Scale | Rugs, Furniture, and Lamps

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Design, Visual Arts, Arts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today we are going to be talking about scale. We had a great question come in and we decided to go into more detail since we haven’t addressed this fully thus far. Scale is all about the size and proportions of your rugs, furniture, and lamps in relation to each other and to the room they’re in. Proper scale will make your room feel right. 04:24 What is scale and how is it applied? 12:01 Basic Rules of Scale 21:55 Lamp Sizes 23:49 Furniture Sizes 30:37 How to tell if something is too small “There is a feeling when you look at a room and if it feels good, it’s likely that the scale is a massive piece of that.” 07:02

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.
0:23.7	Hello everyone.
0:25.0	Welcome to Dear Alice.
0:28.1	Today we're going to be talking about scale.
0:35.0	We had a great question that came in and we were like, we probably need to talk about scale.
0:35.5	Yeah? I don't even know if we've done an episode like solely on scale, which is crazy.
0:40.6	I don't think so.
0:41.3	Yeah.
0:41.7	We talk a lot about it.
0:42.8	I know we did an episode about like what should the dimensions be?
0:46.5	Like what are the numbers and interior design where we really broke it down and talked a lot about the different, like the height of the chandelier or off the table should be X.
0:54.3	This is like a lot of those dimensions that we really work off of.
0:57.9	But scale in general would have been a good jumping off point before we even started there.
1:02.6	So yeah, so we thank you to Julia Sater for your awesome question.
1:07.3	That is what has brought us to today's topic.
1:10.0	Exactly.
1:10.6	Thank you. Before we get
1:13.0	into that, though, I wanted to know from you guys, what's your biggest pet peeve or like
1:18.7	cringe when, yeah, when it comes to scale and interiors. Oh, so many. Okay. I will say just because
1:27.2	we're building a lot of homes right now,
1:29.1	and so I'm always like looking at other homes.
1:32.2	And my biggest pet peeve, I will say,
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