Help me rearrange my furniture in open plan room

[hamstermug]

We have widened a doorway between our lounge and our kitchen to create an open plan space but I can't for the life of me arrange the furniture.

I've never really liked the space. There are too many doors and windows and it feels like a thorough fare. Although I'm never going to make it cosy, I can't work out where to put everything.

It's about 6m by 5m.

I bought an L shaped sofa before we decided to widen the space but it's only 6 months old so we can't ditch it.

I've done a drawing but it's not really to scale so, to talk you through.

The table now goes half in the kitchen/living space. There are bifold doors along most of that wall (at the bottom of the picture) so that wall is unusable from a furniture point of view, and looks out onto the garden.

The problem is where we put the TV so that it is a comfortable viewing space.

At the moment, the TV is far too far away from the sofa (over 3m). U would like the TV on the top wall as it would be easier in terms of wiring etc, but where to put the sofa without it being completely in the way.

People will walk from the hallway door (top right of picture) to the kitchen/table. Help!

Thats not an easy one .... does the couch definitely have to stay? By that I mean, if you could replace it with a straight 3-seater, you could have that in the centre of the room with a rug & coffee table, facing the TV where it currently it. Then people could go from that top-right door, around the back of the couch, to the kitchen ? You might even be able to add a smallish armchair towards the bottom wall.
Now you would need a big room to do this, but it sounds like you might have the space

Hmm. I think there'd be a divorce if we ditched the new sofa.

Can you move the table into that room to make a dining room and put the sofa half in/half out where the table currently is? With the TV opposite?

Could you replace the TV with a bigger one? Then the distance between the TV and the sofa wouldn't matter so much. Ours is massive (because as far as DH is concerned, there is no TV too big), it's 4m from the sofa and totally fine.

Or could you block one of the two doors on the right? That of course depends if there is any other access from those locations.

How about tv on wall where sofa is (left side vertical of picture) and flip sofa round so back of it is towards the door?

Presumably kitchen has cupboards and appliances and stuff so you can't switch the two actual rooms around easily (bc that might work better....)

Can the table not go in the kitchen turned the other way. Do those couches have to be by a wall ? Could it not be moved forward a bit. I never had one so not sure how it works. But for me its the table thats wrong.

I think the table needs to go in front of the bi-folds so you've a view of the garden when sitting down to eat. Having it in what is effectively the doorway better the two rooms is just odd.

You could try turning the sofa around to create a different zone, i.e. with its back to the table and put the TV on the wall opposite the bi-folds. People will then walk from the hall, between the two zones to the kitchen. You could then use the wall where the TV is currently to put some sort of storage unit there or a console table or even an armchair.

If moving the table means you can't sit in the kitchen to eat, get a smaller table for in there - you can get more chairs round a round table than a square one, especially if you go for a pedestal style.

Obviously without knowing the dimensions of the room, etc I don't know if any of what I've suggested will actually work.

I don't know an answer but the table needs to move regardless

How is your doorway usable with that big table in the way?

Why would you want half a table in one room and half in the other?

Yep - the table in the opening between the two rooms just doesn't work.

I haven't explained the table very well but the opening is over 2 metres so it doesn't feel like a doorway.

I originally wanted the kitchen in the big room but it was too expensive to move drainage etc.

We'll try moving the table further into the room.

I think that if you aren't going to go the whole hog and remove the wall between this room and the kitchen then you treat them as separate, but linked spaces rather than trying to achieve a halfway house.

Could you rotate the sofa 90 degrees clockwise and put the TV on a wall bracket where that coloured-in block is? Then move table further right in front of the bifold doors?

I like tinkiiev's idea actually

Thanks OakElmAsh

It is a great idea but there's a radiator there at the moment.

It's a fricking nightmare.

Bastard house.

Oh ..like a tall radiator so no tv on wall possible?

thinks again

There's a built it bookcase above. We did have the TV there temporarily on a unit. It worked well space wise but we'd have to move it before the winter.

Hi, I would put the TV on the top wall and turn the sofa around accordingly. This means when someone enters the room using the top right door they are not interrupting the view of anyone watching TV, they would access the kitchen area by walking along the area/wall where you currently have the TV on your diagram.