Renew Your Living Room in Three Easy Steps

The Chinese idea of feng shui makes much of keeping items that only bring you joy, eliminating clutter. The thinking behind this is just as clutter makes it hard to walk around your living room, it also blocks positive energy, known as chi. So if your living room furniture seems worn or dated, it’s probably bringing down your spirits in ways you might not even consciously feel. Time for an upgrade. The pieces that no longer inspire you can go to charity so you can renew your living space and refresh your life.

Step One: Make a Plan

First, decide on a specific theme. What kind of vibe do you want to give? Casual and relaxing? Upscale and luxurious? Fun and family-friendly? Classic such as Victorian? Modern? Futuristic?

Tip: Plants make great table-toppers to liven things up.

Step Two: Set a Budget

Whether you want to spend for an entire living room set or a state-of-the-art sectional sofa, we’ve got your back. Setting a realistic budget is critical. While we do offer an incredible Lay-A-Way program (which allows qualified buyers up to 12 months to finalize the payments), it’s always best not to go too far beyond your means. Before browsing our vast selection of living room furniture, always set a realistic budget for your needs and we will be happy to make the best suggestions we can.

Tip: If your budget allows, add a flash area rug to keep things fresh.

Step Three: Narrow Down the Options

Most discount furniture stores in Philadelphia and South Jersey don’t have as many options to choose from as us. It’s always best to find a reputable dealer that has a huge catalog of couches so you can easily narrow down your top two or three favorite options. Once you have it narrowed down, our product specialists can work together with you and your family to make your selections meet everybody’s needs. We will even work with you if you buy multiple pieces of furniture at once to help make things as affordable as possible!

Tip: If you’ve got a small space, rather than trying to hide this, embrace the smallness by pulling your loveseat and recliner close together with your coffee table, like a TV talk-show set.

Now that the hard part (or not-so-hard part if you use us) is done, it’s time to sit back and relax. Throw on your favorite Netflix series. Have some buddies over for the game. Fire up the Xbox. Whatever your means of fun is, we make the sales process quick and painless, so you can go back to living in style and comfort.

Tip: If you do want the illusion of more space, bright white walls with your favorite artwork mounted in white frames will do the trick.

Like any big life change, refreshing your living room furniture is daunting at first. That’s why our team of experts is here. We’ve sold furniture to numerous people from all walks of life with a variety of themes and color schemes. We’ll even make recommendations based on photos you email us or bring to our store! That’s how Best Buy has become the premier discount furniture store in Philadelphia, PA.

Reinterpreting Your Living Room: the Pizzazz of Sectional Sofas and Other Decor

All across America, homeowners, tenants and house guests everywhere find themselves at a crossroads: they have all the furniture they need, but nonetheless, they’re not quite satisfied with any of it. In the bedroom, this is a more localized, and personal problem; one that can be hidden out of sight until you see just the right nightstand or wall decoration to get you thinking contemporary vs. classic again. But in the living room of your home or apartment, this is, in fact, a social crisis waiting to happen.

Instead of leaving you hanging and unhappy in your most social of living spaces, today we’ll go into the ABC’s of living room renovations, starting with your sectional sofa:

The Geometric Potential of Your Sectional Sofa

Although you may be unaccustomed to thinking about your living room decor in terms of angles (and may be shying from any memory of Geometry altogether), compartments and partitions, we here at Best Buy Furniture see the wisdom in this from time to time—especially when renovating.

Take your sectional sofa, for example. While anyone could haphazardly drop this exceptional piece of upholstery up against the wall and call it a day, you’re a more discerning decorator, and you know this simply won’t work. The human eye can detect the tiniest hints of asymmetry at a glance, leaving you and any of your guests (regardless of your respective backgrounds in the arts) with the unshakable feeling that there’s something “off” about your living room.

Whether it be a 3 piece or 7 piece left-facing sectional sofa, think about the space that your sofa dominates and how this affects your surrounding furniture.

An Accent Ottoman Can Complement Any Size Sofa

After you’ve divvied up your living room and allocated a portion of it to your primary seating (be it in the form of a sectional sofa or power recliner), get to thinking about what best complements it. In most cases, we find that an accent ottoman is ideal here—being both aesthetically pleasing, and totally functional as a foot rest, makeshift table, or perch for your house pet.

In one inviting accent ottoman, you can fill in any voids left behind by your sofa, and create an oasis of sorts in your living room, encouraging you to relax, get productive, and be creative. At its best, your living room should inspire you to be yourself; and renovating the space with a new sectional sofa or leather ottoman can do this, easily and affordably.

Consult Your Local Decorators Whenever You Want

Having bequeathed you a few ideas to digest, we leave you to visualize all these possibilities in your own home or apartment. At the same time, we encourage you to reach out to us here at Best Buy Furniture in Pennsauken, New Jersey, to ask any questions you may have regarding sectional sofas, living room renovations, and everything related to affordable home decorating.

Which Kind of Sofa Should You Get: Leather or Fabric?

With nearly perfect climate control possible in almost all homes, and leather cleaning simpler than most imagine, your choice of a leather or fabric-covered living room sofa almost comes down to preference but there are a few factors to consider in favor of each.

The Versatility of Fabric Upholstered Sofas

If you have your perfect living room setup intending to keep it forever, perhaps a leather sofa is the ideal finishing touch. However, if you think one or more moves are in your future, consider how well your sofa will fit into different decors. Fabric’s many varied colors and patterns offer households on the go a measure of versatility. That said, few things say “luxury” like rich multitone leather. We know; it’s so hard to choose!

What About Cleaning?

If you have a busy household with young children, you might be drawn to a fabric sofa’s easy maintenance thanks to synthetic upholstery such as polyester or rayon, as soft as natural fiber but very easy to clean the inevitable spills. A stain protector spray is a good idea to make your fabric sofa last even longer. But if your heart is set on a leather sofa, fear not. Although leather is less resistant to staining, with the right cleaning products as well as lotion to keep this natural upholstery supple, you can get equally good results with a little extra effort. Also, bear in mind that fabric sofas are more likely to retain pet hair and dander, a caveat if anybody in your home has allergies. Leather sofas do not have this drawback. However, if you fear scratches to your beautiful sofa from kids and pets, fabric is the better way to go.

How Are Your Heating and AC?

If your living room has large windows so it’s vulnerable to changes in outside temperature, a fabric sofa might be your optimal choice. With climate control, as in an interior room away from heat and drafts, leather is no problem.

Luckily for you, we stock many models of both leather and fabric sofas, in sectional, three-seat sofa, and loveseat sizes. Stop by any of our Philadelphia, PA area stores to see for yourself how wonderful either a leather or fabric sofa will be for you!

Designing a Living Room for the Spring and Summer of 2018

While the Spring and the green may have arrived late for us here in Philadelphia, there’s no reason why you have to stall your annual plans for Mother Nature. Now’s the perfect time to reawaken that interior decorator in all of us and get to redesigning our living spaces. Whether you lean toward the regal or the rural, our home furniture experts know precisely what’ll rejuvenate your home, preparing you for all the color and the splendor of the Summer of 2018.

Bring Brightness into Your Living Room Furniture

What could be more energetic during the Spring of 2018 than a living room and furniture that glows like the sun? With one of our ever-modular and rearrangeable sectionals, you can line the sides and back of your living space in hues that recall the radiance of the morning. Break up the color scheme by adding a sectional coffee table that complements the seating and the style of the room. Remembering the rule of substance and scale, opt for a bigger L-shaped sofa, especially if you’re furnishing a relatively small area.

Revive Your Living Room Furniture with Accessories

Amidst all your earth-toned upholstery, why not celebrate the arrival of the season (belated as it was) by accenting your living room sofas and loveseats with colorful displays of flowers and seasonal plants? Just some clay-molded pots and a bouquet of local pickings will spruce up your space so much you’ll forget it was ever winter. As you’re rearranging your larger pieces of living room furniture, do balance it all out as much as possible, being mindful that your colors and accents match.

Open-Space Benches and Living Room Futons Aplenty

Spring and Summer should be light and airy; and so should the seating in your living room. Get stylish by experimenting with an upholstered bench that won’t block the decor on your walls. Of course, who said a bench has to always be for seating? You can acquire a richly finished bench containing drawers, as well as baskets for all your arts and crafts, and anything else you can dream up. Meanwhile, your sun room is just begging for a weathered futon—ideal for lounging and siesta-hour napping during the day.

If you’re feeling the Spring bug in your bones, then now’s the time to scratch it and stop by at a Best Buy discount furniture store in Philadelphia, PA or Pennsauken, NJ. Between our living room furnishings, and our stellar daily savings, you’ll do more decorating than you ever thought possible.