Where to put big sofa

[Housenoob]

Help! We're moving into a new house soon and I'm trying to work out how we configure the lounge. I've attached part of the floor plan showing the lounge, which then has a large archway going into a similar length dining room.

My question is, where would you put a large (4 seater) sofa? The length of wall next to the door isn't long enough. Can't put it in front of the fireplace on the opposite wall. Don't really want to put it in front of the window. So that leaves putting it opposite the window in front of the archway bit that leads to the dining room. But would this be silly and break up the large space awkwardly? Any other ideas?

Sell it and buy 2 smaller ones, or one smaller sofa and a chair/couple of chairs.

But I love our big sofa 😕

Can it not stick out in front of the door, and face the fireplace?

What an odd lay out. I'd get rid of the fireplace

Corner sofas are a nightmare

In this living room, we have a 3 seater, a 2 seater and a cuddle armchair (2 v small people could fit on it or just me with my massive bum)

One of our sofas is in the window bay, looks lovely with the curtains draped to the sides and makes the room bigger than if we had it along one of the other walls

Also (unsolicited advice) this is why through lounges are terrible as you lose a wall to put things up against.

Well, yeah - your choices are in front of bay window or middle of room dividing the space or get different furniture.

You’ll have to try it and see if you like it in either position, then if not (almost inevitably, I’d say!) buy a different sofa.

This may well be what we do in the long run.

@ladygindiva dunno, feel that would look a bit awkward, make the room look smaller and lead to dead space behind the sofa that will just accumulate a lot of crap!

Block the door and access the room by the other way? The archway?

It’s a very big item of furniture for a not very big room. It’ll swamp it. If you absolutely have to keep it, I’d put solid double doors on the opened up wall and position the sofa there.

Is there a door into the dining room? If so I would just use that and have the sofa along the wall in front of the living room door. My parents have this set up and it's absolutely fine

There is, but via the kitchen at the back of the house.

Urgh this is annoying me so much. Think the best option will be to remove and block up the fireplace which is an ugly gas one anyway, just not sure we'll be able to afford to do this straight away.

Does a hallway run along, could you put a door in the side of the living room?

Sorry the side of the dining room!