I need help with furniture placement in a large living room.

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

We moved into a villa in Florida a few weeks ago. The rooms are large with 12 foot ceilings, which is what we liked, but now stressing and still having furniture placement problems.

I already got rid of a few pieces so I’m trying to make it work with the furniture I now have. I will include a lot of photos that will hopefully help you help me, please.

The blue tape on the floor is the approximate size of the new larger carpet for the living room, rolled up on the dining area floor. When this is laid the legs of the chairs as well as the side tables will be on the carpet. The living room appears left sided heavy to me. I had the two matching gray chairs close to the couch but that left such a large space behind them so I moved the two chairs back against the half wall. I have pictures of the tufted back chair on both sides of the room. I think I like it on the left side with the matching chairs against the half wall but does that then make it more heavy on that side?

Maybe it doesn’t work on either side..confusion!!!

I will be buying a tall thin palm for the brown planter, then placing it on one side of the room, but which side? The wall with the TV is about 18 feet long and we are looking for a modern long wall TV set up that will help balance things out.

In addition, I had the front door painted black, which I like, and want to have the French doors and the frame of the large mirror in the dining area also painted black. Will this work or look awful? Help!!

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone can give me on anything, it will be greatly appreciated. I used this forum before and it is so very helpful. Thank you Houzz.

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C Renee

6 years ago

Wow! Those windows going out to the porch are beautiful. What a great view! I think you should have two separate sitting areas because the smaller chairs don’t work with the larger chair. I love how the larger chair looks with your sofa and pillows...just lovely! Is there room to remove the end table on the right and slide the rug, sofa, and big chair down a couple of feet? And keep the big chair angled towards sofa like in the first photo...away from the chase part. Then I would leave the two smaller chairs under the opening but pull them out a bit so that sitting area stands in it’s on. Looking forward to seeing photos of what you do especially when the bigger rug gets in! I like the black idea too.

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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
6 years ago
My first suggestion would be to remove the mirror and replace the lamp tables which have a spindly look which makes the room look not grounded. A huge painting over the couch with beautiful colors would be a better alternative to the mirror with the heavy brown frame. The painting does not have to have a frame.

A much longer TV console would fill out that wall more, but you do have a very small TV. You could consider white bookcases on each side. I would actually put in books and not various items to give this room a more substantial look. More art on the walls also, to give color and life to your rooms.
vergpesta
Original Author
6 years ago
Thank you but my real delima is furniture placement, painting black, and the rest, etc. as mentioned when asking for help.

I totally agreed with you on the end tables. I had just gotten them and planned to paint the base gold...just done and looks better.
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C Renee
6 years ago
And if you go with my earlier suggestion, maybe use the end table that you remove on the right of the sofa in between the two small chairs to give that cubby area a bigger presence. The piece you have under the TV would also look good under that opening (if short enough) then flanked by the two chairs.
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CDR Design, LLC
6 years ago
Congratulations on your beautiful new villa!

I recommend flipping your furniture arrangement. This will allow for a walkway behind the sofa and no foot traffiic in the furniture arrangement.

-turn sectional around to face the wall where the large mirror is now. Leave 3 feet behind sectional for walkway

-place tv on wall where mirror currently is

-place large chair on non-chaise side of sectional.

-place 2 chairs in a grouping near the half wall. Turn them to face each other with table in between.
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deegw
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
The reason that the arrangement looks heavy on one side is because the bulk IS on one side. Is there a reason why you can't float the furniture in the middle of the room and slide everything over to the tv side? Then you can possibly make a small seating arrangement by the pony wall.
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vergpesta
Original Author
6 years ago
I can’t seem to comment to each of your responses individually but I want to thank you all for your great ideas. I will be using your suggestings to move things around but the only thing that will not work is flipping the tv and couch to opposite walls, although I do like that. I will send more pictures, as C Renee suggested, as things move along. For now, the painter is coming the end of the week, yikes!!. Can I trouble you for opinions on painting the French door frame and mirror frame black?

Thank you so very much, it is a great help and I surely do appreciate your time. Peggy
erinsean
6 years ago
I would like to say, I love your glass tables. I have round ones in my living room and love the way they shine and reflect light.
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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
6 years ago
I would say no to the black, I think it has too many pitfalls (every mark and bit of dust showing being one).
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Angel 18432
6 years ago
The mirror over the sofa, I would put in the hall but turn it vertically and get art for that spot. The sofa table in the dining room, maybe put that in the hallway maybe across from the mirror. Really can't tell how much room you have in the hall, and perhaps only one of these 2 suggestions will work. Why don't you put down the new rug, place furniture on it and let us re-arrange the furniture "on the rug".
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