The comfort and visual warmth leather furniture can bring to a home make it a popular choice for living room décor. Available in neutral shade, or even bold colors, leather couches provide a solid foundation to decorate around. However, if left bare and stranded, a leather couch can become an unwieldy piece of furniture that overwhelms the entire room. Fabric, wall color, accessories, and the right furniture arrangement can integrate new or well-worn leather pieces into your home’s design.
Area Rugs
Use an area rug to define the space and balance the scale of the furniture in the room. Place the front of the sofa legs and the other furniture just over the edges of the rug to connect the pieces. The Natuzzi Contemporary Sofa above is placed to create the central conversation area of the room, with overstuffed chairs and an ottoman to complete the circle. The area rug highlights the rich leather of the furniture and the polished wood floors. The neutral color allows the furniture to take center stage.
Pillows and Throw Blankets
Throw pillows add visual interest and depth that keep your leather sofa from becoming a chunk of solid brown in your living room. A throw makes your overstuffed, comfortably broken-in leather couch even more inviting. You can dress up the piece with pillows in two or three colors, or drape a quilt over the back for a country-style room. Or add a bit of elegance to your traditional look with a fringed chenille or cashmere throw.
Accessories
Accessories are a great way to add interest to any room. Hang a painting or series of paintings that are narrower than the width of the sofa to add visual height behind the focal point in your room. Place accessories of various heights on a sofa table or window sill to keep the sofa from looking too bulky. Match the scale of the coffee table to that of the sofa, or use an ottoman, such as the Contemporary Ottoman with Block Legs, as a coffee table to keep it in scale.
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