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Help with living room layout!

Aubrey Karbassi

last month

Just moved and having trouble with layout. This is where we spend all our time and watch a lot of movies. I'm for sure keeping couches, not sure of armchair. Keeping at least 1 bookcase (will need storage if I don't keep the other). Getting new side tables and TV stand as well. Just wondering what to do with weird dead space behind loveseat, by the windows. Or how to arrange everything with the TV staying where it is. Help!! I'm horrible at this.

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KW PNW Z8

last month

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What will the new end tables look like & are you also getting a new coffee table? What does new TV console look like? Please take a pic of the corner of room with the chair in it. I think you’ll be sorry if you move the chair out as the extra seating is a plus. Need to see that corner of room to make solid suggestions.

ETA: It’d be helpful if you provide a sketch of room showing wall measurements. A better furniture arrangement will likely be suggested by someone with that info.

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Aubrey Karbassi
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Keep in mind that you are thinking of starting a family in the next year. You may want to consider holding off on a coffee table and having several end tables so you can place a play mat down in the center of the room and have a place to set bottles etc. and baby monitor next to you. Leave space for a baby swing and a play pen to be later exchanged for cube storage for toys. I may consider placing the TV on the wall flanking the chaise portion of your sofa with something under it that can be later used for toy storage. A TV over the fireplace is pretty high for toddlers to watch. Just thinking of the baby shark video and my niece interacting with it - dancing, running and hiding, celebrating when she is safe . . . and all the other learning programs that she loves watching and interacting with while watching. Maybe visit a few friends with babies and toddlers and find out what works for them before making any final decisions. I like the idea of a sofa and two chairs because it is more flexible.
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There is a window behind the sofa. There isn't actually a wall at the bottom of the image. It's an open concept space so the living room opens up to the kitchen. We don't have a television in this room.
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I vote for the middle drawing except instead of two sofas back to back, put two chairs up against the windows with a table in between which creates a small conversation area. If your family is into games or puzzles maybe you could expand that seating area. I don't like the idea of a sectional that would have part of its back toward the fireplace. As for the chaise in front of the fireplace, it's worth a try if you're really excited about it. I would want to be able to return it or use it in another room if I didn't like it there. Sometimes you don't know if you're going to like something until you try it. Hard no for me always on putting the TV over the fireplace. I guess some people are fine with it, but it's not for me and you will find the majority opinion on this forum will run against it. If you don't have anywhere else to put it, it's fine, but you do have another option.
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Move all the furniture out and play with the sectional. It is the hair in the ointment, so work that out with furniture sliders and some muscle. The rest will fall into place afterward. I can see TV where the mirror is, but you'll have to try it out. Can sofa separate into two parts if necessary?
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Aubrey Karbassi
Original Author
last month
I don't want to measure. I'm not looking for specific. I'm just looking for a general idea of furniture placement. I wanted to kind of figure out couches and bigger furniture before I get different end tables etc. I'm going to keep my coffee table for now. I would love to be able to sit next to my windows on a rainy day but don't know how to configure a space to sit over there. The new Media table will take up the whole width of the wall that the TV is on already. And it'll go maybe a few inches higher. Haven't found one yet.
KW PNW Z8
last month
Thanks for posting extra pics - very helpful. Good too that media console will fill the TV wall & be higher. It means TV can move to right (facing TV) towards the entry. That chair - yes, it’s definitely a keeper for a snuggle & reading chair. It would be perfect by the window. Try this - move loveseat to opposite side of sofa with back to the kitchen. Place it so there’s lots of room to walk behind & around it. Slide sofa down wall towards window. Will bookcase at that end of room fit on other side of kitchen doorway facing into the room? That would be one way to keep both. Place chair by window in the corner with half wall by entry - angled & facing sofa. The lamp on table that’s at other end of sofa - move it to side of chair by window & move the white table & lamp to corner created by sofa & loveseat. You’ll probably have to fiddle with the spacing but the goal is getting the chair placed byt the window & keeping a conversational grouping. Having the TV on a larger console allows it to be moved a bit for best viewing from both sofa & loveseat.
nelliebean
last month
Would the two bookcases go on either side of the kitchen doorway opening? If they do everything can slide down a bit towards the window except for the tv.
Aubrey Karbassi
Original Author
last month
It doesn't:( it's smaller then the other side otherwise I would!

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