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Small living room rearrangement

5 years ago

I have this current furniture arrangement and I feel its quite crowded. How can I rearrange it better?

The power sockets are on the walls marked with green asterics. All dimensions are in millimeters. The green shading is the masonry wall. The door opens to the outside. The intention is to also fit in a floor lamp and a potted plant.

Thank you.

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My3dogs ME zone 5A

5 years ago

Elaine, this may be of interest, from the CIA website - It was dated 2015.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-g.html

"Note: At this time, only three countries - Burma,
Liberia, and the US - have not adopted the International System of Units
(SI, or metric system) as their official system of weights and measures.
Although use of the metric system has been sanctioned by law in the US
since 1866, it has been slow in displacing the American adaptation of the
British Imperial System known as the US Customary System. The US is the
only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system in
its commercial and standards activities, but there is increasing acceptance
in science, medicine, government, and many sectors of industry."

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Elaine Doremus Resumes Written
5 years ago
How many people usually sit in this space? Why do you have everything in millimeters?
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it's nice to get the furniture off the wall but you don't need a walkway behind the longest sofa. you DO need it behind the new location of the love seat around the back and the kitchen side to the back door. moving the 3 seater back up against the wall and shifting the love seat with it will open up more space on the kitchen side opening up the room even more. or just move the sofa to the wall and leave the loveseat so you still have a path to the doors across the seating area. the cabinet you have angled in the corner now can act as a sofa table behind the love seat just to give you and idea or it can go under the opening to your kitchen or along the wall under your mirror. love your mirror by the way, I wouldn't paint it. the white chair looks great in the room. first picture to show that with a sofa table you don't look at the back of a couch and leaves a walkway thru the seating. imagine the left sofa in the 2nd picture against a wall the loveseat forming and L with an end table between. the 3rd an alternate location for the chair just make sure you still have comfortable access to the door .
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Nancy Ingram
5 years ago
Your furniture is just too large for the space in my opinion. Here is what I suggest for a layout. At the very least, get rid of the larger sofa and replace with two chairs. Then you can put a table in between with a lamp.
If you can wall mount the tv, you could put some plant stands in front of the window. Push the dining table against the back wall-suggest a longer narrower one-then you can hang a pendant light there.
decoenthusiaste
5 years ago
You're neglecting the option of two of your walls, so everything is crowded together. Looks like your sofas are really too large for the space either way. I don't understand why the TV is blocking the window when there are outlets on two other walls.
groveraxle
5 years ago
Carol, it's too much to ask us to convert your drawing to scale, especially when you've done it in mm.

Go here--http://www.housetohome.icovia.com/icovia.aspx--and launch the icovia room planner. Tell it to measure in metric, do a scale layout of your current plan, then post it here.

Also, only in extenuating circumstances would I put a TV in front of a window. Put the TV on the long wall, and put one sofa on the window wall so the two sofas form an L. If the sofa is too long for the window wall, then maybe you'll need a new one.
selcier
5 years ago
If you want to keep your current furniture, can you spin the living room set-up? By this, I mean have the TV along the right wall, have one of the couches with its back under the window, the other couch facing the window. Then, put the table up against the back of the floating couch (like a long, couch table).

Also, pictures of the room would help too!

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