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Extended living room layout assistance needed please

4 months ago

I just bought a new home and I need some design help please!

1. The home has an open concept kitchen, dining, living-room situation. The living room is considered "extended" but this issue is this leaves a blank area beyond where the living room furniture is designed to be. How do I arrange this space so that it does not look like an afterthought?

2. The master bedroom (owner's suite). Would you place the bed (queen size) against the wall with the single window, or centered against the wall with the two windows?


PS: Please excuse the mess. Only literally moved in this week :-)




Thanks everyone!


Comments (20)

  • 4 months ago
    last modified: 4 months ago

    We need photos of each room to show ALL 4 WALLS OF THE ENTIRE SPACE so stand in each of the four corners and snap a picture. We need to see all the doors (even closet doors) and windows to make layout suggestions.

  • 4 months ago

    I would like to see the furniture you need to use in the space, unless you plan to buy new furniture.

    I would either raise the bed or find bedside tables that are a bit lower, even with the top of the mattress. I am not a matching furniture lover, so I would center the bed and either eliminate one or use something smaller in the corner. Have you tried the bed on the inside wall? although not ideal, centering it in front of the three windows isn't bad.

    I personally don't like looking into the open bathroom when I am laying in bed.

    Have you tried floating the sofa in the middle of the room?

    Please, Don't line the walls with furniture.



  • PRO
    4 months ago
    last modified: 4 months ago

    This is a to scale floor plan of a furniture layout for your living - dining room with a TV which I presume you plan to have in this room.

    1- sofa, 1 loveseat with console table at back, 1 coffee table, 2 end tables (or 1 and 1 floor lamp at other end), 2 armchairs with side table, 1 floating TV console with TV on wall above,

    1 dining table and 6 chairs, 1 sideboard.



  • PRO
    4 months ago

    ^^

    Nice above, just don't buy a love seat : ) Get another sofa, or replace that with another pair of chairs : )

    Room for a larger rug as well.

  • PRO
    4 months ago
    last modified: 4 months ago

    Not sure you have room for kitchen island. So you go with dining table or only with kitchen island.

    Some option for layout


  • PRO
  • 4 months ago

    Bedroom layout possibility that's better than squeezing bed in the corner:


    If TV is in a different room (flex room with a couple recliners?) then float sofa to face the three windows with two armchairs and small table in between at the window end facing floating sofa. Anchor sofa and two chair on a rug to define the space. Add a sofa table behind the sofa to use as a buffet table when you have company. This idea but with only one sofa and two chairs on window side.


    Whatever furniture you arrange along a wall should be on left side facing the window so there's a walkway to the screen porch.


    If TV needs to be in this room, then celery's third visualization with sofa floating towards a TV wall at far end of the room is one way to go. Leave enough room for access to screen porch.

    Or, float two TV watching chairs at the end of the room facing a TV wall. Float sofa to face three windows.

    Really, we need to see all four walls of the space with windows and all doorways.





  • PRO
    4 months ago

    @Celery. Visualization, Rendering images

    The island is already there.

  • PRO
    4 months ago
    last modified: 4 months ago

    Okay.......I was not loving it?!

    First, give the bowling alley a very definite waistline.

    Then ask...what about the "extension"


    Do you play bridge? Do you do puzzles, play games ...any?

    I assumed maybe you do. Give it a serve spot for snack..a view already exists.

    It cries for a strong center, and you will ask....what about a sectional. ? Please don't ask : ) It's the most expensive way to buy yourself a locked in furniture arrangement.

    Here's a nice center and that "visual divide" You may have need for a desk....for something else? tell us ! Form follows function. Yes, while a tv certainly CAN go anywhere? Yours is already in place for a wall sharing cable/ tv views ( bedroom and living space)

    The why, of my diverge from lisevd up above., and to put seating closer to the kitchen.



    !LOL.. hoping you DO play bridge! You could host for eight: )

  • PRO
    4 months ago

    For the bedroom, I would move the bed in front of the window instead of stuck in the corner.




  • PRO
    4 months ago

    The window elevation is low, and the screen porch view will be the back of the bed.

    Bad design!!

    Do you want those sitting on the porch to even VIEW the bed and bath as you now have it? Maybe not!

    Lose the blinds ( both ) for top down bottom up shades, AND THEN put the bed on the shared porch wall. : )

  • PRO
    4 months ago

    I would suggest this kind of blinds bottom down to hide the back of the headboard.


  • 4 months ago

    All of these suggestions have been incredibly helpful! @Jan Moyer — love this living arrangement!

  • PRO
    4 months ago

    ^^^


    Learn bridge? I'm waaaay too "card stupid" for bridge.: ) Could be my attention span lol

  • 4 months ago

    Haha! Same, but thinking this could be a reading nook somehow?

  • 4 months ago

    This is absolutely perfect! You’re the best! One question I have is can I/ should I put a rug under the dining table too? Or would this be an awkward transition from rug to rug?

  • PRO
    4 months ago
    last modified: 4 months ago

    You can put a rug under, but the question of course is what size keeps all the table and chairs on that rug. Then make them complementary to one another.

    I would wait, pick something you really love that defines the middle of the room, and gives that waistline.......to a very loooong space.

    Remember that upholstered dining chairs, can provide the boost of soft ....take away the "I'm too naked here", even without a rug beneath.

    That and a nice chaise at the other end? Probably just enough.