Small living room with front door-need furniture arrangement help!
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Need help arranging furniture in a weird living room!
Comments (10)I like the suggestions of others, but if you'd rather keep things facing the window (prefer the view or would rather have a more open traffic pattern or whatever), you can totally make that work too. I think the picture window is a centered in the whole space, and you want your living space centered closer to the fireplace, so it may work better to have just one chair or unmatched chairs, so you're not trying to create a symmetrical arrangement in an assymetrical space. Also, it looks like you have a reasonable sized space where the keyboard (?) is. I would consider treating that as a separate little nook (not really connected to the living room) maybe with a cozy chair and side table, or a small desk or the keyboard, or whatever is useful to you....See MoreHow to arrange furniture 3 Entry ways, small living room.
Comments (6)You could even get a piece of plywood or something and paint it the color of your wall and tack it over the landlords door...it will fade into the background. If you move, you can take it down with no problem. A couch and couple of chairs will give you lots of "decorating room" and you can make a cozy room....See MoreDesperately need help with living room furniture arrangement
Comments (79)Thanks groveraxle for the room layouts. If you look at 1 and 2, you will see a nice walkway from front to kitchen without having to walk through the conversation area. I like that. What I don't like is the inability to watch tv sitting perpendicular to the tv and fireplace. This is a tricky room since the wall is offset from the fireplace/tv. Have you thought of having 4 swivel chairs around a round center coffee table centered on the fire place? It is a cozy sitting arrangement and chairs can be pivoted toward the tv when watching tv. This really won't work for the two closes to the fireplace/tv because of the awkward up angle but it will work for the other two. The other option .. have you thought of two low backed curved couches? One on each side of the fireplace? It would create a cozy seating area and still put seating facing the TV. I couldn't find a curved couch quickly but here is the idea but using a sectional. Obviously this wouldn't work because the size is too big and the lounge pieces but the idea is there if you can see it. The walkway remains free. You get a cozy seating area for both TV and fireplace and you don't have to find complementary pieces if you feel better having matching pieces....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 Morefininigin
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