Furniture You Need: Sectional Sofas and More

Maybe you're moving into a new apartment or home, or maybe you just want to redecorate. Either way, there are a few pieces of furniture that can do a lot to improve the ambience of your digs. Read on to see how to make your home like the ones on magazine covers.

1. Sectional sofas: Such sofas are great because they encourage you to sit down. Their encircling presence welcomes you and your guests into having a pre or post-prandial discussion. Ordinary sofas and loveseats are fine for filling space, or for anchoring a corner of a room, but sectional sofas are the defining aspect of a living room or entertainment room. Splitting your sectional sofas is also an option: that way you can match and counterbalance one side of the room with the other.

2. Coffee table end tables: After you choose sofas and loveseats or sectional sofas, there are certain accents you can add to make the most of your room. Of prime importance are coffee tables end tables. These can be lavish or simple – either way, they are great furniture items to ground your living room and give it the accented touch it needs. They also work well in the bedroom, along with sofas and loveseat, if space permits, or at the edge of your bed, which brings me to…

3. Beds: It makes a big difference to have a headboard and a box spring in your bedroom. It's less like college, and more adult. You want your bed to be a refuge – additional bed furniture brings it off the ground and onto a higher plain.

4. The futon: An interesting piece of furniture for its malleability, the futon can function as sofas and loveseats, or if needed, a bed or place to crash for a guest.

5. Entertainment Centers: If you have a TV, you need a place for it. The floor won't do. Entertainment centers are great places for your TV, DVDs, music equipment and any other electronics you might have.

6. Kitchen table and chairs: You may prefer a small kitchen table to eat most of your meals, or if your family is larger, a full length kitchen table might suit you better. It also depends on whether you have a dining room, or expect to eat special meals in a separate area. Either way, you need some kind of kitchen table for when you wake up in the middle of the night and want a casual nosh.

These are just the fundamentals. There are other ornamental pieces of furniture that you can purchase to make your home more unique and individual. But investing in quality everyday pieces from the get go, like coffee tables end tables, entertainment centers, and sectional sofas means you won't have to update them every time you move.

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