Advice on furniture placement and accessorizing our living room
We need help in furniture placement in our living room (16’ X 19’). To be honest, I have zero talent when it comes to home décor and interior design. So, any help is appreciated! We already have an expresso sectional and two linen colored accent chairs which we would like to use.
http://www.biglots.com/product/simmons-brooklyn-sectional-2-piece-set/prod71209
https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-2105753/madison-park-roan-arm-chair.jsp?color=Navy&prdPV=6
Please see attached pictures for a better idea. Also, I was thinking of buying a big rug (maybe like 10’ X 14’?) and accent pieces to add some color to the room. Any suggestions? One major problem with our living room is the TV nook above the fireplace. It currently fits our 55-inch TV but it is so high that it hurts our necks even with our sectional all the way against the wall. Since my husband despises the fireplace, I am open to ideas regarding covering up the fireplace. We do not use it anyways. Just fyi, since this is our temporary abode, we are not planning to spend a lot. Any thoughts? Thank you!
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Kinjal
6 years agoFor reference here is our floor plan, keep it mind that the room in question is labeled as the "Family Room".
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Comments (8)Thanks for all the great responses! I appreciate you all taking the time to chime in. Oakleyok, the child's chair belonged to my DH's grandparents -the matching "adult chair" resides with his uncle -- no one sits on the little chair, but we like having it on display Rosie, I will work on a floor plan. I have been busy with other things but decided I need to do this so we are ready to entertain this fall. We rarely if ever actually use the fireplace (maybe 3 times in the 25 years we have lived here). You stated it beautifully "You need a room that invites people in and allows them to circulate freely and then find a seat that fits them and, in a few cases, that can be turned to join a conversation or face a speaker, like that nice scroll-arm chair. " My question is how to create a "room that invites people in". Ellendi, we do have a love seat and sofa now because that's what we had when we lived in New York -- 2 sofas sound appealing to me because we can always use more seating -- when you say to line up the sofas with the fireplace, I assume you mean perpendicular to the fireplace and not parallel -is that right? -the chairs are just near the round table because we brought the table from NYC and then my MIL gave us those chairs when she downsized -- we love the china cabinet -we bought it when we were first married and lived in London - it might fit in our dining room but unfortunately that it is the one room in the house that is small -we do sometimes bring in dining room chairs for our meetings and parties Teacats -thanks for the advice about how to use our existing furniture -our sofa is shot, so we will be replacing that and probably the love seat at the same time --it is an excellent point about covering up the air grate -i will have to find something that can be in front of it without blocking airflow -maybe a table with slim bench chairs underneath -and i like the idea of a tall mirror over the fireplace Camlan -i love your suggestion of moving our current furniture around to figure out what works for us -we do not use our dining room much as we have a breakfast room connected to the kitchen where we usually eat -we never go to the dining room from the entry way -and i don't think our friends do so often either One other point -- we are willing to consider a different rug - I like this rug a lot (it has some of Omar Khayyam's Rubiat on it) -but DH thinks we should get something more modern -and we could, of course, get a different size Thanks again!...See MoreI need advice how to place furniture, wall picture in our living room?
Comments (20)To groveraxle: When I said.." there is no other place for piano.." I mean that in our apartment, we don't have any other place to move piano ( den or bedrooms). Only place it is living room. And yes, I will definitely move piano to the other wall, next to the book shelf. See, I have more plans to update the room. I want pain wall some different color, want to strip popcorn ceiling, the bookshelf I want to re make it with more lighter material and not as deep as present and may be add glass doors. Also not sure about carper on the floor, should change it to wood floor? It all project for later but I want to see whole picture for the room and I find it really hard Thanks again for helping =)...See Moreliving room furniture placement dilemma
Comments (12)yes the glass buffet with drawers can come out and the unit can be reconfigured, however the room is about 22 ft long so I would still need to make sure that any new seating is about 8-10 ft away from the TV. So i could take the buffet out and move it but then the rest of the unit with the TV will have to go on the wall where the couch is now, so that we can watch TV at a comfortable viewing distance. This would probably be the “easier” and the better solution. Decoenthusiaste how would you position a couch like the one you recommend? Against the windows?...See MoreNeed advice on living room furniture placement!
Comments (2)If you are going to use a tv in the space, I would set up a sofa, facing the wall that is adjacent to powder room. Put tv on that wall, with low console. Sofa scaled well for the space, with a sofa table behind it. And on other side of room, behind sofa and sofa table, set up another seating area with four chairs and center cocktail table or ottoman. Or alternatively, a dining table....See MoreKinjal
6 years ago@saypoint: Pictures of furniture are attached below. I have two accent chairs.
Also, I was wondering if placing the sofa across from the fireplace will block the flow from the kitchen to the Family Room. Also, with a sectional is it possible to place a chair on each side? Could you provide any pictures/sketches so I can better understand the placement. Thank you for your help!!
Kinjal
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoKinjal
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6 years ago
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI was thinking something along the lines of this...
You can use the colors of the rug, like the terracotta, in your pillows on the chairs. It's too bad you don't have room for the alternative placement of the TV, and in that case I would get a console to put catty-corner on the walls next to the fireplace on the right, even though the windows will be behind the TV. Since you say this is not your permanent home perhaps that will do as a stopgap measure. The couch should be facing the fireplace, unless you want to angle everything to face the TV. The chairs will go perpendicular to the couch. The fireplace nook you can fill with a painting or perhaps an arrangement of blue and white Chinese porcelain (have a look at etsy). With a beautiful rug I'd suggest a glass and metal coffee table so the rug design shows through. You'd also need side tables but I see no way that you can have lamps without trailing cords. Find a way to display books on the tables, which give a lived-in look. Pardon me if I use pictures of my home to illustrate some of these points; your taste may be quite different, but it's just to give you some ideas.
This rug is made of polypropylene and therefore much more affordable, but you can see how these colors would brighten your room and give you colors for pillows on your couch and chairs. You can find rugs on e-bay, overstock.com, pottery barn, just google area rugs and then indicate "traditional" or "oriental" and you'll find lots of ideas.
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groveraxle
6 years agoIf you do this, make sure the chaise does not extend in front of the fireplace. It just looks bad.
I would not do a rug over carpet. There are enough other places to add color, in art and accessories, that you really don't need a rug.
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