What makes it work is that the furniture is in complementary tones and shapes, and the fabrics’ colors and patterns harmonize. Personally, I tend to favor a combination of the build-it-yourself and scavenger approaches. I’ve made a lot of the pieces in my house, but some of them also come from thrift shops and unexpected places. I bought the chairs in my dining room, for instance, from a college that was selling off some of its old furniture. They’re a mix of primary colors, made of chrome and plastic, and I paid only five dollars for each. I put the chairs around a bright white table, which has a base I got from a flea market and a top that I built myself.
Step Eleven is the most complicated step because it may entail going back to square one and going through the steps again with a less ambitious plan. In fact, most makeovers require revising the plan more than a few times. Just know that you’re going to freak out, but that you’ll refigure everything and it will all work out in the end. I do it every week.
Create a Floor Plan
How you’re going to commit your ideas to paper by re-creating the room in miniature so that you can play with all the elements. First, though, you need measurements.
A lot of them
Measure absolutely everything. Measure the floor, walls, and doors. Measure the height and width of the windows and, if you’re going to be using shades, measure the inside of the window frames. Measure how high the ceilings are. Then measure all the furniture that you plan to bring back into the room. All this measuring is going to help you in two ways. First, it’s going to allow you to draw up an accurate floor plan, and second, it’s going to help you avoid ordering curtains that are too short or shades that don’t fit in your window.
Rely on only your eyes to assess dimensions and you’re liable to end up with a dresser that covers part of the window or a desk that blocks a closet door. So get out the tape measure, write down all the measurements, and keep them accessible so that when you go shopping you don’t have to guess at the length of the sofa you need. (Trust me, guesstimating is aggravating-especially when you end up having to saw a sofa in half.) When you have all your measurements written down, you’ll create a floor plan. One way to do it is to find a floor plan tool online (a quick Google search will help you locate several different planning tools), then draw up your plan on your computer.
If you’re more of a low-tech kind of person, it’s also easy to just draw a floor plan yourself. Scaling everything down (say, 72 inch = 1 foot), reproduce the room on a piece of paper. Then, on a separate piece of paper, using the same scale, draw the furnishings you have and those you anticipate purchasing (anything from beds, dressers, and entertainment centers to couches, desks, lamps, and rugs). Cut the furnishings out and try out different arrangements in the room you’ve drawn. This method will save you from having to draw and redraw the room a hundred times.
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