Furniture placement in large (35' 4" x 18' 10") tudor style living roo

8 years ago

The living room in my house is 35' 4" x 18' 10" as you can see on the plans and has a lovely 100 year old 32'x 14' rug and not much else. I have two nice normal sized leather old hickory tannery couches, a number of chairs and tables from large leather wingback chairs to carved antiques I can fill it with and am open to purchasing additional items as needed. What I am struggling with is furniture placement. I can put one couch against the wall opposite the fireplace with some tables but after that I am completely lost! Please help before I turn it into a home theater or just sit in my porch rocker in the center of the room.

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8 years ago

you wrote: "If I put the couches facing each other it will break up the space I think."

You may or may not want couches facing each other, but you *definitely* want to break up the room! 35 feet is a couple of rooms in human scale terms. Notice that the previous owners had a fireplace seating area and a couple of other functional units -- I think you want to do the same.

put a couple of couches in an L in front of the fireplace (the back one should be at normal viewing distance, NOT against the far wall), with a coffee table and an extra chair or two closer to the hearth, and make that the main unit of TV/fireplace/conversation. Then set up the far windowy end for another purpose -- a couple of comfy armchairs with a table and lamp for reading, or a game table with chairs and a cabinet for games, or a piano, or a desk with bookcases -- whatever you have and would use. You can do something like that at each end, depending on what you have and what you do. But do not put all your furniture on the walls and try to treat this as a single space!!!

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