Horrible for laying out furniture.

Perhaps generally but we've got a very large sectional. Good point though I'll play with possible layouts in Photoshop to see how it works.

Any chance you could separate the tv and fireplace, so they don't compete in the same room?

If not, I'd choose an off-center arrangement before a corner. Corner fireplaces were one of my "deal breaker" criterion, mostly for the reason CPartist stated.

Unless anyone here has any photos of it done really well?

What style is the house? Some styles of houses aren't really meant to have a furniture arrangement centered on the fireplace in a conventional manner.

Contemporary 3 story, rear half of house has great room and the kitchen. In our current rental which is cramped, fireplace center on wall and TV in corner at an angle. In the house, it would be far easier for the bride to watch TV from prep island or while we are eating with the tv centered on the wall. From main entry coming thru the hall and into the great room the corner fireplace would first thing guests see looking off to their left slightly vs a corner with an end table and lamp or the like

My old house I had the corner FP and the tv on the wall like you are suggesting.

I liked it but I know ppl see the corner FP as not very stylish.

Many contemporary houses, starting in the mid century, have asymmetrically placed fireplaces that are not meant to have a conventional formal fireplace-centered seating area like a traditional house. I don't know if I would do an angled fireplace, but maybe you could design a clearly asymmetrical fireplace that had a smaller seating area (or no seating area) centered on it.

Here's a pic of exactly what we envision. Funny, been looking at pics for months on end and whoop, here it is. Kind of like here's your sign.

Here's a kind of crummy lores photo of the set up minus low ceiling. Our ceiling will be about 23'.

That's not what I would consider contemporary, but okay.

We opted for an off center fireplace vs a corner one. Our TV will be right next to the fireplace on the same wall. I'm going to treat them together as one unit so both together will be centered in the room. The fireplace itself is off center in the family room, but is centered with the kitchen island and dining table, so there's a 'line of sight' symmetry, if that's the right word for it. We also could have put the FP on the wall opposite the back windows, but my DH didn't like the viewing angle from the kitchen. He's the cook and watches sports so his opinions trumped mine in this instance!

My feelings on corner fireplaces are generally they are OK, but for some reason I think they make the house feel a bit dated or they look more like a stock builders plan. But with anything, if it's done well I'm sure it will look great.

Our kitchen, dining and family room floorplan...

My first home had a corner fireplace and I vowed never again. IMO it makes no sense to have a home full of 90' angles with one random 45'.

Corner fireplaces are also an inefficient use of space and limit your space planning options.

The woman who bought my place removed the corner fireplace and I thought, why didn't I do that?!!!

Pensacola Pl - the fireplace pic you posted is very nice. How would you arrange furniture in that room, though?

Google corner fireplaces and there is article after article about how difficult they are to arrange furniture around.

Thanks and I had actually read that article a few days ago. A close friend who owns one of the worlds largest jewelers email me a few pics of his corner fireplace this morning. And it is really nice. However, his comment was "I HATE it, takes up too much space". Wow. His great room is about the same width as ours. I guess by the time you figure that corner to corner width once you've come out so your 6'+ plus mantle is at a 45, it can eat up space. I used my "GoogleFU", kind like KungFU lol and when I look at images of great rooms with fireplaces and TV's well for every one corner fireplace photo, there are 10 that are not placed in the corner. May need to rethink this.

If they're done poorly they look like afterthoughts. If done well, they may be the best solution. I've got three in the corner fireplaces (two wood, one gas). The two wood ones are well integrated. The addition will add four more fireplaces. Three wood ones will be flat on the wall and one gas one (in the master bedroom) will be another corner.

Mine is in the corner, which freed up the wall to place my sofa with the TV directly across from the sofa.

I just can't work up the disdain some people have for corner fireplaces. I totally agree that some look odd, but when nicely designed, I like them.

I would love to see a picture of a room with a corner fireplace that has furniture arrangement, function and style that is as good or better than a non-corner fireplace.

Our builder had been leading us towards floor plans he was working on that had a corner fireplace. I spent a lot of time searching for pictures of corner fireplaces/furniture arrangements and couldn't find any that gave me inspiration or made me think a corner fireplace would work for me. Maybe I like symmetry too much, but I feel like the furniture placement always looks odd because it strangely cuts off part of the fireplace. Even the last picture with the off center tv/fireplace to me looks much better and is much more workable than the corner fireplaces.

Any pics Ron ?

Good points, several photos I've seen are in a more formal setting vs a great rm TV setup wise centered on a wall gives everyone a good viewing angle, at least with our furniture which is a big sectional.

We gave our builder the specs for our insert so we will see what he comes up with that'll look good and not be obtrusive.

We are designing a house and have chosen a corner fireplace as well. Our reason is because we have a large open living area and want the TV to be the focal point. We feel since this is the space that we will be in the most that the TV is what we will want to watch more than the fireplace. Here’s a photo of our plans which shows furniture in the area. Let me know what you think.

Sure, a corner fireplace can work. Furniture may be oriented either orthogonally or diagonally. Easy, if you have enough space and the room is planned around a desired furniture arrangement. It may be terrible if the furniture arrangement has not been planned as a part of a room with a diagonal fireplace.

Cindy Steve Landry, your plan is very reasonable for a diagonal fireplace.

But have you considered that, based on what we see, you can seat 6 max in the living room, but you have a dining room for seating 8, as well as on the deck.

Does this mis-match bother you?

If you use a mantle mount, you can have a tv over the fireplace.

in one of our homes, we had a corner fireplace in the living room. the east wall faced a water view. Most of the view created the furniture orientation. No tv. we live in Florida, so the fireplace was decorative 460 days a year, but nearby, just off the water view place to decorate, and a chimney for Santa.
The view dominated the room, which we used for family time, and conversation. not big tv people. I loved that corner fireplace, even though it rarely had a fire..

oops. 360 days a year..

I'm going with a corner fireplace. I like the look of a centered fireplace with built-ins on the sides but my husband was adamant about not having the TV hung up above the fireplace--he says it's too high to be comfortable and I agree. If we're being honest the room is going to be used mostly for watching TV and movies so it's more of a priority.

Virgil Carter Fine Art no, that seating is fine. We are the type that can pull more chairs around if needed.

Here’s a layout that is close to what we like.

he says it's too high to be comfortable and I agree.

Get a Mantle Mount so you can pull the tv down to viewing height when watching the game. That's what we're doing for our tv over the fireplace.

The problem with those photos of the fireplace in the corner is it becomes just a thing in the corner. A fireplace really is a feature in a room and should be treated as such. Not as a left over.

I think the fireplace stands out as it’s own item in this picture. When the tv is what is priority, why have to move it all the time to watch it comfortably. The fireplace is still very pretty and functional in this set up.

I realize that your decision seems to be made, so am posting this more for any lurkers using this thread to try and make a similar decision.

Have you been in a furnished room with a corner fireplace similar to the picture you posted? If so, it doesn't bother you that the furniture cuts off the fireplace? For me, this arrangement is awkward at best. A fireplace is a feature in a room and the eye is drawn towards it - even if in the corner, but being in the corner with the furniture awkwardly cutting it off, it looks out of balance.

I have a gas fireplace so maybe that made it easier, but I put ours in the corner. One thing I was very particular about was not to have a raised hearth. The bulkier it sticks out into the room, the more it crowds the visual. I made sure the fireplace stuck out as little as possible and the windows on each side were far enough away that the mantle did not overlap the window. I also put the mantle at a higher level than usual -- 56" to top.

We have a basement family room we finished and decided on a corner fireplace. Ceilings were too low to put a TV on top of the fireplace and I really wanted a true mantel without a TV on top. Also due to the basement being finished after the build of the house, it was easier to put the fireplace here for venting. I'm very pleased with the outcome and think the furniture works well in the space. The room is only about 17' wide.

We're in the process of a new build and I wanted to do a similar configuration in the basement. However our new family room will be about 26' wide and I think it's just too wide to make a corner fireplace work. Not sure yet.

Head for the Round House, Nellie...they can't corner you there...

Went through some model homes last weekend and saw several center fireplaces and the set up was gorgeous. I think with TVs getting bigger this may be a new norm.

I have a corner FP, however this would look so much better, imo, if the tv center was not set back and if it is, the casegoods fill in the space. I’ll see if I can post a pic.

Cindy and Steve Landry I’m loving you house plan would you mind sharing the rest of it?