What's an optimal layout for my multipurpose living room?
Hi, all! I live in a great one bedroom apartment in a city and my living room is serving triple duty—living, working, and dining space (plus a piano!). I love my apartment but find myself constantly thinking the space isn't optimized. The flow from the front door (bottom of layout) to kitchen and hall closet (bottom left of layout) and bedroom (left of layout) is important, and creating three distinct-ish spaces within a relatively long, narrow room has been challenging.
Some considerations:
- I work from home, so appreciate having my desk near at least one of the wall-mounted ladder bookshelves (small grey rectangles). Ideally, one of these is behind my desk so that it's the background on video calls.
- I would enjoy having friends over more often if I had additional seating; having the bench (currently at dinning table) near the couch helps with this to some extent, but it's not perfect.
- I'm trying to avoid having everything (desk/TV/piano or dining table/TV/desk) just lined up along the long right wall.
- The piano could go in my bedroom instead. I'd prefer to keep the desk in the living room.
I've attached the current layout and an alternative I'm considering.
Thank you for any and all suggestions!
Comments (6)
elcieg
last yearlast modified: last yearHaving the piano in front of the window isn't healthy for the piano...too much sun, or dampness, or cold.
Using layout#2 you turn the sofa to face the window and put the dining table behind it?
Put the piano where dining table was.Put the t v in the corner where piano was. Consider a corner console for the t v.
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sssairuh
last year@elcieg, I like this suggestion so much—thank you. It feels like I'm pulling a lot of the furniture into the center of the room and closer to the front door, rather than having dead space in the pathway to the bedroom.
@Margaret Carroll Interiors, thank you! The width of my space is just too big for the TV and couch to be on opposite walls, I think. I'm going to noodle with something like this—either with the TV square to the TV or angled. I just wish I didn't have piano/desk/TV all along the wall. (And great to see you're in Bethesda—I'm in DC!)
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