How to make use of this space
Hi all, I need some help!
This is our current living room (we don’t have the table anymore or the painting) however it feels so empty. I would love to use this space better and have a dinning table/desk but we don’t have much room. Make it feel more homey! Any ideas what I can do? Should the sofa be on the other side? And then a shelf or something about it with frames? Rug? Coffee table etc? Any advice would be amazing. Can I even fit in a table? Please help!
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PROLa Vida Interiors
3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago
PRORavenswood Designs
3 years agoI would try to zone the room and make more use of the space in the upper half of the room to create balance. You don't provide measurements but if the room is around 4m x 5m something like this should work. If you use some free standing cubby storage, something like the Ikea Expedit if you can still find some, you will have storage and an attractive unit for books and ornaments. It will also give you a surface against which you can set a sofa - a corner sofa would be best but yours should work if there is space. You could find space for a standard lamp or a table lamp on an occasional table on the right of the shelving, or possibly to the right of the sofa - as I say I don't have measurements.
On the other side of the room create a bank of shelving units and put the TV in the middle. You can buy these ready to assemble.
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