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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Comments (2)That might work I would discourage the chaise on the sectional just do an ottoman same sitting comfort but much nicer seating when you company. IMO thi s is ahuge space that is poorly laid out the DR table needs to be about 3x the size I would put it infront of the patio doors off the kitchen then you would have a huge LR with a couple of seating arragements one in front of the fireplace and one for T.V viewing all pieces that can be moved when you have a crowd.We have a large LR and I puposely bought piecs that could be rearranged for different looks and purposes like the Christmas tree for instance .So I have 2 sofas, a chairs that do not match the sofa or each other but work in the space a long bench that can be moved easily wherever I need it I really dislike sectionals because they are so site specific and in your space I think if possible think many useful pieces that can move easily ....See MoreHelp with French Living room layout with off center fireplace
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Comments (20)Samantha a 60’s home is fun. im not a designer or decorator but whats important to one person may not be to you! i hate everything shoved up against walls! but you may like that, don’t know! are you a tv and movie watcher, do you exercise with your tv, how much of a part of your familys life does the tv play? do the kids watch it a lot and do you depend on it to keep the kids calm for a while? do you like to louge with your feet up or sit with your feet on the floor? all this matters! making an entire room into a play room can keep clutter out of your main living space however you have no line of sight into that room so that may make you a nervous reck. id be looking at knocking down the walls and getting rid of that small galley kitchen but then im a cook and i have big big family dinners. but a small low cost project would be to create a small pass-through or bar/counter to that family room from the little kitchen nook you are showing there. your negitives are that you have no outlets except on walls and no overhead lights and with kids you dont want cords strung around. now a way to get around that (or mitigate it) is use an area rug, buy a flat (not standard round) extension cord and run it under the rug. then you can setup a sectional in the middle of the room with a chaise facing your tv and the other side facing the bowed window. this will give you light and end tables next to where you are sitting (likewise you could do runners as theyre cheaper than a carpet or area rug, to form a sudo walkway and run cords under that.) then nothing is blocking the window nor blocking the fireplace or multiple entries to the room. if you were to knock down the walls on the little kitchen you could move the dining to that family room and also create a corner breakfast nook and bar. however if youre more of a movie buff family, then that back room would be a perfect movie theater. you could create a step up platform and 2-3 rows of seating the place a big 85 inch tv on the wall. that would leave your living room more of a gathering room (no tv) for socialization. if you like cards, pool or other things you can concider that in your gathering room. point is think about the top things youd love to do and the top thing you cant live without and design your interior of your home for that! its yours! also think about things you hate and make sure you avoid those! if your laundry isnt on the main floor and you hate running up and down stairs then maybe look at a space for that, if you hate vacuuming look at no carpet…get the picture. If you find you can live with things then we’ll call that an interim plan, but make sure it doesnt get in the way of your ultimate goal. example: if you love gazing outside while doing dishes or watching your kids play while cooking, dont remove windows to make more cabinet space! adding windows later will be expensive and require a structural engineer! make sense! i hope this gave you ideas. the one big thing i see or rather dont see is storage! really think about “is there a place for everything you own?”… winter, summer, fall, spring, holidays, etc… homes from the 60’s lack this and thus if youre a neat freak not having the ability to put everthing away may make you crazy! as you get older you accumulate things which are seasonal.. think about it!...See More
anita1212
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.
PROCourtney Thomas Design
5 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.
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decoenthusiaste
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.)
PRORL Relocation LLC
5 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.
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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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