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Furniture Layout Host Stephanie Lydecker shares tips on arranging your furniture. From "Home Made Easy" episode DHME-136

If you don't have a game plan mapped out before changing your furniture around, DIY's Home Made Easy host can help with some great tips and suggestions.

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Host Stephanie Lydecker shares tips on laying out your furniture.

Materials:

paper and pencil (graph paper also works well)
measuring tape
file and/or binder for clippings and samples

Furniture Layout

• Take inventory of what you have. This will help you avoid over furnishing a room and spending too much money.

• Be sure to indicate things like where doorways, windows, fireplaces and other structural/architectural features are located.

• Measure all the doorway openings.

• Count the number of windows, note the placement and dimensions of them.

• With the layout of your home in mind, look through decorating magazines for rooms that appeal to you.

• Keep a clip file, or large binder with plastic sleeves of your favorite rooms and furniture pieces.

• Note the types of colors and textures that appeal to you.

• Take samples with you.

• You don't have to do it all at once and in fact, don't! Haste makes waste and will cost you,

• Use cutouts to arrange and re-arrange the room—prior to doing anything!