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Love it or hate it, there are times when the TV pulls the family together. From watching the latest must-view box set to enjoying a blockbuster film, there is no need for the TV to be bland and dull. In fact, with these reclaimed wood TV storage units, you have options for bringing yet more sublime beauty to a room.

Rustic drama

Characterised by the less refine working of the wood, there is a rawness to rustic reclaimed furniture pieces that we find attractive. But when overdone, it can look coarse. As a result, sliding in elegant pieces allows the star pieces to shine. The rustic charm of this TV unit is not lost against the elegance of the beautiful cream, buttoned sofa.

And so let’s begin our journey through our three favourite TV stands with the rustic style and this excellent example of a reclaimed wood TV storage unit from the Kensington Collection. Simple but with a definite rustic edge, the Kensington reclaimed wood coffee table is the perfect match.

Add refinement and elegance with a cream buttoned velvet sofa with its curves and sumptuousness. Pull the whole look together with the Louis de Poortere Salt and Pepper rug, complete with a faded traditional design.

Effortless with a hint of the dramatic, this rustic styled set will be perfect for any home.

Industrial delight

If there is one style that is perfect for every home, it must surely be the heady combination of materials, finishes and colours that make up the industrial look. If you don’t want the TV to be the dominant addition in the living room, the thing to do is to offset its size and impact with the furniture. In other words, people notice the beauty of this industrial TV stand and the piece surrounding it, rather than the tech.

The sparsity brings a certain appeal and for the TV unit, this slimline TV storage unit is ideal for anyone seeking industrial furniture delight. Again, emphasis harmony in the space by using an industrial coffee table to create an interaction between one piece and another. Ring the changes, however, to stop the matchy-matchy look by using a different shape. The nest of round coffee tables is perfect, don’t you think?

The comfort of the brown leather sofa is highlighted by the beauty of the faded beige rug underfoot.

Contemporary chic

Combining elements of contemporary with traditions gives a warm finish to the living room. The slight rustic edge to this two-drawer reclaimed wood TV unit is ideal for when you have smaller items you want to hide away. Drawer space is handy, after all, for stopping the remote from wandering down the back of the sofa…

Maintain the warm tones of the wood with the Chesterfield brown leather sofa complete with matching leather coffee-table-cum-footstool.

Patterned rugs bring a welcome infusion of colour. The cooler blue tones in the rug are the perfect foil against the warm tones introduced thus far.

Reclaimed wood furniture in any guise is a sheer delight but we think when used as the tech-centre in a room, it takes on even more beauty. Do you agree?

There are many ways you can the living room but have you thought about turning it into a home theatre? Follow these six steps to creating a home movie cinema right there in your living room…

1 The right home sound and viewing system

From investing in a huge TV to a projector and surround sound, clearly getting the right home movie system is the critical first step. Depending on what system you opt, you could be looking at a budget of £800+.

2 The right room

We are suggesting a movie room in the living room and whilst this may be suitable for most of us, it would be remiss of us to suggest that it is the only room in the house that can accommodate a cinematic feel to it.

Essentially, choose the room that isn’t bathed in sunlight every evening because this is the time you will most likely be watching the latest blockbuster – and sun streaming onto the TV or projector screen is not ideal.

3 Room décor

With your sound system and massive TV on order, you need to create the perfect backdrop. Darker colours on the walls, along with blinds and blackout drapes make for the perfect space to watch the latest release.

You will the way your industrial furniture and darker colours will work surrounded by the latest technology in the living room. But with a lot of tech being so small, you will find that creating a cinema in the living room works with the traditional, reclaimed furniture chic too.

4 The floor

Sound is affected by surfaces that either reflects sound waves or absorbs them. You need a mixture of both.

A hard floor, such as wood, is great for bouncing the surround sound around the living room but if you feel you need some warmth underfoot, a flat weave rug is a great addition. Opt for the biggest you can, using it to sit the leather Chesterfield sofa on to give the room a ‘frame’.

5 Lighting

The ideal situation is to switch the lights off and be swallowed into the action on the big screen. But many of us find this too stark and so soft lighting in the room can help to digest all the colours of the movie you have chosen to watch.

Natural light interferes with the movie screen, so banish that from the room. Opt for dimmable LED lighting around the edges of the room, keeping any light behind you and not around the screen as many photos may show.

Of course, a table lamp on the nest of tables or industrial coffee table with storage next to your leather armchair wouldn’t go amiss for when you need light to find the remote.

6 Seats

The final step – but possibly the most important – is the choice of seating in your newly create living room cinema.

You may like to sit the traditional way on a chair, or curl up under a blanket on the sofa, or opt for a chair where you can dangle your legs over the side – the important thing is this: you get the best possible seating that is the comfiest for you (and in the style you love too!).

Why not send us the photos of your cinema-cum-living-room? We would love to see them!

Many people comment on the Aviator Collection – and no wonder, it is, after all, a collection that is different and unique – and although they highly-prize the eclectic appeal it would add to their home, they are unsure ‘how to use it’.

We understand the predicament. There is a certain amount of bravery, of throwing caution to the wind and falling back on your styling wits when it comes to the Aviator range. And that’s why we love it.

It pushes the boundaries without being too quirky. It can, with the right supporting actors in place, be the unashamed star of the show or it can be a detail hidden in plain sight that makes people gasp ‘wow!’ when they see it.

Fear no longer where you are ‘making a mistake’ or ‘I love it but…’ as we give you three delightful examples of how a piece or pieces from the Aviator collection can really work in your home.

A relaxing spot

When it comes to a brown leather armchair, there is nothing more beautiful than the Aviator Thunderbolt armchair. The whole collection has a slight nod to the 1920s and the Art Deco style. With this in mind, pair two of these fantastic brown leather armchairs with a new rug from the Louis de Poortere range, the charcoal coloured Dessert Eye.

A cosy reading spot indeed but if you need more seating, the Spitfire brown leather sofa is the ideal addition. If you need extra storage, stick with the industrial feel with a drinks cabinet, light in tone that doesn’t jar against the rivets and metallic finish of the Aviator furniture pieces.

The reading nook

Let us return to the idea of a reading nook because with life so busy and demanding, creating a technology-free space where the world cannot reach you is perfect. Falling into the realms of a ‘good book’ is an ideal activity that the Aviator collection can support you with.

You’ll smile every time you fall into the depths of the Aviator wing chair – or egg chair, as we sometimes call it – curling your feet beneath you as you enjoy reading time.

Maintain neutrality with a beige rug and frame the space with a more than useful round coffee table. The industrial style side table from the Kingsbridge Collection makes an ideal reading nook fellow, don’t you think?

Not just for the domestic scene

The Aviator Collection is perfect in so many ways and we think it makes a fantastic choice for our business customers.

It makes a real impact. Your visitors will love its style to say hello to the Aviator console table, a beautiful narrow console table in the reception area. A pair of aviator armchairs, the brown leather an ideal material for the busy reception space, create a canvas from which you can add the other accessories.

Use the Louis de Poortere Black Mad Men rug to frame the chairs, just as you would in the home.

And so you see, there is no reason to doubt your styling ability with the Aviator furniture because it is simply beautiful, no matter where it sits or with what.

Do you look with envy at the glossy pages of magazines or website of home bloggers at their super-tidy living room? You may think that with a family, pets and a busy work schedule that tidiness at home automatically suffers. But with these tips and some great industrial style furniture, we show you how to enjoy a tidy living room, without the hassle.

The skill of keeping a living room tidy is to impose a system of order. And so with this in mind, we take a look at the four key principles of keeping your living room tidy without being obsessive.

Tip 1 – Easy access

Storage is the key to a tidy room, whether that’s the hallway, the kitchen or the living room. But storage that cannot be accessed easily is a lost cause. The more people have to fiddle, move stuff, open stuff and close stuff to put something away, the less likely they are to do it.

At its simplest, the blanket box is surely the best easy access storage solution for the living room – and it doubles as an industrial coffee table too, if you need it to.

Great for kids toys and encouraging them to put everything away when they have finished.

Tip 2 – Order

Grouping similar things together means you are more likely to find things when you need them, saving you hours of frustration trying to find something.

For example, an industrial TV cabinet is great for keeping DVDs, games consoles, remote control and similar things.

An industrial coffee table also helps to keeps books, magazines and other bits and bobs together. Opt for one that has drawers too so you have different solutions.

Tip 3 – On Show storage

Sometimes the best solution is to have some nicer looking things on show. Shelving is a great storage solution in the living room.

You can leave it open such as in the case of a bookcase – why not ring the changes with this fantastic bookcase from the Aviator range? You can use these items to balance out the symmetry of the bookcase in the living room. you can either cluster similar things together or cluster similar colours.

The other thing with shelving is the order it can give you. Things you use rarely out on the uppermost shelves, regular things towards the middle and occasionally used items on the bottom shelving.

Tip 4 – Hidden

Every living room needs a certain amount of hidden storage, similar to that offered by the blanket box-cum-coffee table.

However, you might not want to hide everything away and when this is the case, you need hybrid options such as this part display unit, part drawer unit. As industrial furniture goes, the oak display cabinet with shelving and drawers is simply beautiful.

However, if you do want cupboard space as opposed to blanket boxes In the living room, we have an option in the stylish form of the industrial reclaimed wood sideboard. Elegant and utterly charming, the detail on the front of this piece from the Barclay Collection is to be admired.

In four easy to follow tips, we have solved your messy living room problem!

Whether it’s an autumnal orange or a summery, vibrant shade, there is something alluring about an orange sofa. It’s deep golden tones instantly warm and room but without bringing an ‘high-viz’ feel to the space.

The good news, it doesn’t need overly-complicated styling and neither does investing in an orange sofa mean that certain styles and looks are immediately excluded. There is more versatility in the golden shade than you could ever imagine.

Customised sofa

We like to give you as many choices as possible which is why these orange sofas are customisable;

• The wadding – some sofas come with a choice of filling or padding. Choose the one that suits how you will use the sofa.

• Size – most of our sofas are available in two, three or four seater options.

• Fabric – choose from orange fabric or opt for the deep golden hues of orange aniline leather.

Style it out

The Grayson orange sofa is a dream and easier to style with these hints and tips;

• Soften the golden hue just a touch with the Scandinavian styled living room. using lighter woods, like oak, is perfect.

• The white-topped nest of tables, for example, with natural wood legs make an ideal partner to the orange sofa.

• The oak ladder shelving continues the Scandinavian feel and adds a sense of something different alongside the delightful golden tones of the sofa too.

• Use a paler floor rug, such as a pale black rug with faded design to be the platform on which it all sits.

Industrial chic with orange leather

Orange leather sofas are set to be the next big thing when it comes to bold moves in the home. In fact, orange could be the surprise colour of seasons to come.

If there is one style that it works well with, it is the industrial style.

And we have just the collection – the smooth, sophisticated and delicious clean lines of the Bristol Leather and Harris Tweed sofa, a sublime fusion of when fabric and leather meet, giving you the best of both worlds.

Maintain its sheer beauty with unfussy accessories, such as this elegantly simple reclaimed wood industrial side table with a pretty table lamp to ‘square’ the sofa.

Frame it, as e say, by choosing a multi-pattern rug for the floor. Placement is key, so have the two front legs of the sofa just on the rug.

Add your own touch with the Barclay sideboard, beautiful and detailed, but without the fuss, something that the industrial look expects.

Keep the walls a neutral shade, with light window treatment and don’t forget accessories such as artwork and a floor lamp to bring the scheme to life.

The rustic industrial appeal

The Fairfield Chester sofa fits with many design schemes but we think the more rustic the surrounding furniture, the better this sofa will radiate.

Introduce hints of the industrial with the patchwork grey floor rug, ideal for bringing out the golden orange tones of this upholstered sofa.

Carrying on this theme, the Luxe Kensington range is the ideal collection alongside the Fairfield sofa. The reclaimed wood coffee table complete with black metal legs is the ideal piece for framing the sofa in situ – not too large and not too small, it is also the ideal low-level table for coffee and cocktails!

The reclaimed wood side table makes for an understated addition as there will be others. Choose industrially styled mirrors flanked with abstract artwork – choose either unframed canvas prints or black framed prints for cohesion.

Is an orange sofa an addition you would consider?