"“Furniture that sits flat on the floor blocks your view across the room and obstructs pleasant dappled light that may shine onto the floor throughout the day,” says Leah Alexander, founder and principal of Atlanta interior design firm Beauty Is Abundant. “Your eye can't travel under it, so the space feels more chopped up-cut short, even.” Alexander explains that furniture with small legs “keep that floor sight line open,” to give the room a bigger and airier feel."
"“even a few inches of clearance between a piece of furniture and the floor is enough to completely shift how a room reads.” Plus, there's a practical side to it: “When you can see under a sofa or a chair, the room just feels tidier, and that tidiness reads as spaciousness. It's a win across the board,” Tannehill adds."
"“I almost never do a room that's all legs and no grounding: I'll pair a raised sofa with a lower, more substantial coffee table, or put a spindle-leg accent chair next to a solid linen ottoman,” says Tannehill. “That contrast is what makes both pieces sing. All leggy, all the time? It can start to feel a little unmoored.”"
A raised sofa can make a small room feel larger by keeping the floor sight line open. When furniture sits flat on the ground, it blocks views across the room and obstructs light patterns that fall on the floor during the day. With clearance between the furniture and the floor, the eye can travel underneath, so the space feels less chopped up and more continuous. Raised pieces also create a tidier look because the area beneath is visible, and that tidiness reads as spaciousness. Balance is important: pairing a raised sofa with a lower, substantial coffee table or combining a spindle-leg chair with a solid ottoman helps ground the room and prevents an overly leggy, unmoored feel.
Read at Architectural Digest
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