Family room designs
The family room leads your home in flexible functionality, so give its design well deserved thought. Family room design functions include:
- Open space for activities
- Specific areas for game tables
- Dedicated area for entertainment equipment
- Storage to keep related pieces together while not in use
- Balance between all-household activities (watching a favorite film) and spots for individuals to conduct separate activities (hobbies, games, reading, computer use, etc.).
Family room design enhancements:
- Use coordinated bookcases along one or more family room walls to suggest a classic library design.
- Upper shelving with base drawers or cabinets minimizes clutter by combining display areas with concealed storage.
- Install one or two floor outlets to light groupings not anchored to a wall or lighted seasonal displays and focal points.
- Plan pet spaces. Design a warm cozy spot to curl up and floor level storage drawers or containers for toys and accessories.
It is well worth design time creating a room scale model to test arrangements, avoiding the exertion moving large furniture pieces only to discover they don't work.
- Models can be drawn on graph paper or created with computer programs.
- Online websites are available with standard furnishings and architectural components to make a rough draft of design elements.
- User-friendly floor plan software programs can customize representation of your living space, save multiple ideas, and provide three-dimensional tours of your proposed design.
- Plan several furniture arrangements to accommodate switching decorative and functional pieces for different seasons or special events such as large family gatherings, sleepovers, or club meetings.