This story was part of Sofa Week, our seven-day stretch of, you guessed it, sofas. After years spent styling, sitting on, and searching for the best of the best—from bespoke designs to rare under-$500 gems—we’re compiling our couch knowledge in one comfy spot.

One of the perks of working at Domino is the fact that we look at homes, beautifully individual and dynamic, all day long. And with said perk, we spot commonalities along the way. There are a handful of trademark trends we have grown to expect every season: pastels for spring, vibrant hues for summer, and cozy textures for fall. Then there are those that skew toward the less expected and timeless. Case in point: the best red couches.

A departure from the standard white, beige, or taupe-y seat, this fresh alternative immediately brings a bold dose of color and character to any space. We’ve spotted the primary hue in every shade—from blush and tomato to rust and even rich maroon. And the look is surprisingly more versatile than you may think and can be seamlessly integrated within a wide variety of aesthetics. Below, a closer look at a few of our favorite spaces featuring this particular hue, and how creatives and designers tapped it as the centerpiece of their living quarters or let it blend in with the rest of their decor. Then we share a few shoppable look-alikes (especially if the original was bespoke), to boot. 

Armless Red Sofas

In Slash Objects founder Arielle Assouline-Lichten’s Brooklyn studio, this Ligne Roset sofa is an attention-grabbing conversation starter thanks to its bright velvet upholstery. Thankfully it’s also small-space–friendly, making it an appealing pick for apartment dwellers (even if Assouline-Lichten’s lofted space is quite large). The armless, futon-esque frame allows for the creative’s other vintage finds to shine. Our picks, below, also deliver a love seat-like vibe.

Alcott Hill Parkes 50-Inch Upholstered Settee, Wayfair ($490 was $753)

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Dylan Velvet Bean Bag 2-Seat Sofa, Urban Outfitters ($379)

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Aris Armless Loveseat in Mabel Rose, Crate & Barrel ($2,248)

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Kumo 3-Seater Sofa, Canyon, Hem ($4,949)

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Softline Duet Daybed, Design Within Reach ($1,271 was $1,495)

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Clyde 67-Inch Sofa, Blu Dot ($2,095)

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Square-Arm Red Sofas

With retro wood paneling as the backdrop, this Reath Design custom sofa covered in a deep red-toned velvet by Kravet makes a straightforward, square-arm design instantly more interesting in Brynn Jones’s home. You can do the same with our favorite sofa brands—Floyd, Lulu and Georgia, West Elm, Pottery Barn, and more all offer a range of reds to dress up their simple frames. 

Hadley Plaid Sofa, GreenRow ($4,700)

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Belmont Sofa by Ginny Macdonald, Lulu and Georgia ($3,298)

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Urban Queen Sleeper Sofa (84-Inch), West Elm ($2,599)

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Two-Piece Form Sectional in Sisu Pink/Orange, Floyd ($2,744 was $3,920)

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Curved Red Sofas

We’ll never tire of a velvet sofa, especially one that comes in just the right shade of saturated crimson or a softer red-tinted blush. Add to the material a curvy frame that looks and feels like a hug and we’ve pretty much summed up Anthropologie’s Vera sofa, the very one that can be found in Lathan Thomas’s joyful Brooklyn home. As one reviewer so aptly summarizes, “It’s beautiful from every angle.” We tried to channel that feeling into our finds, below. 

Vera Sofa, Anthropologie ($2,798)

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Orren Ellis 86.61-Inch Upholstered Curved Sofa, Wayfair ($1,700)

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The Chelsea Sofa, 80-Inch, Spice Mohair, Maiden Home ($6,650)

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Gramercy Curved Sofa, Paprika, abc carpet & home ($6,630)

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Emet Three Seat Sofa, Soho Home ($5,195)

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Pumpkin Sofa by Pierre Paulin for Roset Line, Chairish ($4,846)

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Statement Red Sofas

Leave it to a former Prada architect to get experimental with living room design. We still think about the custom-made raspberry sofa—with the perfect fringe detail—that Roberto Baciocchi designed himself. The original proves that, sometimes, color is just the start of a standout piece. If you’re seeking a look as unique as Baciocchi’s Tuscany guesthouse, double down on the bold factor by pairing the shade with a funky silhouette, channel-tufting details, or a pattern.

Grady Pleated Sofa, Serena & Lily ($6,998)

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Saxon Sofa, Ap2B ($2,748)

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Popus Editions Lena 3 Seater Sofa in Red Verone Velvet Upholstery, 1stDibs ($3,703)

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Maisie Channeled Sofa, Rust Velvet, One Kings Lane ($4,395)

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Svenson Sofa, Lava Cannes Velvet ($4,155)

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Offset 3-Seater Sofa, 08 Boucle, Audo ($3,565)

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This story was part of Sofa Week, our seven-day stretch of, you guessed it, sofas. After years spent styling, sitting on, and searching for the best of the best—from bespoke designs to rare under-$500 gems—we’re compiling our couch knowledge in one comfy spot.

If you live in a small space and actually have enough room to carve out a little living area, consider yourself one of the lucky ones. (Studio dwellers, you know what we’re talking about.) An oversize sectional sofa is the sort of living room staple we tend to take for granted until we find ourselves struggling to source a viable option that fits within the spatial constraints of our homes—we may or may not be speaking from personal experience here. Finding a comfortable couch is difficult as it is. Finding one that’s design-forward and compact? Decidedly more so. That’s where we come in, with a knack (and passion) for scouring the entirety of the web for the style-focused essentials your home deserves. From generous single-seaters to elongated svelte frames and everything in between, we’ve got the shopping intel on the best sofas for small spaces organized by inches, below. (Continue your search for the best coffee tables for small spaces here.)

Our Favorite Sofas for Small Spaces

• Best chair and a half: Hay Quilton Single Seater Sofa
• Best 50-inch (and under): OKA Coleridge 2-Seater Linen Slipcover Sofa
• Best 51-inch to 59-inch: Serena & Lily Spruce Street Slipcovered Loveseat
• Best 60-inch to 69-inch: Industry West Prado Sofa
• Best 70-inch (and up): West Elm Arianna Modular 3-Piece Ottoman Sectional

The Best Chair-and-a-Half Sofas

While its name might suggest otherwise, the chair and a half is verging on the sofa category where small spaces are concerned. Toss an ottoman in front of one and it is big enough for one to two people to cozy up in—yet still small enough to fit inside spaces that might be even too tight for a love seat. Additionally, a chair and a half is usually comfier in construction than other svelte small-space sofas, offering plusher cushions, deeper seats, and lounge-friendly frames. Our favorite from Hay boasts an inviting armless silhouette with marshmallow-like upholstery and a nice 43-inch deep seat.

Quilton Single Seater, 41.5″, HAY ($1,495)

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Harlowe Media Lounger, Lulu and Georgia ($2,348)

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Family Oversized Sherpa Chair and a Half, Crate&Kids ($1,699)

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Abisko Plush Yarrow Gold Lounge Chair, Article ($899)

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The Best 50-Inch (and Under) Sofas

The 50-and-under sofa category is tricky, as many of these smaller-width seats tread into the chair-and-a-half category. While we tossed in a few single-seaters, still generously sized enough to squeeze two, in the low 40-inch range, our favorite is a true 50-incher from British homewares brand OKA. From its traditional 20th-century-inspired silhouette to its brass caster–clad stained-birch legs and 100% linen slipcover, this elegant sofa is a worthy small-space investment.

Coleridge 2-Seater Sofa with Linen Slipcover, 50″, OKA ($2,495)

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Belgian Club Loveseat, Serena & Lily ($2,998)

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Sofa 2 Places “Togo” by Michel Ducaroy 1973, 40″, 1stDibs ($4,008)

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Atlanta Velvet Loveseat, 46″, Soho Home ($2,995)

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Atwood Lounge, 47″, Gus Modern ($1,400)

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Howell Upholstered Loveseat, 48″, Threshold ($550)

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The Best 51-Inch to 59-Inch Sofas

The over-50 range opens up a comfier category for small-space couches, with more formidable and spacious designs verging on three-seater capacity. Our favorite is, unsurprisingly, Serena & Lily’s Spruce sofa—a top pick from our guide to the best love seats. The slipcovered style is available in a wide range of patterns and materials, from 100% linen upholstery to stain-resistant performance fabric. It’s custom-built in the U.S. with a sturdy kiln-dried, hardwood frame and legs, featuring fiber-wrapped, soy-based foam cushions.

Spruce Street Slipcovered Loveseat, 57″, Serena & Lily ($4,098)

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Movie Felt Grey Twin Sleeper Sofa, 56″, CB2 ($1,999)

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Sink Down Lounge Chair, 51″, Floyd ($1,267 was $1,810)

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Jackie Loveseat, 53.54, Zinus ($324 was $345)

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The Best 60-Inch to 69-Inch Sofas

If you can swing a sofa from the 60-and-up crowd, we recommend going with a deeper seat—like our favorite from Industry West. The soft, cloudlike silhouette of the Prado sofa cushions the blow of its bulkier 62-inch frame inside a smaller space. We love the cocoon quality of its low seat-bed paired with a high back and overstuffed cushions. Our other favorites feature either similarly softened frames or, in the case of a vintage 1stDibs find, pair their longer dimensions with a narrower and taller frame.

Prado Sofa, 62″, Industry West ($632 was $790)

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Handwoven Malawi Cane Sofa with White Linen Cushion, 65″, 1stDibs ($995)

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Fan Pleat Sofa, 69″, Anthropologie ($2,098)

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Kearney Upholstered Loveseat, 61″, AllModern ($860)

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The Best 70-Inch (and Up) Sofas

Our top picks for 70-inch-and-up sofas range from a compact slipcovered cloud couch by Domino-favorite Leanne Ford to a collaborative Herman Miller x Hay design with barely there legs to a ’60s-inspired Urban Outfitters creation featuring a comfy, curvaceous profile. Our top choice, however, is West Elm’s Arianna sofa, as it’s one of the most space-conscious sectionals we’ve come across. The soft modular design can be reconfigured to fit within whatever size space you’re working with—standing alone or clustered together.

Arianna Modular 3-Piece Ottoman Sectional, 72″, West Elm ($1,997)

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Eames Compact Sofa, 72.5″, Herman Miller x HAY ($6,500)

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Aria Sofa, 72.5″, Urban Outfitters ($999 was $1,299)

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Ever Slipcovered Apartment Sofa by Leanne Ford, 77″, Crate & Barrel ($2,199)

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If you’re ever feeling stuck when couch shopping, you can’t go wrong with a brown leather sofa. Timeless, durable, comfortable, stylish—it’s an easy and obvious choice. The hard part? Decorating around it. Figuring out what colors go with a brown leather sofa isn’t exactly intuitive. Some earth-toned neutrals like terracotta tend to wash it out, while charcoal gray and black can give off bachelor pad vibes. Instead we strive for cozy and ambient colors that accentuate a brown leather couch’s welcoming ways. In fact, many of the hues that do it justice are ones we’d call in-between shades, or tones that straddle the line between two different colors. Ahead, six foolproof paint colors that will pair perfectly with your brown leather sofa. 

Light Orange-Pink 

Other than simply being a happy color, pink has an unusual benefit: It’s extremely flattering. Many designers will choose the hue to make the people in the room look better, but the same can be said for the furniture in the space. Caitlin Higgins, the partnerships manager for Emily Henderson, reminded us of this when she painted her living room walls with two coats of Sherwin-Williams’s Pueblo, which she describes somewhere in between a light orange and a “barely there, almost-pink shade.” 

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Pueblo, Sherwin-Williams

Creamy Yellow

No windows and dark furniture can be a recipe for a drab-feeling space—focusing on the fifth wall (aka the ceiling) can help. In her small Queens, New York, apartment, jewelry designer Sarah Burns swathed her ceiling in Benjamin Moore’s Buttermilk, lending a glow over the vintage Afra & Tobia Scarpa pieces below. 

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Buttermilk, Benjamin Moore

Bright White

If your brown leather sofa is as cool and sculptural as Brandon Blackwood’s vintage Ubald Klug one, then opt for simple surroundings with a bright, fresh backdrop like Pure White. Fellow fashion designer Christian Siriano says this specific swatch reminds him of apartments in Paris—not a bad place to pretend you and your big brown leather sofa live.

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Pure White, Sherwin-Williams

Dark Blue-Green

What do you get when you pair a brown leather sofa with Clare’s Current Mood (a “mysterious, moody green,” per the brand’s description)? You get a scholarly library feel. At least, that’s how design editor Ryann Trombetti would describe her living room setup, which she completed with a burgundy-tinged vintage wall hanging and faded red antique rug. Her only regret? Not painting the ceiling the same color (but she has plans to fix that stat).

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Current Mood, Clare ($70 per gallon)

Light Blue-Green

If you want less study vibes and more play-with-the kids energy, go a shade or two brighter. This silvery blue color features flecks of green and has been a part of Farrow & Ball’s assortment since the company’s very beginning. In her Waco, Texas, home, stylist and photographer Hilary Walker kept things effortless and bright with white moldings, a graphic white rug, and a globe chandelier. 

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Light Blue, Farrow & Ball

More Brown

Wood. We know it might not be your first thought, but hear us out: A brown leather sofa in a room with stained warm wood walls screams “countryside oasis.” You also don’t have to live in a rustic bed-and-breakfast like the Inn at Kenmore Hall (pictured above) to re-create this setting. Portola Paints’s Roman Clay line lets you achieve a similar color and texture without having to splurge on millwork.

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Rustica, Portola Paints

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Plenty of good reasons exist to put a slipcover over a not-so-cute (or not-so-clean) sofa. Chief among them, it beats dropping thousands on a new one. The challenge is finding a slipcover that won’t look as bad as what you are trying to hide in the first place, and we’d bet you’re searching in the wrong places. Because the best textiles for mending your sad sofa situation are probably already in your house.

Grab a bright blanket, a patterned coverlet, or a vintage handira and get to camouflaging. The tucking bit is optional; a peppy stripe or bold fringe appears especially effortless when loosely cloaked over the cushions. Here’s how to cover a sofa with throws in seven different ways.

The Best of Both Worlds

“It’s not me to have a white couch or a white anything,” Los Angeles–based streetwear designer Beth Birkett told us. So it’s no surprise that she dyed her family’s two RH Cloud sofas seafoam green, then swaddled the cushions in a rainbow of textiles. Rather than choose one look or the other, she left the base uncovered for a bright contrast.

Vintage African Kente Ewe Cloth, Etsy ($357)

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Vintage Large African Kente Ashanti, Etsy ($336)

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The One and Done

You wouldn’t normally think of a crisp white sofa as kid-friendly, but Jenni Li and Hans Gissinger managed to make it so in their Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, home. Their trick: encasing the seat in a wool blanket. When juice inevitably spills, it can simply be dry-cleaned.

Frontier Wool Blanket, Faribault Mill ($395)

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Glacier National Park Blanket by Pendleton, Backcountry ($239)

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The Gift Wrap

At Bird Brooklyn founder Jennifer Mankins’s Shelter Island, New York, retreat, tablecloths are bedding, denim is wall insulation, and vintage kantha quilts are sofa upholstery. Each section is wrapped individually, almost as if they’re presents (and aren’t they?).

Shelburne Cotton Coverlet, Schoolhouse ($249)

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Rose Dream Quilt, Urban Outfitters ($249)

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The Drape

In the case of a classic pattern like stripes, scale is everything. Flea Market Fab founder Jennifer Harrison sewed two blankets with different takes on stripes together: a chunkier, blocklike print and one made up of thin lines. The variety lends some soul to the neutral arrangement.

Natural/Navy Waffle Stripe Bed Blanket, Boll & Branch ($228)

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La Brisa Alpaca Bed Blanket, The Citizenry ($375)

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The Botanical

​​Sean MacPherson and Rachelle Hruska’s fort–meets–surf shack in Montauk, New York, is overflowing with Moroccan pillows and oversize blankets they’ve collected over time. A couple in subtle leaf and flower patterns—no ubiquitous palm leaf prints here—have ended up folded around their two daybeds.

Kantha Quilt Throw No. 220509, Anchal ($225)

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Woodblock Print Floral Quilt, Threshold by Studio McGee, Target ($79)

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The Embellished

Fashion designer Keren Craig went heavy on texture for the sofa in her reimagined farmhouse in upstate New York, loading up the backrests with a shiny tasseled Moroccan handira (known as a wedding blanket). An embroidered burgundy textile gives the celebratory pieces a down-to-earth spin. Cabin vibes but with a little glitz.

Moroccan Wedding Throw, Etsy ($174)

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Small Kantha Quilt Throw No. 220430 ($84 was $120)

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The Linen Sheet

In the middle of Brigette Muller’s Brooklyn rental, an anything-but-boring beige sofa sets the tone for her French-inspired scene. In lieu of a stuffy slipcover, she chose a sheetlike option of breezy linen draped over her three-seater that looks as effortlessly chic as any Paris flat. 

• Linen Sofa Cover by MagicLinen, Etsy, $79
• Vintage Linen Bed Cover, Parachute, $289

Ask Domino

Q: What size throw blankets work best to cover a sofa? 

The number and size of throw blankets you use will largely depend on the size of the sofa, so your first step is to measure. In order to make it look as integrated as possible, Natalie Rebuck, principal designer at Re: Design Architects, says to choose a blanket that is either large enough to cover the couch in its entirety or use smaller throws and wrap each cushion individually. 

Q: Are certain materials better than others? 

Artem Kropovinsky, interior designer and founder of Arsight, says there are a few things to consider. First, aim for a material that feels soft and cozy—think: cashmere, wool, and cotton. Second, durability is key. Choose a material that can withstand wear and tear (wool and cotton also work here along with linen). And finally, make sure the material selected coordinates with your home’s aesthetic.

Q: How do you keep throw blankets from shifting around?

There are a few ways to keep these covers from slipping off your sofa. Kropovinsky recommends using blanket clips. These handy little metal fasteners help hold the throws in place over your couch’s arms. He adds that throw pillows can also serve as weights to secure the fabric. Also, by simply folding the blanket in half before positioning it on the couch, the added width makes it snugger and less likely to shift.

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Almost all the comments on Studio McGee’s Instagram posts end with a question mark. Where is the stone from? Can you tell me the wall paint color? What are the dimensions on your pool house? Cofounder and chief creative officer Shea McGee has all of your answers, and if you want to learn what they are (and more), now you can through Sessions by MasterClass. The interior designer and host of Netflix’s Dream Home Makeover is the latest pro to join the platform. Starting today, you can tune in as she shows members how they can create a space to fit their personal style and budget. “I wanted to give people the nudge they need to take on a project that really can have a dramatic impact on their lives, without making some of the costly or timely mistakes that beginners in any arena tend to make,” says the designer. The session is broken up into eight parts, and the monthly subscription starts at $15. 

Unlike other design courses on MasterClass, McGee starts with a blank living room and builds it up from there by compiling fabric schemes, creating a mood board, picking out lighting, and more. Along the way, she shares many of her dos (like do mark your furniture placement with blue tape on the floor before you actually move anything in). Her don’ts? McGee revealed to us that there are two mistakes she often sees when people are laying out a living room: “One is buying furniture that doesn’t fit in the space, and the other is not considering the flow of the room and how it leads into the rest of the home,” she shares. Let’s break those down a little more…

Mistake No. 1: Wrong Furniture Size

Logic will tell you that a small room requires petite furniture, but in reality, substantial pieces that fill a space look and feel better. “Too-small furniture can leave a living room feeling cold and bare, and adversely, too-large furniture can make it feel closed in and unwelcoming,” says McGee. In the past, the designer has advised to buy that larger sofa and coffee table, and then if you are running tight on room, sub in a slim floor lamp for a traditional side table. 

Mistake No. 2: No Flow

If you’re constantly shuffling and scooting around your couch or side chairs, then your living room isn’t set up for success. “How the space functions is just as important as how it looks and feels, and often fixing the function will organically fix the look,” says McGee. A round coffee table offers more walking space in the middle of the room, plus peppering in benches and stools provides extra seating that’s also easy to navigate around. 

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Last year, if you had looked at my eBay “watch list” (aka the place I save all my “one day I’ll own that” pieces), you would have found it stocked with marble tables. Saving these pieces was somewhat of a daily ritual for me. Then that “one day” finally rolled around and I bid on, and won, two oval-shaped vintage marble coffee tables. My dreams, however, were quickly (and literally) broken when one of them was delivered shattered into hundreds of pieces and the other was dropped by my husband, who was a little too eager to take a look at the underside of the marble top. 

Back to square one. Lucky for me, I had bookmarked another similar but round one, and the seller was located only about a 45-minute drive away from our home in Brighton. I sent my guilt-ridden husband to pick it up for £20 (about $25). The top was in a dire state, but I knew it could be easily removed and fixed. However, the base upon which the slab of stone sat was a lost cause—I knew I needed to replace it with something fresh, something sculptural…something reflective. From Anthropologie’s Sonali table to Kelly Wearstler’s Morro table, three-ball coffee tables are certainly having a moment, though I have yet to find another one with balls that are mirrored. And unlike its luxurious cousins, my DIY came together for under £200 (or roughly $250). Here’s how I did it.

The Supplies

• A vintage coffee table with an easily removable top
• Heat gun
• Scraper
• Orbital sander with sanding pads
• Tile sealant
• Small foam roller
• 3 gazing balls (see similar U.S. product here)
• 3 metal dishes
• UniBond No More Nails Glue

Step 1: Strip Away the Past

Many vintage marble tables are covered with a protective layer of melamine that tends to yellow and crack over time. This was the case for mine. I removed the melamine by holding a heat gun over the surface until the plastic was soft enough to be scraped off. 

Step 2: Smooth It Out

Then I used my orbital sander to smooth out any light scratches I made with the scraper. Whether you use a power tool or just some good old-fashioned elbow grease for this step, the key is to start with a low-grit (coarser) sandpaper and work your way up to a higher grit (finer). I started with a 150 and worked my way up to a 300. The finer grit will polish the marble. For some extra sheen and protection, I applied a tile sealant over the stone with a foam roller. 

Step 3: Get Your Orbs Table-Ready

Because the marble top won’t be able to properly sit on the rounded base as is, I glued a small metal plate to each gazing ball using construction adhesive with the concave side touching the orb. Make sure that the plate is not too deep so that there is enough surface area connecting to the ball. Repeat for all three. 

Step 4: Find Your Prime Position

Once the glue has dried (check for instructions on the bottle; in my case it was 24 hours), you can experiment with the position of the balls by gently resting the marble top on the flat surface of the plate. Mark the underside of the table top with a pencil so you know exactly where to put the glue. 

Step 5: Secure Your Spheres

Put your table top on the ground with the underside facing up. Glue the flat surface that you created with the plate onto the bottom of the marble top with the same construction adhesive. 

Because the gazing balls are hollow, they are much lighter in weight than the table top. I found that attaching the balls fairly close to the edge keeps the table from tipping over when you lean on it. If you want the table to be extra secure, you might want to consider drilling a hole in the balls and filling them with sand or cement. You could then glue the plate over the hole to hide it and make sure that whatever you put inside will stay there.    

Let the glue bond for one to two hours before turning the table right-side up. The weight of the stone will aid with the bonding. Once in situ, the round table turned out a much better spatial fit than the two previous oval versions. Evidently, it was always meant to be the one. 

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Coffee tables are one of those dreaded purchases for parents with babies. No. Sharp. Corners. Allowed! But finding a piece that is both safe and aesthetically pleasing isn’t always easy. Mandy Moore seems to have found the perfect balance—and her youngest son, Ozzie, is sort of obsessed (he thinks it’s a toy!). Let us explain.

Moore recently posted on Instagram a sweet pic of her 6-month-old “baby pterodactyl contemplating life” as he giggles on the living room floor of her family’s Pasadena, California, home. What’s so funny? Apparently, his reflection in the cloud-shaped mirrored coffee table. By the looks of it, someone flipped the stainless steel piece from Statements by J on its side so the little one could get an eyeful. 

While the shiny surface is what initially caught our (and Ozzie’s) attention, we couldn’t help but notice the boho-inspired play mat he’s hanging out on. We found the House of Noa modular floor covering in a variety of sizes. Plus the graphic pattern is one you’d only expect to find on a handwoven rug—a style statement that gives new parents something to smile about, too. 

Kate Coffee Table in Rose Gold, Statements by J. ($1,354)

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Little Nomad Play Mat in Indie White, House of Noa ($129)

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“Televisions are a necessary evil for interior designers,” says Christina Valencia, one half of the husband-and-wife studio Colossus Mfg. Most of their clients want to have one in their living space, but the practical place for it always seems to be right in the middle of the room. The result? When you’re not streaming or hosting Super Bowl Sunday, you’re left looking at a big black box. No matter how cool your media console or how chic your sectional, no amount of style can completely turn your head from the eyesore. Fortunately, this all-too-common dilemma has forced designers to get creative with temporarily disguising the tricky tech when it’s powered off, and surprisingly most of their solutions are easy to DIY. Here’s how to hide your TV, 14 different ways.

Layer Artwork Over a Samsung Frame TV

Brigette Muller, the creative behind the home decor account @hummusbird, openly admits that she doesn’t watch a lot of TV, so mounting her Frame in an unusual spot (it’s that one directly underneath the bookshelf!) seemed like a suitable enough position, especially when she is lying horizontal on her sofa. To really disguise it, though, she opted for an elaborate gold border (you can buy a similar-looking one on Amazon). That way, when she sets the screen saver to an oil painting and leans actual similar works against it, her living room feels more like an artist’s studio than it does a place for bingeing Succession.

Pull Up the Big Screen

Lone Fox Home creator Drew Scott connected the drawers in the center of this vintage hutch to form a cubby that can hold a roll-up screen. When movie night comes around, Scott can simply draw it up and attach it to a hook he placed on the top.

 Stash It Behind Slatted Wood

The thought process that led to this stained white oak cabinet, designed by Hyphen and Co. and the project’s lead designer, Eliza McNabb, was twofold: When hosting, guests are constantly walking through the den to get to the kitchen and main hallway, so it allows the space to feel more elevated when it’s not turned on. The homeowners also use the house during the summer months, when they spend much of their time outside, so having the option to close the unit keeps the focus on nature and spending time together. 

Artfully, Open Sesame

Pulp Design Studios made a clever hideaway for a client’s rarely used television by setting the screen into the wall and adding “doors” on either side. When closed, all guests see are six works of art in matching frames.

Embrace Your Inner Van Gogh

Valencia and her husband, Kele Dobrinski, took a similar approach by putting the TV in Dobrinski’s parents’ home in a cabinet. Rather than hunting down prints at an antiques shop, though, they painted an abstract landscape onto the facade. 

Shroud It With Scrap Textiles

Designer Alex Boudreau happens to have a “ridiculous collection” of 1-yard fabric samples, so when she feels like hiding her eye-level, wall-mounted TV, she just throws her favorite one of the month over it. 

Put an Old Rug to Use

Often the only logical place to situate the tech is directly over the fireplace—a no-no in the design world, as it takes away from the gathering and conversing that a roaring fire encourages. That’s why Los Angeles–based creative director, stylist, and photographer Kristin Guy was determined to mask hers with a five-minute DIY that calls for a flat-weave rug, a dowel, and a couple of sturdy hooks. 

Lean It on an Easel

New York designer Crystal Sinclair decided to leave her client’s Frame TV out in the open in her Brooklyn loft—but by positioning it on an antique easel instead of a traditional media console, it takes on the role of art rather than atrocity. Wright will fool people into thinking it’s a real painting by throwing on a screen saver, as is intended with the Samsung product. 

Mix the Frame TV Into a Gallery Wall

Another smart way to make the most of the Frame TV: Work it into a gallery wall like interior stylist Scott Horne did in his L.A. living room. The original wide wall paneling (now painted in Benjamin Moore’s White Dove) adds a layer of dimension that further helps the 3D box blend into the background. 

Shield It With a Drop Cloth, Two Ways

DIYer and blogger Emily Brownell took a drop cloth outside, primed it, and painted abstract shapes on the canvas using leftover sample jars and oil pastels she had lying around her house. The large-scale tapestry now hangs from a dowel that’s mounted to the ceiling in her garage-turned-den. When it’s movie night, all the family has to do is lift the fabric and push it behind the TV.

Seeking Lavender Lane blogger Deb Foglia not only needed to hide her screen but the unsightly cable box and cords attached to it. So after mounting it all on the only blank wall in her space, she screwed a curtain rod into the ceiling, popped on two rings, and finished off the disguise with a 9-by-12-foot drop cloth. 

Take a Moment to Reflect

Things get even trickier when you’re trying to obscure a television in a room where you usually don’t expect to see one. Following her client’s request for a secret screen in the dining room, designer Maggie Burns opted for a Reflectel, a custom framed TV that, when turned off, is concealed by mirror glass. 

Go Big When You Go Home

If a discreet home theater is what you’re after, take a cue from Emily Henderson and install a projector with a simple white cartridge (hers is mounted on the ceiling above her sofa) and a pull-down screen (located above the window). All the cords are hidden behind the shades or within white cord covers that her installer snaked down the middle of the windows. 

Think: What Would James Bond Do?

After realizing this apartment only had one wall available for artwork, designer Charlotte Sylvain of Studio Fauve decided to position the TV in the middle of the room. The custom floating dining banquette–meets–media console comes with a remote-controlled lift that conceals (or reveals) the flat screen at the touch of a button. 

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