Advice on furniture placement and accessorizing our living room
Kinjal
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seeking advice on living room furniture placement
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
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