Living room layout help please

3 years ago

Hi,

i want to change my living room completely. Currently the wall that is shown on this floor plan between the living room and dining room doesn’t actually exist, it’s a half wall with a gap where the door shows on this plan.

i want to have a wall Put in though, but am undecided on what door(s) to use, and whether to keep two separate kitchen/dining rooms or knock into one kitchen/diner. But anyway, for the living room, the tv is in front of the window to the right, and our sofa is along the right hand wall.

we have a south facing back garden and the living room is quite dark.

any ideas?

im wondering whether to have the wall built between the living and dining room, keep the tv where it is, put a corner sofa in and add a square coffee table and have under stairs storage built in.

or,

have the wall built, and have the tv on or against that wall, and a sofa in front of the window.

please help with any ideas or suggestions! Thank you 🙂

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Carolina
3 years ago
Can you also post some photos of the room(s) please? They are useful for us to visualise what the possibilities are. You say that the TV is in front of the window to the right, but I don't see a window on the right? Or do you mean in the right hand corner next to the window? Anyway... photos will really help :-)

Also, you say you want to change the living room, but do you only mean structurally or furniture too?
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Laura
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3 years ago

good idea, here’s a few photos that were on my phone. As you can see it all needs updating/redoing etc. the sofa is actually broke and the chair belonged to my dad when he was unwell and I plan to sell it cheaply or donate to someone who needs a rise and recline.

im unsure about structural changes, whether I will knock the kitchen and ‘dining room’ (which I’m using as an office currently) into one. depends on budget. I like the idea of a combined social area, but I hate noise and not sure I want to sit in kitchen as such. But for now my next room is this living room. But i do need to consider whether I have a Door into the dining room, or if I do make it one kitchen/diner I wouldn’t need a door really as the one into the kitchen would suffice.

so difficult! Because I don’t have a massive budget. And as you can see everything is in need of updating. the kitchen is the same as it was in 1986, and too embarrassing to show photos of.
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Heres where the TV is Minnie, i think it probably is a bit of an awkward location for it but the room layout with two doors and an archway make it difficult to place. i really appreciate both of your suggestions, definitely want to get a bigger rug at some point, we only got the one we have from ikea (it was fairly cheap) just to see how a rug worked and we both love how it breaks the wooden floor up as it can feel a bit cold. Minnie, I did orginally have the larger sofa under the lights but then the smaller sofa looked lost against the other wall but I think you might be right and for symmetry it would be better swapped over. ive never thought about a lamp! thats a good idea actually! yes Minnie the country/rustic style is very much my look. the kitchen is a similar style too. Again thank you both for your help. lots of food for thought and ideas we can use. firstly to fing a bigger rug and a floor lamp!
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Carolina
3 years ago
Lol, don't be embarrassed. We can't all live in designer homes and have massive budgets. I wish!

I would personally not reinstate the wall between the living room and office, because I like the space. And you will block the light from the south window. But it really all depends on how you use the spaces. Only you can decide that.

The red carpet sucks up a lot of light, so as budget is limited I'd rather change the floor throughout the ground floor, so it all flows. And perhaps change the kitchen into a nice, updated space. A good quality laminate flooring or, since you don't like noise, a cork or Luxury Vinyl Plank floor will make a huge difference. Both cork and luxury vinyl aren't as loud as laminate can be. Or if you want to keep carpet, go for a lighter colour like a natural beige perhaps. The dark coloured curtains don't help to make the room brighter either.
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Laura
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3 years ago
Thank you🙂 I HATE the red carpet it is 100% going. I was going to replace it with a grey/brown/or beige kind of colour with that ultra thick underlay. It’s been handy having the open plan living and dining room, but now the house is mine alone I think I would rather have a more cosy separate living room. This is the house I grew up in and the dining room was more a toy area than ever being a dining room! Now I’m using it as an office, but having an upstairs room made into an office. It would be nice to have a proper dining table. im thinking if I keep the tv where it is, and change the radiator to a vertical one to the left of the window, and getting blinds in the windows and much lighter curtains. Then I could wall mount the tv but have a unit pressed against the wall under the window for the PlayStation and tv box.

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