Hi everyone,
I'm having a dilemma. How would you arrange the furniture in this room? The fireplace is throwing me off. I'm staging it next weekend. Here are some pictures, and thanks in advance. I admire all of your work and your comments and suggestions. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
Here is the room from upstairs.
Here is the room from standing in the kitchen, as you can see, it opens to the kitchen
Here is the view from standing next to the fireplace
Here is the view looking from the room into the kitchen
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Chrissie, now I see the dining room chandelier through the kitchen. Awkward due to so many openings and the unbalanced placement of the fireplace. How about a 2 barstools, two small scale slipper chairs along the wall coming from the kitchen, sofa facing the chairs, floating in the room, anchored with an area rug. Then maybe a big tree in the corner adjacent to the french doors and also in that area a comfortable "reading chair" with a table and lamp. What is the room where I catch a glimpse of a wee one? And the room through the french doors? Me thinks I would take all of those items and doing a lot of moving about. Does your rental company allow for take-backs if something doesn't work? I would love playing with this.
Chrissie -- What an awkward layout this area is! How you stage it will probably not be how someone lives in it. I'd try to show this space as a relaxing spot for TV or conversation. As Ginger suggested, if it were my project I'd bring a small-scale loveseat, a couple of slipper chairs, and cube-style tables that are "flexible" to work with. Less may be more in this area because you have to leave a "path" to the dining room. Sometimes you just have to "be there" trying different arrangements, then you suddenly hit on the best one. Good luck and let us know how it comes out!
Chrissie,
I like your idea of asking everyone for their input, it really helps to get good ideas. This is quite an unusual room. My thinking is to put a small sofa or loveseat with it's back to the kitchen and facing the fireplace and still leaving enough room to walk behind it. A slipper chair next to the fireplace on the left, next to it a very small table with a small base lamp. A faux TV above the fireplace on the wall. I would use a couple of small ottomans as a coffee table so to give the illusion it could be used as extra sitting along the wall if needed. If you had a skinny little sofa table to put behind the loveseat that would be great, if not a soft throw over the back would also soften the look. An area rug under the two small ottomans and a picture on the wall that would also draw your eye to the opposite wall with a simular color picture which would make the room look connected even though there are french doors in between the two parts of the room.
As for the other wall I would put a tree in the corner and two chairs and a table in between with a lamp and accessories on it. A colorful picture that compliments the picture on the oppisite wall would be great. Just my vision I hope there might be just one thing out of it that might be helpful. Best of wishes for you and this project. I can't wait to see it when you post the pictures. I know it will turn out beautiful.
Wow, you all are great. Great ideas. It helps so much to have another eye and input.
Ginger- the room where you see my daughter is the master bedroom. Also, through the french doors is a sunroom. Here are pics of the sunroom.
This is the other side of the fireplace in the family room
Here is the room standing next to the fireplace in the first picture
Some builders seem to give no thought at all to room layout. I guess that's where staging
Some builders seem to give no thought at all to room layout. I guess that's where staging really
Oh, my, that IS a confusing room! The placement of the fireplace is totally awkward. What were they thinking? I like the ideas you've gotten so far. Please post the after pics.
Hi Chrissy,
Well, I must say that room is beyond a challenge! Once you factor in the necessary foot traffic patterns according to the layout of the house, it is no wonder they called you!
I really studied your pics, and the options are so few. I would have to settle on only one armless chair with a round footstool instead of a coffee table by the fireplace, and an armless and somewhat narrow-depth sofa with a side table on the other end of the room. I'd put a screen tv with a very narrow console underneath it for books and decoratives on the wall near the fireplace, and an architecturally interesting 3-d sculptural piece over the off-center fireplace. Lighting the sculptural piece would add impact, a light source, and serve the fireplace to set it off.
I'd also hang a vertical painting over the sofa for drama on that side. I don't think I'd add a rug (and I always want to add rugs!), because I would want to emphasize the height and show off the floors. Minimal stuff, maximum bang would be my intent.
The room cannot support a coffee table of any kind in my opinion. Choosing armless furniture will allow more visual flow and allow the narrow space to feel wider.
Good luck Chrissey!
Michelle
Thank you so much Michelle. I love your drawings on the pictures. That is a HUGE help. I stage it this weekend and will post the pictures for you all to see how it turned out. Thanks so much for your input, it means so much.
Hi Chrissie, how did the staging turn out, can't wait to see. Love Michelle's drawings as well. Very helpful.