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Comments (5)Here's my 2 cents, as a designer with about 20 years experience. Furnishing a room begins with a PLAN. You start your plan by determining what you want to do in the room, which informs everything else. Is it a place for entertaining, eating, TV watching, study, sleeping, playing an instrument? Once you have the function pinpointed, you draw the room to scale, noting positions of every door, window, heating elements, electrical outlets, fireplaces, and anything else of a permanent nature that would affect furniture placement. You look for focal points, natural lighting and views to the outside and to other rooms. The next step is to determine the furniture layout, including upholstery, case goods, floor and wall coverings, and lighting fixtures, keeping in mind scale and proportion as you figure out sizes of furniture, clearances, walkways, sight lines, etc. Only after you have this "road map" for your room will you begin to look at styles, colors, patterns of textiles, window coverings, and furnishings. You take your road map on all shopping trips, as any furniture salesperson will ask "what size (rug, sofa, table, etc.) are you looking for?" If you don't have the answer at the ready, you will waste a lot of time. And the last item you choose before the "frills" is the paint color on the walls. It's easier to match a paint color to your palette than the other way around. The "frills" are the decorative accessories like ceramics, paintings, sculpture, photos, vases, etc. Keep in mind that a room is never totally "done." It will change as your needs change, and should be flexible. Good luck with your project!...See MoreSmall space furniture placement
Comments (13)For now I would take the ladder display shelves away (put the photos on the walls) and angle a wood chair there (use the overhead sconce in a down position for reading). Position another wood chair on the diagonal facing that chair, with it's back to the big window. Move the leather lounge chair in the TV room into the sunporch. Put it where the wood chair is now. Buy this for the far right upper corner of the TV room and put the TV on it. Put the loveseat opposite the window for now but take everything else out of the room and sell it (find another place for the grandfather clock) and buy the longest most comfortable sofa you can afford to replace the loveseat on the wall opposite the big window, and buy a big square or round ottoman to go with it....See MoreFurniture Placement - Help!
Comments (6)If I understand correctly your sun room is being left as is with the existing furniture as what looks to me like a living room; and it's for the family room that you would like ideas for furniture layout with a TV and for the fireplace renovation. How many people in your family that will be watching TV?...See Morefurniture placement dilemma
Comments (32)BeverlyFLADeziner Thank you for your suggestions. I understand your comment about the smaller pieces up top. The answer is they fit but I now see where else they could have gone. Perhaps the small pieces have meaning I’d rather not discuss.)😜 The tree of life sculpture is strategically placed to camouflage an air exchange vent so it’s placement is crucial. I built around that. Jan Moyer I totally agree about the shiplap. It was there when we moved in and the only thing I didn’t like from the beginning. Also correct about the furniture being from our last house. The paint color however didn’t photograph well. It is a warm, dusky green. It actually coordinates well with the area rug. I plan to replace the furniture and would like to paint but the paint may need to wait. The walls flow into the dining area, kitchen, halls, foyer and upstairs to the loft. And you are right I do like high back chairs. I like variety. The chair at lower left is really not clinging to the corner; the pic is deceiving. I’ll post another view below. This placement requires something else perhaps something on the center wall, not sure what else? Thanks so much for all input!...See Moredecoenthusiaste
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