RULE: Give 30″ to 36″ of a walkway between large furniture pieces (if your living room allows for it) if not then at least 18″-24″. Furniture Placement design by brady tolbert | photo by zeke ruelas | from: brady’s living room reveal Today we are talking living room layout, planning rules, and all the basics so that you and your living room feel pulled together. In case you need more design rules, check out: Bedroom Design Rules | Dining Room Rules All of these “rules” below should help you answer the basic questions that we get asked every day like, “how tall should my coffee table be in comparison to my couch” or “how big should my rug be if my living room is blank big” or maybe “where should I hang my TV”? We get it, it’s confusing, but we pulled these together to act more as guidelines to follow more so than rules. However, unlike said commandments sometimes design rules can be broken and things can still look good. Think of these as the 10 Commandments of arranging furniture in your living room although technically there are 22 rules.

And if you are confident that you’ve got everything all together in your living room then this is a good quiz for you to take to see how your living room measures up to “EHD’s Living Room Rules”. It’s pop-quiz time, how many of you are currently sitting in your living room, looking around at things and wondering why something feels off but you can’t totally put your finger on it? If you have to take a second to think about it then this post is for you.

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