Hi Jade. The room is small and it is also the walkway to the back f the house, which further obstruct its functionality. If you are keen to keep the living room separated from the kitchen, then your furniture layout is probably the only way to go. I would advise you to consider taking down the wall to the kitchen and create an open plan. It will make the space feel spacious and you might even consider a different layout: Place the kitchen at the rear on the right wall, place your lounge on the opposite wall facing the kitchen, put a room-dividing furniture in between with the TV inside and place the dining table where the lounge is now. You can get a really contemporary looking comfortable space. I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any further questions, I will be more than happy to help. just drop me a line or visit www.betterspace.co Good luck, Avi

I think shortening the lounge is a great idea. Could the new kitchen door go through the cupboard in the hall next to the shower room? This would make the new wall nicely balanced with the window in the new dining room. If you want help with visualisations, I offer 10 hours of design work for £250 which gives you a full design and the confidence to proceed with any supplier of your choice. If you want to have a no obligation chat to bounce some ideas around, feel free to get in touch 😊 Emily x

It’s probably too long for one seating area. I’d have a sofa opposite what used to the be the fire and a chair in front of the window. To avoid the corridor feel you need to add things in the middle of the space, so add a coffee table/ottoman (a round one I think would work better) and bring the sofa away from the wall a little. Use a rug to zone that area. You could have a reading area at the kitchen end of the room? If you paint the shorter walls a darker tone it will ”correct“ the rooms proportions. Mirrors on the long walls can help but think about what it reflects! I think painting the skirting boards in the wall colour will help too as your eyes are just drawn to the white atm

Hi- with young children, the big open space in the center of the room is ideal for now. That said, you might want to pull your furniture off the walls a bit, perhaps a console table behind the sofas decorated with a table lamp, etc. In terms of a focal point, I would think about What do you want to see when you enter the room? Is it the TV? Or is it people? The answer will have something to do with the adjacent room too and how you use it. If it’s the TV, it’s probably on the right wall now, but if you reversed it and the sofa’s current positions, the room might seem more sociable and open. Plus your TV cabinetry will have much less depth than a sofa, so easier on traffic flow. How much of the window wall do you want to see? Your room looks large enough that you could place consider placing some furniture in front of it. For example, an upholstered bench would square off the seating area and help create a separate little ”toy zone” behind it, but it wouldn’t block the lines of sight to the garden.