Help: Family room furniture layout with off centered fireplace
Hi,
I need advice from the interior design community to suggest a good layout for this room. I just moved into this house a few months back. I loved the open floor plan of this house. But now I am not sure how to set up this family room for it to look cohesive.
The fireplace is placed so off center that no layout seems to look nice, The family room is our main tv watching room. It is also used during entertaining friends and family. Although I dont want TV to be the focus of the room, we do want to able to watch it comfortably from the sofa. Below are some pictures of the room the way I have currently set up. Please ignore the rugs in this position as i had placed them to see how they look in space.
Please advise.
This door leads to the formal living room.
The sectional faces the backyard now.
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5 years agoThanks everyone for such wonderful ideas. I am planning to buy more furniture based on the final layout of this room. Below is a picture of other chairs I had placed earlier which I moved to living room.
PRO5 years agoWe think there are two ways in which you might be able to rework this room. First off, if the TV can fit between the two windows beside the fireplace, we might try the TV there. If the TV won't fit there, then we would create two seating areas. Here are some designs of ours which might help you envision it. Note here the TV is on the wall, so if you could place the TV in between the windows you would turn the sectional to face the TV/fireplace area.
If that doesn't work you could place 4 chairs around an ottoman in front of the fireplace and keep your current set up in front of the TV.
anita1212 thanked Courtney Thomas Design- 5 years ago
5 years agoWhat about trying your two chairs at the fireplace, either flanking it or facing each other over a chess/checkers table? Angle the chaise with a floor lamp by the column and under the art near the wine fridge. Leave the sectional as is, but place a sofa table with some decor items on it behind. That gives the fireplace area some function; reading corner, game area, and the sofa table can turn into a bar table for parties with mixers, liquor and ice (all on trays to save the table top.)
PRO5 years agoHello.
Im not sad about two areas, but it doesnt really work here as the room is more square than long.
I am sad about the rug.
No mater what try to either have one massive rug or two identical rugs you can seem together.
So have you thought to put the dining table in front of the fireplace area rather than in the spot is is now?
Add bar stools to that area, and make the dining room in the fireplace area.
Soften the sofa by adding a throw, and perhaps moving it forward a bit, to add a sofa table.
then add back in those two smaller arm chairs.
anita1212 thanked RL Relocation LLC- 5 years ago
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Made a lot of changes since then. I might swap out swing with a wing chair and a side table next.
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