With summer right around the corner, people are likely looking around their homes wondering how to best bring the spirit of the season inside their homes. Most of us do not have the time or money to completely redecorate our homes every time the seasons change. No one is suggesting that you have a separate sofa set for winter and spring, but there are a few easy changes you can make to bring the feeling of blue skies and green fields into your home.

Coffee table sets are a perfect way to inject some of the summer spirit into your home. As the weather warms and the sun stays out a little longer each day, add a summer flower centerpiece to your coffee table set. They don't need to cost much: simply send the kids out to the nearest park to pick flowers. Your little ones will love watching their finds become the centerpiece for your home and you will get a taste of summer every time you sit down in your living room to enjoy your iced tea and romance novel.

Throw pillows and blankets are an even better way to add a pop of summer love to your room. Throw pillows with summer patterns can be found in almost any home goods store and will instantly summarize your home. The same goes for blankets.

Try these small touches when decorating for the months ahead. Then get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather!

Graduation season is upon us. All over the country, thousands of college seniors are preparing to leave the safe cocoon of campus life and embark on their first years as an actual adult. For many, this transition can be a little bumpy. Sure, college life gave you a taste of independent living. But it also provided you a chance to explore your unique furniture tastes on Mom and Dad’s dime. Your first apartment is an entirely different ballgame. And since you are almost certainly on a budget, you need to figure out which items are absolutely necessary and which you can live without.

While it might be tempting to fool yourself into thinking you can just sleep on your sofa set and forgo the expense of a bed, think about the long term consequences of this decision. Within months, you will certainly be regretting your rash decision. You need a bed. So start there and work your way through the necessities. A dinette set is pretty crucial as well; you’ll need a place to eat. For your first apartment, however, you can probably live without a fancy entertainment center. Add a couple chairs and a few lighting sources to the mix and you should be set for a year or so. Once there, scour flea markets for fun, quirky and inexpensive add-ons that will give your place some personality. Then hit the workforce to build a nice nest egg for the future. 

After walking hand in hand with our children through the aches, pains, joys and sorrows of life, watching them leave the home you made for them can be both exhilarating and devastating at the same time. While we are overcome with pride at the fact that our little girls and boys are now fully grown adults who are able to care for themselves and build a home for their families, we also want to hold onto them forever. As we walk through this bittersweet moment, we might be looking for a way to give them something from the home to take with them.

Giving your adult children the coffee table set they grew up with when they leave shows them that you love them and lets them have a sense of familiarity in their new home. As they walk room to room through their new home and nothing has any memories, they will truly appreciate the unique furniture pieces that you gifted them with. They tend to latch on to these pieces of comfort in the same way they clung to their blankies as kids. It also gives you the peace of mind that your presence is still with them as they move on.

Find a piece your child loves and surprise them on moving day by giving it to them. The gesture will surely be appreciated. 

While many of us love entertaining overnight guests and the freedom to extend an open invitation to friends and family, not everyone enjoys the idea of someone crashing out on their Ashley sofa for nights on end. We want to be able to house guests, but do not want to have to give up our main room. Nor do we want to spend the money to purchase a brand new bed that will only be used on these infrequent occasions. The futon gives you another option.

The beauty of futons is that they are small enough to fit in even the smallest of guest rooms, but unfold into a bed that will fit even your burliest of guests. If the idea of a futon brings to mind an institutional looking, metal piece of furniture that does not seem to go with your décor, you are stuck in the futon past. Today’s futons are almost as chic as any sofa set you will find in our store. Rather than being an inferior object, they are simply the grand sofa’s smaller and more portable cousin.

Whether your children have moved away and you want to encourage them to visit or mom and dad like to drop by for a night or two, futons give you a place to put them for the night without sacrificing your main living space. 

More and more, people are finding jobs that allow them to work from home at least part of the week. Whether this is because of child care needs, an effort to save transportation costs or an entirely different reason, creating an office at home requires more than a sofa set and a laptop.

While it might be tempting to curl up on the couch with a notepad, a blanket and your laptop and work from there, often this does not lead to productivity. Despite your best intentions, it is often a fact that the comfier you are, the less work you get done. In order for a home office to be effective, there needs to be some privacy, a sense of purpose and the ability to store and reach everything you might need.

This is where the home office furniture from The Classy Home can mean the difference between continuing to have the luxury to work from home and being forced to take up full-time residence at your office desk again. Whether you opt for a traditional chair and an office desk, or a piece of slightly more unique furniture that serves the same purpose, The Classy Home can help you create a space where your best work is done while in the comfort of your own home. 

Marriage is hard. All anyone has to do is take a quick look at the current divorce rate to sense this. All too often couples do not even realize that there is a problem until things are beyond repair. It can seem like you literally woke up one day and were married to a man or woman you do not even like, let alone love. Marriage counseling has become the go to solution for many. These professionals can be vital in ascertaining what the problem is and how to mend it. Rarely, however, do we look to our interior decoration schemes for some insight into the deterioration of our relationships.

While it might not strike you as immediately obvious, your living room can be a treasure chest of insight into your relationship. Take a look around. How are the sofa sets positioned? Are they placed in way that makes conversation and cuddling easy? Or, rather, are they placed on either side of the room with clearly defined interests and occupants? Any marriage counselor will tell you that the key to keeping the romance alive is spending time together. If there is an overload of unique furniture and not communal seating options in your living room, it means you have already resigned yourselves to living separate lives. It is easy to see how it goes downhill from there.

Take a look around. Redecorating could be the easy marriage saving plan available.  

For much of the East Coast, this has been an abnormally cold winter that shows little sign of letting up. Snow at the end of March? For many east coasters, this is turning into a reality. Whether you adore the little white flakes or are tired of being wet and cold on your commute to work, there is no denying that this is not the usual state of affairs for March or April.

With the abnormality of the weather, some unique furniture choices are being made. During this time when many would be swapping out their winter furniture for spring wares, many are left confused as to how to decorate. Should I leave the heavy drapes hanging even though spring is literally here? Are the dark colors of my Ashley sofa to wintery for April?

While there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to winter and spring furniture changes, we can offer a few suggestions. First and foremost, this is the year to practice easing (rather than springing) into the new seasons. Instead of swapping out all your furniture, or going the other route and leaving everything as is, add some spring accessories to your current furniture. As the weeks progress and the temperature, hopefully, inches higher and higher, increase the spring accents into your home until the job is complete.

While this might not be the route you are used to taking, it might be the best option for these strange weather days. 

The Classy Home prides itself on being your trusted source for home décor. Whether you are looking for a unique sofa set to cozy up on for years, or are in the market for a new coffee table, we want to be the first place you go. Therefore, we make it our business to get your orders to you in the least amount of time possible. We understand the excitement of ordering more furniture and the eager anticipation you feel from the time you place the order to the time it arrives at your door. We have no interest in delaying that gratification. However, with the Jewish holidays coming up, there will be some delivery changes. Please take note of the following.

Our offices and warehouses will be closed from Friday, Monday March 25^th until Wednesday, April 3^rd in observance of Passover.

Shipping:

Orders placed after 3pm (EST) on Wednesday, March 20^th through Sunday, March 24^th will ship on or after Wednesday, April 3^rd. Orders placed on Sunday, March 24^th through Tuesday, April 2^nd will ship on or after Friday, April 5^th.

Office schedule: Our offices will be closed from Monday, March 25^th through Wednesday, April 3^rd.

Online Ordering:

Online ordering will be unavailable from Monday, March 25^th through Wednesday, March 27^th, and Sunday, March 31^st through Tuesday, April 2^nd.

Do not hesitate to order your coffee table set or leather chair, just expect a delay.  More time to fantasize! 

Not all of us are blessed with endless room in our homes for storage. Many folks have to learn the art of multi-purposing the furniture  they own. Thankfully, there are almost countless ways to turn most items into treasure chests of hidden goods. Whether it involves purchasing some affordable unique furniture items, or reworking the ones you already own, these solutions will blow your mind and free up tons of space. Here we have listed our favorite secret storage solutions.

Hidden Storage Made Easy:

1. Floorboards: Your wooden floor can do so much more than offer a space for your Ashley sofas to sit. With a little advance planning (and some luck with the general layout of your home’s foundation), you can turn a regular old floorboard into a fantastic hidden storage unit.
2. Creative Beds: Believe it or not, a company called Bed-Up makes beds that hang from the ceiling, and disappear back into your ceiling during the day! Other options include a suspended bed like the one pictured here. That frees up all sorts of floor space for storage.
3. Repurpose Your Closet: Need a home office but have no room? Repurpose the closet you are never going to use as your home office. Throw some nice pillows in there. Install  lights and place a desk against the wall and you are all set.

These are just a few of the ideas out there. With a little research and a lot of imagination, you can secretly store everything you need. 

Feng shui has been around for centuries with the goal of directing and controlling the flow of energy in a room. The trend of incorporating the principles of feng shui into homes and offices has really taken off. People have latched on to the belief that they are happier and more effective when the energy of their home is not blocked. Whether or not you subscribe to this belief system, the spatial arrangements the theory suggests are visually pleasing to all.

Applying Feng Shui To Your Living Room:

1. Remember that your living room sofa set is the center point of the room. Therefore, all of the other furniture should be arranged around this piece.
2. Try to position the sofa in the corner that is farthest from the door and window. Also be sure the sofa is in clear view of the door.
3. Avoid having too much space between the wall and the sofa. The wall provides security and protection, so you want to stick close to it.
4. Do not place the sofa in front of a window or directly opposite the door. Since energy flows between the door and the window, you do not want to block its path.
5. Use screens and partitions to influence the flow of energy through the living room. Direct light and energy towards coffee table sets and chairs. Use these screens to create a pathway for the energy flow.

Once all this is in order, sit back, relax and enjoy a peaceful existence.