
An open plan home made for sharing
Don’t leave your living room furniture layout to chance. Aim to leave enough space between each piece and ensure that everything has its own place and function in the room.
Any unused items that have been gathering dust and taking up unnecessary space for a long time won’t do the room any favours. Your living room will thank you for getting rid of them.
Avoid sloppiness by keeping blankets and throws neatly folded over the arms of the sofa or store them away in baskets or trunks. If you prefer to leave them on show and make them a design feature, at least keep them well ironed :-) Yes, you read that right! It’s the small details that make all the difference.
Drawers in any piece of furniture are great for storing things that we want to keep out of sight, but it can be a little too easy to stuff too much in and close the drawer on it all. The ideal solution are drawer dividers to keep everything nicely ordered and easy to find.
If you’ve got a coffee table in your living room, make sure you can actually see the table! Careful you don’t accumulate too many magazines or fill it with a lot of clutter. If you’re still at the shopping stage, make sure it has a drawer or compartment to store all those little things you don’t know where to put (reading glasses, pens, notebooks, etc.).
It makes a lot of sense to get rid of things we don’t use – they just take up space we could be using for other things.
Whether books, magazines, pictures on the wall or rugs, make sure they’re nice and straight and visually pleasing.
Once in a while, find the time to sift through your bookshelves and set aside all those redundant books you’ve already read. You’ll probably want to keep hold of those you still love, but give the rest away to charities, libraries, or your friends.
We’ve found the winning formula to a perfectly balanced shelf, so take note! Allocate 60% of the shelf space to large items (baskets, books or pictures), 10% to decorative objects, and leave the rest empty.
If your sofa is smothered in cushions it can look untidy and feel a bit chaotic. If you’re unsure whether you’ve gone a bit OTT, count one per seat plus one extra.
Give a second life to your used furniture, mattresses, comforters and pillows. When you want to get rid of them, if they are in good condition, you can give them to a structure of the Social and Solidarity Economy, near your home. Otherwise, you can drop them off at the waste collection center in the dumpster dedicated to used furniture.
Collected in the Eco-mobilier skips, these products are sent to sorting centers where the materials are separated by flow (wood, scrap metal, plastic...) to be transformed into new recycled raw materials and used to manufacture other products or to be recovered in the form of energy to be used as fuel in cement plants.
Find all the collection points to give/throw away your used furniture, close to your home on eco-mobilier.fr
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