What is the big black box on the floor plan? Would you include the island on the floor plan with measurements? Are there any other rooms? Any other doors or windows? please include those as well.

I assume the black block is the kitchen area. Stand where the box is against the wall and take a pick of the other side of the room.

The black box can't be the island; it's square and the island isn't. We need measurements of the rooms and island.

Great counterspace for a NYC apartment! Congrats. Does the sofa fit perpendicular to where it is now? If so, try that with a tiny oval coffee table and the TV on the opposite wall.

Please post the measurements of the space in question. It is hard to read what you posted and there are several measurements missing. The measurements we need are in red below.

That is a very tiny space for all the furniture you mentioned. I don't think it can happen without going much smaller. If you were standing in your kitchen looking out into the living room I would put the sofa on the far left wall or even angle there in the corner. Then put the TV on the opposite wall between the door and kitchen. I don't see how you could fit a TV stand though. Best to do a flat-screen hung on the wall.

Buy two comfortable chairs/ one ottoman to share, put a lamp/ table between them, and call it a day. Mount the tv on a wall with a very shallow console below.

Get 12 inch stools. Forget about a coffee table, or a sofa. You have a bedroom, a bath, a kitchen...................and a breakfast area. That is not a living room.Sorry. No sofa.

This is math. If the total wall of the kitchen is 8' and 29 inches of island top protrudes....... you have 96 minus 29 , and 67 inches to move/sit/drag out stools. And not enough room for much of anything, but a couple chairs and a tv console.Certainly not a sofa and coffee table.

I would agree with Jan as the sofa in the picture is not particularly big but illustrates why a sofa won't work. Chairs that swivel and small side tables for functionality are what are needed - I would probably get lucite side tables so that they visually disappear.

I am a Manhattan transplant and I am assuming this is a remodel of an older Manhattan apartment because the kitchen is designed for a much larger space. The island/counter takes up a disproportionate amount of space and based on my experience in Manhattan isn't that functional for most people's actual lifestyle.

Rawketgrls layout is the only one that will work with a sofa. If you must have the TV on the 8ft wall then two swivel chairs with a table in between is all you are going to fit. Will your current couch fit along the 8ft wall. If it will I would try it out for now, even it will ultimately be replaced.

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I’m with rawketgrl. You can then see the tv from sofa, kitchen and bar.

If you are buying new, my suggestion is two chairs rather than a sofa.

Modular furniture would be your best bet. Something like 2-3 of these chairs would be ideal. There isn't extra space taken up by arms. When it is just you and your gf they can be pushed together for more of a sofa style seating. Then if you have company pull them apart and use as chairs.

Lastly, I would use a grouping of stools in lieu of a coffee table. Stools could also double as overflow seating and can have a tray placed on top of them when they need to hold a drink, dish, etc.

Good luck!

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How do you want the room to work - why would you want to put chairs together to form a sofa. Unless specifically made for same, merely pushing together two armless chairs accomplishes nothing since you can only sit on the actual chair anyway. You're not gaining additional seating. If it's additional seating, an ottoman which can double as a table or a seat works better.

An armless chair is not going to be particularly comfortable either as such chairs are generally used for occasional chairs.

If you and your significant other intend to use the living room for cozy relaxation, invest in two comfortable chairs that one can read, relax, watch television in etc. Given the size of the living space, get two fold up tables (i.e. what used to be called tv tables) so you can easily eat in them.

Do you really anticipate entertaining people in the space? Again, based on my residence in Manhattan, people don't tend to do much entertaining at home. My friends and I met at restaurants, bars or movies, theaters whatever.

It's really about you - how to you intend to actually use the space? Then furnish it for that reality.

Duobed designs for small spaces a lot, and the best thing I could see for a sofa is something modular, and maybe custom sized for the space. We can make corner configurations like the one pictured here in varying sizes. There is storage inside each ottoman, you can separate them to chairs, and you can even rearrange to a bed, for guests.

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Store or sell the sofa, buy two comfy chairs nor wider than 33 inches INCLUDING the arms, and get an ottoman.

This was a place intended for what it LOOKS like. A single guy or gal, a few friends over to hang at the island for drinks on stools at the island with a flat screen, and out you go to dinner. You come home, flop in bed, sleep, watch some tv in bed. Get up, go to gym, go to work, come home, repeat.

That ISN'T a living room. It's a very nice, (yes better kitchen than most have in NYC ) with a bedroom and bath. That is all it is : )

No offense to all the help or to you hon.....................................but that looks like a sofa accidentally left by a mover. In the kitchen.: )

You would have more flexibility with two chairs. " All that extra space" is room to move, to pass, you have no stools yet. The walls are for art.........

When you shop for barstools, look at backless stools that can live tucked under the bar. Gives you more flexibility. That is a challenging space. Making it work is a fun project. Enjoy!

I like your couch in that spot. Where does that door go. Is that the entrance or the bedroom? A narrow console table should go under the TV, but you want to be careful it does not block traffic. Something ~8" would be ideal and wider than the TV. I agree with the storage ottomans. A funk color would be nice. You keep then against the wall and pull them out when using the couch. I would also get a open shelving unit for the corner. If this was my space I would likely using the couch for work part time so I would figure out a nice way to store a laptop there and a comfortable way to work on the couch with a pullout desk attached to the corner unit or a lap desk I stored under the couch. I would also look to getting some art above the couch. So, art, bar stools, storage ottomans, and narrow TV console table. All of that should be able to procured rather affordably I would think.

Agree with the backless stools so they won't block the view of the TV.

Keep this chart in mind as you make your decisions.Since it is still in the box, you may want to reconsider the TV. A smaller one could be wall mounted on an articulated arm in that corner where you have a lot of dead space. That will keep it out of any traffic flow. Then you can keep the sofa, get some skinny saddle style stools for the counter and use plexiglass "C" tables to flank the sofa or use in front of it for a faux coffee table. Then get a floor lamp in the corner by the sofa.

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A stool need not be "backless" to fit under the counter completely In fact.............34 inch total height COUNTER stools with backs, exist in the millions.