Lounge Design and Layout Help
Good Afternoon all you helpful people.
We are wanting to redesign our lounge, with a bit of inheritance we would like to treat ourselves to new sofas, fresh paint, and more modern furniture. The issue being, we are both fairly rubbish at knowing what goes with what, plus it is a minefield of colours and accessories.
I have come up with a rough plan of what I think "could" work, plus some examples of furniture we have seen we like, however, if non of this matches or works, be honest and tell me. i want to get it right first time.
The only item of furniture I would like to keep are the two Ikea armchairs (see photos below) however, if these don't work, I guess they can go elsewhere.
The room is fairly big (5.6m x 3.4m) but suffers from one main single door and a set of double doors to the kitchen, which makes furniture placement difficult.
Below is the layout I mention "could" work, along with photos of the furniture we like, a photo showing the Ikea chairs in situ at the moment, and a photo from the kitchen through the double doors the day we moved in. We have painted the wall with the double doors navy blue, we both love this colour, and have curtains on the opposite wall to match, but the other three walls are awful magnolia as we have no idea what
It gets very sunny the room as it is near enough south facing. Anyway on with the pictures.
The "proposed" layout:
Main sofa, Navy blue (to mix it up so its not all grey!
The smaller snuggle chair in grey:
The footstool in grey, to match the snuggle, can be pushed out of the way if needed for more room:
The current two chairs we have, they're so comfy, currently under the window as it's a tall window and don't want to block it too much:
Ikea Besta units, wall mounted, used the ikea planner to show how the room is and colours etc:
Potential rug, not 100% sure on this, but I like the idea of a large rug to hide the god awful carpet colour:
Industrial ladder shelving?:
Current layout, showing curtains we'd like to keep and the two ikea chairs, the fireplace is fake made by myself, just a flat wall behind, so this can go, this also shows the carpet colour and other three walls colour, all vile IMO, please help with colours, I think even white or grey would be better:
Photp form when we first moved in, looking towards the window that now has blue curtains:
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5 years agoI'd go with a warm grey or warm off white on the walls or you risk alienating the carpet.
To bring the grey and navy and the carpet together you could try Mustard Accessories which work well with all your colours.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHi Joe, i like all your furniture choices and man about the house navy and mustard colour scheme. how about this layout. it would create a better traffic flow.
rug link https://www.modern-rugs.co.uk/vardo-var22-cloud-dancer-rugcushions from Wayfair and IKEA:
https://www.wayfair.co.uk/home-decor/pdp/metro-lane-tate-cushion-tyne1329.html?piid=27054815
paint Farrow and Ball Pavilion Grey and Cook's Blue
Images from https://www.iamfy.co/category/wall-art
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHI, I thought about your room over night. I think you have too much furniture that you're trying to put in, and it needs streamlining a bit. This is your room with all the objects to scale placed in it.
The shelving looks a little like it's pushed to the corners and the furniture is being herded in to the middle. The snuggle chair is too large for that space, it blocks getting to the ikea unit and impedes opening the doors. Only the sofa and one of the small armchairs is able to see the T.V from those angles.So- for instance, take out the snuggle chair completely. Different storage all around the T.V
Just a different style, maybe have shelves or one ladder unit to the left.
Or swap the sides back over, put the snuggle chair back in, it fits very well under the window and you can still get a good view of the T.V from that. Remove the armchairs.
I still didn't like the cabinet at the end, it looks disjointed. So, I put a row of Besta cabinets in ( you have room for 3 across the back wall. I also took out one lot of ladder shelves, put and armchair and lamp in.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoWow MATH, this is amazing work, thank you so much for all your effort so far, much appreciated.
I think you are correct, I am trying to cram to much seating into a smallish area. With the snuggle, sofa, and armchairs, that is enough seating for 8 people, how often do you have 8 people in your lounge!!!
On that note, I will look at your other plans. I didn't massively want to move the sky cable and other cables etc, but I want to get this right, so I shouldn't let the TV placement dictate the rest of the room. I have also looked at Marina's plan regarding flow and taken this on board, (thank you so much Marina).
In your initial sketch, the IKEA unit for the TV is only 2.4m long, and the room is 5.6m , so less than half the length, your sketch however shows it encroaching over half way. However, even if we scale this back, I still agree with your comment of to much furniture.
So I have gone back to the drawing board, using a few of your ideas above. Please see below.
A few questions, which i would love clarification on:
- Does the furniture we like actually all match,
- Do they go with the Navy and Mustard colours?
- Is the rug to "different" we would like to be bold, but don't know how!
- Would it work changing the navy wall from the double doors to "TV" wall,
- Would a change in carpet help? in the grand scheme of costs, carpet isn't up there. If so, what colour?
- Can you have to many, to few lamps and side tables? Any ideas? modern or industrial?
- I have put a pouffe in the new plan, a mustard one work?
I can't thank you enough for your help so far, I wish there was a way I could repay you.
The V2 plan (honest opinions please):
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHi Joe, I really do think that the White, Navy and Grey are super together. Here's your room laid out with the above in mind. I changed the rug to one with more white to pick up on the Besta Units. I didn't put in the unit between the door and window as I thought it looked odd.
I took the mustard out and added in copper, you can also use brass, both of which are really on trend. This lamp is a bargain and a similar one from Swoon would be £149
These are great too:-
You could certainly argue that the carpet is harder to fit in to your colour scheme and that wood would work the best. The wooden tones work well with the metals and show off the whites.
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Add in a few more accessories, finished. I like to have hard floors matching in all rooms downstairs and carpet upstairs. With the exception maybe of the kitchen.
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5 years agoI know know that there is nor fireplace on that wall I am still thinking for ideas. I have few pictures for some inspiration of colour etc. I am thinking know, maybe it is a good idea to make a real statement wall out of the tv wall. Can be classic off white/grey, painted blue or industrial metal and wood, which work well with navy and mustard colour scheme.
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5 years agoIf you go for the bookcase tv wall, you’d have enough of shelving for the living room and won’t need the shelves behind the doors. The doors will be able to be open fully that way.
If you don’t need too much seating, you could just have the 4seater with the footstool and two Ikea armchairs for extra seating.
If you want to make the most if the window, it would look nice to have a console table, plant or a low long cabinet.
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Joe
5 years agoMany thanks all. We’ve decided on a layout as above. With big thanks to MATH. We are going for the “wall of sofas” which isn’t really a wall of sofas.
We we went to look at the next sofas, we are not a huge fan of them in the flesh. We are now looking at G Plan Sixty Seven, both in grey.
however, does anyone know what this sofas is that Marina posted:
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agocould be DFS Zinc sofa , not sure which colour though. Looks like one of their cushions.
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5 years agoHaving issues posting in this thread, not sure if this will work, but have started another just in case.
Anyway, we are getting close to this room being done.
We have settled on the room layout, which, many thanks to MATH will be this (stolen renderings below thanks to MATH):
However, where the plant is (top picture), I will put just one of my Ikea Ekenaset chairs, and where the shelf and lamp is (bottom picture) we will put a shelf against the back wall.
So furniture choices!!!!!! we looked at the Next sofa, didn't like it! Have kind of gone off the industrial bookcase, we think it is just to dark! So new ideas, but do these styles, colours, different types of wood match????? Please help and advise!!
So firstly, the sofas, both the same colour, one two seater, and one three seater, Ercol Consenza:
The legs are clear matt oak. the material a fun and exciting grey!!
The shelving unit, which would sit to the right of the three seater sofa in the second rendering above:
I love this bookcase, it is plywood construction (so not oak like the sofa feet) and I even like the colours used for drawer fronts, although they can be any colour we choose. I guess it wont look as "woody" with lots of books etc on it!!! it just feels more light and airy than the dark industrial metal one previously shown.
Onto the TV unit, good old white (non gloss) Ikea Besta unit, with white (non gloss) doors:
Then next to that, where the plant currently sits in the rendering, one of my Ikea Ekenaset chairs:
So my better half's concern is the variation in woods across the pieces! However, I have heard not to match woods, as it becomes all "samey", plus the Ikea chair and tv unit are on one side of the room, and the chairs and bookcase on another!
Finally wall colours, as advised by you lovely people, we are hoping to go for F&B Stiffkey blue, and F&B Blackened:
However, I like the idea of the blue wall being the sofa wall, and the other three the blackened colour, so opposite to what MATH has rendered!
Any advise on whether this will work?
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5 years agoEs this is dfs sofa. The picture is form 2014 DFS twitter post referred as Barton sofa. The closest to it is Zinc from French connection series,but they don’t have it in that nice navy fabric.
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4 years agoQuick thread bump. The living room is now 99% complete, and I thought I would update here to show you the finished article. You have all been a great help, and as you can see, I have taken advice from here to complete this room.
So it is 99% complete as we are thinking of changing the lampshade on the large lamp behind the sofa to yellow as it is a bit lost being grey like the wall. Also we still need to buy a couple of yellow cushions.
On with the photos:
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