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If you have a long large living room/lounge...

19 replies

Paddingtonthebear · 25/08/2018 19:45

Say you’ve got a lounge 22ft x 14ft, and you’ve got your sofa, tv etc down one end (looking out to garden) what do you put down the other end? Except a dining table. That’s in another room.

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YouCalled · 25/08/2018 20:11

Is it a blank wall end or got another window? Bookshelves and oversize chair like this.

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Paddingtonthebear · 25/08/2018 20:14

Blank wall end

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Nix32 · 25/08/2018 20:23

Our lounge is like this - the our end has bookshelves along one wall, with a desk, desk chair and tub chair opposite.

Nix32 · 25/08/2018 20:23

Other, not our

TwigTheWonderKid · 25/08/2018 20:24

Bookshelves. armchair, small sideboard.

Millybingbong · 25/08/2018 20:25

Piano? We have this problem too.

Children's toys?
Writing desk?

Titsywoo · 25/08/2018 20:27

Had this issue as we have a large kitchen diner as well. Do you have kids? We filled one wall with tall 35cm deep Ikea Pax wardrobes as storage for games, crafts etc then put in a big table and chairs and the kids use it for art, board games etc etc. They are older (11 and 13) or we would have used it as a play area.

Starlings27 · 25/08/2018 20:27

Urgh. Our sitting room is 21ft by 13ft bad it’s a complete pain to arrange. The “end zone” has a bay with floor to ceiling windows and French windows, and there’s a huge deep fireplace not quite in the middle of one of the long walls so it’s hard to know what to do with it.

backtousername1 · 25/08/2018 20:34

We are having this exact problem.
Have moved into a house with a long thin lounge.
Even worse is that there’s a really low window one end and patio doors at the other so that’s 2 walls you can’t put anything against.
One of the long walls has double internal doors coming into it, so that leaves one long wall.
This means all sofas going in a long line and then tv on the wall opposite.
Doesn’t look great, but all houses this style that we viewed have the same.

backtousername1 · 25/08/2018 20:35

But anyway, at one of the ends we’ve sectioned it off a bit, we’ve put a rug and the kids have their toys down there.

ifIonlyknew · 25/08/2018 23:09

I was brought up in a house with a long lounge, don't remember it ever seeming odd. We had a fireplace halfwayish along one long wall and the TV went next to it, we had doors, windows and patio doors on all the walls (one had a normal door and a window with fireplace in between, the two short walls were patio doors on one and a large window on the other and then the other long wall had a large opening into dining room (double sliding doors) and another door down the other end of it! sofa wise we had an arm chair over in front of the patio doors angled towards the room but could easily be turned to look out, a sofa opposite the fireplace on the long wall and another smaller sofa down the other short end in front of the window. TV was a long way from the smaller sofa and TVs were smaller then but generally that sofa seemed to be used for reading.

Fanciedachange1 · 25/08/2018 23:11

No advice because ours is lounge/diner, but have you tried looking on rightmove if there are similar style houses nearby? If you click the house prices tab and put in your postcode you can see the pics of previously sold houses.

We have a chalet style home with some difficult shaped rooms so i had a nosey at what other people had done with the same space!

MadMaryBoddington · 26/08/2018 08:05

Same issue here. We used to use one end as a playroom when the dc were little, but I’ve moved all the toys to their bedrooms now. So now we’ve got another sofa, piano, desk and big antique rocking horse. It doesn’t quite work though, so I’ll be moving things around once we’ve decorated. Thinking about a large fish tank as a room divider.

SleepyMcEdie · 26/08/2018 08:09

We have the same issue but either end of the room are sliding patio doors the full width of the room. Loads of light, but absolute nightmare to arrange furniture.

At the minute we have sofa and TV at one end and toddlers slide/activity cube at the other.

LusaCole · 26/08/2018 08:10

Upright piano

ferrier · 26/08/2018 08:12

Study area, games playing area (computer games or e.g. pool or table football) or music.

skippy67 · 26/08/2018 17:05

We had this. After living at one end of the room for years, we reinstated the dividing wall to give us 2 reception rooms.

PookieNoodlin · 26/08/2018 17:23

We have a very large corner sofa dividing the room with the tv and chair etc at the one end, and dining table and play area for DS at the other end. If we didn’t have the dining table I guess i would just make it a much bigger play area for DS, no idea what else I would have there.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 26/08/2018 17:25

Large leather chair, a couple of display cabinets, a table with photos in frames, and more often than not my ironing board.

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