Help me with my Lounge
Minnie Gen
8 years ago
Hi new here feeling a bit disheartened with my choices so thought I would ask advice. My new sofa was delivered today but I think it's too small for the area and just feel like it doesn't look right (they won't take it back) so stuck with making it work. I took some pics but my living room just seems messy and cluttered looking any ideas for improvements?
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Minnie Gen
8 years agoWas thinking that maybe a lighter turquoise? My lounge is attached to my dining room and in going to be painting that wall a bright orange
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Comments (3)Hi. Can I assume you are opening up the original fireplace to install the log burner? are you also looking at a traditional wood burner? If so, I would build 3/4 very deep shelves in the recesses either side of the fireplace for decorative items and maybe to store the logs. Get 2 x 2 seater sofas and situate them opposite each other at each side of the fireplace. I would hang the tv on the wall over the fire and have a footstool coffee table between the sofas. Given you are wanting a wood burner with a sleeper I assume you like a traditional style so would have maybe a plaid/ tartan footstool. It's difficult to tell by the photos but I would turn the dining table around and move it away from the wall if you have the space. Decorate with muted shades and accessorise with heather, moss green etc. do you have to replace the carpet if you're taking the wall down as it looks nice? Space permitting, it would also be nice to add a lamp or 2. Floor length curtains would also look nice, is that a bay window you have??...See MoreHELP: How to decorate my lounge?
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Comments (15)Thank-you very much for the comments. I hope it will be a great space, but playing around with it and changing the design at the last minute is getting a bit stressful! This is the design that the build company showed us initially - just their initial thought as it how it would look. I found feeling the area where they had positioned the fridge/freezer very tricky. We want a free-standing french larder style fridge and the doors and level of matching with the rest of the units didn't seem like a good fit. The support pillar for the steel that crosses the island in the attachment below has also been a real annoyance. It sticks out 23cm, so it can only really go through empty-ish cupboards. Clearly anything to the left of that steel is difficult to vent. On the design in my intitial post, I was intending to have a dropped ceiling element that stretched just beyond the steel. This would let me have a powerful extractor and exit the flew onto the flat room (hidden by the drop ceiling 'box'). I like the idea you describe of a full wall of units, then island, then table. I guess Jonathan's proposal is similar to that. While I love the efficiency of the "4 double door" hideaway I just don't like the aesthetic, so will need to think about something else. Bringing it back to what we need... Utility room: enough to stash the washing machine, store the vacuum cleaner and hang a few clothes. No need for a sink. Free Standing, 90cm wide fridge, nicely framed either by wall of kitchen units. Waist height oven with an additional "top oven / grill (broiler)" - so at least one full height column. Good size kitchen island with at least two seats. Approx 90cm induction hob, plus a gas domino hob. Powerful, externally venting extractor over hob. I'm relatively open to moving the kitchen/living area to wherever it works best. I'm also not desperate to have the hob on the island (but that would be nice). As far as I know, the builders haven't done anything that can't be easily adjusted at this stage - but I think that will change in a couple of days - and they are planning for the kitchen to be in the old part of the house. As for rooflights - I thought, perhaps wrongly, that it would be light enough with the big bifold doors. It is an east facing room, and the old room had some sliding paitio doors and it felt bright enough. So I have left roof lights out on the basis that - but I'm also concerned about noise. (Cheaper too!). The biggest window we can gave without incurring significantly more cost is 1800mm x 1000mm - I'm minded to be 2 or 3 of these in that middle section. Thanks!...See Moredrpepe101
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8 years agoYes that chair is huge hard to find somewhere for it to work I could move it to corner by dining room?. I have another chair I need to get reupholstered it was my nans so it has sentimental value it's a 60's chair. Just not done anything with it as can't decide what fabric to get it reupholstered with? Maybe that would work better there? Picture attached
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