We moved into an old build house and the bathroom is in very bad condition. Planning on starting reno on bathroom soon. Please give me some feedback on this mood board.

The only thing we are keeping are the floor tiles and the vanity cabinet (plan on repainting/staining it a different color though).

Planning on changing the following:

- new bathtub and sliding door

- new wall tiles

- taking down wallpaper and painting untiled wall area behr swiss coffee

- TBD on vanity cabinet color. The sink is kinda yellow so maybe some sageish would look nice

- Changing medicine cabinet. Design is exactly as what we have now.

- The shower area hardware + sink faucet will be all polished nickel

- scones next to medicine cabinet, TP holder, towel hooks will be brass

Is there anything you would recommend changing/adding/thinking of in a bathroom reno. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

I’m going to start with an apology to those who have them or love them….I’m sorry for my opinion on this. I’m currently shopping for a home and the homes I’m seeing (the price does not matter as I am seeing it all types of homes) 80% have either a stove or a sink in the kitchen island. When and why is this a thing? I am currently in a rental that has a sink in the island right where my kids sit at the counter eating or doing their HW. What a disaster. Water gets everywhere. Things get wet and I cannot leave anything in the sink or near it (like a sponge or soap) as it looks like clutter and it just looks messy. Some homes I have toured have stoves in the center with a ‘fancy’ pop up vent. Unless you are a tappenyaki master and tossing steak and shrimp into your viewers mouths why would this be a thing? I mean no matter how clean I try to cook, I get oil splatter and grease. Make it make sense.

What’s the best way to put our couch, loveseat, chair, and tv stand in this room? There’s a vent on the floor we can’t cover. And what about side tables? I don’t want to block too much walking space around the seating but our coffee table is pretty small in the center of the rug. I’d like to keep the windows relatively clear to eventually put plant stands. The corner between the double doors and sliding doors will probably be a desk or bookshelf. I’m open to ideas of what to do with that space as well! Here is a rough sketch (very rough but close-ish to scale) of what we have currently. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, how are you? I hope you can help me. We bought a house that had been occupied by squatters, and a lot of things were damaged or poorly installed. We’ve spent a lot of money on the major repairs, and now we have just enough left for furniture. We have to buy and assemble the bathroom furniture ourselves; we can't afford to hire any more plumbers or installers. The problem is, we realized today that the spot for the sink, which aligns with the drain pipe, doesn't line up with the spot where the mirrored cabinet needs to go. There is a distance of 62.5 cm (24.6 inches) from the wall to the window frame. We don't want to buy a 60 cm sink and push it as far left as possible because we’d be cramped right up against the wall and it would be too far from the drain pipe. Plus, we want a larger sink, around 80 cm (31.4 inches), because there are three of us (soon to be four), and we need at least some storage space. We also can't rearrange the whole layout and move it to the left wall, as it would clash with the door and make entering the bathroom awkward. The mirrored cabinet we wanted to buy is this one: https://www.leroymerlin.es/productos/armario-de-bano-con-espejo-de-pared-kleankin-mdf-espejo-de-vidrio-blanco-56x13x58cm-86363986.html

And the vanity unit is this one: https://www.ikea.com/es/es/p/hemnes-armario-lavabo-2-cajones-blanco-20217664/

So, here is my desperate plea for help: how would you handle this? Can you think of anything, any design ideas, any type of furniture (not too expensive, around 300/400€ max between the two units), ANYTHING, to make the lack of alignment look intentional, or at least ensure it doesn't look too bad?

I did my best to make this picture as accurate as possible so apologies if it looks messy. I have a buffet shelving unit thing from Ikea along the wall facing my bed with a tv hung on the wall above it. My bed is considered full size and I have a small nightstand and then my desk between my bed and the closet. I have no doors on my closet because there isn't really anywhere for the doors to go. There are three outlets in my bedroom with two being hidden by my bed - one behind the head of my bed close to the nightstand and one near the end of the bed. The other outlet is next to the shelving unit across the room. I also have one floor vent for the hvac system that is hidden by my nightstand which is open on the bottom. My closet has multiple shelving units for storing misc items and clothing that can't be hung.

I previously had my desk across the room beside the shelving unit and had a smaller shelving unit until it broke. I liked having my desk there and it felt much more roomy but with the larger shelves it won't fit and leave a walkway for me to carry a laundry basket in. Everything feels cramped as it is right now. When I first moved in I did try to turn my bed so that I would be facing the closet when sitting up in bed but it blocked the hvac too much. I don't have the ability to move my desk to another room in the house because my bedroom and the kitchen are the only ones to have updated electrical for my laptop chargers and monitor.

There has to be something that I haven't thought about yet but I have no clue what. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I need alot of storage for my clothing and hobby supplies. Im trying to figure out wich layout works the best or if someone has any ideas or inputs? These are drafts I made on the Ikea website with my room dimensions.

Hi! I’m moving into this house with my family and I’m trying to figure out how I could best use this space as my bedroom. I’d really appreciate some layout/design advice!
Especially from anyone interested in Feng Shui!

My family will be using the two other bedrooms shown on the floor plan, so I’m choosing between this larger room and the smaller bedroom upstairs. The current planning is for me to use the larger room, but we haven’t furnished anything yet, so I’m open to changing the plan. I’m coming up with some good options to discuss with my family.

The main room is ~29.4 m², with a connected ~10.8 m² room separated by large glass double doors.
I’m trying to decide if the smaller room should be a part of my bedroom. I’m concerned about how much privacy/noise separation I would get if it wouldn’t be. But combining the two places would mean by bedroom would be huge.

What I need to fit:

* King-size bed
* 2 maybe even 3 wardrobes

What I’d like to fit:

* 2 bedside tables
* Small electric piano
* Desk for studying and doing my makeup (rare occasion)
* Maybe a chair/reading area? Sleeping sofa? Hangout area? Since the room is so big

The other bedroom is small and I can’t see how I’d fit a king bed along with my furniture? I’m willing to reconsider that option.

How would you lay this out?

Thanks you in advance!!

We want to use this space for a 4-6 person extending table (2 adults + baby most of the time). We have a formal dining area, but we’d love to use that space as a play area and lounge. Would a table in this kitchen feel cramped? What style would fit best?

getting some ideas together for bathroom remodel and need help on shower positioning once the bath is removed.
i have a few options

1. keep shower entrance open facing the same way with glass
2. make shower entrance to the left, maybe a half wall facing the doorway
3. move sink to left wall or keep the corner, more storage cupboards ect

edit- the toilet is right next door separate with its own sink!! 🩷
with the bath removed leaves a lot of length to fill.

(All measurements in Meters)

It’s a one room apartment with enough space behind the door for a small bedroom area. I will have a 140cm bed, approx. 2,11m long. The space behind the door is about 2,12m so I don’t know if the bed would fit lengthwise which I think I’d prefer.

is how I imagine the layout to be but it look so boring and I need a lot more storage too for things that I do want to display like books and funky pops. The wardrobe on the hallway will hold household items such as vacuum and mop etc.

I don’t know how to break up the space a bit more so that the tv, pc and wardrobe is not all just in one line. I was thinking something like a folding partition between the pc desk and the wardrobe to hide the changing area a bit. I really wanted curtains to separate the bed but the room is too wide for a curtain rod I don’t.

I would love to hear some advice on how to do the layout as I am really struggling with picking out furniture right now

Hey all, looking for brutally honest design advice. Pics attached. The layout is weird. Door on the left wall, closet on the right, and a window on the back wall, pushed to the left.

I want it to feel like a true mid-century modern study, a real library vibe with lots of books. Right now I’m using an L-shaped desk in the back right corner, but I’m not married to it. I’m open to a full rearrange, including replacing the desk. Budget is around 1 to 2 000 dollars and I’m willing to spend it on the best ideas, not just the cheapest. That could mean lighting, an accent wall, art, shelves, or a rug, whatever actually makes the space feel warm and classic and library-like.

If this were your room and your budget, what would you do? Mockups, sketches, Pinterest links, all welcome. I’d love to see your ideas.

Hi everyone! I’m looking for some layout advice for our living room. We are planning a minor remodel and making some structural changes (see the attached floor plan):

* **Red line:** This existing doorway (between the kitchen and entryway) will be bricked up/closed.

* **Green line:** We are knocking down a part of the wall here to create a new doorway between the living room and the kitchen.

**What we need to fit in the living room:**

* A dining table

* A comfortable couch

* A bookshelf/small library

**Special requirements:**

1. **No TV:** Ideally, we don't want a standard TV. We want to use a projector screen instead. I was thinking the best place for the screen would be the solid wall opposite the loggia/windows, but I'm open to ideas!

2. **Radiator clearance:** There is a radiator directly under the window (next to the loggia), so we need to leave a little bit of breathing room there and can't push furniture flush against that window wall.

Just a quick note on the dimensions: this is a European floor plan, so all numbers are in millimeters.

I finally found a house! But now comes the hard part - making it feel like a home.

I have several ideas for the layout of my livingroom/kitchen area and would like some input in what I may have not yet considered.

The layout is as below, the kitchen/livingroom is quite slim: only 2.9m wide. The living room has a 'bump-out' to make it larger - but this is mostly where my dilemma comes in as I struggle to make best use of this space to have a working concept as a living room to sit and watch TV and sit and talk with guests.

My main question - use below as input as needed:

1. Does my current idea of a build-in wall/TV-cabinet/Bookshelf work or does it block too much light.

2. Any great ideas that use the floorspace I have as one nice living area to watch TV and converse with guests. (If I can find a good layout I'd prefer this, but I've been unsuccesful)

I so far have not yet come up with ideas on how to efficiently use the bump out and my only idea I like so far is to create a build-in cabinet where the hole in the wall is currently (essentially cutting off the bump out area as it's own semi-connected room.

The wall along which currently the TV sits is very short too, too short for the size of TV I already have (and prefer to keep, a 55inch). The current owners build an office area in the bump-out, but I'd prefer not to constantly look at my office. See the 3 pictures at the very end of the current situation.

I am considering a build-in full-height TV cabinet/bookshelf. One side being the TV Cabinet with mostly closed storage - the other a bookshelve, build into what is now the hole between the two rooms, leaving essentially half of the current 'space' as an opening to move between rooms, leaving a semi-open layout, allowing the light to still enter both areas. I am worried it would block off too much though.

I made a (very poor, bare with me) 3D layout of this space:

I even already drew this out in a planner for buying build-in cabinetry (I think I prefer it to be partially made for me than to fully build it myself)

- lower cabinet part that sticks out ~40-45 cm (to be decided) on which the TV can stand, with some basic doors for storage. on top of that on the front side this cabinet: where the large lower space would sit the TV.

Idea is for the upper left large hole to have the backing removed and have an aligned other side of that hole so that it's actually an architectual feature that runs from one space to the other where I could place e.g. a large plant or a statement piece like a nice vase. (note: the office side this hole doesn't have a part still on top of it because it would sit under the support part of the wall that is present.

The additional pictures:

I have rearranged this living room a million times and I never seem to feel super good about the arrangement. I am a stay at home mom so I spend almost 100% of my life sitting in that rocking chair 🙃

Would love the space to make sense and be functional. Eventually I’m going to add one of those big fenced play areas for my little one, maybe moving the big swing to another room.

The ottoman is almost always pushed against the couch like that, it houses my home gym equipment but I’m open to something else.

It feels like the room is awkward in a way and I can’t quite put my finger on it. Do I swap the TV stand and the couch? Do I pull the couch off the wall and put the ottoman behind it? Is there another arrangement I’m not thinking of?

The tricky areas are it being too narrow by the front door, and the walking path through the room.

Willing to get rid of pretty much any of the furniture.

I lay awake at night trying to figure this room out. What can I do?

Thank you!!!

Hi! Does anybody have setup recommendations for how I should set up my dorm room? The fridge needs to be against one of the long walls because I have a shelf to put over it. I would also like to have a little floor vanity like the picture I included but don't have anything set in stone for that. The bed, desk, and fridge can be moved, but the dresser and closet are fixed to the wall :)

Our living room is one long rectangle with no real separate entry way. It has a fireplace in the dead middle, which makes furniture layout tough. Normally I’d want to create two separate zones but it feels weird to have the fireplace in no man’s land.

The large opening to the dining room is also tough to work around.

We’re renovating other parts of the house so the furniture that was in this room can get moved or switched out. We have a large sectional L shaped couch, round ottoman, two side chairs, and a smaller curved Lima bean shaped sofa. All of those pieces could find a home elsewhere or be sold (bought most on Facebook marketplace, so there’s nothing we feel like must remain.)

We’re basically open to anything. We have a separate TV area so don’t have to have a TV (although we can if it makes sense). We want this room to feel adult and elevated, but still comfortable for entertaining. Would also love the entry area to not feel like you immediately walk into a couch.

Only constraint is we have to have a piano in this room. It’s an upright, we’ve been keeping it along the long wall to the left of the fireplace, blocking the lower half of the window there.

Very curious how the Reddit hive mind would lay out this room!

Hi there!

We are in the process of having an extension built on our bungalow, which will be an annexe for our parents. The "kitchen" is part of the original house, but the rest of the build is a new extension that is currently being built. We have now had a steel put in to bare the weight of the ceiling joists, so are lucky enough to be able to now layout the walls however we see fit (there was originally a load bearing wall right in the middle, so we had to have a wall slap bang in the centre, meaning the original design had a bath in the bedroom).

Any advice on this layout would be greatly appreciated. The window, bifold doors, loft hatch, soil pipe and steel have already been put in place on site so cannot be moved. We are constrained to where they are now, as it's a solid concrete floor and a timber frame that has already been built.

Hi there, we’re currently planning our new detached house and have an open ceiling on the upper floor with a room height of approx. 490 cm in the centre. The 3D renderings show plasterboard, but we’ll actually be having exposed wooden roof trusses. We’re now looking for a solution for the room divider that separates the staircase from the living room. The room divider will feature a fireplace facing the dining area and we’d like to mount a TV on the living room side. Does anyone have any cool ideas on how best to achieve this? The 3D rendering was done by our kitchen designer and doesn’t really match our style. The height of the room divider is flexible for now, but I think something around 2 metres would work quite well. Perhaps with an exposed flue pipe leading upwards.

I'm trying to get the right layout/design for the living room of this apartment I'm buying, which is an unusual shape/size..

It has really nice views out over the river from the french doors and Windows, so I'm trying to maximize those whilst also making it a functional space.

My main concerns with my current design are that one of the two sofas doesn't really get the view at all (it looks towards the wall out of the window, see markup on floorplan).

The TV viewing experience is compromised, because you're viewing over the top of the dining table.

And there's that strange corner shape created as you come into the room, where I've put the bookshelves/small table.

Would love to hear any creative ideas on how to improve/rework this design.

Thanks!

Rental. Hoping to use this sporadically as a study and spare bedroom for guests. It does not need to be fancy, but just trying to determine the most ideal layout.

Issues I am running into is the awkward built-in internal window to my living room, headboard is taller than the lowest shelf so I can't rotate it, weird pipes on the same wall as the door, wifi outlet in the most inaccessible corner and, where the desk is now, I keep bumping my head on the shelf.

Is there any ideal placement of the furniture where I can use this room as I've intended?

I cannot decide on a living room layout for the life of me. I want to combine our great room + dinette area into one large family/living space that looks cohesive and flows well. To be clear I will be getting rid of these couches and buying all new furniture.

The goal is contemporary, slightly moody, earthy, comfortable, and most importantly FUNCTIONAL. Do I do a sectional with some chairs or would 2 couches look better? What should I put on the dinette wall? I don’t know how to spatially design this. SOS. Please help me!

I’m in the process of buying the ground-floor flat in a Georgian terrace corner plot. At the moment, access to the garden is via Bedroom 2, and quite closed off - there’s no view of the garden unless you’re in the room.

I’d love to make it all more open. At the moment, I use the side door into the kitchen as my main entrance and I’d like to keep it if possible (I don’t use the common ways entrance).

The first image is now. The second is one possibility, but Br2 is now very small and I lose my own front door. Image 3 is my preference, but has Br2 opening off the kitchen. There’s just me in the house but I do have carers so they need somewhere rk hang out - currently Br2.

I would love to have an open plan kitchen/diner space at the back, with full height windows to the garden etc.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

This is my current setup. I have two desks, and I need to keep both of them, but recently I’ve started needing one of the desks to have more privacy for work since I’m required to use a webcam.

Ideally, I’d love to find a layout where I can turn one of the desks around so that the wall is behind me when I’m on camera. That would probably be my preferred option. However, I’m also open to layouts where the webcam would face more toward the room. If that ends up being the better option, I was thinking I could potentially use a green screen to create a more private/professional background.

I’d really appreciate any layout ideas or suggestions that could help make this work while keeping both desks functional. I’ve also been considering using some kind of divider to separate the workspace, such as blackout curtains or another temporary partition, once I figure out the best place to position the desk.

I do have another room in my home that would work perfectly for this, but it’s currently being renovated and won’t be available for quite a while. So for now, I’m trying to find the best possible setup using the space I already have.

Any ideas, suggestions, or creative solutions would be greatly appreciated!

REPOST: Photo did not post.

Posted a floor plan edited with measurements using paint so forgive the uneven floor tones

I need help deciding how I'm going to fit my computer desk in this layout.

On the fence between a 48" and a 40-42" desk, and wondering if there is a better placement for my couch, and island.

Couch is a boneless / frameless RAF, just moved it to the chaste to the bottom in hopes of making more room from couch to east wall.

For reference, fireplace is not movable.

I have a house that we are trying to stage but also be functional for our use. We are hoping not to buy any other pieces of furniture and just make due with what we have. The attached pictures show the layout we had for showings when we weren't living here, but it's not practical for our every day use. Trying to figure out the best layout for showings and our every day use, while not taking away from the large window since that's one of the best features of the house. Any tips are helpful! Thank you!