Please can someone help me with furniture placement in my lounge

[Karbea]

Hello,

My lounge is L - shaped (see attached), I'm forever moving the furniture around and nothing looks right, we have all of the old furniture from my old "single" apartment and nothing fits, the maybe problem being the L-shapeness of it.
I'm happy to buy some new stuff or remove stuff.

Please can someone tell me where they'd put things if it was their room.

I don't need a dining room in there as we've that in our kitchen.

So it really is just sofa's, storage...

Thank you!

i think you need to add some vague measurements Karbea

Sorry, the pic was only v small on my screen and I can now see you have measurements on there!

what does the little piece of wall do? (the bit that pokes up into the room?) Is it part of the hall? Could the doors be re-positioned into that section of wall?

how significant is your fireplace - do you use it?

The room dimensions suggest it's quite a big room. I would envisage two zones, and having the wider end as a sitting area, with the double doors (french windows?) as a focal point perhaps, and the narrow end with a desk, couple of small chairs.

Some measurements would help - but I can see how difficult s room it is to plan...

Where is your TV point as well?

What do you use the room for? Just sitting around watching TV - or does it have any other functions?

Fill us in!

Its not an easy one. The doors, windows and fireplace are all awkwardly placed.

I think it might help if the doors were moved so that the wider end of the room didn't have a passageway at the back.

I think I'd like a tv area with couches at the patio door end and a library area with seats and book shelves at the other. Something like the picture but with 1 or 2 arms chairs with foot stools as well, if you can fit them.

Is there a chimney breast or is the fireplace flat on the wall?

Yes, the little piece of wall is the hallway. I had thought about moving the doorway, but the hall is very dark and the doors there (they are glazed) allow light into the hall. Also if you came into the house with that being a wall rather than doors you'd just face a wall, but now I'm thinking maybe we should reposition although dh won't see the point versus the cost...

We don't use the fireplace much but it is a feature although if we ever decorate I'd change it, as I don't think it's proportionally correct. It's flat against the wall, no breast.

The TV point is under the smaller window to the right of the fireplace, there is another to the right of the fireplace, but I don't think it works :/ currently everything is squashed around that window corner.

No, we only use it to sit and watch TV in, in the evening. No other purpose.

Oh and yes they are french doors to the garden.

You could put a large mirror or a painting to fill the space opposite the front door. You'd then have a lovely spot opposite the fire and the tv to run a long sofa or possibly an L shaped sofa.

Umm that's what I was thinking...

I agree that moving the hall door would make a massive difference. I'd also think about losing the fire, or at least relocating it.

How old is the house? If it's a new(ish) build you might be able to find some of the developers pictures of how it was intended to be furnished. Or are any of your neighbours' houses on zoopla?

I notice it's the drawing room, is this just being a bit pretentious or do you also have a living room, sitting room, study and play room? If so maybe look at changing the room purposes about.

It's a 70s/80s house in a road with just 5 houses and they are all different, ours started life as a bungalow and has grown...

No it's just pretentious! It was taken from the estate agent details ;)

I would also move or remove the fireplace.

Personally I would use the front end as a tv snug. Placing sofas under the front window and short wall, with the TV and storage cupboard/s opposite. The far end with the French windows would be used as a chill out/ reading area. I'd add a couple of old grandad style leather chairs or a really sumptuous deep seated lounge chair with side table and floor lamp. Then the righthand wall would be a study area with some big paintings or some floating shelving.

I'd move the doors from hall to lounge to the other wall between hand & lounge (the one vertical in the picture). then you'll have a big space at the end of the lounge with french doors to the garden, and can put a big (L-shape?) sofa in and have a nice sitting space looking to the garden in summer / fire in winter.

at the other end, where the front window & new hall door look in, I'd have a console table / bookshelf / single reading chair