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Help with furniture layouts in den, office, living room, sunroom

2 months ago

Hi everyone! We could use some help figuring out how to arrange the common rooms in our house (living room, den, sun room) and the main level office. I'm including layout photos below with any non-movable items/features called out.

We recently moved from an open-layout home (single room for the living room, dining room, and kitchen) to a home with large and distinct rooms (I like non-open layouts personally). We are struggling to figure out the layout for furniture

We brought furniture with us and received some furniture from family, and hope to use what we have in conjunction with investing in quality pieces in the coming months. So we are trying to figure out what furniture layouts would make sense so we can get a better sense of where to place what we have and what pieces we should consider adding.

Also, we originally assumed it would make sense to have the desk in the office face the door to the office, but we don't love how that is turning out because it means that from the doorway to the office, you are looking at the back of multiple computer screens (our jobs would be difficult if we didnt have the multi-screen setup).

Thank you guys!!!

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jck910
2 months ago
what furniture do you already have?
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JAN MOYER
2 months ago
The drawing needs DIMENSIONS. Feet and inches to everything. every wall, window and opening.

You need to add pictures......what you have that you are keeping.

You need to add picture of how it looks now

There are no mind readers here.........
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
2 months ago
We need the sizes of the spaces and I guess pics of the stuff you have and the drawing to scale ideally on graph paper showing every window and all measurements clearly marked posted her ein jpeg format in a comment DO NOT start another post . Also tell us which space you want to have a TV in
tracefloyd
2 months ago
last modified: 2 months ago
The TV is in the Den. Here is a concept for the main house, not to scale, just a concept sketch. That's a game table with two chairs in the Living Room.
Daphne C
Original Author
2 months ago
You guys are totally right, I should have included all of that information! I apologize. I posted that kind of late after work when my brain wasn't 100%...

I will take more specific measurements later, but in the interim, here are the room measurements and some photos of the furniture we have right now (excuse the mess!!)

Office: 14x14

Sunroom: 24x23

Den: 16x26

Living room: 14x28

Furniture (main pieces)
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Daphne C
Original Author
last month
Hi everyone, we have some new furniture so I wanted to get some thoughts (photos below)—generally trying to decide which furniture to use in each common area (sunroom, living room, den, and dining room that isn't really a dining room) and how to lay it out
- Living room: Not sure about the living room layout, what to put on the sides of the fireplace and at the far end of the living room (where the two striped ottomans + mismatched chair and double chaise + white shelf + china cabinet are that I don't know where to put—I love these pieces and would love to find a spot for them somewhere), acrylic coffee tables which I love but that maybe don't work in here, etc.
- Sun room: We got a big sectional + dining table that we love that have to stay in here, plus lots of plants. Have many random smaller pieces of furniture in there now under teh plants that could be used elsewhere. Something just feels off.
- Dining room: Not sure what to do with our dining room (we don't need a formal dining room as we will eat in the sunroom so maybe it becomes a library? right now just has all of our wall art in it + a pair blue chairs + brown round table and two chairs)
- Den: This is kind of just a random collection of furniture right now but we could swap pieces in or out of the den of course. TV obviously can't move but everything else can.
LIVING ROOM

SUN ROOM

"DINING ROOM"

DEN
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