Currently, in our two living rooms - terraced house, no doors between what should be a dining room and the TV/sofa bit - we use the end with the TV well, but not the other bit. We have two fireplaces, one in each room, and across all four alcoves we currently have lower cupboards, a space for shit and hung pictures, and then two fixed shelves high up, across all, for books.
Because we have a big dining table in the kitchen, we don't have another table in the second room. It's become a cut through - you can get through to the kitchen, we knocked down a wall - and a dumping ground for kids stuff.
The purpose is to change it, and make something of the space. Currently there are three 'circulation points' coming off this one room - door to the hallway, walkthrough to the kitchen, door to side return. That last door is stoopid. We never use it as we have doors to the garden from the kitchen.It's a waste of a wall in a room that has no walls to really play with.
We plan to take the door to garden back to a sash window, put a nice danish table beneath it. We want to use that near alcove for cupboards because it's better aesthetically - on the other side of the alcove will be a vintage medical cabinet and plants. It would look wrong to have the cupboard that side. Hence, having it in the far corner - and we'll have push close doors in line with our kitchen cupboards.
I'm now wondering whether we have two large drawers on rollers, taking up to about 70cm, which is the height of the table. That way it might be less of an issue. Then starting the cupboards at this height. The plan is to have soft grey spray painted doors, same colour as room, and then a bright yellow spot colour inside.
In that corner, we have previously attempted just shelves, and an old cool chair, shelves and a low cupboard (now) and it doesn't work.