Design challenge, Furniture and tv placement in great room
My challenge is moving from a Condo in town, to live at the Beach. The new Townhome has a great room, instead of where we are now, our rooms are separate, kitchen, and dining room...will now be all in one room. The room is the same size as our current room, but will have ALL of our things in the same room, like dining room table, and kitchen will be overlooking this room also. At present time, we have a very large 72" Flat screen console, although the Tv is 47in. and we also have a 91 inch sofa, and matching loveseat, both off white leather. I want a coastal beachy look..totally dislike modern.
My dilemma ...working all this stuff in there, where to put the TV, and the furniture.Is the 91 n. sofa too large for the room, should we get 2 loveseats instead? Should we get rid of the 72 in console? The townhome is actually larger, but feels smaller because it is all in one room. Bedrooms upstairs are 2 masters. I am attaching pics of our living room NOW, with the furniture we have, and then the town home at the beach which is empty. You will notice, that there is no room for built-ins on each side of the fireplace..the kitchen will also be remodeled, and extended around 14 inches into the same room.
I have been thinking about this for a month, and now we are getting ready to move. HELP??????? As you can see, I took the pictures of the empty great room from all sides, the view of the stairs, and the fireplace. etc. The room is only about 18feet wide X 16 feet deep, another problem.
My dilemma ...working all this stuff in there, where to put the TV, and the furniture.Is the 91 n. sofa too large for the room, should we get 2 loveseats instead? Should we get rid of the 72 in console? The townhome is actually larger, but feels smaller because it is all in one room. Bedrooms upstairs are 2 masters. I am attaching pics of our living room NOW, with the furniture we have, and then the town home at the beach which is empty. You will notice, that there is no room for built-ins on each side of the fireplace..the kitchen will also be remodeled, and extended around 14 inches into the same room.
I have been thinking about this for a month, and now we are getting ready to move. HELP??????? As you can see, I took the pictures of the empty great room from all sides, the view of the stairs, and the fireplace. etc. The room is only about 18feet wide X 16 feet deep, another problem.
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If you are going for a beachy look, I would get rid of the black and work with navy blue. I have attached some photos for you to see.
I would repaint a nice creamy white and then add your blue accents. Sisal rugs would be great.
I'm in Florida too, but not lucky enough to be on the beach! Enjoy!
The dining table and chairs have to be snugged as close as possible over to the wall opposite the TV with bench along the wall - the bench is perfect for that.
Ideally it would be great to have a console table or somekind behind the sofa, to dress up the view from the dining side, but I don't think you have the room. Live in it for a while and see.
Actually that's probably the best advice. it sounds like you are having major renovations done before you move in, so don't add to the stress. Get the work done, move in with current furniture, live with it all a while and then figure out what you need to add or change.
Have fun - it's going to be beautiful!
I love the sofa table behind the couch to separate the rooms, I thought of that also. I think the hardest thing for me is to have everything, including the kitchen in the same room. I have always had separate rooms, if the space was bigger, it would not be such a challenge.
Thanks for all the help...keep it coming. lol
Please see the attached image for an idea of layout, one couch is more or less focused on tv unit (the longer couch), and the shorter couch focuses on the fireplace making both (depending on where you sit) focul points. Of course you can flip the couches depending on how they fit in the room.
Love your couches, that will be a great starting point to feeling beachy
Place the TV and media unit on wall to the left of the stairway with the sofa facing it. Instead of placing the dining table by the slider, why not put it AGAINST the back of the sofa. Now it becomes both a dining and sofa table. You could use your bench and two chairs every day and when you are entertaining, pull it out and add the other two chairs. When not in dining use, the two extra chairs could be used in bedrooms, vanity perhaps, etc. This will allow you to use your loveseat perpendicular to the fireplace, for seating there, and still give you room for two chairs. On the TV end, add a chair and ottoman to the right of the TV, beneath the stair rail and another, probably smaller chair to the left side. This give you two clearly defined seating areas (each will seat 4-5 people) separated by a compact but functional dining area and provide great balance and flow to the space. See what you think... Good Luck!