Please help with kitchen to sunroom transition and rug placement
We’re restoring our old home and almost done renovating our kitchen (yay!). It opens into a 17’x14’ sunroom, and we need some help with zoning and rug placement. Most furniture shown is a placeholder, and TV goes on the wall. Sunroom walls to painted a medium green/blue.
Zoning - We want a chair and side table against the wall in the transition area to have a conversation with someone in the kitchen, and to break up the rooms, but don’t want them to just be floating there. Some screening of the kitchen would be a plus. Would a tall plant behind them work? A lucite bookshelf with plants (turned which way)? Maybe a translucent screen?
Rugs – we are planning for a rug by the couch and club chair and ideally another under a round breakfast table (~36”) with 2 chairs. Gets a little cold in winter! The blue tape on floor shows where edges of an 8x10 rug would extend if it went halfway under the couch. If the rug needed to be smaller rug to add a rug under the breakfast table (should it be round?), the first rug would fall in the middle of living room entrance. Is there a rule about that? How close can the rugs be?
Bonus question – It’s super sunny because of south exposure but some more lighting closer to the breakfast table would be great for night. Any ideas besides a ceiling pendant? We’re adding a wall sconce on the (living room) wall at the end of the couch that will help.
Thanks some much for your suggestions!
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3 years ago- 3 years ago
Everyone, thank you SO much for your great ideas! I'm looking at the space with fresh eyes. See my new pics - I pulled in some random furniture as placeholders to get a feel moving things around. The vibe changes when the focus is looking into the yard and not the TV wall, which is nicer!So it seems we really need to decide if we keep the TV here where we hang out or find a place for it in the living room that we don't use much. Without it here, we could put two chairs and a side table in the sunroom corner and the breakfast table on the wall in the transition area, or flip them. Either way, we get a conversational chair by the kitchen.
@BeverlyFLADeziner thanks for sharing the rug pics -- you're right - the pattern really makes a difference! I don't know how you did that but thank you!
Would you all just recommend on 8x10 or smaller rug by the couch? Winters are cold here and might be nice another under our feet.
- 3 years ago
Amy - you’ve designed some beautiful spaces! I like both your 1st and 2nd photos but like the feel of a round vs. rectangle breakfast table on that wall because you have more options to angle two chairs.
Has anyone pushed a round table against a wall or does that look strange? We are considering a square lucite table too if it’s not too much looking. Want to keep an airy feel as it’s a sunroom (though will paint the walls around the windows a medium green or blue), but rest of house is very traditional with 100 yr old dark American Chestnut paneling and trim.
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