What Goes With a Small Corner Sofa? A Coordinating Guide
Furnishing around a small corner sofa is an exercise in visual weight, because the sofa is already the heaviest thing in the room and everything else needs to feel lighter than it. This coordinating guide works from the floor upwards, starting with choosing a rug large enough for the front legs of both sofa sections and explaining why an undersized rug shrinks a room rather than defining it. It covers swapping a heavy coffee table for a nest of tables or a slim side table within reach of the long seat, using tall narrow storage and alcove shelving to go vertical instead of wide, and positioning a television at a sensible viewing distance without crowding the floor. There is also advice on hanging a mirror above the sofa back, layering two light sources at different heights, and keeping colour, curtains, plants and cushions restrained in a compact British living room....
