Living Room Design Dilemma
Hi,
We need to design living room plan for our newly created open plan house (kitchen, dinning room, living room). Please see open floor plan below for the layout plan. The living room is 207'' x 138''. Please disregard existing living room furniture on the plan below. There are 5 of us in the household, three children. This whole open space only gets light from one set of windows (around 90'' long, do not remember the height) on the south side. The walls/ceiling is pure white and floor is red oak, no stain but oil based polyurethane covered so it accentuates the notes of red oak. We are debating what the best way to position furniture is and what furniture to bay.
Some of the objectives are:
To make room look more specious
To have an unobstructed flow, especially considering that bar stools at the peninsula will be used a lot for eating, homework activities, and other administrative home work
To fit my husbands big TV (55'') and we only have two walls available for it
To have enough room for TV nights for all 5 of us
To have room for entertainment
The style we are looking for is a mix of contemporary and transitional. The objective is to not have too much glass on the furniture for easy of care (with three children), to have sofa or couch that is not bulky but still comfortable. We would like to tie kitchen look to living room. Right now we have black brown(almost black looking, at night) slab kitchen cabinets and white with some gray spackles quartz countertop.
Looking to hear what other people would do in this space.
Thank you,
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Molly
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Comments (8)If you want useful -- I highly recommend a small table with two chairs in the one end. Also, bookcases with glass fronts, or, like I did -- one bookcase and one secretary that closes up to hide the paper and computer monitor. I use my 36" square table for so many purposes -- morning coffee, afternoon tea with a friend, making jewelry, drawing, computer, solving jigsaws. Mine has two leaves that pull out, so I can also bring chairs in from the dining room if I want to have four people in the space. My space isn't crowded. There's at least 4' of space between my table and the rug. You're fortunate to have fewer doors and windows, and a 15' width. My 1939 living room is 12' x 21', so it's divided into three spaces instead of two. My secretary and bookcase had to be on the other end of the room....See MoreTV Room doubling as Living room design Dilemma.
Comments (1)There are reasons why most people center the couch, but most people also prefer sitting on a good one. :) I guess I'd try putting the couch where the armchair is now (but extending into the corner), the two recliners where the couch is, and the armchair where the chair/lamp combo is on the right of the photo. I think that the seating would still work for conversation, but you would have the recliners facing the TV (and, honestly, the couch facing the view!). The main drawback would be having to walk around the end of the couch, but I don't think it would be a big deal once you got used to it -- be sure to put some light in the corner though. You could also put a short console behind the couch so it's not such a cold back to the dining room, if so desired....See MoreLiving room design dilemma
Comments (2)Can you hang the TV on the long wall with the sofa facing (backs to the kitchen)? That TV placement is awkward and the sofa is too far away from it. If placed on the long wall, you can see the Tv from the kitchen and dining area. You need a lower, longer, narrow TV cabinet....See MoreHelp! How to make awkward TV wall less awkward.
Comments (28)I would center the TV between the edge of the open door and the thermostat and mount it on the wall. Then I would hang a piece of vertically oriented art (about 20" wide x 36" deep to the left of the TV, centered between it and the closed door. The open door would cover the art, but it wouldn't be open all the time, so that would balance the TV. Alternatively, you could mount a board with some hooks to hang coats, purses, etc. on as you enter the house. I don't see a coat closet, so that would be handy. I also noticed the art on the side wall looks too big for the space. What if you hang it to the left of the front window? The wall looks a little wider there. Then you could get something smaller for where you took it down....See Morebemonkey Zone 7 South New Jersey
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5 years agoHow about a beautiful grey chesterfield
Croyd Chesterfield Sofa
https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/everly-quinn-croyd-chesterfield-sofa-evyn1413.html
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5 years agoThe urban sofa seems to have a pretty good rating but my thing is if you’re planning on watching tv why worry about your feet being on the floor? It’s for comfort unless you are looking for something in both comfort and for when company comes over. Is there another living room in your home bemonkey?
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5 years agoBemonkey. In tight spaces, open legs give feel of bigger space. Check out this one from Joybird. It comes in many colors. Great size. 83” long with 28” deep seat equals very comfy.
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5 years agoGroveraaxle,
The wall is 98” long and 96” high. The TV is 57”x33”. Big for the size of room in my opinion but my husband wants it so we need to think of a way to incorporate it. Below is the picture you asked for.
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5 years agoHere is the relative size of your TV on that wall. I had to estimate the width of the door (and I suspect I may have made it narrower than it really is; you'll need to measure it open), but the TV is to scale as you can see by the yardsticks I taped up.
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5 years agoHere is another suggestion. This also comes in white (with gray doors). Gives you some storage as well.
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5 years agoBemonkey, I was quite a bit off if the door is 36". You have even less room now. I don't think this is a good wall for the toob.
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