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Help me arrange my living room? Pip (seriously, I need help)
So we've been in the new house 2.5 months and still haven't bought living room furniture because we have no clue how to arrange it. We have a long living room. One end will be for dining, the other will be for the living area near the fireplace. However, on that end there's windows, a fireplace or a door on all three walls leaving us no clue where to put the TV or what kind of sofa to buy. We'd like to get a sectional and have a cozy seating area centered around the fireplace, but it just doesn't work. And the walls are too far apart to have a sofa on one wall and a tv on the other.
Here's a pic of my living room: (note the high window on the right wall)
And here's the layout of our dinky replaceable furniture now:
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That odd squarish shape against the wall is our TV stand and TV. We do plan to get a larger flat screen eventually, we just have no clue where to put it.
Re: Help me arrange my living room? Pip (seriously, I need help)
Can you put another picture to show the other side of the room? It looks like a big room, is it?
I am a stickler for facing toward a window and not having your back to it...windows are meant to look out of and not ignore. (I am referring to the corner window). Also your fireplace should be a focal point. Is there anyway to mount your tv above the fireplace?
With what you have, I would put the tv to the left of the door and the couch on the wall of the other window (not the corner window).
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I don't know what the outlets are like in the house but you can get a really cool mantle to put over the fireplace and put your TV there if you get the flat screen. Or, you can break up the space a little and create a cozy reading area by the fire place and put your TV area against the wall that's on the same side as the door to create a TV area. You might want to post this on the decorating board too. HTH!
I think she did. Anyway, can you take a pic from the corner (where those two windows are), is that where your dining area is where you're standing at? Could you put your tv under that high window and get shades to block out excessive light when you need to?
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Oh, that is tough. We have an oddly shaped living room too. It took us about a year and a half of living here to finally figure out the best way to arrange it without buying a whole new living room set.
Here are my initial thoughts:
Is that door your main entrance, or you do have one through a garage? Even if it's not the main entrance, I would think about adding a small sitting/storage bench underneath the window to the right of the front door. That way your guests have somewhere to easily place their shoes and other belongings when coming over. Then I'd put another small table against the other window next to the fireplace with a plant/pictures on it. I would then get a sectional, with the open space near the fireplace and the longer back facing the direction this picture was taken. I'd put the TV to the left of the front door. That way the fireplace is still in focus, but you can watch TV and have a view of the rest of the room.
Or my other idea if you don't want to put a storage center in the front, put a small bookshelf plus reading chair in front of the window and keep the rest of it like I said above.
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Why couldnt you do a sectional on the right side of the room? Is there a door there that I don't see?
I like the idea of mounting the flat screen above the fireplace if possible.
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The area the photo is taken from will be the dining area. The door you see is the back door.
The TV atop fireplace idea... I've always been opposed to that for a variety of reasons. Putting it on the left wall seems logical, but honestly, it seems too far from the opposite wall to watch and would shift the seating area away from the fireplace.
I'm wondering what a low credenza or something would look like under the right window, or partially to the right of it. I could make a little sitting area zone there around the fireplace with a sectional, but I wonder if that would leave me enough room to put another, secondary sitting area in front of the windows. Maybe a chaise or a little bistro table and chairs type thing.
As I see it you really only have two options:
1) Put the TV over the fireplace. Put a couch opposite and an armchair or two to the left of the couch (facing the high window on the right), creating a seating area around the fireplace. Put a sofa table behind the couch. You could get a cool bookshelf for the big empty wall.
2) Put the TV/entertainment unit on the empty wall. Put a couch opposite, in the middle of the room basically. Again, put a sofa table behind the couch. Put an armchair on either side of the couch, facing each other. Find a storage bench-type seating unit to go under the high window, or low bookcases to display things on, like an IKEA Expedit unit on its side or something. Maybe put a colorful runner-type rug over the carpeting leading to the fireplace, drawing your eye to it.
I hope that makes sense!
why are you opposed to the tv over the fireplace? That was my first thought: mount it. I'm percolating, but I may just sketch it and scan it rather than try to explain it.
also - what does your dining furniture look like and are you married to the sides of the room as you've planned them?