7 Home Decor Measurements You Need to Know

0:00 Hi everyone, it's Kristina from theDIYMummy.com and today I want to share with you seven home decor measurements that you need to know. Today I'm bringing back my simple decorating tips series. You might remember it from last year when I shared just some simple tips and tricks on how to decorate your home. Today I am so excited to be partnering with the Brick. They are sponsoring this video today and I'm going to share with you some rules of thumb or some measurements that are really helpful to know when you're decorating your space. They're going to make your space look professional really easily. If you know these measurements you can pretty much arrange a room in an hour and it's going to look good. All of the furniture and accessories featured in this video are from the Brick and I will leave a link to everything down in the description box below. Where did I find this knowledge? I found it through some of my favorite books. I will leave a link to them in the description box below.

0:51 I hate math. I don't know about you but I do not like it. It was my worst subject in school but I'm always surprised how much math comes up in decorating. In this creative field I didn't think it would come up but it comes up so much and it is really helpful to know these numbers. Let's get started. The first measurement is what size of rug should you buy? The quick answer for this is bigger is always better. A large rug is really going to define your space. It's going to pull everything together. So you want at least the front legs of all your furniture on your rug even better to have all the legs of your furniture on your rug if you can. I love this beautiful taza area rug. It's from the Brick. We got this 7x10 for my mom and dad's beautiful leg house. It is neutral but it still has this really nice pattern to tie everything together. Just make sure to leave about a two foot border around your room between the wall and where your rug begins.

1:39 If you were on a budget you could buy a really neutral rug underneath and layer over a smaller rug that is maybe a little bit more expensive with a pattern. Measurement number two is how high should I hang my chandelier? And the answer to that is if it is over a dining room table like my chandelier is here in my dining room. Make sure it's about 30 to 34 inches above your table. So we used to have this room as a sitting room with a couch and coffee table. And then when we added our beautiful dining table this one is called the Keswick from the Brick. We had to raise the chandelier up a little bit higher so that it was that 34 inches above the table. I love this table because of the warm beautiful wood and I really like the contrast with this dark chandelier and the warm wood of our beautiful pine Keswick table. Measurement number three to know is how high to hang your art.

2:26 This one I love because I used to do it hanging your art too high is definitely something that most people are just inclined to do. You want to hang it at basically gallery wall height so your eyes want to be in the middle of that picture. So hang the center of your art about five feet from the floor. So here is our cow picture that we had from the Brick last year in our dining nut. We affectionately call her Moulissa but then I also tried her out in my studio space here and I'm putting her above my Calistroja desk. This also is from the Brick. Love this desk. It's great to work on. I put my laptop on here all the time. And if you're hanging a piece of art like this above a piece of furniture so a desk, a sofa, any other sort of like end table or something against a wall. You want to make sure to leave six to eight inches between the top surface of your desk or whatever furniture it is and the bottom of your art.

3:17 Just to separate them a little bit. Measurement number four is how high to hang curtains or drapes. You guys know I've talked about this one before. I think higher the better it gives that illusion of grandness. It gives the illusion of a really nice tall wall and a nice big window. So you can mount them around six inches above your window frame if you want or a few inches below your ceiling. Just make sure that you buy the proper or you make the proper height of drape. I will leave a link to my DIY drape tutorials down in the description box below. I also like when my drapes graze the floor. This is a little bit of a personal preference. You can have them kind of pool on the floor or drape the floor or have a little bit of space between the floor and the drape. I just like the idea of having them graze against the floor again to get that illusion of the longer window. I've recently switched my drapes over to just a really simple white drape here in my kitchen.

4:03 I love how the white contrasts with our table. This is the 2Dell table from the brick. That really dark wood and the white I think is such a beautiful contrast and I think it looks really nice for spring. Measurement to know number five is how big should your chandelier be. So if you have a chandelier over a table, a good rule of thumb is to have it measure about one third of your table's length. So the diameter of your chandelier to be about one third of the length of your dining table. If you're hanging a chandelier in a room like a living room for example, like I have one in our living room, first of all make sure that you have enough ceiling height to hang that chandelier. You want to have at least seven feet of clearance underneath the chandelier for people to walk under. But a really cool way to figure out the diameter of that chandelier is to add the width and the length of your room together. And then that answer in inches would be a really nice diameter for your chandelier.

4:51 So for example, if your room is say 18 feet by 10 feet, add those together, you get 28, change that into inches, 28 inches. So around 28 inches in diameter would be a nice size for your chandelier. Again here bigger is usually better. You want that statement piece. You don't want it to kind of lose itself in your room. Measurement number six to know is how big should the throw pillows on my sofa be. I think this one is also personal preference. Again, I personally like the larger pillows. So at least 20 inches wide because I think that just looks really lush and full. And then you can layer smaller pillows in front. I really like styling this particular couch. This is the Paris from the brick as well. A Paris love seat and the color is in ocean.

5:37 So I love styling it with really big fluffy pillows and textured and pattern pillows as well because it's such a cool color to play with. And finally, measurement number seven that you need to know in home decor is how much room should I leave between my furniture. So a good rule of thumb is to have your coffee table be anywhere from a half to three quarters of the length of your sofa. So in here I actually have quite a big coffee table that's about three quarters the length of my love seat. And then you'll also want to place your coffee table about 18 inches away from your sofa. I have this one a little bit squishy because I use this when I'm doing videos. So you want to have a little further than this in your regular living space. And that just gives you access to if you want to put a coffee or books or whatever on the table. And you'll also want to allow a minimum of 30 inches between any of your furniture if that's going to be a pathway that you walk through.

6:26 So I hope those measurements helped you out. I am going to leave a link in the description box below to my blog post about this where you can pin it or you can save it so that you have this reference for when you decorate your home. Thanks again to the brick for sponsoring this video and this blog post. Again, I'm going to link all of the products featured in this video down in that description box. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe to my channel for more DIY decor and lifestyle videos. Let me know in the comments below if you have any other questions about measurements in home decor. Is there any other measurements that you would like to know or your curious about? I would love to chat with you down in the comments section. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you all again in the next video. Bye!