Living room layout - help needed. Going crazy with all the options

[Sweetmelody72]

Would anyone like to give their opinion on what layout I should go for in my living room?

We have a new sofa (2m long, 90cm wide). I originally planned to buy a second matching one as I love the look of two sofas facing each other but, confession, the main function of this space will be TV watching Close second, I’d like to think, is conversation and socialising.

Can I achieve two sofas facing each other and TV on the wall at eye level (123cm wide) without any of us (family of four) getting a crick in the neck? If not, which layout for two sofas, TV, coffee table etc would you think would be most practical and most aesthetically pleasing?

We do really want two sofas as a minimum (armchair too?). We are only committed to the one we already have our sofa and would be happy with the second being the same size or a smaller two seater (168cm long).

Would like to avoid the TV going over the fireplace, but it would fit on any of the walls where I have written the length on the plan.

Overall room dimensions are 5.3m by 4.2m

We're just giving this thread a bump for the OP.

Thanks @JoMumsnet. Always too shy to do it myself!

Do you want both to be able to see the TV? Also do you intent to use the fireplace?

Could big sofa 1 go along the 345cm wall.
Small sofa 2 infront of the 155cm wall (pick one with a low back i.e. a chesterfield style or similar). Bring both sofa's towards the centre of the room (i.e not against the wall).

Then the TV could go on the wall behind the small sofa. Perhaps on a wall mounted TV bracket that can be tilted.

Then you'd have space for an armchair in the corner between the doors.

My grandfather cut out little forms to size of the sofas and the rest of the furniture to rearrange in the model of his living room

@grey12 that’s got to be 10 times more sensible than dragging the furniture around the room (which was what I was doing on Saturday night!).

@MooshWoosh one day I’ll work out how to annotate images the way that you have! This is really helpful. So more often than not it will be one adult and one child on the main sofa watching TV together, but DH is adamant that if he and I are both watching TV, he will want to be on his own sofa giving himself the option to sprawl out. So he doesn’t buy the layout with one sofa with its back to the TV. I love everything about your layout - apart from this element, but cannot see a way around it.

If the small sofa was to move in front of the doors to the study so the sofas are in an L-shaped arrangement ( the doors are only to give us the option of joining the two rooms together for parties, Christmas etc so happy to have the sofa in front of it) do you think I will have an issue with flow? Both in terms of walking through the door into the room and then into the seating area (how big a gap between the sofas do I need so knees don’t get bashed when you walk to one of the sofas, but not too big so the sofas are too far away from each other?) as well as walking to the French doors and into the garden??

How many bums do you need to accommodate for tv watching?
If you have people over how many would you like to be able to seat?

Two matching sized sofas would look better than different sizes but you might find two armchairs a more versatile option than a smallish sofa.
Or if you have the TV where Moosh suggested you could have your long sofa opposite and a smaller one at a right angle, then an armchair below the TV.

Or have the TV in the right alcove, two sofas in L shape and an armchair which could go wherever it felt best (and be moved around).

I'd do this

@parietal that’s the one! Love the fact that there is a decent gap between both sofas (so it doesn’t feel like an obstacle course) and that they almost face each other. Did consider an armchair at an angle but never occurred to me to angle the sofa.