How to arrange furniture in a VERY small living room?

Question

My living room is substantially smaller than most of the rooms in my 100+ year old home. I am at a loss as to how to arrange the furnishings! No matter how I do it, it just looks cramped and crowded and boring.

The room measures 10' by 20'. All I have in the room is a sofa, sofa chair, side table, coffee table, and the entertainment center.

The design of the room makes it hard to turn the sofa at a diagonal, because there is a large archway to the dining room at one end, and a staircase at the other end, my front door on the one side, and entry to the hall on the other side.

Are there any good design websites that you know of? Or what would you suggest (i.e. getting rid of some of the pieces or replacing them)?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

i had the same problem and here is my solution..... angle the enterinment center in the corner, on the longet wall in the room place the sofa almost so that it is reaching the very endof the wall. if there is a window in the room place the sofa chair so that it may make an L shape with the sofa leaving a space foe the end table; so that you may place a lamp or something......angle the coffee table in front of the sofas...viola.....you are sitting pretty.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I hate rooms like that. I had a similar problem at our old house, every wall had something there!

I suggest you find new furnishings. Less is more. Get a flat screen TV you can hang on the wall, a corner unit for all the knick knacks or a thin flatter credenza type unit under the tv. Really spend the time looking for versatile chairs/sofas etc. I would skip the sofa altogether, go for a small two seater perhaps; Find things that would suit the room that do not take up space. Forget the coffee table and opt for smaller interesting pieces and compact ones you can move and tuck away. A small ottoman can serve as a table too with a nice large tray atop it.

There's a tv show designing for small spaces. Do a search and maybe you'll find something.

You may opt for one comfy piece of furniture and pillows instead too.

Answer 4

I have a few suggestions:

Make sure that seats are facing a window to make the room look more open

If it'll work, push the coffee table against a wall or take it out of the room to make the room look bigger

If you're able to buy new furniture, buy studio furniture

Also, instead of a full size sofa you could try a love seat

you could get two love seats or chairs and set them at a 90 degree angle with the end table inbetween

good luck!

Answer 5

Since you have such a small space, I would suggest putting the coffee table in another room/storage. They take lots of room. I would place the enterainment center on one of the long walls. The sofa and chair should be on the other long wall with the table between them. If you have room. place the chair at a slight angle. Or if that does not work, angle the tv (not the entertainment center) so that you can see it from the sofa and chair that you place on a side wall.

The easiest way to design this is with a piece of graph paper. Each block is a foot. Draw it to scale and include the door openings, windows etc. Measure your furnitue to scale and practice. You could even draw the furniture on another piece of paper and cut out. Then you could practice by placing on the scale pic you drew of the room. She how that works.

Good Luck

Answer 6

It sounds like you need to do two things.

The first thing you need to do is create a scaled layout model. Basically take a sheet of paper and draw out your room to scale. For you a scale of 0.50" = 1 foot should be a good scale. Graph paper can also help. Or if you have trouble figuring the scale out, you could get a triangular drafting ruller. A half inch = 1 foot scale would allow you to fit the drawing on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper. Next, measure the length and width of all your furniture pieces. Make little scaled cut outs of the furniture so you can move them around on the scaled layout to see what layouts you like. In drafting class, we used this method to partially determine how to design a house. The idea in drafting was to basically design the house around the furniture that you want inside of it.

In this instance though, you already have a predetermined room size. So you are trying to what ways the furniture will fit best and if it really will comfortably fit.

From the way you described things, it sounds like the sofa probably is too big for the room and should probably go. It would probably be best to replace the sofa either with a smaller sofa or a couple of smaller pieces of furniture. So that means you probably need to go furniture shopping. When you go shopping. Don't go out to buy. Go out to get dimensions and see if the fabric color will go with your room color and decor. Take the dimensions from the furniture you go shopping for and see if it will fit the way you want it before you buy it. If the dimensions work, then take about a 12"x12" piece of cardboard and paint it the same color as your room. Take it with you when you go furniture shopping. I know that it might look a little dorky carrying in a painted piece of cardboard but that is your color pallette. It gives you a big color sample that you can stand against the furniture or tape it up behind it then step back and get a good idea if it will go with the color of your room. If your other pieces of furniture have fabric arm covers you might take the arm covers in with you to see if the fabrics of the other pieces of furniture somewhat go with the new furniture.

Answer 7

Place the sofa so the back of it faces the dining room. The coffee table in front of the sofa. Place the entertainment center to the left or right of this group so it is viewable from the sofa. One end against a wall, the other projecting into the room -the sofa chair may be placed to face the TV, or turned to face the sofa. The side table goes either next to the chair or near the stairs area.

One respondent suggested making a diagram; instead, put cardboard together to represent the "footprint" of the actual furnishings, and move those around the room. If you need to "lose" something, consider the coffee table first.

Take a picture of your final arranagement for us!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I would look at the pictures on the HGTV website. There are also templates of furniture. Find some that represent the size of yours. Then place them on a piece of paper that is in proportion to your room. You may want to use your furniture to enhance the flow of your traffic patterns.

Answer 10

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