Furnishing a house: the step-by-step guide to making all the right choices for your luxury furnishings

How to furnish a house? This is one of the most difficult questions to answer for anyone who has just purchased a high-end apartment, house or villa. However, the question also concerns those who have carried out a renovation. Or who, more simply, is faced with the need to renew the furnishing of one or more rooms in their home.

In fact, choosing interior furniture is not as trivial an operation as you might think. First of all, you have to consider the characteristics of the rooms in the house. This is an aspect that requires careful consideration. Next, you must ensure that the furniture is consistent with each other and with the style of furniture and accessories that may already be present. In addition, especially if you are starting from scratch, you must furnish a house while ensuring that you maintain a balance between your own aesthetic tastes, the interior designer’s suggestions and the different constraints imposed by the space. Every detail must be weighed and made harmonious with the overall context.

In other words,the arrangement of an apartment,building a loft or villa is a very complex activity that requires the ability to take into account many different factors and needs. This is to avoid gross errors and, at the same time, to speed up the operations of selection, transport and installation of each piece of furniture, accessory and furnishing item.

So, where do you start when choosing high-quality furniture for your home? In short, how can you furnish a house to transform each room or compartment into a valuable, functional and aesthetically unique environment?

This article is for all intents and purposes a guide which gives a clear and precise answer to the aforementioned questions. In fact, we have put ourselves in the shoes of those who have to make complex furnishing choices, trying to help them in their evaluations and subsequent decisions. From a certain point of view, ours is a step-by-step manual, containing useful tips on how to avoid the most common mistakes, so that there are no setbacks and you can respect the deadlines set in the interior design project. From another point of view, this guide will provide the best indications for furnishing a house with functional and valuable furniture, revealing the secrets of the best interior designers – and the criteria for choosing one who is competent and reliable.

First tip: avoid DIY

Often, the first temptation of those who have to furnish a house is to resort to DIY. In other words, you are so sure of your ideas and preferences for furniture and style that you want to do everything yourself. This idea, although it denotes resourcefulness and is therefore admirable, is perhaps not the right one.

Indeed, as we mentioned previously, choosing the most appropriate furniture for each room in the house is complex. Because there are many details to evaluate and harmonize with each other. Furthermore, to obtain a final result perfectly consistent with the initial idea, it is necessary to study a solid architectural project, free from the slightest error. And not everyone has the technical skills to achieve this, that is, to put on paper an interior design project that results in a house furnished in a comfortable, functional and luxurious way. Even the advice of relatives and friends is not of much help: furnishing your own house is one thing, furnishing the house of a person whose tastes, needs and requirements differ from ours is another.

So, what is the first piece of advice we want to give to those who need to buy or renovate furnishings for their home? It’s simple: don’t give in to the temptation to do everything yourself. On the contrary, you must trust aprofessional interior designer,that is, someone who has a long, proven track record in the industry. A person of such professionalism will certainly be able to advise us best and, based on our tastes, design the best project for our life needs. A project that provides the most suitable furniture for each room, giving each of them the style and atmosphere that will make it unique.