Does anyone out there have a room whose shape or traffic patterns make it just impossible to place furniture? (My living room, for example, is a long narrow rectangle — too long for one seating area, too narrow to easily divide in half). Inspired House is considering an article on furniture arrangement for challenging rooms. So, readers, let us hear about your most difficult spaces. Thanks!
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The TV shows Decorating Cents and Designer's Challenge do lots of rooms like that. There are reruns on all the time. I'm not good at it myself.
Our family room is about 35 feet long by 16 feet wide - not easy to arrange. I complicated the matter by buying my husband a pool table for Christmas one year, so we need clearance for the pool table out to 17 feet, making seating and television placement really difficult. We still haven't hit on the right combination. I suggested that maybe we should get a plasma screen that can be folded up out of the way when we play pool. Being a guy my husband has no objections. Way out of our budget for now though.
I do. Let's see if I can describe.
Front entry, living and dining room are all combined into one room, about 24 x 14. The front entry is french doors swinging out, and it's in teh 24 foot long wall.
The dining table ('cause ya can't get a small one anymore) seats 6 when the leaf is out, and it is in front of the entry door. When you come in the door, you might as well sit down, because there's a chair in your face anyway. As you come in the door, directly to your right is the "living room". The couch is right there. There's a wood stove in the corner next to the couch, and the stairway goes up just across from that. Under the stairs is an alcove where the piano is, and after that you're in the kitchen.
It's a really small house, and this area bugs me because all traffic paths from the stairs to the kitchen, stairs to the front door, front door to the kitchen cross, and they're all only one person wide--not even enough room for a person and a dog. Don't know if it's interesting enough, but if someone asks for digital photos, I'm happy to send them.
Muddyfeet