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Tiny living room arrangement help, please!

5 years ago

Our house is very small and a very odd set-up! When you walk in the front door you, you enter into a 11.5x35ft room that is the dining room and living room combo, and literally half of the house. The front door is located on an 11.5 ft wall, and directly to the right is a galley kitchen (up two stairs), and straight ahead is the dining room set to the right side of the room, and then the back of the great room, approximately 11.5x16sq ft is our living. The living room has a sliding glass door that goes outside, and it has two large windows. We have had our TV mounted on the back wall, but I became very tired of having the whole room framed around the TV. Not only that, our floors are dark plank wood floors, and our couches are about the same color (we moved in with these couches and haven't replaced them, they weren't picked for this house.) I really want to spruce up our living room and I'd like it to be lighter and brighter! There are no other rooms to put the TV in. Does anyone have suggestions on things to do to this room to make it feel brighter, open to other furniture arrangements, painting, replacing couches, and the whole nine yards! Please help!

My thoughts: a white shiplap accent wall on the end of the room, tv mounted where it currently is (pictures will be removed behind it, we just moved this around tonight to see how it looked), new media console under TV, light gray sectional to replace dark brown couches?

Let me know what you think!

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threers
5 years ago
I can't quite figure out your floor plan from your comments but some quick ideas: add table lamps to each of your side tables (only overhead lighting is not attractive to you or your furniture). Everything in the room is either black or white. Consider changing your rug and/or your drapes to a pattern with colors you love. If you decide to buy new upholstered furniture, do not buy a sectional...it will not be a good choice for your narrow room. Rather a small scale sofa with an ottoman coffee table and one or two swivel chairs that can face either the sofa or the TV. Good luck.
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Lil S
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
The layout seems functional, but I immediately notice that everything is brown and there are no lamps. Adding a colorful a rug and art would brighten and add life to the room.
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I would suggest tilting the chairs so they are facing each other and then shifting them a bit closer to the sofa so one chair is centered on the window and the other chair is directly across the rug from it. Adding a coffee table will finish that conversation area. Assuming no t.v., I would then get an enclosed storage piece of furniture that is taller than either of the two current storage pieces and could accomodate items from both along with artwork hung above, such as possibly the 4 framed pictures that are currently above the sofa hung in a square pattern. Larger art would work better above the sofa.
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Could you center the couch w/ the window and move the chair (angled) to the opposite end? That way, someone could see the tv from the chair as well.
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Placing a couch centered on the fireplace is going to leave little room to walk thru that area....but maybe that's ok... I really don't know. Unless you replace your current furniture with new pieces that are about the same size, and in the same place, you may be changing the traffic paths in the room. That's why, once you have an idea of what you want, you should move your existing furniture to the way it will be in the future, so that you will know whether you like the new arrangement, before you commit. 30 feet is long, but 13 feet is not really a narrow space for a living room. It's pretty normal. My guess is that your house originally had 2 rooms side by side in that space. If you think the space is tight, look for chairs and sofas that are not as deep, back to front. There can be a big difference. Your brown recliner is very deep. Apartment style furniture can be just as comfortable. Having a foot of padding at the back of a chair doesn't really make it more comfortable - it's just a style. You don't sink back a foot when you sit down. Here is my mock up of where the traffic path would be if you have a U shaped conversation area in front of the fireplace and TV. I gave you an ottoman instead of a coffee table in front of the sofa. And I made the upholstered furniture about 4 feet deep.
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IMO if the TV is the focal point remove the FP it is not doing anything for the space and IMO a sofa and 2 chairs would be a better choice for furniture and honestly without measurements of the spaces around this it is hard to get a feel for this space. I think there is no room for a pool table since you require 5’ all around it. I find the easiest way to figure out what fits is to draw a to scale plan on graph paper then go to the drscription of the pieces ypua re planning and cut those out in the same scale adn marked the min. walkwys and paly with the pieces to see what works. in your case the pool table needs space sp start there if the pool table is a must. BTW there is no such thing as a sectional with 4 comfortable seats the only seats that are comfy are the ones with an armrest so 2 seats no matter how big the sectional is.
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Hannah Richter
Original Author
5 years ago
Here are two pictures to better show the length and width of the great room. First picture is taken from the front door and second is taken from living room. Pics from when we first moved in!
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JudyG Designs
5 years ago
I think this layout will work. First a rug, it will lighten the space…thinking 9 x 12.

Leaving the t v as is. Invest in a sofa, and 2 accent chairs and a loveseat.

Is your ceiling white? If not repaint it white for a brighter look.
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Camden Lane Interiors
5 years ago
Try smaller sized furniture. Right now everything you have is very bulky and making the room look quite small. If you get a 3 seater sofa with four chairs you should be able to make everything work nicely. It will also fit a lot better as well.
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