Ideas for furniture layout in living room
We just bought a townhouse (first-time homeowners!) and we are super excited! Our current sectional is too big for the main living room, so we'll be putting it in the finished basement/gameroom. But I'm struggling with how to stage the living room. It's slightly sunken from the dining with a fireplace. The steps down are a little to the left of the fireplace with doors on the right of the fireplace, so we need to have the ability to walk through. The current owners have it staged with a sofas and chair on one side and a separate sitting area on the other side. I don't like that. I want it all to feel cohesive. Any suggestions? Pictures are from the listing. Room is about 19x11 (according to listing information and that feels correct from walking through it)
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tncatgirl
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PROFlo Mangan
3 years ago- PRO
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3 years agoJacki O
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoKeep it to an L-shaped conversation area, to keep your traffic path (in yellow) clear. Don't put a chair on the other side of the traffic path, as the listing photos show. Maybe the TV could go there?
Your L shaped area could be a sectional, 2 sofas, sofa and 2 chairs. Whatever works for you.
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Flo Mangan
3 years ago 
PRODesign Interior South
3 years agoCongratulations on your new home! Your fireplace hearth is likely 18-21" deep and the step 10" leaving you only approx. 8 1/2' to create the desired cohesive seating area around the fireplace you desire. If you were to float furniture facing the fireplace and found a shallow sofa of 36" depth and left the 3' of flow/walking space behind it that would leave you approx 29" of space in front of the sofa until you hit your hearth. Sadly due to the depth of this room and the length and the other factors listed above it doesn't lend itself to an arrangement around the fireplace. Placing a TV above the fireplace would mean anyone viewing it will be watching it from the side. Your friend here is going to be the swivel chair, I would do 4 of them two on each side flanking the fireplace. I would think of this room for entertaining and conversation.
- The wall the sofa is currently sitting on I would do a bar wall. I pictured a modular one here that can be added or subtracted to. Having height is a good option since that wall is your largest feature wall.
- I would flank a round coffee table with four swivel chairs on each side. If you want a TV over the fireplace (although I think its crying for a wonderful piece of art) you your at least turn the chairs towards the fireplace
- Anchor it all with a 8 x 10 rug
- add some cocktail stand tables between chairs. I chose these because you wont have room for much more
- since you wont have a lot of table space I would install a nice lighting fixture over the round table centered on the fireplace to bring in lighting
- I would dress the windows as well as the slider with some nice neutral drapery panels. Mount them as high as possible and hang them so they are 1/2" off the floor.
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