Ideas for a Second Reception Room

theGrinch

Hello, I was hoping for some ideas for our second reception room. Until recently we had our piano and other musical instruments in there and used it as a music room.

Its now empty except for some book shelves. It is about 14 ft by 12 ft with one door off the hallway and french doors into the garden side return.

There are intercommunicating doors into the front reception (we have our sofa and tv in there).

We also have have a kitchen/diner at the rear of the house including our dining table.

We have no children so a playroom is not required.

We were thinking of putting a sofa and coffee table in there and using it as a reading area or games room, but we would be grateful for any other ideas.

phoebe1989seb

As you obviously don't want/require a formal dining room, my vote would be for a snug/reading room - especially if, like us you have masses of books. Depending on your style/taste a woodburner might make it a cosy retreat.

We've always had too many reception rooms (by most peoples' standards, lol!) and have managed to find uses for them. DH used to have a keyboard and electric drum kit which were in the fifth bedroom in our last-but-one house as the main receptions were set out as formal dining room, living room and conservatory TV room.

In our last house we had a whopping five receptions (plus conservatory which we used as a breakfast room) so we're used to dreaming up ideas to put extra rooms to good use We had a reading room, study, formal dining room and music room as well as the main drawing room

In our current house we plan to have the main sitting room at the back overlooking the garden and the receptions at the front which look out into the main road through our village will be the dining room and the snug which will also house the TV. The main sitting room will be very long and quite narrow when knocked through (currently a kitchen, bathroom and junk room in an awful 80s extension on a 200 year old house) so at one end will be our reading area with bookcases, comfy sofa and coffee table.....

A hobbies room - I'm into sewing/crafts etc - is also something I'd like to find space for and my fantasy is to have an indoor table-tennis table as we used to have an outdoor one but had to get rid of it on one of our moves

Hopefully someone else will have some other more radical suggestions as mine actually seem to be a bit mundane, lol!

Moomum

Hubby persuaded me to change our third reception room into a cinema room. I wasn't keen at first but now I love it. We have a projector and a huge retractable screen and big comfy sofas, it's pretty fab :-) not everyone's cup of tea though.