New House - but what on earth do we do with our living room?
Anthony Murray
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Hello!
We've just bought a new house and we've ended up with a lounge that is 6.7m x 3.4m and we're really unsure just quite how to make it work with it being quite long but narrow.
We want a nice room for when we have people over to sit in before/after dinner but not sure the current set up quite works (see attached photo). We have a TV room as well as a conservatory so difficult to know what to do with this...should we just do 2 x 2seaters like the photo, would a corner sofa work? Do the sofas need to face each other to make it work? Please note we'll get it empty apart from fixtures/fittings.
Thank you!
Anthony
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Daisy England
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