New Home - Living Room Layout - no idea whats the best use of space!
So I finally completed on my new home, and am starting to try and work out what way I will configure the rooms.
The living room I'm not sure how to utilise the space. There is a massive chimney breast, that has an off centre fire place, I had hoped to centre the fire place, and reduce the breast size, but the chimney is built up through where the current fire place is. I could reduce the breast on the right side, but if I'm doing that, I'd be tempted to remove the whole thing, and put in a new stove on the back wall (349cm one), but obviously that's not going to be cheap!
I'd really appreciate thoughts on how best to structure the room, where should the tele go, sofa(s)/armchair, once those are in place the rest can work around them!
Dont have a sofa for this room, so am flexible on the size/shape.
Thanks!
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Comments (12)I see what you mean, It's a good idea in theory, however, practically, I don't think it's going to work, and you will end up ruining the nicest room in the house. There are no walls that remain unbroken by doors or windows, so where are you going to put units and unbroken worktop space. They can't go on the left as there are three doors. There's a door on the right, which although you could put a unit and a bit of worktop back right, it wouldn't be very big, and the biggest run of wall goes straight down to the glass doors, so you probably can't and wouldn't want to go straight up to them. You could move the door into the hallway from the front end to the bottom end by the patio doors and this would give you a better run of wall. If you put an island in the middle, 5' into the room to give yourself room to walk in and gain more worktop, it'll only leave you with around 6' at the other end for a dining space. However, i'd still advise getting a kitchen planner onboard before you start, as i'm not convinced the room is big enough to achieve what you want with the available wall space, and it stands a good chance of spoiling a very nice and elegant entrance to a house. The other big problem is the plumbing, there isn't any currently in that room, so you'll need to dig up the floor for drainage and almost definately that of either the utility or one of the bathrooms! I vote for keeping the house exactly as it is!...See Morenew rental house -living room advice
Comments (1)I am also adding some pics of the living room as it is now....See MoreJason W
last year@minnie101 I've attached some photos, also mocked up a floor plan based on what you said.
Looks like it could work - in this one I have taken away the right side of the breast, its not supporting anything - so would hopefully not be too much work, and opens up a good bit of space. I do like the image you have presented though!
There is a doorway currently in the left alcove which we will likely just close off and remove the door.The 2nd sofa in the right alcove could become a smaller chair if the sofa is huge(its sized at 3.3m wide/1.5 in the plan), and then have a sideboard or something in the right alcove.
My thinking is you want the sofa facing the fire and tv. This wont be a regulary used room, and toyed with the id of no tv, but not sure if that would be weird!
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