Please Help With Lounge Layout
I would love any suggestions/advise on what “Houzz” would recommend to be the best layout of this lounge.
The room is 4.8m x 3.8m there are power plus tv & aerial sockets on the bottom left of the front window and then to the right side of the double doors.
We are due to move into this house in April (can’t wait).
We want to install a electric fireplace insert into a “false wall” maybe incorporating storage around it (like in the photograph below).
Plus the tv unit next to it, at eye level when sitting on the sofa.
Furniture wise, we are looking at a deep corner sofa.
We had also planned for a low coffee table and two identical arms chairs to be near the window.
Colour scheme; blue on one wall and then greys and gold around the room on furniture/cushions.
Sorry for the poor drawings;
The RED is the electric fireplace
The Blue is the tv unit.
The YELLOW is the corner sofa.
Comments (10)
Malcome A
3 years agoThis is the type of setup for the fireplace I’m thinking of and then having the TV installed to the right of it.
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Comments (15)Thank-you very much for the comments. I hope it will be a great space, but playing around with it and changing the design at the last minute is getting a bit stressful! This is the design that the build company showed us initially - just their initial thought as it how it would look. I found feeling the area where they had positioned the fridge/freezer very tricky. We want a free-standing french larder style fridge and the doors and level of matching with the rest of the units didn't seem like a good fit. The support pillar for the steel that crosses the island in the attachment below has also been a real annoyance. It sticks out 23cm, so it can only really go through empty-ish cupboards. Clearly anything to the left of that steel is difficult to vent. On the design in my intitial post, I was intending to have a dropped ceiling element that stretched just beyond the steel. This would let me have a powerful extractor and exit the flew onto the flat room (hidden by the drop ceiling 'box'). I like the idea you describe of a full wall of units, then island, then table. I guess Jonathan's proposal is similar to that. While I love the efficiency of the "4 double door" hideaway I just don't like the aesthetic, so will need to think about something else. Bringing it back to what we need... Utility room: enough to stash the washing machine, store the vacuum cleaner and hang a few clothes. No need for a sink. Free Standing, 90cm wide fridge, nicely framed either by wall of kitchen units. Waist height oven with an additional "top oven / grill (broiler)" - so at least one full height column. Good size kitchen island with at least two seats. Approx 90cm induction hob, plus a gas domino hob. Powerful, externally venting extractor over hob. I'm relatively open to moving the kitchen/living area to wherever it works best. I'm also not desperate to have the hob on the island (but that would be nice). As far as I know, the builders haven't done anything that can't be easily adjusted at this stage - but I think that will change in a couple of days - and they are planning for the kitchen to be in the old part of the house. As for rooflights - I thought, perhaps wrongly, that it would be light enough with the big bifold doors. It is an east facing room, and the old room had some sliding paitio doors and it felt bright enough. So I have left roof lights out on the basis that - but I'm also concerned about noise. (Cheaper too!). The biggest window we can gave without incurring significantly more cost is 1800mm x 1000mm - I'm minded to be 2 or 3 of these in that middle section. Thanks!...See Moresnug/lounge layout advice please!
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3 years agominnie101
3 years agoI think the wall to wall look really works. Ok that’s fair enough. I’m really struggling to find any images of a fire and tv side by side with storage..Not sure of what you think of something like this with storage just above the fire. I like the shelf too for lamps, vase etc.
New houses are very expensive 😂 I take it the kitchen is nice anyway just not what you wanted?
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last yearI’ve decided to make my own doors for the wall unit as I can’t any that I like within my low budget. The plan is for the doors to have handless doors with a gold plate on top of the exposed wood. 🤞 I’ve got zero DYI skills but that God for YouTube.
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