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Awkward Living Room Area

last year

I have an L shaped living room dining room combination. This area only has one solid wall. All of the other walls have windows or openings for passage to other areas.

I know what to do with the dining room area, but not the living room. I will entertain in the living room, so I want to place a tv there. I feel like I either have to place it in front of the window or along the one solid wall that is shared with the dining area.

I have made a PDF that shows the layout. Any ideas/suggestions are appreciated.

Thank you

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tracefloyd

last year

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Here is a very rough sketch lol. It is not to scale lol!

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sandye12
last year
I would definitely place it in the shared wall. There’s enough distance it will definitely be it’s own space.
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functionthenlook
last year
I have a similar layout and my TV is on the shared wall.
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houssaon
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Your living area appears to be large enough to have two sitting areas. One can be for the TV.
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tracefloyd
last year
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I agree, centered in the middle of the living room, and If you can get a tabletop TV on a swivel stand or a wall mount swivel, you can watch if from the dining room, kinda, or living room. The middle of our 64" TV is at 48" from the floor but could be a tad higher. Please don't mount way high like people do nowadays, ouch.

That means you can place the sofa facing the TV with the back of it defining an entry hall and a coffee table in front of it with two side chairs facing each other or at an angle toward the TV

Or place the sofa on the window wall, watch TV prone (hello!) with coffee table and side chairs in front of it. We even got a swivel side chair...get two...so convenient for this configuration.

Place your entry console, with table lamp and mirror on the wall above it, on the kitchen wall facing the door. It will the first focal point when you enter and reflect light from the window.

Your sofa end table and lamp will be next to the front door in any event, don't worry, ours is and it's fine like that. Got any other furniture? A tall bookcase on the shared wall centered on the console wall. Buffet in the DR. Kitchen wall.
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HU-16959546
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last year
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. The shared wall always made the most sense to me for the TV. However, I didn't know how far from the corner I could go before it would be considered encroaching on the dining area.

The use of furniture to create borders is a very good idea.
tracefloyd
last year
It looks like the tall hutch/bookcase might have to border on the dashed line, not straddling it, but placed on the Dining room side of the line, so the TV and console will look better. Keep the TV in the same position no matter what configuration of the space.

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