Software
Houzz Logo Print
kiara_zimmerman

redesign/ fill in wall space

15 hours ago

I want to make my home feel cost and practical. The little makeshift mudroom area was to have a way to keep our shoes out of the way near the front door and a place for me to leva my bags. The cooler just looks sad in the little corner I want to fill that space up and as for the corner near my couch I have no idea what to do there.

Comments (6)

  • 14 hours ago

    Can you show us some wider views of your space? It's hard to get a sense of size and relationships from these images. Take a photo from each corner of the living area (from as far back as you can) and get as much of the room into each photo as possible.

  • 14 hours ago

    Here are the updates photos. Hopefully this helps.

  • 14 hours ago
    last modified: 13 hours ago

    Be deliberate with your furnishings.

    fill the space with a heavier hook board that can hold heavy things.


    with limited space, You don't need to 'style' a table with decor, it just takes up valuable space for items you need to use it for. Look for a long solid bench with shoe storage.

    Hang a picture on the angled wall, centered at eye level... OR a small shelf for the little decor you now have on the small table.


    I'd look for a large area rug for the entry, fill the floor space in that area.

    You could stack a couple framed pieces vertically above the water cooler.

    Have you tried your chaise on the other side of the sofa? with the leather chair in front of the window, so you are facing the kitchen? ... How about a photo of that corner?

    are you facing the TV?

    Center the sofa on the wall

  • 12 hours ago

    Another option would be to just build a closet in the area with the shoes and angled wall. It looks to be 2 ft wide. The return air would need to be scooted out some.

  • 8 hours ago

    I’d be tempted to remove the small console table and do a larger deeper bench that spans the wall and then art above - feel like everything is undersized

  • 8 hours ago
    last modified: 8 hours ago

    Sorry, but I, at least, still need more photos--or a floor plan--to understand how the pieces of the room connect to each other. I started to draw a possible floor plan (see below), starting with the entry with the angled wall, but then I got stuck. Where are the living room and kitchen in relation to the entry? I have no idea. Where is the TV in relation to the sofa? Are there other windows besides the one between kitchen and sofa? Where are they and how big? Is there a dining area somewhere? Where do the hallways lead?


    Can you take a few more photos? (1) Stand in the kitchen and take a picture of the living area, as much of it as you can include. (Let a bit of the kitchen counter show in the photo to orient us.) Take more than one photo if you can't get it all at once. Does your camera have a wide-angle setting? That can help show more of the space in each photo. It also helps to point the camera down a little, so it shows more of the floor and less of the ceiling. (2) Stand in the entry area and take a photo of the living area. You could also stand in the middle of the living area and take a picture of each wall, in order (clockwise, say), and then tell us what the order is. It helps if the pictures overlap a little, so we can see, "Oh, this area is next to the previous area, because [item] shows in both pictures." Maybe also sketch out a floor plan (with dimensions)?

    We ask all this because we try to make whole spaces work well for their owners. "What should I put in this corner?" is a question that really needs the whole-space context to answer well.