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I'm a total newbie here, just came across this great forum! We're moving to a new apartment (a small one in US scale!), and we're having a hard time deciding on the furniture placement and design of our living/dining room.
To go directly to the point, I'm attaching the plan of the apartment (European metrics, sorry! bottom of the picture is direction south, apartment on 2nd floor). Except a piano, almost all the furniture will be new, so we are thinking of both what to purchase (and we're flexible in that) and where to place the furniture. As you see, we have a square space for living+dining room. The large window in the south (opening on the balcony) gives a wonderful view over the green and the lake, and we hope to benefit from it with proper furniture placement. There's also this other window to the east which would be mostly useful for more daylight. So the dilemma is how to choose and place the following furniture in the living/dining room:
1) A piano (1.5m long): As the piano can't be placed by/close to the windows, this can be placed either in the corner on top right of the living room (below the WC), or by the wall opposite to it (left side)
2) dining table (for 6 people, this can also be an expandable 4-seat square table)
3) Sofa (either two, or one L-shaped) + possibly an armchair (if space permits)
4) Small TV table with TV on it (1.3m long maximum): TV can be placed on either side, left or right (TV plug available)
5) A sideboard (~ 1-1.5m long)
So our main problem is the placement of both piano and dining table and choice of the sofa(s), to still keep the living room as large as possible, while having good exposure to the south.
That's about it I guess. Looking forward to your ideas!
The piano will need to go on an interior wall to protect the soundboard from humidity damage and to keep it in tune.
Sorry, but I just dont have the time to switch everything over from metric to feet and make suggestions for furniture placement.
The piano will need to go on an interior wall to protect the soundboard from humidity damage and to keep it in tune.
Sorry, but I just dont have the time to switch everything over from metric to feet and make suggestions for furniture placement.
Thanks for your comment. I put up the measures in feet in red, will that help?
I posted a tip in another thread previously, which may help you. You can lay tracing paper over the floorplan and sketch in furniture to help you with the layout.
This is a relatively small space for your furniture requrements so the best thing would be to keep your furniture on a small scale.
First I would center an oblong dining table in front of the kitchen and between the WC.
Second I would place the piano on the interior wall with wall sconces on either side.
Put the L-shape sofa facing the doors to the terrace behind the dining table. Get a small sideboard and place it on the right wall next to L of the sofa. You can put some lamps on the sideboard and accessorize to your taste but keep it simple. If space permits, place a coffee table with drawers for storage in front of the sofa. An ottoman would work here too for extra seating if needed.
Put your TV and table (a small TV stand or chest with storage would work here if space permits) in the left corner by the terrace doors. Try to place it cattycorner if you can.
A small chair in the right corner by the terrace windows. Separate the two areas with two area rugs to define the spaces.
I can't wait to see what floor plan ksshe designs - she's a pro at this.
Is that really a window in front of a deck? I'm guessing its is a slider, but the symbol used is for a window. Much of the poche is not accurate so it is probably a slider meant to be there. This is very important for furniture placement. If it is a slider, you will need to sacrifice either the dining table or piano. You won't get them both if you cannot place furniture along the outside wall.
This is a relatively small space for your furniture requrements so the best thing would be to keep your furniture on a small scale.
First I would center an oblong dining table in front of the kitchen and between the WC.
Second I would place the piano on the interior wall with wall sconces on either side.
Put the L-shape sofa facing the doors to the terrace behind the dining table. Get a small sideboard and place it on the right wall next to L of the sofa. You can put some lamps on the sideboard and accessorize to your taste but keep it simple. If space permits, place a coffee table with drawers for storage in front of the sofa. An ottoman would work here too for extra seating if needed.
Put your TV and table (a small TV stand or chest with storage would work here if space permits) in the left corner by the terrace doors. Try to place it cattycorner if you can.
A small chair in the right corner by the terrace windows. Separate the two areas with two area rugs to define the spaces.
I can't wait to see what floor plan ksshe designs - she's a pro at this.
Hi Rowen,
Thanks a lot for your great ideas! As I was not sure about the exact design, I sketched your ideas on the plan. Any bugs in there?
The only thing that's still bothering me is that the dining table would be in the center, right in front of the kitchen. Do you think that would be OK especially when we enter the apartment and the first big furniture we confront is the table? That's why I was wondering if we could possibly put a smaller extensible dining table on a side (left or right) and enlarge it for 6 people if needed... Or maybe you also meant putting it more to the left (corner with WC from top)?
Is that really a window in front of a deck? I'm guessing its is a slider, but the symbol used is for a window. Much of the poche is not accurate so it is probably a slider meant to be there. This is very important for furniture placement. If it is a slider, you will need to sacrifice either the dining table or piano. You won't get them both if you cannot place furniture along the outside wall.
I'm not sure if I understood you, but the large window in the south opens with a slider as you said, and the one on the east is a normal window. And right, I'm afraid we can not place furniture alongside the south window then, if you meant so...
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