So confused on how to arrange the seating in the "living room".

by Janine
(Pontiac, Il)

Hi there!!

First of all I love your site! :)

I've been trying and trying to come up with the perfect way to arrange my (not bought yet) furniture.

I've recently bought my very first home & I want to create a comfy yet stylish living room. My dilema is that I have an open floor plan that consists of a pretty small space that's quite narrow.

Ok so here's what the space looks like. The North side of the room will be used as the living room.

On the North wall there is the "entry" door & an ordinary size window, on the West wall, one of the long walls, there is another window.

Right now I have the tv and stand sitting in the corner of these 2 walls. Which means there's window, t.v, then window again.

On the East wall diagnol of the entrance door is a bedroom door. There is also a heating vent about a foot & a half to the left of the entrance door (not sure about putting anything over it).

I'm thinking that the t.v & windows are looking cluttered but if I put the seating there & the tv on the other side there may be a glare from the windows on the tv & the tv would just be "floating" in the middle of the room...

Please help...

I'm having a hard time figuring out where to divide this room also. There is a "beam" directly in the center of this room which I automatically feel that I should use as a divider..

Any ideas would be truly appreciated...

Thanks a ton!!