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Design for a family room that has a fireplace in the middle

2 years ago

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I have a ranch style cottage that has a large brick fireplace in the middle on one side this creates two rooms i am having difficulties deciding on how to layout and decorate one side all the walls have been painted grey like 2nd pic and new carpet like 2nd pic the 2nd pic is the other side

also the furniture can go

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decoenthusiaste

2 years ago

We need more photos, especially of the FP itself. Looks like you're going for a coastal feeling if the navy sectional side is your furniture. Can the chaise portion be detached and used in the other side of the "2" spaces? Consider Romabio to change the brick on the FP and give it a lighter feeling with masonry paint or a whitewash. Is the first pic of the previous owners stuff, or is that yours too?

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kandrewspa
2 years ago
Since you have a lot of seating on one side what do you want to use the other side for? I think you will get more responses if you also post dimensions of the space you have to fill. It also helps if it is on graph paper showing doorways so people know what you're working with.
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You should be able to get a corner media cabinet to put under the TV to hold peripherals and ground that zone -- no built-ins needed. As for the rest, I'd take down the valences and try just living with the blinds for a while. It could be that accordian blinds would be all you need, or you could get some that are bottom-up/top-down to give you some privacy while keeping the light. You need a larger piece of art over the fireplace -- surely there's another place for the current beloved one. Look at the firebox for scale, think horizontal. Your area rug is too close to the carpet -- either do without or get something (a) large enough for the front feet of all the furniture to rest on it, and (b) with some contrast to the carpet. Ideally this would also introduce some accent color to the room: right now, if you get rid of the red chairs, the only unifying color is beige. (Maybe the art over the couch is bringing something you could work from.) Coffee table? lamps? Mix some books into that bookcase?
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Brown Dog
2 years ago
Yeah. More pics. Are the rooms open to each other? Is the brick on both sides? Is it a 2-way fireplace? Do you use the fireplace?
Jill Chown
Original Author
2 years ago
Ive added a couple more photos of what the side of the room looks like now there isxa walkway on the wall side that goes all the way around the fireplace

i do have a ton of seating on the other side i really dont know what to do with this side the couch under the moon window makes that long wall look crowded with furniture
Mel De Sousa
2 years ago
I see that the room with the half moon window is right beside a bedroom id love to see a round table with stools think library table maybe some bookcases. would be like a lounge library office games room
decoenthusiaste
2 years ago
Do you have/need a home office, game room, library? Are you retired, have kids/grandkids who visit often? Need extra sleep space when they do?
Jill Chown
Original Author
2 years ago
We have college aged kids we could use a game room so would you get rid of the furniture? im struggling how to lay it out
Mel De Sousa
2 years ago
A floor plan would help for sure! i think in this case less furniture might be better. mirror or picture gallery walls around the windows to brighten and add fun and interest. take out all the furniture and find a table and chairs scale that fits than play around and see what you would put back furniture wise discard the rest
decoenthusiaste
2 years ago
Leave the sectional side as you have it, and paint the other side to match it, removing the chair rail. Find out what the kids would like; board games, video games, shuffleboard, pool, foosball. You don't have much room so try to find a concensus on what would get the most use when they're there. I think you'll have to limit it to one item due to space constrictions and the fireplace. If they opt for video games, they'll want a larger screen TV and you could use four small scale swivel chairs.
everdebz
2 years ago
If sofa's wall is green-grey, art as wide as the window could draw good attention-
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everdebz
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everdebz
2 years ago
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Not sure that this couldn't help the patterned sofa, but with other changes ? ah the second is more like your pillow!
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