7 Corner Furniture Layout Ideas To Maximize Unused Space

Corner spaces often go unused, but with clever home design ideas, these areas can be transformed into functional and aesthetically interesting designs that create a focal point in a room. Maximizing corners in home design can increase storage areas, create dedicated spaces for specific purposes, optimize square footage, offer a sense of spaciousness, and provide balance and harmony for a smoother flow between different areas of the room.

Ideas For Living Room Corner Layouts

To enhance the functionality and aesthetics of the living room corner layout, I recommend taking inspiration from the overall style of the room and the intended use of the corner space to be able to create the best design layout.

Cozy Corner Reading Nook

If your living room has windows that touch the corner of your living room, think about transforming that corner into a cozy reading nook by incorporating a window seat beneath it like a bench or chaise. This is one of the most effective and luxurious ways of making an otherwise empty corner into a relaxing spot in the room. Not only that they are sources of natural light and can offer a lovely view outside; but it is also where you can calm your spirit, cozy up with your favorite novel, and enjoy a cup of hot coffee, especially on a rainy day.

Focus on comfort by incorporating soft textiles for the throw pillows and blankets. Enhance the mood with warm task lights and personalize the space with other design elements such as house plants, artwork, or scented candles. Adding a bespoke bookshelf that fits snuggly into a corner of your living room is another great way to give your living room a more harmonious and sophisticated look.

Floor Plan Details: While the main focus of this living room is the large TV area and its entertainment center, there’s also a cozy reading nook that can be used for work or play. This inviting spot allows one to grab their laptop or favorite book and curl up on the cushioned bench.

Entertainment Area

Living room corners are great for extra furniture arrangements such as sectional sofas to provide ample seating for entertaining guests while maintaining a feeling of openness in the living room. When it comes to optimizing space in your living room, a corner TV stand not only maximizes space but also enhances your viewing experience and adds a touch of style to your home décor.

Floor Plan Details: This living room layout is broken up into two specific zones. One is the corner TV stand with a three-seat sofa for watching shows or movies. The other is a conversation nook on the other side with a loveseat and two armchairs for sitting and talking with friends or family.

What can be more entertaining and radically changing the aesthetic of your living room than adding a corner bar or bar cabinet? Incorporating a bar cabinet in the corner also helps to create a welcoming ambiance yet does not interrupt the rest of your design layout. For a larger living room space, an empty corner can be a perfect place for a piano which can also be the focal point of your living room. The corner of the room works wonderfully for this significant piece of classical instrument since it avoids taking up the entire living room space.

Floor Plan Details: This TV-focused room features a large entertainment center with a large wraparound sectional directly facing it. Due to the positioning of the couch, one can face directly toward the TV or fireplace depending on the mood. There’s also a cozy reading nook on the other side with a comfy armchair and bookshelf.

Social Corner

Use living room corners built with nooks that are deep or different in shape than the rest of your living room to your advantage by incorporating furniture like a console table that fits well into those tight spots or customizing attractive and functional built-in storage cabinets or chest of drawers.

By adding a small table and a couple of swivel chairs you can create a cozy conversation area. A gallery wall can be another great way to utilize an unused corner by hanging framed prints and textured artwork or displaying a unique sculpture that makes a statement.

Floor Plan Details: This room provides the ultimate in entertaining with a home bar with high bar stools tucked into one corner and a large sectional sofa with a coffee table on the opposite side. Multiple ottomans and available for seating or propping up feet while relaxing and can be pushed against a wall when not in use.

Ideas for Bedroom Corner Floor Plans

Bedroom corners can be overlooked in the design process, and these unused and empty corners eventually become dumping zones. As an interior designer, I see to it that I create a design layout that ensures every corner of the bedroom looks chic and useful.

Vanity/Dressing Area

Incorporating vanity reveals a whole new space in your bedroom that embodies serenity and femininity enhancing the functionality of the bedroom. A vanity can also offer extra storage space for beauty products, gadgets, and other grooming accessories.

Creating a built-in, custom-dressing space in the corner of your bedroom offers a sense of glamour. Wardrobes with glass-paned doors allow you to see what’s inside at the same time, it efficiently protects your clothes from dust. Add a full-length mirror at the end of the cabinet to give your dressing area a gorgeous and elegant style. Mirrors help bounce and amplify the level of light creating a bright bedroom corner.

Floor Plan Details: A corner vanity can help maximize floor space, allow mirrors for viewing from multiple angles, and provide useful storage options like wraparound shelving.

Workspace Desk Nook

Transform your bedroom corner into a functional workspace nook while keeping your relaxation and workspaces separate. With more people nowadays working from home, homeowners are considering a bedroom office. To balance the practicality of having a workspace nook with maintaining a stylish bedroom ambiance, allow the office area to blend into the room’s décor seamlessly. Creating a workspace nook in your bedroom can help transform underused bedroom corners into something both inviting and productive.

Floor Plan Details: This bedroom has clearly defined zones with a separate area for sleeping and work-related tasks. Along with the corner desk, there are additional storage features like a large cabinet pushed against the lower wall, open shelving above the desktop, and a large wardrobe.

Relaxation Area

Incorporating occasional chairs, accent chairs, or chaises is a simple and classic design idea that allows you to transform a bedroom corner into a design statement seating area or provide additional seating or relaxation area. Create a welcoming and cozy corner by featuring a comfortable chair, a side table, and a floor lamp. This can be an excellent solution for empty spaces and can be designed as a focal point in the bedroom, where you can enjoy a quiet coffee time.

Floor Plan Details: This bedroom design benefits from a relaxing window seat bench tucked into one corner and adorned with comfy pillows and shelving for easy access to your favorite books. Next to the bench, there’s a desk for study or working from home. In addition, there’s a vanity space for personal grooming and applying makeup.

Corner Styling Tips

Styling corner furniture involves maximizing the use of these empty spaces. Styling ideas include incorporating lighting fixtures, adding storage shelves or cabinets, and creating additional seating areas. When styling corner furniture it is essential to consider the room’s color and design scheme to ensure a cohesive look.

Balance Proportions (Avoid Overcrowding)

To make the empty corner of your room look complete and balanced, you may need to add some height to it. Room dividers or decorative screens with their tall profile can fold out to cover the corner space as well as part of the walls on either side.

Sectioning a sitting area is the easiest and coziest way to style any room’s corner space. A small conversation set such as two chairs and an ottoman can promote proportion and maximize seating in your living room or bedroom. You can use complementary styles, materials, and colors to create interest and balance rather than matching everything in the room.

Layer lighting (Task + Ambient)

Layered lighting is an important design element in any room. Having a variety of light sources at different levels in your room allows you to have the flexibility to spread light in the room. Floor lamps are the perfect idea for styling empty room corners. They are a feature in themselves like an artwork, they fill the corner with aesthetic value.

You can also add lighting to highlight artwork or a picture wall light to cast a glow over your corner decoration. Try hanging a low pendant lighting fixture to illuminate a sculpture or top your feature side table with a table lamp.

Add Texture (Rugs, Cushions & Plants)

Incorporating some oversized, large-leaf potted plants in a textured rattan basket is a great corner decoration idea, especially in corners with natural light. If you have limited space, try hanging a terrarium so you can have greenery floating down the corner from the ceiling. Wall covering like a wainscot or shiplap is another great way to bring visual interest, texture, and character to the room’s corner space without adding extra furniture.

Adding a non-conventional rug like faux sheepskin or jute rug creates a stylish look that adds flair to corner spots anywhere in your home. When it comes to interior design, these corner furniture layout ideas are about making the most of the empty corners, and still, the possibilities are endless.