Decor for living room - off center couch
Hello! We recently moved and I am struggling to figure out wall decor for our living room. Both our couch and loveseat have recliners on both ends, which is why we placed them where we did. I'm not sure where/how to center things over the couch, given it's off center to the wall overall. (also, I know our end tables need help haha!)
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always1stepbehind
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoerinsean
5 years agohousegal200
5 years agoShow all four walls. Yes, maybe have a media system for your TV with the big sofa floating in the room to face it. But we need to see the room to offer options. You'd have much more flexibility if you got rid of the loveseat and replaced them with two colorful, comfortable chairs in accent colors. Or even two very streamlined recliners. The two oversized leather sofa take up so much visual and actual space
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5 years agoThanks for the feedback! Added the additional photos. always1stepbehind, this is our permanent residence. Hard part is the TV is mounted, so we would like to leave the loveseat where it is to face the TV.
PROBeth H. :
5 years agolast modified: 5 years ago3 sets of bulky recliners for this small room? Sorry, but it's too much.
But, if this is what you like and want, then forget about any coffee table or other design elements. just use this room as a media room.
Since your sofa is off-set, you could put a side table in the corner with a tall table lamp or a few pendants lights. Pendant lights in the corner would eat up a portion of the blank space.
Then consider doing a type of gallery wall or maybe something with shelving to display art. If you did a single canvas picture, it would look weird over the off-set couch, and weird centered on the wall. So, improvise.
instead of a side table, you could do a large floor lamp, smaller tables like this in the center.
or, gallery wall. if you did the entire wall, the offset sofa wouldn't matter
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5 years ago housegal200
5 years agoI agree with everyone who says you have way too many dark, bulky furnishings for the room. If at all possible, move the TV to the far wall where the bigger sofa is now. Put it on a long console with some art around it. Then float that sofa to face it. Get rid of the love seat. At a print chair up on legs to flank the fireplace with the other chair on the side. Anchor with a rug and a coffee table up on legs. No more brown leather!
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5 years agoYour fireplace wall could look beautiful with a painting over it and some drapes in tan, blue, and brown or some other color combination that works with your walls and rug. The room needs pattern and art.
PROCourtney Thomas Design
5 years agoWe wonder if it is possible to move the TV to the wall where the sofa is now and place it above a console? We would switch the sofa to where the recliner is currently and completely get rid of the loveseat and place the recliner where the loveseat is. It looks like your furniture is too big for your space, but if you want to keep it try it that way. If you are open to new furniture, perhaps try one sofa and one or two chairs.
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