Awkward room layout

notanewuser

Help if you can please, lovely forum peeps.

I'm going through a process of reorganising our home to make it suit our needs better now that we have a 2 year old, but I just don't know what to do with our living room.

It's a really awkward shape - almost twice as long as it is wide, with the door and fireplace in the middle of the longest walls. Apart from the unit under the television, we haven't bought anything for the room - it's all stuff that came from previous houses. We have a 3 seater and a 2 seater sofa, 2 coffee tables plus all of DD's toys (mainly at the back of the room, plus a toy box near the TV and baskets between the smaller sofa's arm and the wall). It's not really working. There's not enough seating if we have more than 2 people around. There's nowhere to put a cup down if you're on the smaller sofa.

Have attached floor plans with and without the major furniture. grateful for any inspiration anybody can offer!

Cash-Cow_3

Would the small sofa fit in the bay?

If it would I would move the TV next to the fireplace, with storage the other side of it.

On the large sofa side I would put small coffee table the other side of the sofa so both sofas could reach it.

The big coffee table I would chop up and put on your fire.

notanewuser

Cash-Cow wrote: »

Would the small sofa fit in the bay?

If it would I would move the TV next to the fireplace, with storage the other side of it.

On the large sofa side I would put small coffee table the other side of the sofa so both sofas could reach it.

The big coffee table I would chop up and put on your fire.

Unfortunately not. The pic isn't to scale and the sofa is at least 2 feet wider than the bay.

Television can't move.

Coffee table has 2 big storage baskets and the subwoofer under it, so they would need housing somewhere.

I'm not sure that moving everything to the walls will do anything for the room as there will just be a huge space in the middle and all the furniture around the outside.

:undecided

loracan1

Do some measuring and use this site. I used it last month to plan out my dining room, was really helpful and easy to use (can resize things like sofas etc)

Biggles

notanewuser wrote: »

The pic isn't to scale

You realise that does make it well-nigh impossible to offer much help?

notanewuser

Biggles wrote: »

You realise that does make it well-nigh impossible to offer much help?

I'll do some measuring later.

Just wondered if anybody had any magic ideas for this sort of room, that's all.

sooz

We have a very similar room, just without the bay.
Put the sofas infront of the radiators, leaving a gap for heat.
Put an armchair in the corner the by the patio door on the other side of the room to the sofa.
Ottomans are your friend. Get a double for the bay, & a single either side of the fireplace. With hidden storage for toys.
Coffee table in middle of the room.

pinkteapot

Check out houses for sale on Rightmove...

Not suggesting you move. But virtually every listing has a photo of the lounge so you can nose at how other people lay them out.

I always wonder why long thin lounges are so common. People so often end up with part of the room as dead space because they arrange their furniture in a square.

notanewuser

sooz wrote: »

We have a very similar room, just without the bay.
Put the sofas infront of the radiators, leaving a gap for heat.
Put an armchair in the corner the by the patio door on the other side of the room to the sofa.
Ottomans are your friend. Get a double for the bay, & a single either side of the fireplace. With hidden storage for toys.
Coffee table in middle of the room.

The room is about 12ft wide and 22ft long with a very wide door (3ft).

There would be huge gaps between the furniture and it would make TV watching quite difficult if the other sofa weren't facing it.

Not a fan of ottomans really - and we already have storage baskets (plus the speaker) under the coffee table in the bay.

Table in the middle would be inconvenient a) for the door and b) for putting hot drinks on as you wouldn't easily reach and we have a toddler.

notanewuser

pinkteapot wrote: »

Check out houses for sale on Rightmove...

Not suggesting you move. But virtually every listing has a photo of the lounge so you can nose at how other people lay them out.

I always wonder why long thin lounges are so common. People so often end up with part of the room as dead space because they arrange their furniture in a square.

My old house had a knocked through lounge and dining room making a room 24ft long and 9" wide at one end (and about 11ft at the other).

I used one end as a lounge and the other as a dining room. But we have a big kitchen diner too, so no need for this room to be dual purpose.

penguingirl

Have you thought about getting a nest of tables? We find them really handy to be able to move them around if we're sat on the second sofa (and my guess is you will have a 'main' sofa that you use).

I know you said you can't move your TV, but ultimately I think you are restricted unless you do as at the moment you have it an awkward corner. I even think it would be better on the opposite corner (the same side as the door) so that your sofa could go against the wall next to the fireplace and the other could come a few feet further towards the window