What do you love/hate about your lounge?

[PetiteMum]

so I have a blank canvas and need to design our family friendly lounge... Any tips? Tia!

The fact that there are no giant plastic kids toys in it anymore

...but apart from that we have a GIANT sofa that's big enough to sleep on, decent storage to hide away DVD's etc and lots of small lights.

Love: It is 35ft long and houses two huge sofas and a refectory dining table

Hate: It has no fireplace

Love: Very open plan and modern with floor to ceiling windows and patio doors.
Hate : Very open plan and modern with floor to ceiling windows and patio doors.

Depends what mood I'm in

I think any lounge is great so long as clutter is minimised.

LOVE - our woodburning stove.
HATE - the yorkshire stone hearth and feature wall that houses said woodburner.
LOVE - our conservatory that runs the full length of our south facing lounge.
HATE - the sliding aluminium patio doors that open up into said conservatory

HATE - the term lounge

LOVE - that my sitting room has an inglenook and woodburner

GET SLIGHTLY IRRITATED BY - the low ceiling, wonky walls and ancient leaded lights

love that it's big and square

hate that my front door opens straight into it so it can get draughty!

sat here with a blanket over my legs and another round my shoulders

Another vote for sofas! We don't bother with chairs, just have four sofas which are great for teenage sleepovers.
And a real fireplace.
And picture rails, so I can change around pictures every now and then without worrying about leaving behind nail marks.

Love my Eames (replica sadly not original) chair... and fireplace and soft snuggly rug.

I like the fact that we have no TV in our main sitting room, instead we have TWO pianos.

Love picture rail, fireplace with real fire, parguet flooring with nice rug, large windows.

Hate that it is open plan to the rest of the house - sometimes I would like to close it off and be more snuggly, also lack of plugs (actually there is enough but they are badly sited).

hate hate hate hate hate HATE the hideous monstrosity of a fireplace that previous owners put in. Faux-Victorian carved ghastliness.

Love the giant original shutters on the bay window and the big high ceilings and the size of the room.

I love the light- it's North facing, but with huge bay window, that reflects the white-painted houses opposite- it has a very special quality to it.

Hate- it's not really big enough- would love to fit even 1 piano in, let alone two!

We decorated over ten years ago and I told the older children that I was about to undertake a complete redo. they begged me not too as they love it so much!
I love the open fire...an antidepressant in Scotland that I am surprised to see on so many replies.

i'm just redoing our lounge.

i'm anti-sofa, as in previous houses i've had big sofas which end up with only one person sitting on them when we have people over, nobody wants to sit in a line of 4.

so this time i'm getting one 3 seater sofa (the grey chesterfield from the virgin tivo ad, it's blimmin beautiful), and 4 non matching chairs which are in a similar style. much more convivial.

The fact we ripped out the hideous fireplace that was out of keeping with the house and replaced it with this www.blazes.co.uk/classic-fireplaces/oslo

Love the huge bays and fabulous original cornicing. The whole reason we bought a victorian house.

Love my tetrad sofas
hate the black fire place