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Ideas? Living room with large fireplace in odd location

last year

bought a quirky house and I’m torn on what to do with the living room. love the fireplace, but it is literally dead center of the house and has an intersection of the foyer and center hall on one side.

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decoenthusiaste

last year

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What about putting the sofa and chair in the recess/nook right of the fireplace for one conversation area and adding a grouping of four chairs directly in front of the FP? Tie the two areas together with matching colors in rugs.

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jck910
last year
Is this the only living space? Do you need a TV in the space?
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
Mine is about 2 x as big as yours right in the space between th LR and the kitchen we embraced and I love so much
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I think I would swap the smaller sofa and put it n the tv room and put the larger one centered, floating in front of the fireplace. I'm not usually a fan, but since your window is off center, I'd try putting the small sofa at and angle, right of the window and face it to a tv in the opposite corner. For the bay window in the formal space, I think it would be a great spot to put your barrel chairs with a 36" round table height side table. What a wonderful place to have morning coffee, read a magazine, play a game of chess, etc or even maybe do a small puzzle. Like this arrangement, but a small round, game size type table.
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Like Julie Anne, I would use a round table with 4 chairs over by the sliding door. If it expands to oval shaped with 6 chairs, even better! However, I wouldn't do a second table under the chandelier. Instead I would have that chandie replaced with a flush mount fixture and add a chandelier over the dining table. Then I would put a sofa facing the fireplace. The tv can go in the nook to the right if your tv is small enough, or over the fireplace if it is larger. In either scenario I like the idea of shelves in that nook. Put a pair of chairs in front of each window. The ones to the left of the fireplace can share a round table between them. I wouldn't use bar stools, personally. They are hard to slide in and out on carpet and they will restrict your furniture placing options. Instead I would tuck a bookshelf into that spot (because I always need more book storage!) Or just ignore it entirely; when you have guests they will enjoy leaning in the counter just as much as they will enjoy sitting on stools, if not more.
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Neither inspo photo looks good. Sorry. I would give UP the fire, before I'd use the corner and most everyone who has tried it would tell you the same thing. Put a fire and smaller tv in this FORMAL space that will become the DEAD space.......unless it has a tv. Treat it as the escape space for you and hubby. Then just face the fact that a honkin" tv and console alongside a corner hearth......? Is basically a REVERSE of all the corner TELEVISIONS that were ripped out of bult-ins that surrounded center fire boxes, twenty five years ago. And a regret waiting to happen. Failing that? Build a SEE THROUGH and give up a totally open area behind your island, dividing great room space from kitchen. . Two feet deep, and five feet wide. Fire view both sides. Or adjust your front elevation left of entry door, center a fire, and windows on BOTH sides. Which means anything is better than the corner. Scale it down......and a lovely view from a centered bump /window on front elevation Use the loooooooog wall for the honkin black hole : ) even add a small tv above fire on kitchen side. Now THAT is honesty in living lol!. TV everywhere anyone may want to be.
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Using @itsourcasa layout as an example to illustrate your plans vs theirs, I have marked in RED the "foundation wall" of the kitchen (where you base your focus from and eminate it out from there, if you will). In BLUE is living/dining in the same manner. In ORANGE are those pesky humans. See how with itsourcasa there is interaction, communication, and focus directed on areas where people naturally want to congregrate? In yours, see how you have segregated that? To be clear, this is not an "open concept" kitchen vs a "closed kitchen," you can easily open up some of a wall and still feel like a "closed kitchen" if that is what you prefer. Rather, it is the segregation and diverging focus of the adjacencies. Also, functionally I would think the kitchen would want to be close/interact with the Party room and outdoor eating when the pool area is such a dominant force in this property.
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kandrewspa
last year
Put another chair where the vacuum cleaner is and you've got it. You need a rug and if that wasn't your choice of wall color I would paint. Maybe these pictures were taken at night and that's why it looks like a cave?
ratherbeatthebeach
last year
I love the fireplace too. What are you torn about specifically?
Jeff F
Original Author
last year
No TV will be in this room. I have a den and finished basement also. picture taken at night. friend suggested sofa closer to fireplace and chair on other side, i wondered if large gap between back of sofa and windows would be odd.
arcy_gw
last year
Yes sofas floating because someone said it's chic is a waste of space. and you don't have it to waste. Make a seating area for cozy chats--get a rug. The brick is soooo dark it sucks all the light up. Did someone paint it? Makes for a good cave-sorry.
tracefloyd
last year
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@Patricia Colwell Consulting is right, embrace whatcha got!

Yes, a rug centered on the fireplace, of course. Good idea. And pull the furniture away from the wall a few inches, it doesn't have to be a large gap.

I have another idea, place a game table and chairs to the right of the fireplace. Already got one in your den/basement? Then make a cozy reading nook with an easy chair, bookshelves, and a floor reading lamp.
ratherbeatthebeach
last year
Get a rug with your favorite colors, several lamps, and some art on the walls. Then it will seem more "finished".

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