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Choosing The Right Kid’s Bedroom Furniture in Calgary

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One milestone in a child’s development often goes overlooked: when they graduate from a crib and baby’s room to having their own bedroom, with their bedroom furniture. As a parent, this is your opportunity to put together an amazing kid’s bedroom that they’ll love, while still keeping them safe and secure at night.

Here are the most important considerations to think about, as you’re going over your options.

  1. Quality Matters Even More

Of course, you want all the furniture in your home to be of good quality – but this is particularly important for your child’s bedroom. After all, they’ll likely be spending a lot of unsupervised time in it, so you need to know their furniture is sturdy and safe. We recommend cross-referencing with sources like the Consumer Product Safety Commission or Consumer Reports to ensure the furniture is suitable for your child.

  1. Bed Sizing

A smaller child will be just fine on a twin-sized bed, but larger children will appreciate how much extra room they get from a king- or queen-sized mattress. Also, consider how long you expect to use this furniture. If you’re planning on keeping their bedroom layout roughly the same, at least until the child is a teen, plan and buy bigger furniture they can grow into.

  1. Storage Storage Storage

You really can’t have too much storage in a child’s bedroom, and a lot of kid-focused furniture tends to include storage tucked away – such as a bed with drawers underneath the mattress. Plenty of storage will make cleanup easier and ensure their room doesn’t get cluttered.

  1. Consider Their Interests

Finally, just as you want your bedroom to reflect your personality, the same will be true of your child. Look for furniture that matches their interests or will encourage their talents – like having a drawing desk for artistic children. You might even consider bringing your child along to look at bedroom furniture options, and let them have some input. It is going to be their bedroom, after all.

Shop Bedroom Furniture in Calgary

Furniture Extreme is Calgary’s best source for children’s bedroom furniture, as well as carefully curated pieces for your entire home. With our extensive selection, you’re sure to find something that you and your child both love. We even offer free delivery and setup for all purchases over $999!

Need more information, or looking for a custom piece? Just contact us!

Your Quick Guide to Sectional Couches in Calgary

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Every living room needs a great couch, but traditional couches have their problems. They’re big and bulky, making them difficult to move, and large enough that they’ll take up a lot of space. In some cases, having a big couch is a good way to partition an open-floor room, but that’s not always the situation. Sometimes, you want more flexibility, or to be able to rearrange your room depending on usage.

That’s when sectional couches become the perfect choice for a Calgary home. A sectional is a couch that’s broken up into multiple pieces, allowing you far more control over where the couch is placed, and how it’s used. Sectionals can also be used to create huge couches with unique configurations, by combining different sections.

However, there are a few different types of Calgary sectional couches to choose from, so let’s talk about your options.

The Basic Types of Sectional Couches in Calgary

  1. Conventional Sectionals

The basic sectional couch is typically three pieces – a longer armless centerpiece flanked by two smaller pieces with arms – that recreate a standard couch. These sectionals allow for a large number of people, but could also be broken up and moved around as needed. Those side pieces could also work as standalone loveseats, for example.

  1. Reversible Sectionals

The key trait of reversible sectionals is that each individual piece can be reconfigured, to a certain extent. Seats and cushions can be swapped around to reverse the orientation of a section, so that – for example – a left-arm endpiece can become a right-arm section instead.

These are great in larger multipurpose rooms since it’s usually quite easy to reconfigure for different uses. You may not even need to move the pieces themselves, just the arrangement of cushions and parts.

  1. Flexible Sectionals

Flexible sectionals are the transformers of the sectional space. While all sectionals can be reconfigured somewhat, flexible designs are deliberately designed for creative layouts where almost any piece of the sectional can be attached to any other piece. This allows for wild configurations, extra-long- or wide couches, or any other arrangement you want. Some people even deliberately mix and match colors within their flexible sectionals for extra flair.

  1. Sleeper Sectionals

It’s possible to get sleeper beds within sectionals as well, although this is typically only a feature in the biggest pieces. As with all sleepers, the gimmick is that a bed can be pulled out when needed. If you don’t want a full sleeper, another option would be a long L-shaped piece at the end of your sectional that can double as a sleeping space.

Furniture Extreme Can Furnish Your Entire Calgary Living Room

We’re one of the top sources in Calgary for the best in home furnishings, including an extensive selection of sectional couches in a huge range of styles, colors, and potential configurations. Not sure which pieces will be most useful to you? Our friendly staff is happy to offer recommendations!

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Choosing The Right Coffee Table for Your Calgary Home

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Few pieces of living room furniture are more crucial or more versatile than the coffee table. It can be a table for food, or drinks, a desk, a display space, or even just a nice footrest after a long day. It’s a foundational item in your living room, and often one of the centerpieces in the space. That makes it important to find the best possible coffee table for your Calgary home.

Coffee tables come in almost endless shapes, sizes, and styles, so how do you pick the right one for a modern Calgary living room? Furniture Extreme has some suggestions.

Choosing A Great Calgary Coffee Table

  1. Start with the basic dimensions

Before thinking about other considerations, it’s important to start with the basics: how big should your coffee table be?

If you already have a coffee table, how happy are you with its size? Would one which is bigger, or smaller, work better in your life? Use what you know.

Otherwise, focus on the size of the space, and your usage. A coffee table should be prominent, but it shouldn’t dominate the entire room, or be so large that it creates an obstacle to moving around. In terms of usage, the more people who’ll be making use of it, the bigger it should be to accommodate their food, drinks, and/or feet.

Have a clear idea of the dimensions you want before you begin shopping, and that’ll help narrow down your search considerably.

  1. What could damage the table?

Next, consider what could happen to your coffee table. For example, if you know you’ll be using it for drinks, be sure to pick a surface that isn’t easily stained or damaged by spilled drinks. Or if you have pets, you’ll want to assume they’ll be climbing on it – can the surface stand up to their teeth or claws?

If you want something easily-damaged, you’ll need to take steps to protect it, such as possibly putting a plastic or glass pane on top.

  1. Match the aesthetic to your room

Typically a coffee table should match the rest of the room, rather than contrasting or otherwise standing out. So the colors and design should be chosen based on the overall design style of the room.

If you find a table you love, but you’re worried it might not fit in, think about rugs. Having some sort of rug beneath the coffee table can help connect it to the room, or provide a style ‘bridge’ that links design elements in the table to everything else.

Furniture Extreme Provides the Best in Calgary Coffee Tables

For years, we’ve been one of Calgary’s top sources for the best modern home furnishings. We have an extensive selection of coffee tables in stock, with styles and designs to fit any room. From classic woodwork to ultra-modern steel and glass pieces, we know we have a coffee table you’ll love.

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