Here's a pic of the bedroom and kitchen

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If you go the chaise route you won't have room for a chair so everyone would be sitting on the sofa. I would be careful of scale of furniture in this case. Find an independent designer (not an in-store one) to help you with furniture size and layout. For a couple of hundred dollars you will have the info you need to shop and avoid wasting money

Their proposed layout might work well with the exception of the dining table. Will you be serving 6 often, or could you opt for a much smaller table? If so you might be able to have a chaise.

The layout is fine, but it is a small room and could easily be overwhelmed. I would think an apartment size sofa, an end table (or 2 maybe?) and a small recliner would fit well in the seating area and meet your needs.

My first apartment was a relatively small Manhattan condo - a studio with a loft.

You need to figure out what is important to you in terms of how you will use the space.

I don't think a dining room table seating six is particularly functional unless you regularly need to seat that many people. In my condo, I had a gate leg table which took up almost no space except when needed and actually functioned well as a small surface. I had the option to just put up one side or both sides. It also have leaves which I never used since my entertaining didn't consist of dinner parties.

And looking back I would forgo a sleeper sofa because I am selfish. Sleeper sofas aren't as comfortable as regular sofas so really they are being bought for the comfort of your guests. Do you contemplate having people visit for extended periods of time. It gets VERY old to have people in your living room sleeping. The occasional guest can use a couch to sleep on or you can get one of those good air mattresses. Again, it depends on what you think your actual life will be when you move in.

I wouldn't get a shrunken sofa - you can get a normal sized sofa that doesn't look bloated by getting one with slimmer arms. Just make sure whatever you get is comfortable. A normal sofa and a chair or even two chairs if you forego the dining room table and chairs works and would provide adequate seating unless your lifestyle is such that you actually have large numbers of people over.

MCM style sofas can be amazing for sleeping..there are click clack styles, and whatnot. They can look beautiful being incredibly functional at the same time. The caveat-such sofas are usually expensive. Ot they're vintage..and still not cheap.

Regular sleeper sofas, the ones that the mattress kinda folds out- are indeed not that comfortable. Couple nights-okay(I'm not talking about kids..kids can sleep anywhere))

Exclusions I personally encountered-was some sleeper sofa by American Leather. Amazing mattress. Real bed like feeling. aesthetically..well, regular sofa. Not too chic. Not too offensive and bulky either. Had no chaise.

We do have a sleeper sofa with chaise (sectional. is that what you mean? or do you mean separate chaise?), which we use for watching TV and lounging in family room, and that get used for when we have too many guests (the reason we bought it from the get go), and our guest room is not enough. I like to lounge on it , it's comfortable as a sofa- but as for night sleep-not most conducive for a great sleep. We tried it.

I usually have overnight guests not that often, but for a prolonged time when I do ..and if that's your case(relatives and friends coming from another state, or from a different country)-I'd look for something that would satisfy me both aesthetically and in terms of function, and I'd make it my splurge. Or I'd make a point to look for vintage. Has its minuses of course. It can be refurbished, in terms of how clean it is-but delivery is harder, etc. Still, might be worth it.

How often you have guests? How long do they stay? what the ages might be? where I won't hesitate to put teenagers-I won't put my Mom for example. .

As for the table, I find the most versatile might be a table with a leaf..say mine is oval and sits six, but can be made into round and sit four

(I bought it second hand, with a second leaf lost-or else I could sit 8 easily when needed. Would come handy. We rarely entertain but when we do-6 is so not enough. I bring more chairs and all. )

Looks like a great place..congrats!

Here are some updated pictures of the condo., I was wondering if i can have a sofa with chaise as well as a herman miller eames lounge chair in that space?

I was thinking i'll have a left side chaise and the eames sitting near the window facing the couch?

Do you guys think it will fit?

so i'm thinkin ill place the eames chair in the left corner in place of the plant and the chair in that place.

Let me know what you guys think. Also would like to fit a bookshelf somewhere.

I think it might be tight fit

The chair is big..protruding..and one does want to recline it when sitting, to use all its beautiful features.

Also..your window is very important feature of your lovely room. As such, I'd try to obstruct it as little as possible

something with low back..if anything. Visually smaller. Plant is fine as plants are mostly a) narrow enough b) have this inside outside connotation-are perceived as less obscuring, more part of surrounding landscape, urbanscape, etc

bookcase..it might be you can find a narrow one and fit it to the right of the sofa

if you love Eames-you might like narrow bookshelves they're selling at DWR...

question is-how many books would you like to fit?

what sofa you've decided on, in the end?

Are you going to watch tv from the Eames chair every day? If so, it gets pride of place and goes in front of the tv, not kitty corner from it. Then move the sofa closer to the window. Skip the chaise model and get a regular sofa with pull out sofa bed. Or consider getting a combination Murphy bed and sofa (google it if you haven't seen them).

An easy way to test what will fit is to use newspaper taped to the floor. The Eames chair with ottoman is a lot bigger than the tiny chair shown on the floor plan above.

I had the Eames chair in my first Manhattan apartment which was a studio - slightly larger than yours. It was incredibly comfortable and I actually fell asleep in it several times.

I wouldn't put a chaise in as it serves no purpose and just adds visual clutter to a small space.

I see no problem with putting the Eames in front of the window - you then get to enjoy the view while lounging in the chair and a wall of windows doesn't need to be completely nude to be open to the view. When you are walking into the room or even sitting the window would still appear as a wall of windows - it's not as if you are blocking it with a tall bookcase.

If you are planning to use the sofa for sleeping, I would suggest getting one that is extremely comfortable even if the bed is not pulled. out. My first apartment in Manhattan had a nice loft bedroom but sometimes I didn't feel like climbing up so I would just crash on the sofa - and often not bother to pull it out but just slept on the actual sofa.

I think i'm gonna skip on a sleeper sofa and just focus on getting something comfortable and without a chaise. I think i'll get that and a Eames lounge chair. I was also hoping in can squeeze in a office desk in the bottom right corner. What do you guys think.

Also for this layout , the kitchen is very beige in color. Was wondering what color couch would go well? in cloth and leather. I'm not sure which way i lean yet.

where would you guys put a work desk? I have a 34" monitor that will be either wall mounted above the desk or on the desk as i'll need it for work.