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Weird layout living dining room

last year

hi everyone

I would love to hear your thoughts in terms of how to best furnish this combined living and dining room. As you can see from the floor plan, there are two TV switches and two doors not aligned, plus a window leading to terrace. I would like to find a way to add both a TC corner with a sofa and a dining table in this area. In addition, I would also love to create a hallway which is currently non existent. I am also attaching the pics of how it used to look like!

Thanks!

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DEN LIFE interiors
last year
Room dividers! It would be great to use these and have a sense of flexibility and also to keep the light flowing where needed. There are such a wide range of dividers from glass, moving walls, struts and shelving.
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In terms of hallway - how about a built in piece of furniture like a shallow cupboard to act as the 'hallway' and somewhere to store things? Let me know if that makes sense! Some pics here for inspo!
chepale thanked DEN LIFE interiors
chepale
Original Author
last year
Thanks den life! All great ideas, however I think the most challenging part of it is really the layout taking into consideration the floor plan (where can the sofa without blocking a door!?)
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Appalling annotating here but would either of these work with yellow highlights as the dividers and black bring a table? I guess it depends on how you want to move through the space and his often you will use a dining table or if it can push back towards a wall with a bench to give more room?

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