work with the black to make a cool statement. Red and orange pop against a black sofa.


Maybe black works for you because it’s classic and it’s as much of a statement as you want to make. Going with light grays, blues, or greens can help soften the bold effect of a black couch.

Emily Henderson recommends starting with your favorite color and building everything else around this. She suggests pinpointing your go-to color, the one you gravitate toward when it comes to clothes and accessories. Once you do this, you can select more colors that will complement the base color. Just as with choosing colors for a black sofa, you can go as bold or subtle as you like.

Remember the color wheel that shows you what colors are warm and which are cool? She suggests incorporating both to achieve a balanced look. In general, cool tones are calming while warm tones are more exciting.

The final step is to choose an accent color that offsets the main color choice. This will help ensure the room has personality and doesn’t look too bland or monotone.

Final Touches The final pieces of the puzzle, the last remaining decisions that stand between you and a completely decorated room, are smaller items such as throw pillows, decorative items, and area rugs.

The rug is often the element that ties the entire room together, so it’s an important choice. One of the things you must consider when purchasing a rug is the size of a room. Bel offers rugs in various sizes and designs, making it easy for you to find the perfect fit.

Throw pillows are a vital part of accessorizing a room. They can completely change the personality of a couch. Go for at least two colors that match the color scheme. If you have an area rug that incorporates multiple colors in the room, pillows can help you draw out the colors you want to highlight. Finally, be careful with how many decorative items and knickknacks you use around a room. Stick with things that have special meaning to you, as we can accumulate many items over the years and they make easy targets for collecting dust. Purge some items from your collection now and then to make sure your home isn’t too cluttered.