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Family Room Layout - What do you think?

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Hello Everyone,

I am looking to get your input on the furniture placement/design approach of our family room. This is a back-split style home. Our family room is 20ft x 16ft and has a corner fireplace. Right now I am working with condo furniture that we had before we bought the house. So they are not the right size. After trying out a few different layouts, I have arrived on what you see here. This was the best option considering not cutting off the corner fireplace and facing the entrance to the bathroom and bedroom. I am curious to know what you think?

The furniture I will be buying will be MCM style. I will purchase a large three seater sofa facing the current TV set up, a large single chair in front of the bay window and another 2 seater sofa on the opposite side. Just the way it is set-up now. We will also buy a large rug (10x 12) and a coffee table, I am thinking something cool and not just a rectangular one. Behind the three seater sofa, against the wall will be an MCM style credenza and some minimalist artwork on the wall. I was also considering a couple of floating shelves on that wall. Both options could work. I am going to get rid of the fan. This room does not need it. We will install a large MCM style pendant light in the center of the room so that it brings everything together.

What do you think about this approach?

Thank you so much!

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BeverlyFLADeziner
last month
Like this instead
shellfish59
last month
Could you put the TV on the wall where the chair is, on the opposite side of the fireplace then swap the 2 sofas so the longer one is below the railing with the credenza behind it and the shorter one is where the larger one is now? I wonder if the credenza behind the other one might make the traffic flow feel a bit crowded since you have the bath and bedroom right there . It actually looks like you have room for 2 fairly good sized sofas if you'd rather do that. You can place a chair on the opposite side of the fireplace where you have the television now. MCM will look great!
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Tizy Gunaratne
Original Author
last month
@BeverlyFLADeziner Thank you so much for this suggestion! I did try it this way but the issue was that if we were to put the TV against this wall and then put a large sofa against the wall where the windows are, the viewing angles are not great. The sofa would be too far from the TV and the views would not be straight. The room is large and rectangular, and in this layout, the corner fireplace makes things challenging. This was the issue. You can see what I tried to do here. I understand the furniture is small but even with a large couch the viewing angles won't change much. The 2 seater will also be too far from the TV. :(
Tizy Gunaratne
Original Author
last month
@shellfish59 totally fair suggestion! Thank you, I think MCM will work well here too :) Regarding putting the large couch against the railing, it will throw things off center. Furniture will also be quite far from each other.
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BeverlyFLADeziner
last month
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TV is undersized for the scale of the room. Your TV was too far away from sofa
Tizy Gunaratne
Original Author
last month
@BeverlyFLADeziner thank you! We were thinking about buying a 65 inch TV as well. Can definetely try this out as well. Are you thinking then that the 2 seater would be against the railing wall or come forward a little bit and have a credenza behind it?
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BeverlyFLADeziner
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My cousin has the same house and we placed a narrow desk space against the wall under the railing for the kids to do homework or be on their computers with the family.

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