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Layout Help for a Living Room with Sloped Ceilings!

Francis Gatsinzi

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

Hi Everyone,

My partner and I are super excited to be completing a purchase on our very first property. It's a flat that's on 3 levels, with the top level being an open plan kitchen/diner/living room area:

In our 4.5 years together (4 of them living together in shared accommodation!) we've never had a kitchen or a living room of our own, and we want this space to represent a very special place for us where we will share many many memories.

Whilst the kitchen area is relatively straight forward to layout, our challenge at the moment is with the living room and dining area because the walls are slanted/sloped so we are completely out of ideas when it comes to how to layout this area in relation to:

Where to put our TV (we watch a lots of it!)
Where to put a sofa
Is it a normal or L shaped sofa
What sort of rug we might want to have
What kind of dining table to get (we were thinking of a small bench style)
Where to put a dining table

Here are the photos of the current layout:

Here's a photo of the old layout with a slightly different angle:

Thank you all for any ideas you put forward for us.

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Comments (5)

Maths Wife
4 years ago
Whilst i can't create the awkward ceiling heights without a hell of a lot of work.........I think this layout will work ok.
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Jonathan
4 years ago
One option
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Verity & Beverley Ltd
4 years ago
What a fantastic looking place! This may be really obvious and sorry if it is but be very sure on the size of furniture you buy as you may struggle to get a sofa into that living space being upstairs and around a few corners you will have to measure very carefully!
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4 years ago
Hi Francis,

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