What connects your sofa, lamp, table and rug?

You walk into your living room. Everything is "nice." New sofa, new lamp, new rug. But something feels off, and you can't name it. It's almost never the furniture. It's four relationships between the pieces. Get these right, and the room settles. 1. Balance — vary your heights Taller the lamp, lower the sofa. If your sofa is tall and your lamp is short, everything lands at the same line — and a room with one flat height feels dead. Let the lamp rise above the sofa back so your eye moves up...