New Sofa/Seating in lounge advice please - colours,styles, layout etc

8 years ago

Hello,

Im looking for sofa/seating advice please... We are fully renovating our house - please find attached two pictures of the existing room (decorated and furnished by the person we have bought the house from!) We will be stripping the wall paper, ripping up the carpet and opening up the chimney brest to put in a log burner. We will be painting the chimney brest F&B downpipe and the other walls F&B Wimborne White. We have bought an antler style chandelier (as pictured) we will be laying an oak parquet floor and we have bought these animal themed cushions as pictured... We will also be adding some tartan to add to the hunting lodge/heritage/Country/British/preppy ish look!!!! We do have a brown chesterfield style leather suite but I feel it will be too dark in the room and it is too big to fit in (a big 3 seater sofa, a 2 seater, an armchair and a puff) Therefore I've decided to sell it on ebay and buy a whole new suite/sofas/seating - Where would you put these sofas/seats and what style/colours would you recommend... I'm thinking light to take my cushions an to and a nice separate armchair to go in the window... This is a big decision that could make or break our whole idea and room. The room is not big - its 2420 long with an extra 690 into bay and 3340 wide (into the alcoves either side of the fire that are 360 deep) The chimney brest is 1250 wide and 360 deep with the alcoves 1010 and 1075 wide each... Please help!!!! Thankyou

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Decocharm
8 years ago
For the cushions you've chosen, I would buy modern sofa with clean lines in gray colour. The best place for sofa is the wall opposite the chimney breast and you can build the shelves on each side like on one of the pictures. Smaller sofa or two armchairs can be placed against the wall opposite the window. I would open the fire place and place there some wood blocks.

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lisamarie1000
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8 years ago
Thankyou, yes we will be opening the fireplace and putting a log burner in. Thankyou for your advice
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Emmanuelle
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Nice ideas! I love your scheme! I would put your sofa opposite the wood burner .. I think a mid grey sofa would look the best! If you wish to have a couple of armchairs, I would try to put them in the bay window, with a rustic stool (old wood) between them as a side table. X

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