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10X11 TV Room - furniture help!

last year

Looking to update our dining room to TV room. It will be small - but just a nook for my husband and I. I need furniture help! We will be getting rid of the piano and installing a ship lap wall with a TV. Also considering paint the floor and adding a rug. Any ideas?

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Sarah Hart
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last year

Update: painted the tile.

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Samaanthag
last year
I would not paint the floor. If this going to be a family room, you want it to be cozy. If you're not interested in changing the flooring completely, I would put a huuuuuuuge shag rug in there (basically a carpet lol)

right now I can't tell what your style is, so hard to give suggestions.
Sarah Hart
Original Author
last year
This is our family room. Sorry - it’s from Halloween. But it gives you an idea of our style.
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arcy_gw
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Console under TV--it will be a lot of work and little bang for your buck to bother with ship lap then cover it all up... Your floor is ceramic tile? Will that paint well? Remove the light fixture...or find something more appropriate. Curtain panels always finish a room. A couch with a table behind for puzzles/card playing if there is room.
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I’d suggest quite a large rug - custom, if necessary. This will cover most of the floor which I am guessing you don’t like. (Me neither.). I wouldn’t paint it. Are you closing up the niche with drywall? If so, I’d probably just paint and no shiplap.
shari13
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Agree no paint, just a big rug. Change out the light fixture. It just screams "I was a dining room once". Even if it wasn't it LOOKS like that to me.
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lisedv
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I would work with the existing tile instead of painting it. Here's a scheme idea, can't give suggestions for a floor plan since there isn't sufficient information.
Helen
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As others have posted, a beautiful rug will hide most of the tile AND will also be much more comfortable and cozy than tile would be - even if the tile were your style.

Don't bother to put up shiplap - it's a trend that makes no sense. If your television will fit in the niche, just hang it at a comfortable height for viewing. You could also fill in the niche with dry wall and then you wouldn't have to decorate around the niche but would have a clean slate.

I am assuming that this is a room that will really only be used by the two of you and not a family viewing spot. I would get whatever the most comfortable seating is for how you would be watching television for the people using it. Whether that is a couch or chaise because people like to sprawl and lie down and even nap or whether it is comfortable lounge chairs of some kind.

Really it could be any style. I would probably like color in there but then I don't have a gray, brown or beige sofa or chair :-). You could start with the rug and then find seating that works with the rug.
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Samaanthag
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Love the update! Love that rug and the way the console looks next to the black wall. Super cool!

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