What do you have in your living room bay window?

[Mumofwho]

What do you currently have in your bay window? A sofa, the TV, a bench window, nothing?

Just want ideas for arranging the room.

[quote Thecazelets]@mamaduckbone Ours is a Mark 2 - we got it from the Isokon shop for our first flat, so nearly 20 years ago![/quote]
Ours is a mark one, bought 18 years ago - I still have the Isokon receipt in an orange envelope somewhere.

Lovely! We bought a Loop coffee table at the same time, but everyone thinks it came from Ikea, much to DH's annoyance...

A 2 seater couch. I moved it last Christmas and put the tree there but I like to draw the curtains so defeats the purpose. This year I'm leaving the couch and having the tree in the corner

I would love a bay window for a reading seating!! It's a lovely spot for reading imo!

We have a giant swiss cheese plant and a sofa.

We have shutters, but if we didn't I would have these blinds, that we have elsewhere, that cover the bottom part of windows. www.bottomupblinds.co.uk/

In the front room we have a window seat with lots of cushions and books underneath. To be honest it’s only really the dog that sits there.
In the spare room we have a chaise lounge and a small bookcase. That’s my spot. Sometimes I reserve it with a pile of washing because I know no one will move it
I now want a penguin donkey!

I want a penguin donkey! Why are they so expensive? I’ll find a carpenter to make me one. That surely must be cheaper.

@Thecazelets

Lovely! We bought a Loop coffee table at the same time, but everyone thinks it came from Ikea, much to DH's annoyance...

Ooh, lovely. Doesn't look remotely IKEA but it has been a bit over-copied. Dh and I would never make that mistake

A life-size Diana Ross.

A radiator. Daft question maybe but does anyone know if i can put my Christmas tree there, would the radiator melt the tree branches?

@timeforawine my radiator has never melted mine.

@draughtycatflap I need a pic! Sounds amazing

It won't melt tree branches, might melt chocolate decorations if very close.

A nest of tables. Awaiting a storage pouf thing and also a new radiator. And shutters.

Upstairs has the wash basket. Pondering an armchair there but I don’t know where the wash basket would go and actually it’s quite a nice basket.

A 4x1 kallax (it's a rectangular bay). Not the most stylish solution but helps hide the toddler crap, and you can perch on the top if you've got a room full of people.

Sofa with additional interesting cushions. Only sat on when mixing more than two households (so not recently).

Thanks @thelegohooverer
Might try my tree there this year

Nothing apart from the Christmas tree come December.

I like to be able to walk into the bay, so deliberately leave it empty.

We had a bench with cupboard underneath built in - the bench is currently a barbie apartment 😁 and the cupboards hide some toys.

Window seat.

Cat tree (its a nice one, tree shaped with wicker baskets as the 'flowers') so cat watches the garden and a large dragon palm tree to the side. It all moves to the sides for the Christmas tree in December.

I think a small sofa would look nice aesthetically but like you I would not like to sit with my back to the window.

My oversized armchair and the dog’s stool. The chair gets swapped for the obligatory Christmas tree

We have a movable window seat (fashioned out of an IKEA unit) filled with the kids toys (or our record collection back in the old days)

We had a window seat built so the dog can sit in comfort and look out of the window

A plant table - three circular table tops.