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Family room/snug/ area of kitchen design and layout help please

8 years ago

We Have knocked a wall down and opened a chimney up and created this area off our new kitchen - I originally planned this area as a dining room but now want it more of a family room/snug area - we have opened up the old fireplace and are going to have a stove in here and a tv above it - in thinking of a corner sofa but also need to fit a table In Here as kitchen has been planned around no table/eating area as this was originally going to be a dining room I'm really struggling with it now :-( I will upload more pics - want a country/heritage feel

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lisamarie1000
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8 years ago

Sorry laptop won't upload pics!!! Here we go...

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lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Here is more pics of the newly created area...
lisamarie1000
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8 years ago
Here is more pics of our newly created area
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Kerry Donnelly
8 years ago
Do you have a floor plan that you can post?
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Yes ... good idea...here is the floor plan and a look book of what the kitchen will be like...
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Here is a sofa I LOVE but I can not see me fitting a table in anywhere :-(
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
here is our kitchen design - alabaster oak units with curved edges, oak worktop once again curved, stainless steel 110 rangmaster, Belfast sink... porcelain high gloss large ivory tiles, and in the snug area oak herringbone parquet floor
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UK Flooring Online
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here's some herringbone parquet options to consider: http://www.ukflooringonline.co.uk/?s=herringbone+parquet&post_type=product

or if you're not completely set on herringbone then you could go for one of these luxury vinyl options from Karndean and save a significant bit of money: http://www.ukflooringonline.co.uk/shop/?filter_vinyl-style=3890&s=parquet&post_type=product
lisamarie1000
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8 years ago
thankyou - Im afraid we have already bought all our parquet - all flooring, kitchen units, appliances, worktops etc are all already here and currently stacked in our lounge and garage... thankyou very much though! Its just this area that was originally going to be a more formal dining room I have decided to make a less formal snug area but also need an eating area (we will have a formal dining room at a later date but this is phase 2 and needs converting from back of garage!!!) However we need a table for myself, husband and three kids in this new kitchen/snug area...
Kerry Donnelly
8 years ago
The top left hand on the floor plan, what is this?
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Hi Kerry - it's like a dresser unit - here is an image of it - but worktops have curves edges
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Here is a CAD pic of it ... BUT... The worktop edges will be curved and ignore the patio doors on the left their computer wouldn't let it show as an open plan area!!! (Therefore that is the Snug area!!! )
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Here is a CAD pic of it ... BUT... The worktop edges will be curved and ignore the patio doors on the left their computer wouldn't let it show as an open plan area!!! (Therefore that is the Snug area!!! )
Kerry Donnelly
8 years ago
I'm same as you, just can't see how you would get dining and that couch in there,, can you make the dining more lounge like? I've attached a photo of what I mean
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
I was actually thinking that... But I can't seem to find any tables or chairs that would work ...
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
(I need to buy the sofa and table/chairs as my current ones will not fit!!!)
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
sooooo the sofa I love has matching footstools/stools... could this be turned into a booth area as such? Just need to find the right table at the right height? Thoughts and ideas please... Thankyou
Kerry Donnelly
8 years ago
Here's one I've just got made, still work in progress but it was made with MDF kinda of like caravan seating, then I got the seat and back made from local upholsterer. I'm not sure if you made yours from the footstools how it would work with higher and depth, plus if you get one made you can make it to the size that will suit the room.
Kerry Donnelly
8 years ago
Suppose you could put the footstools and the have loose cushions as a back,, or make one and find similar material that is on the couch you love. We find that we end up sitting at the table a lot now since the seating is comfy, the table is there and it's chilled out, I had visitors last week and we just stayed in the kitchen the whole night. You could do a straight one right across from the fire, then two chairs at top and bottom and then no need for chairs at other end so you could see the fire/TV, if you needed more chairs when you have visitors then you could add them to the other side for those occasions
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Would it work just using a normal corner sofa like this one?? Therefore buying a table at the right height to fit... I'm wanting a more comfy lounging sofa like this than the mdf made one - although I must say yours looks great but I want this as a room where hubby and kids can lie back watch a film and potentially go asleep as well as been used to eat... Although yes sofa not ideal to eat off and sit at table on there will be the stool idea and there seems no other way I can fit a good sized sofa in?? Unless someone has a differ met layout idea?
Kerry Donnelly
8 years ago
There's no photo attached
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Ok - been sofa shopping... Found a gorgeous totally different corner sofa - BUT it will not work with a table AND I don't think it will go with my f&b vert de terre ... bUT I love it and it's totally different!!!!
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Totally probably unpractical with kids being crushed velvet and off a kitchen and does not really go with my traditional/country look with modern twists BUT I love it ... How can I make it work?! I'm thinking vert de terre on kitchen or maybe a lighter sage and differ met colour in snug - they also do it with a bright pink scatter cushion - so could pull in some bright pink wall paper bUT once again not very traditional with my Belfast sink and range?! But then my range is stainless steel and in having spotlights in roof... Thoughts please?!
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
OK... Total change of plan... I have bought a corner sofa which has a sofa bed in it- very practical and much easier to clean with our kids and kids friends and babies potentially covering in sticky fingers!!! Here is it and a nest of footstools which stack on top of one another as one big one but then you have two smaller ones underneath for extra seating - my eldest daughter loves it as she thinks 3 sized stools are perfect for her, her younger sister and her baby sister
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Here is the pic of the sofa but it's the other way around so long side on the right and short on the left and here's the footstools all out separately ...
lisamarie1000
Original Author
8 years ago
Picture is not very clear but its probably a bit lighter than in picture as taken on my phone I have fallen in LOVE with F&B Wisteria wallpaper in the cinder rose background and I think it matches perfectly with the vert de terre which will be in the kitchen... Im thinking wallpaper back wall behind the long bit of the sofa and facing the chimney and then a lighter shade on the wall adjoining it where the short length of sofa will go... perhaps shaded white? I like elephants breath but I think this maybe too dark and this wall needs to reflect light into the room ... Then onto chimney brest and alcoves... There will be a stove in the opening and a tv on the brest above the stove ... do I also wallpaper the brest or the alcoves or do I apint one of these just in cinder rose or do I use the other 2 shades in the wallpaper!??! decisions decisions...
lisamarie1000
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8 years ago
Here's is wisteria paper

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