Need help with furniture layout and replacement in open plan room
hillcrest101
7 years ago
I need advise regarding furniture placement and suggestions for rug, coffee table and entertainement unit. I do not wish to place TV above fireplace as it will be too high for comfortable viewing. At the moment the TV is placed on 2 old wooden chests against the bank of windows that run the full length of the room. The room is a long rectangle room of approx. 10 metres x 8metres. The kitchen and dining room cover the remainder of this room. The entrance and thoroughfare are behind the couch. I do not wish to block the treescape from the windows however feel I have little choice. Any help would be gratefully appreciated!!!
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Ann B
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Comments (6)Greetings Australia ! UK here !!! What a fabulous space !! When it's tricky and you can't get your head around what it could look, short of hiring someone like me (or the previous poster )who CAD's it all up, as part of the design process, if you want to do it yourself, considered drawing it up with something like 'interior design for iPad' or 'sketch up' ... As it can really help you visualise it all better ... ... is the lounge the main TV viewing area - or is that what the rumpus room is used for - and the lounge is more social zone with occasional tv watching !?!? As it might be nice to have the tv in a hidden cabinet - or hidden away in the wall you are beefing out ( although i'm not a fan of tv's above fireplace's normally ). how many are in your family, living here ?! As this will determine approx seating required for sofas/sectionals/ club chairs etc ?! You can achieve good zoning of a large space like this with the use of large area rugs - can be done on a budget if you go to a carpet warehouse and have room sized remnants whipped into large plain rugs ... The kitchen is such a great size - it's crying out for something a bit unique going on in there !! Sorry - getting all sorts of ideas !! This is such a great size place !!...See MoreNeed help on making open plan kitchen living room
Comments (14)I find it difficult to view your floor plan as it blurs if I enlarge it, so excuse me if this comment is invalid. Assuming the entry is from your living room and the home runs lengthways with the hall linking the bathroom, ldry and bedroom from the kitchen. The issue with this is that having two doors in the kitchen means you cannot form a working triangle for it to function well and don't have enough wall to fit out with tall storage. However, if you sealed up the door to the hall and opened access to the hall from the lounge as your plans seems to indicate in the top right of the lounge area, then you could widen the front opening into the kitchen rather than remove an entire wall, so integrate it into your living zone without lumping a kitchen in the middle of your lounge, you will improve your walk through flow, and gain a new length of wall in the kitchen where your fridge could go into the corner with a larger pantry flanking it, then your proposed layout t follow....See MoreLayout Advice-Open plan Living Room/Entry/Kitchen
Comments (4)Removing the walls as you've suggested should be ok as long as you check will an engineer first. They may be load bearing. This isn't a major issue to remove them as builders do this type of work regularly but definitely seek professional structural engineering advice first. Privacy to entry will be affected but not too bad. I'd do a furniture layout first and foremost to see if it the rooms will work being so open plan (i.e. noisy perhaps, where to put lounges and dining tables, etc.). People like open plan to look at but they are noisy in many cases as even talking noise travels. Even worse if you have children playing on one side of the area and you're trying to have a conversation with others in another area....See MoreNeed help with open plan living layout
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7 years agoAnn B
7 years agohillcrest101
7 years agoThe dining area is directly behind the armchair and has the same bank of windows. We have tried to place the lounge in this area however it is not wide enough to accommodate the furniture. I have uploaded a floor plan to assist with my descriptions.
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7 years agoOkay that makes sense... A solution could be to have one of these hidden units that you only see the TV when in use? That way you could leave it where it is or flip the whole space around. Which would mean some floor power points installed if possible.
Love your choice of lounges.
hillcrest101
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