Living/dining room layout help needed!
Hi all, we have just bought our first home (exciting!) but need some help in how to lay out the combined living room / dining room space (floorplan and photos below). I'd really appreciate any ideas people have about how how to layout the furniture in my room, from something drastically different to just minor tweaks or suggestions.
Some considerations I have are:
(a) I would like to put in a shelf / corner for my plants in the top right corner (I think that area will have the most sunlight in my Aussie home where north usually has the most light, although I will be supplementing with grow lights). I was thinking a shelf, and maybe some standing pots bunched in that corner?
(b) I have an Ikea Karlstad couch (205cm x 93cm) and small west elm industrial storage coffee table (91cm x 66cm) that I will need to fit in the space, but other than that will be buying everything else.
(c) In the way I've got it set out in my head right now (see photo 2), I feel like I'm coming up against hurdles of whether the couch should be up against the window, or if it should be off the wall and allow for curtains? And the window, couch and tv unit don't line up nicely
(d) I think the area under teh stairs would be a good area for a bench to put on and off shoes, and shoe rack/shelf or some sort?
I've added photos below of:
1. the floor plan
2. my curent thinking in a rough paint job, and
3 & 4. some (very blurry, sorry) photos of the living/dining room that I took during house inspections.
I feel like I just can't think of any other way to set out the room logically other than what I've got in photo 2, but it's also how the house was set out for the inspections so I'm not sure if I'm just unable to get away from that layout rather than it being the only solution. Would really appreciate any new ideas or tweaks to the layout, thank you!
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3 years agoFor now, get the main pieces in place. Don't worry about the smaller items. We will find a place for them. I would
-put the tv on the gallery wall, centered on the wall-Sofa will face new tv wall and will also be centered on the tv wall.
-dining table will be backed up to the sofa. Only 3 sides will be accessible.
-2 chairs on long side of dining table. Other 2 chairs on the ends.
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