so last night i re-arranged the living room.....

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and tried it in as many different configurations (is that the right word??) as i could think of. but i had to admit defeat and push it all back to exactly the same way as it was originally because it is the only bloody way it work.

i hate hate hate the shape of my living room.

it is a strange sort of L-shape but instead of the inside corner being a proper 90 degree angle it is sloped where the door is. and the longest wall has our french doors (also the only back door of the house)and window so no furniture can go there.

my living room has 6 walls and the only usuable ones are uselessy short!! i hate it.

rant over.

Mine is the same. It's long and thin but because it has the door in the middle of one long wall and an open fire in the middle of the otherside the sofa needs to go opposite the fire. I'd like the telly in the corner but then nothing will fit. I haven't even tried to rearrange ours as I know the furniture won't fit any other way.

I have full 'can't-rearrange-the-lounge' sympathy with you.

Oh god - me too - we have only one wall against which we can put the sofa, the other long wall also has the door about 3/4's of the way down of it which means you don't have enough space to put a sofa or chair as its at the wrong end of the wall. Other has bay window/radiator and the other has fire place.

DH won't entertain the idea of moving the door as he says it's too big a job.

Grrrrrr

you couldn't even move the door in mine even if i wasn't renting.

to the left and you would be walking into the cubby under the stairs, and to the right and your in the kitchen, which wouldn't be a bad idea if it was my own house, but the layout is still pretty crap even then.

really wish we could afford to move sooner.

I feel your pain Booyhoo, I have exactly the same problem with my bedroom. I leave in the eaves of a victorian style property and because of the slanting ceilings its almost impossible to move the furniture around and I'm desperate to have the bed by the window. Frustration!