Please help completing my great room
Stefanie
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Comments (21)You asked: I hate it. The bottom one looks like someone took a traditional, wicker sofa and wrapped it in leather. Those very formal, old fashioned arms, and bun feet, don't go with the eclectic, casual style of the upholstery. The shape of the red sofas is much more appropriate, but it would be better in all leather. Leather is great with kids so long as they don't have sharp things in their pockets and can be trusted not to poke pencils into it. It cleans up with water and saddle soap. But it does stick to bare skin, and can get hot. It's nature's vinyl. Which is why they combine it with fabric. Bad move. Either be fabric or be leather. The weight and texture are too different and they rarely come out looking great, especially after some living happens. The red bench is cool! Less imposing than a sofa table (console), but with a lot of the same function. And it's folky and funky. My Aunt had the two sofas flanking the fireplace in her living room. It's a great conversation grouping, but not so much for TV watching. For that, especially for the kids who probably look at the screen more, you want a straight on view. You can do a big square, though. An L of couch and settee or second couch or loveseat, and a couple of small easy chairs that are easy to get around on the opposite side. You have your red chairs. I'm not sure if they're too big to allow people to walk by easily if you close up the square, but even so, you can always pull them over for company, and keep them by the piano for family time with running kids. Re Larry, have your other family members sit tested him? I totally agree about the shape. It's very tired. But that LOVE thing is important. Your family room couch should feel Ahhh to sit on. I'm sure it'll still be there though. Maybe you can find a similarly comfy couch in a more classic shape that will give you more breadth of possibilities. Comfort comes first, but it can be done with a little more style than poor Larry. ;-)...See MoreNeed help decorating my room. Completely empty
Comments (3)Do you have pictures of what you want it to look like when it's finished? Check out the our gallery, magazines, books, etc for inspiration. It also helps to put a name on what you want. Someone mentioned this in the *Real* Decorating Tips thread. For instance, I'm about to start redecorating my MB and I'm naming it "Refined Woodland Cottage Retreat". This might mean different things to others but I have a mental picture of what this is and every thing I buy has to fit this image. This is especially helpful if you are buying things over a period of time....See MorePlease help me with my great room layout!
Comments (5)In the above photo of our floor plan, the den is actually going to be a playroom. So we don't need to dedicate too much space in the great room for craft tables and such, as those larger items will be go in the playroom...and actually we're finishing our basement in the next couple of years, so there will be lots of room to play at that point. We're also on acreage, so between the basement and yard, the great room will be mostly for watching TV as a family and entertaining. My heart still wants a sectional so badly. I envision evenings of my husband, son (it's a boy!), lap cat and dog (which I've now promised my husband lol) all snuggled on it together....See MorePlease help me with my great room layout!
Comments (0)My husband and I are done remodeling and finally ready to purchase long-term furniture. Exciting, but the great room is giving us such a hard time! As you can see from the floor plan, we only have one wall to the right of the fireplace to anchor furniture, or at least that's the only design we're coming up with. As of now, we don't see any other place for the TV except that wall. We toyed with the idea of hanging it over the fireplace, but our mantle is way too high so that option is out. Keeping the TV on that wall means we have to float all our seating. My dream is a standard sectional with a chaise on one end. Looking at our dimensions, you'd think we have the room, but after taking into account the brick hearth, 3-4' walkway we'd like to leave next to the stairs, AND that small 2' wall next to the stairs that eats into the walkway itself...the room closes in quite a bit. A large sectional seems overwhelming at that point, especially hanging out in the middle of the room. We also have a coat closet at the end of the "walkway." Again, making our large room, not so large after all. We measured off the sectional and it really does seem to swallow the room. (Pics below - and disclaimer - we've since updated our banister and whitewashed our fireplace!) We're expecting our first and only child in May. Again, I'd love a sectional that the 3 of us could snuggle on, but I fear there won't be any room for accent tables, or any room for our baby to crawl around and play. Plus, factor in all the baby gear, although temporary, we'll be pretty cramped for a while. So our next thought was to float a double chaise sofa facing the TV at 129" long with the chaises coming out to 64" each. (Possibly adding a long sofa table behind it depending on the dining table we choose.) We would then float 2 accent chairs just in front of the TV console, facing the sofa. This will leave us with dead corners at the windows, but I can always fill them with blanket baskets, etc. (We have a very spoiled cat, so he'll end up with one corner I'm sure!) And I was thinking once the baby gear days are said and done, we could even do a slim sofa table along the stair wall. At 129" it will still be just as long as the measured off sectional in the photos below, but I'm hoping due to coming out only 64" and remaining low profile, as opposed to a full back 96" along the stair wall side, the room will still feel open. I know how some people feel about the chaises...that they're wasted space and ottomans are more versatile. I agree, however, we're using ottomans now with a standard sofa and I don't care that much for the set up. We do entertain, but I want to design more for our family on a daily basis and I think the double chaise might be a nice way to get my comfy sectional feel without entirely enveloping the room. Thanks so much for reading. I am desperate for thoughts!! If you see an arrangement I haven't thought of, or think what we're planning might be terrible, great, etc...I'd love the feedback!!!...See MoreStefanie
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