Need help designing odd shaped multi-use room (pictures in comments)
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Comments (10)can you reach your shut off valve to the water. Can you access the dryer vent for yearly maintenance? I like them stacked. You could but in a bank of floor to ceiling cabinets on the side, with planned access to the vent and water shut off. Have a tall pull out pantry on the side for your ironing board and brooms etc. floor to ceiling cabinets between the pullout and stacked set. Many of the cabinet shelves could be drawers instead of shelves, making it easy to access stuff. The upper areas could be for things you never need often, and reachable by a step ladder kept in the pantry pullout. example of pullout shelves: example of a 1/2 length pantry pullout (I think :) or this, no pullout pantry:...See MoreNeed help decorating and odd shaped living room
Comments (18)Really nice room, well put together, too. Doesn't seem odd at all -- not even odd shaped. But then, I do like bay windows and I'm liking all that natural light. Like the rug. Like the art (3) on the wall behind/over the sofa … but ... maybe not where it is currently hung as it is currently hung though. Do you have a fourth, similar pic that you could have framed with the same frame and hang them in a (slightly longer) row -- sofa edge to sofa edge -- and hang them lower? Unless everyone in your family is really tall, the art seems hung a bit high. The dark art over the loveseat seems out of place. If you put a tall thin lamp atop your bookcase, you could hang that darker piece to the right of the lamp shade (with the tops of lamp shade and art approximately even). In the single window above where the sofa and love seat form a corner, have you considered adding a stained glass window hanging there? https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=doMtW4DMO5LcswXLnJvwDw&q=stained+glass+window+hanging+square+or+rectangle&oq=stained+glass+window+hanging+square+or+rectangle&gs_l=img.3...2178.3980.0.4244.13.13.0.0.0.0.147.918.9j2.11.0....0...1c.1.64.img..2.0.0....0.h4yPZoUPbdw You mentioned the shape of your living room -- did that influence your putting the table/chairs by the bay window or, is that your usual/only dining area? If the table is actually used -- perhaps for card games or board games or putting together jigsaw puzzles or for arts and crafts or socializing -- if there is any reason the table is there, then it works there. If you just put it there because you didn't know what else to put in that space, perhaps it is time to rethink its location. Try the rug underneath the 3-seat sofa with its edge stopping at the left edge of the loveseat (after you move the loveseat to the right to center it with the wall behind it). Leave the sofa within a few inches of the wall -- embrace the extra room, especially if that is a fireplace hearth across from the sofa (potential stumble hazard). If it is slightly raised hearth (not just a rug or mat), then make sure you set something on each end so it is less of a stumble hazard: fireplace tools, basket … anything that says "look" so a raised edge hearth can be seen. Prefer taller lamps for living rooms -- leaving the shorter ones with tiny shades for desks or bedrooms. Matter of personal taste, though. Is the interesting tall white fabric rectangle to the right of the piano a cover for a tall ?something? handle or is it a lamp? … Do wait for your husband to move the heavy sofa and loveseat; however, you could work on that corner where thy meet: If it IS a lamp, have you tried setting in that corner where the sofa and love seat meet, either on the floor or atop the short table?...See Moreneed help with my odd shaped kitchen
Comments (28)A peninsula counter/bar to eat at, can be very convenient also, but with the 45 degree angled wall opposite your right angle of kitchen counters, it may be you don't have the ability to have a direction where you cannot get out of the L of your kitchen? I have seen an L kitchen take a 2nd right hand corner for 3 feet and than kick back in to that 45 degree, to get the penisula, but again, you may need that foot traffic to go thru, right or left in the direction of your current counters, in which case a smaller L as she has above, is perfect, but access to those doors below a lower eating surface, might be fun.. The drop down, lower eating surface may be worth it though!! Try to be able to get access from the inside tho. Maybe you would not have to have a solid wall in that design?...See MoreFurniture help for odd shaped multi use room
Comments (1)Looking for advice on what to do with this odd(ish) room. Intended use will be kitchen / dining room / sitting area. I don't need a formal tv space, as our tv will be in another room, although we were thinking about putting up a samsung frame above the fireplace for cooking videos and such. For the sitting area, I'd love to be able to play board games, curl up and read a book, or have coffee chats. I also love function, so a table, or sideboard to store keys or any other useful stuff is great! Any and all advice is appreciated. Couple of key points: With the exception of the dining room table, i'm not married to any of the furniture, so it can go or stay. If possible I'd like to fit the coffee table, but I realize it's large so not a deal breaker. The alcove space to the right of the refrigerator has been ear-marked this pantry, Which we definitely need, so not much can go there. The side of the island facing the fireplace, has cabinets, which are in active use (hold pressure cooker and such) so furniture can't be pushed up against it. The window to the right of the french doors (in the pictures it has a green pillow against it) has a doggy door, so that can't be covered either. The measurement from fireplace to island is 113 inches. Left edge of gray cabinet to right edge of the fire place is 98.5 inches. The wall color is gray / green. It's greenish during the day and grayish at night. I'm so lost as to what to do. Pictures will be posted below....See MoreDasher
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