Help with Long living room arrangement
I have a living room that is 25 ft x 13 ft.
We just replaced windows and trim, painted Agreeable Gray on the walls and still need to add window treatments, paint the ceiling and get rid of the clutter (stuff around fireplace is donations) and then decorate.
My biggest struggle is how to arrange furniture in this room. We need a new couch. The wing back chairs are very comfortable but need a foot rest. My family insists on a TV in the room and my husband wants a bigger couch.
I feel like the placement of the front entrance door to the left of the fireplace and the large southern window make it difficult to land on a focal area.
Entry door is here on the left. Windows face the east.
This is the view from the entry door. The big window faces the south.
This is the view if you were standing in front of the fireplace.
This is the wall opposite of the big picture window. It has the TV cables. Cabinet is actually an antique with the doors taken off because they took up space on either side. Kitchen is on the other side of this wall.
Anyone have suggestions? Thanks in advance :)
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Tanya Mueller
5 years agoRelated Discussions
Long living room-- need your advice on arrangement!
Comments (1)Dimensions, please....See MoreLong living/family room. Furniture arrangement
Comments (4)I can see 3 spaces you could do nicely. 1) a dining area right off the kitchen half-wall 2) with the tv over the fireplace, you'll need seating opposite. You could have a loveseat and side chairs facing that focal point. They probably would need to be flush against the wall instead of leaving a walkway behind them, unless the room is wider than it looks like. 3) In the front corner, you could have an l-shaped seating arrangement for a conversation corner, or a home office/workspace, or a piano. You wouldn't be able to see the tv from here at all....See MoreLong and narrow living room, need help picking and arranging furniture
Comments (8)One idea might be to add a very short wall on the left as you enter the living room so the opening to the living room is the same width as the entry ... and, by doing that you could put wall to wall built ins on that end of the living area, with or without a tv, and still create two separate sitting areas. I don't understand the "bar" against the solid wall behind the pantry and refrigerator. If you changed the pantry to a "butler's pantry" with a pass thru window, that would have made more sense. Is your "bar" a cabinet something built in? Have you considered either closing or narrowing the door between dining and living room and/or creating your pass thru bar there with your piano in the adjoining corner adjacent to the fireplace near the dining room wall? https://www.decorpad.com/search/butler-pantry-pass-through...See MoreWhere Do I put my tv and how should I arrange my living room? Help!!
Comments (5)Can you return it and get a smaller one? (I admit I think your fireplace wall is lovely and I personally wouldn't ruin it with a television. But I am a tiny minority who has lived without television for almost 30 years.) Is there another room in which to put it, or do you prefer to use this room for watching it?...See More
hellumme
5 years ago...also, I agree that there’s way too much furniture in there as it is. Here are some pictures. The style of chaise/bench that has the opposite corners is called a tete-a-tete if you want to look it up:
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Yes the windows and the crown is new. I don't know that I want a formal space per say, I would actually like a comfortable inviting space but want it to look put together. If that makes sense? I am resisting a sectional because I think the room will just become a couch and that is all. However our couch has seen better days and we could use a new one.
I have thought about moving the antique cabinet and hanging the TV on the wall to free up that space but being met with resistance from family. With so many heavy pieces in the room it is hard for me to move things around to get an idea of what would work. :)
I got side tracked but here are the pictures of my living room uncluttered.
Entry
Feel like I gotta get the mirror down from above the fireplace. ?
Extra chair by the lamp was taken over by the dog and he lays in it to see out of the window while we are gone...that is why it is where it is....
Antique chair and table on the left, China hutch in the middle and on the right is a piece that is like a small island with a pull out table. I just don't know what to do with these things.
Should I keep this china hutch? I don't know if I should keep it, paint it or sell it. I have a table that goes with it but I have remodeled my kitchen to be modern farmhouse and this doesn't go..
I tried making a floor plan with measurements but can't make it any bigger.
Thanks for any advice or suggestions. :)
Denita
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5 years agoTanya Mueller
5 years agoDenita- Thank you for the advice.
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These pictures were bigger so I am hoping they show up larger...
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