help with furniture placement in formal living room
Hi - I need help with rearranging and adding/ removing furniture in this formal living room that we don’t use much today. I would like to design this place to be a reading area and a place for us to play music, play board games. The front door directly enters into this room so this area always needs to be clutter free. I would like to figure out furniture placement to allow better use of the big inset into the window area which is currently being blocked by the gray sofa.
I also need help with suggestions for how best to use rhat large blank wall. I was thinking of getting a tall open metal book case and wall mounting a minimalist storage console in an L shape and adding a large abstract art. We prefer very modern style but given the house is not a modern construction, need to strike a balance.
I would like to keep the big pieces of furniture and rugs as is. The rug also mostly stays.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Comments (13)Well, if you watch a lot of tv, then I'd make a main furniture grouping around the tv/fireplace and just put a couple of comfy chairs with a small table between, either to each side with a table in front of the fireplace, or facing each other in front of the fireplace with a table between. Just a little reading or wine sipping area. like this: If you mostly gather without tv watching then I'd do the opposite and put a couple of chairs on the tv side. You could think about using a backless chaise/bench as a piece of furniture between the areas, so people could face either way or lie down to watch tv. Like this: If you don't use the electric fireplace, I'd still think about mounting the tv lower, in front of the firebox and putting some nice art above the mantel, for more comfortable tv viewing. It's a challenging but beautiful space!...See MoreFurniture layout help for open concept formal living room w/fireplace
Comments (2)Congrats on your new home! Will you have a tv in this room?...See MoreFurniture placement for entry/formal living and dining room
Comments (6)Near the entry door I like to have a bench to sit on when putting on/taking off shoes. Also a console table with mirror above it. So think of creating three zones - entry zone, sitting area, and dining area, while leaving at least 36” of walkway along the side of the room. I agree that the chandelier will probably need to be moved over to be centered under the dining table, and perhaps it could be replaced with one that is more of a focal point since the room seems to be lacking one....See MoreThis a 204 square foot living room. Need help with furniture placement
Comments (12)If some changes could be made to the interior, especially the kitchen, it might help woth furniture arrangement. Unfortunately, what I’m thinking would probably be undesirable for resale and hard-to-impossible to move furniture beyond the living room, but here it is anyway: Extend the island to one of exterior walls. On one side, it would force you to walk through the kitchen to go upstairs (what’s up there, by the way?). But, you could do this by simply placing a rolling island between the island and the wall. It keeps that from being a walkway, but is easily moved when desired. Or, on the other side, it would have you walking through the kitchen to get to the back bedroom, and the refrigerator would face the back hall. Anyway, either of these takes a walkway out of the living room, potentially allowing for furniture placement....See More- PRO
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11 months agolast modified: 11 months agoSome option for wall art
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11 months agolast modified: 11 months agoTo try to answer your questions...two armchairs facing away from a room's entrance do not block anything visually. Try this: Leave the blue chairs where they are. The sofaback facing the big wall and the square stools in front of the windows and the entertainment console will be right there under the windows so you can sit and access it.
As a hangout/music room there will be clutter with all the gear. Get a large coffee table with lots of storage. Get your bookcase with storage doors. Your guitars and ukes can hang on a wall next to the key board. I think you're okay if you still want to revisit that concept.
This is a concept rendering and not to scale. I included the keyboard in the upper left and bookcase lower right. The windows are the blue line at the top and the console and speakers with it.
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