How would you furnish this compact living area?

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I'm not very good with home design and struggling to decide how to furnish our new living room which has a slightly awkward arrangement. The current owners only have a 2 seat sofa and armchair but their TV was stored away on a trolley. We would like seating for at least 3 people, preferably 4 and we have a TV. Would like to be able to see the fireplace as it's a character feature but don't plan to use it as a fireplace. What size of sofas do we get and where do we put them? Where is the best place for the TV? Also have a toddler and a large foam playmat which will probably be either in front of the sofa or between the living room bit and the dining bit (there is no other play area downstairs so living room will be he main play area for now).

Its a bit tricky to tell from the floor plan but is that two doors into the sitting dining room? I'm guessing that's how the house would have been originally before the two rooms were knocked into one. Its not quite what you'd asked, but assuming there are two doors I'd keep the dining room end one, block in the living room one, then you could have an L shaped sofa or chaise sofa going along the radiator/window walls, with the TV on the chimney breast. If there's only one door because the other has been blocked in I'd actually go to the effort of blocking up the living room one and re-opening the dining room one. It wouldn't cost much (you'd just be re-instating the original layout, so no structural issues), and the space would work and flow so much better.

I would do a 2 seater in front of radiator, and a chair either side of the fireplace

Leave the doors as they are.
I don't like L shaped sofas or chaise sofas.
I'd go for two sofas or a sofa and armchair.

Thanks for the advice! Just one door from the hallway, the kitchen one is partially filled in and just a window. I have thought about putting the TV on the chimney breast but not sure if it will be too high. There is a light fixture there at the moment but this could be modified.

I would buy some broadsheet newspapers and tape sheets together in a range of chair & sofa sizes. You can then move these around the room to give you a clearer idea of what you have room for and how it would work.

Sofa in front of radiator space (with suitable gap).

change the door to hang the other way round

armchair next to fireplace

tv mounted above armchair

Oh and if that’s a bay window could you put in extra seating/storage?

Maybe look at changing the door to a sliding door (you can do this so its surface mounted which is cheaper) and have the sofa on that wall, two armchairs and put the TV on the sideboard (not above the fire),

Or rehang the door as suggested above.

Gosh that is awkward.
If it were a major refurb of the room I'd think about moving the radiator into the bay, or maybe even having underfloor installed in that room.
For that shape (and if the fireplace is operational) the usual layout would be tv on a unit at an angle in the alcove between bay and fireplace, one sofa along wall (where radiator is now, you'd need to leave room for the warm air to circulate) and the other at right angles.
At 11ft, you might get a crack in your neck if the tv is mounted high on the chimney breast. I'm 10.5ft away from the telly and mine is mounted about halfway up the chimney breast (fireplace not in use).

I'd put the tv on the angle beside the fireplace on a unit facing into the centre of the room. Two armchairs in front of the radiator, and a two seater sofa facing the bay window on the other side of the fireplace. The sofa will divide the room into two separate areas, but you should have enough space to manoeuver around it. All seats will be able to see the tv, and wont block the feature fireplace. Toddler play mat could go between sofa and dining table, and packed away of an evening if you were having guests.

or, what is the other side of the window, is that the kitchen? The living room would work much better if that was the door and you blocked the other up. But the compromise there is that guests have to through the kitchen first. If no door was there you could get a three seater or large L shape sofa on the radiator wall, and tv above the fire. How high is the mantelpiece that you are concerned the tv would be too high?

btw, don't discount using the fire when toddler in bed, its much cheaper for heating the room than your central heating and makes winter evenings really cozy!!