Style Lounge

Styling the Lounge: 

The lounge is the most "on display" room in a home. Here's how to style your luxury glass diffuser from Still Air Co into it without adding clutter.

The lounge is usually the most looked-at room in a home. The one guests see first, the one you spend the most waking hours in. It's also the easiest room to over-style without realising it.

A luxury diffuser belongs wherever a room has a moment of stillness: a console table by the door, the corner of a coffee table, a shelf that isn't already crowded. Avoid placing it directly in a high-traffic path or squeezed between too many other objects — it needs a small amount of breathing room to actually register as considered rather than incidental.

The rule of thumb for lounge styling is odd numbers and varied height. A diffuser, a stack of two books, and one small object, like a bowl, a candle holder, this reads as composed. Four or five scattered items on the same surface reads as clutter, regardless of how nice each individual piece is.

Treating a coffee table or console like a display case, filling every inch of surface. A considered lounge area usually has more negative space than objects. Let the beautiful diffuser be one part of a small, deliberate grouping — not competing with everything else on the table for attention.