New to open floor plan and need furniture!
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Comments (10)The island is large enough to have a good zone of safety around the cooking zone, but not large enough to serve as the prep zone. Your prep zone in this layout will be the corner between your fridge and DW. And that would be fine for many people. If you want to prep and socialize with visitors at the same time, then this isn't a layout that will work for that and you'd need to move the cooking zone off of the island and put a sink there so that you'd prep facing out into the room. Whatever you decide, I'd make the entry to the pantry in the hall adjacent so that you could extend the cabinets down all the way to that hall and move the fridge down further to make access easier from the great room. That will also give you a good place for a MW next to the fridge. I'd personally also prefer a peninsula for some separation between the kitchen and dining room while still remaining open for the connection. I'd also prefer the cooking zone to be off of the island so that it would b easier and cheaper (and more effectively) vented to the exterior straight through the wall. Flank it with some windows to make it a focal point from the great room....See MoreNeed help with new paint for open floor plan
Comments (4)On my screen, looks like you posted in the Paint forum. I suggest you post in Home Decorating, for lots of opinions. The colors on the non-removable items seem warm to me: especially the floors and cabinets, which are really pretty! I like warm colors, myself, and with what you have there, I'd just paint the walls lighter, like a nuanced warm shade of white. But I guess that's not what you want to do.... So, my advice is to visit some paint stores, buy some posterboards, and many small sample jars of paints you may like... and start experimenting. I think your experiments will go better if you paint out one wall as white a color as you can, and then you can judge the posterboard colors more easily. You do seem drawn to cooler-toned rugs. There are experts who can help you with this. I'd go to the home dec. forum for more advice....See MoreNeed advice on furniture placement in open plan LR/DR
Comments (10)In the living area, use a sofa on the long wall, two armchairs facing the windows with their backs to the kitchen, and one more chair angled into the seating area under the windows. Loveseats take up a lot of space. You also need to leave enough room for small end tables. Since your island is so narrow, I would forgo using island stools, which gives you more space for a table and chairs. Look for a narrow rectangular table that can be placed fairly close to the wall, and pulled out slightly when you need to use the back side two/three chairs. You can use the two end chairs and two or three side chairs on a daily basis. Don't buy any furniture until you're actually in the space, so you can measure precisely and understand how things will fit....See MoreFurniture in small open floor plan
Comments (3)I'd say no to the range. ;) Sure, put your TV on a flat wall and then arrange a conversational grouping that allows good viewing and has chairs facing toward one another. That is likely to put a couch with its back to the larger space -- that helps define an entry area, but you can put a console behind the couch to soften that view, and add a reading lamp or two. Perhaps you will have one chair with its back to the window, no harm done....See Moremkmcgr
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