Do you need the red chair...lots of seating but no room for side tables, lamps, etc. Since the couches look on the short side, would they work facing each other so the back of one is facing the doorway. You could place in the middle or move a bit closer to the windows. Add a coffee table. In one corner to the left of the main doorway, add a floor lamp. On the half wall add a console with a light and add a rug to ground the seating area. Add matching black and white pillows on each couch, so they work more as a set. The picture below is sort of what it would look like. Add simple window treatments to keep the room feeling open and some great artwork for punches of color.

Thanks Maureen,

The red chair is a craigslist find and I have developed an attachment to it....I like some things to look quirky in the midst of all the sterile IKEA world :) but I don't need to keep it in the living room and it could go to a bedroom or something...

Unfortunately, the entrance is right in the middle of the room, and since it is such a square space, putting the couch facing back to the door, will block the entryway...The space already feels crowded with this little stuff!

My boyfriend's silly idea (piece of wood on top of paint cans) is to build a very narrow coffee table using that wood slab we found in the attic. I love the idea actually...if only he would get to it soon enough.

Is there a TV to consider or is this a conversation area only?

If you have to keep the present set up, what about a coffee table on wheels. When you are sitting in room, center it between the two couches and when not in use, move it closer to one of the couches or move it to the half wall. A second level is also a good idea for added storage.

Nope, no TV...I would like to have some shelfs for books on the wall and some art but that will come later...right now I am worried about the footprint. Here is a draft plan of the room

Nice idea about the wheels...I was also thinking of having an ottoman on wheels so that it could easily be dragged to any of the sitting spaces.

If you have the wood, it will be less expensive, but either one may do the trick. Good luck.

I know this is all about furniture placement but it needs to start feeling like a room too. Please move red chair into another room. Let's focus on cream and black with an accent of blue. First picture is a rug, second pillows and last two is art suggestions.

Chairs and or ottomans in your accent color on wheels.

You may have answered this question, but does the sofa fit on the half wall?

If the sofa fits on the half wall, then you can put the red chair near the corner windows and put a round table in front of the sofa. Move the other sofa out of the room and put a console table on that wall (where the brown sofa is). It not a t.v. room, so lets make it a conversational room.

Would that work?

Placing the sofa all the way into that corner, It may be okay for the sofa to be slightly in the dining room entrance way. To give you a conversational area. Would that work?

The white couch sticks out a little bit on the half wall. The red chair looks awkward on that little corner all by itself but maybe another type of sitting might look better. Ugh. So frustrated with this space. Thanks everyone.

Move the red chair closer to the sofa and angle it to slightly face the sofa, but with its back towards the windows. Get your boyfriend to make a pretend round coffee table and place it in front of the sofa lol. Making a conversational area.

Possibly a very small table next to the red chair to place to place a drink on or candy dish, etc. if it works with the space.

Very narrow console table with mirror and two small lamps where the brown sofa is.

Brown sofa out of the room.

Plant in the corner near window.

Art on walls.

Behind the sofa where it sticks out, what might work is a tall plant. It would be facing the dining room, but also takes up the space behind the sofa, so it looks like it belongs there.

If you need lighting a standing lamp can also be put in that spot. You would have to feel it out.

Don't give up so soon. You got this!

Inspirational pic. End table if there is room on the other side of the chair.

Thanks everyone, I will be playing around with the setup today.

How about the small nook on the far left? That's where the white Christmas tree is, my mom got it for me and I have left it there because I like the soothing the lighting....but what could I permanently put there? A tall plant?

Wao groveraxle, love it! Thanks! The only thing is the chair blocking some of the access to the dining room...since it is such a small space I don't think I want to give up inches of that opening.

How it might look in actual practice. I would forgo a rug. It will only make the room appear smaller and will end up with a traffic pattern down the middle which will become unattractive very quickly.

Eva, looks like you still have a good four feet. Perhaps a teeny weeny chair there, with the bigger red chair in the opposite corner?

In any case, I'd skip the coffee table if at all possible and try to keep the center of the room clear. It's gonna save your shins. ;-)

Wow again groveraxle! How did you do this!? What program did you use?

I really like it! One thing I noticed with your sketch is that low profile chairs make the room feel so much bigger...maybe I should get rid of the red chair and put it in another room.

Here is what I played with last night, what do you guys think about this?

That arrangement actually isn't bad. It bothers me that all the seating gets shoved in the corners, though in a room this size, there may be no other solution.

Question: how do you actually intend to use this room. If the TV is somewhere else, and if you have another place for guests, perhaps this room would work better as an enormous foyer, maybe with two chairs and a table only. Is that even a possibility?

You can put a round cocktail table in front of the white sofa and a small end table next to the red chair. Do you have room for a small end table next to the brown sofa? You can also put art above the brown sofa.

I do like how open it feels compared to the two couches facing each other (felt like an army sitting arrangement).

This is a very small house that got chopped into many rooms, adjacent to this room is what will be my bedroom, to the back is the dining room and next to that, the kitchen.

A room to the front of the first floor will be our "office space" and maybe a TV would be there, right now, we just do netflix/hulu projected on the wall so TV is not a priority. This room will be our "project", "messy" room with a comfy couch in the middle and both of our desks opposite to each other so I don't expect guests to be in that front room. I also like that the room faces west so it gets a lot of afternoon sun.

But if we have friends over, I want this "living room" space to feel comfy enough to just ploop there rather than be this "formal" living room, reception etc.... It's very tough to do that when it is the main walkthrough to all the other spaces.

I like groveraxle's plan with the couch on the window wall. It just seems more balanced with that design.

Yeah kaye1951, I agree... will have to try it out too tonight.

Hi Eva, I'm looking forward to seeing you try out Groveraxle's layout. You are right, in a smaller space there isn't too many options.....but I think Grover put together a layout that will optimize the functionality and design for your space! :-)

Just wondering, any progress?

Not yet. Work and life have gotten in the way of my house projects at the moment :(

;-) Make sure you post a pic when you update the room.