Hello! Could you kindly send me the image you're referring to? I would be happy to create a free 3D rendering for you.

The image didn’t show. Use the Photo button to add an image, a .jpeg. and wait for it to appear in full sharp color before you submit.

Oh no! Where's my picture?

Is this it?

No, but that's quite lovely -- love the colors and the windows.

Weird, I can't get the picture to post here, yet I see it on my screen. Anyway, here's the link to the plan: https://www.architecturaldesigns.com/house-plans/3-bed-farmhouse-style-home-plan-with-flex-room-1596-sq-ft-420161wnt?epik=dj0yJnU9b0VjN3dNbGNjYTFjYjdyOE1xMHRWSklmLWRaaFN5VHYmcD0wJm49SXJvX2lieUNSMkJxMDVvSVhMaktBUSZ0PUFBQUFBR2VKVkJV 

Again, I'm talking about the living room. I can't see how the furniture'd lay out. The Flex Room will be a porch.

Sorry, y'all -- I'm not at my tech-y best today.

Oh, yeah, and don't look at the all-black house in the rendering. I like the layout but not the coloring of that image.

Is this the plan?

"Again, I'm talking about the living room."

I would of had a lot of suggestions if you did not tell us this.

Tv over fireplace or remove the fireplace and put a console there with the tv above or on it.

Maybe move the fireplace to the one side of the peak, (make another in the porch?) and the tv on the other side of the peak. TV to the right would make for betterfurniture placement.

does one bedroom open right into the dining room? I'd add a hall wall(s) on the inside of the LR & DR. So you have some wall space in those rooms and also some separation from the bedrooms and public areas. maybe that's a style idk

I'd consider moving the entry to through the screened porch. There's a natural walkway there anyway, and you free up a lot of space in the living dining area for furniture placement.

Is this the plan?

Yes! I'm working with a new computer, and my tech-skills -- questionable on any day -- are not caught up yet. Thanks for posting!

I would of had a lot of suggestions if you did not tell us this.

Thanks. I also see a number of problems elsewhere, and I've already chosen a couple changes -- it's the living room furniture layout that has me bamboozled.

Tv over fireplace or remove the fireplace and put a console there with the tv above or on it.

I'm solidly against the TV over the fireplace, but I have considered omitting the fireplace /going with a TV on a console. Not firm on that.
Maybe move the fireplace to the one side of the peak, (make another in the porch?) and the tv on the other side of the peak. TV to the right would make for betterfurniture placement.

Yes, that's the layout I've been playing with. Seems workable, logical, but I'm wondering if a better option exists.

does one bedroom open right into the dining room?

Yes, and no complaints about that in a house this size.

I'd add a hall wall(s) on the inside of the LR & DR.

So you're suggesting carving a hallway out of the living and dining room? I get that the walls would help with the living room space, but I don't think that's the final answer.

I'd consider moving the entry to through the screened porch. There's a natural walkway there anyway, and you free up a lot of space in the living dining area for furniture placement.

You're suggesting that the main entrance be on the side /through the side porch? So guests would enter through the porch into the living room. We might lose the front porch altogether -- do a corner porch -- place guest parking on the right (space is not a problem). Now that's out-of-the-box thinking, and it could work -- let me ruminate on that.

Thanks for these thoughts, All.

What is the site like?

Farm land. Open land in front. Heavy trees to the back.

Flat as a pancake.

Front of house will face South.

Consider the view the exterior. If you moved the covered porch to the west to uncover the living room window, subtracted a window from the kitchen and added a window to the living room, the living room would gain more natural light. Also consider a door on each side of the fireplace leading out to the screened porch; the one you use is a door and the other one would act as a window.

If not changing anything on the plan, you could layout furniture this way. TV is the orange rectangle on the wall across from the sofa -- buy something like a Samsung Frame, mount on the wall and do not put any furniture under it so it looks like framed art. Tech person installing TV can figure out where all the components go.

OP says the doorway to those bedrooms is moving to the left by about 2’, so that layout will not work.

Locate the TV over the doorway to act as a door and increase privacy.

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Consider the view the exterior. If you moved the covered porch to the west to uncover the living room window, subtracted a window from the kitchen and added a window to the living room, the living room would gain more natural light.

Yes, I'd welcome the light in the living room, but I don't want to lose the kitchen light, nor do I see much point in having a porch on the west end /over the kitchen.

Also consider a door on each side of the fireplace leading out to the screened porch; the one you use is a door and the other one would act as a window.

I grew up in a house with French doors flanking the fireplace (they opened into a sunroom), and it was a lovely look.

I was thinking door-and-window, but two doors might be better. If I don't put the TV next to the fireplace.

If not changing anything on the plan, you could layout furniture this way. TV is the orange rectangle on the wall across from the sofa

Yes, I've kicked this around -- the problem, of course, is of my own making because we want to change the bedroom size a bit: We want to steal 2' from the middle bedroom (which will be more of a bunk room for my grandson's overnights) and add it to the far right bedroom (which will be an all-the-time bedroom). That moves the door and messes up the possibility of the TV as you show it.

I considered bumping the grandson's little bedroom to the far right /adding a few feet to the living room so this would work -- but then that gives us no acoustical privacy between the two always-in-use bedrooms. Moving the closet to the middle wall (to create a sound barrier) is a possibility.

OP says the doorway to those bedrooms is moving to the left by about 2’, so that layout will not work.

Exactly. I think the answer is, add a couple feet to the front of the living room only, creating a small bump-out. The fireplace can move to this bumped-out spot /can be surrounded by multiple windows, and the TV can go on the wall shared with the porch. A 3' bump-out would add only 43 square feet + one additional corner -- and it would enlarge the walking aisle to the two secondary bedrooms + the porch. And the cathedral ceiling would turn 90 degrees.

I'm still kicking around the idea of moving the entrance to the side /through the porch.