Help me make this room usable

[Aibusadandhormonal]

Living room/playroom. We knocked down the wall between them and had to move the kitchen entrance when we expanded. And now we have a weird shaped room with the fireplace in the wrong place.
Any amazing spacial thinkers work out a way to make this better?
Half of the room is a corridor, and that's in front of the fireplace so we never use it..
Sorry if this is completely the wrong place but I did make an effort with the pictures if that makes up for it! One is the layout and the second how we use it now. Just seems a waste of space.

Block up the playroom doorway and replace the internal window with a glazed door. Move the seating/TV combo to be centred on the working fireplace. You will still have an L-shaped 'corridor' from the entrance to the kitchen, but it will be along two featureless walls, instead of across the middle of a room then across the hearthrug.

I think I understand but I don't think that will leave us with enough room to have sofa and TV on that side (without being on top of the fireplace)

The playroom needs a comfy low chair or beanbags

Tv on the wall to the right of the working fireplace. Let people walk in front of it.

Sofa in the middle of the sitting room facing fireplace and tv. Then have desk or bookshelves or storage behind it.

Here is a sketch

I'd hang the door from the hallway into the playroom with the hinges on the other side, so it opens towards the kids' play table. I would also block up the internal window and swap the tv stand with the middle set of shelves and cupboards. Then turn the sofa & chair round to face the tv.

I think the only way it works is the way you have it

Is through there the only way to the kitchen? Why did you knock the wall down between them?

I'd be tempted to flip the areas, have a nice sitting are out of the way which isn't the corridor.

TV on the shelves to the right of the fireplace and get rid of the TV table; sofa in the alcove next to the internal window.

I assume that you can't move the kitchen door, that you eat somewhere else, and that you like having a worktable in the playroom.

Consider an archway between the rooms to give you more wall space?

I like a tucked out of the way playroom, and wouldn't want it to be a thoroughfare, or have a fire in it.

Do you actually use the fire/fireplace? It seems to be the main issue in your posts so I'd just get rid of that.

Some people put the TV over the mantel. Though I wouldn't (shudders).

Switch playroom and lounge area

Remove fireplace

Make the corridor more like a corridor with storage to mark the play area better

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What are the actual room dimensions?

Sorry done on phone so rubbish
I would put TV either above working fore place or to the right of the fire place in the shelves and cupboard section (depending where it will fit/if you light the fire)
the yellow is an Lshaped sofa.
Then turn the door so it opens into the playroom.

Or you could depending on dimensions have a snug area where the playroom is.

I'd move the sofa , turn it to the right so it's at right angles with the fireplace and break up the corridor. I'd also move the door to where the internal window is

Can you put the sofa facing the wall with the internal window and then have two chairs that can either face the fireplace or the TV?

Block up the wall between them and make the internal window a doorway into the sitting room?

Move the kitchen door?

I'm wondering what your needs are. Do you still need toy storage or did you take the wall down because you're past that stage?

What was the reasoning for taking the wall down?

Are you just looking for suggestions on furniture placement or woulds you be open to someone bigger, like moving a door or reinstating the wall?

Is there a reason your kitchen door is there? I'd move it to be opposite your internal window - which in turn I'd make into a glass door to the living room. Or can you make the playroom a snug living room, reinstate the wall you've just removed, then open up the wall between current living room and kitchen to make a big family/kitchen/dining room?

Do you use the fireplace? Is it a beautiful period fireplace or has that been removed? Does it add anything to the room?

Instead of removing it, you could create a false stud wall around it to hang the TV on. Very easy to remove if you want to restore the fireplace in the future.

Amazing help! Thank you all. I think we need to just move things around this weekend

So the fireplace is used. Or rather we'd like to use it more

Can't move the kitchen door. Was to do with cupboard placement in kitchen.
Other doors are up for grabs but turning internal window into door would make it more of a corridor

We used to have the playroom as our snug but it really was too small.

Need the storage still very much! Really also need those bookcases that people have suggested replacing with TV but I'm sure I can find another place for a bookcase.

It's a small victorian terrace so just over 4m x 4m for the sitting room. Less for playroom because of hallway.

But some great ideas to be tried out. Thanks all!

This is a terrible picture but I’d have a corner sofa or sofa and chair in the right hand corner, then you can put the TV/unit on the left and a plant in the corner?

Your sofa is side on to the fireplace then so it’s still part of the room.

If it would fit, I would do something like this. It gives two ways to walk across from the kitchen to the playroom, plus gives a route through that doesn't interrupt someone watching tv. The chair could go on the other side of the rug if you want the areas to feel more separate