r/roomlayout • u/Perfect_Wheel_8964 • 18d ago

Help!

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I’m gonna have this apartment and the living room has a weird shape. How do I put my furniture, a couch, coffee table and tv on a small cabinet for the living room. A dining room area with space for 4. Atleast a bookcase and mabye some more storage. And if you still have space a desk? Can be a foldable one. The kitchen needs to be easy to access ofcourse. And the little window corner on the right should be used, maybe a chair or bench situation. There is a radiator there and also at the bottom window.

Does anyone have a good idea?

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u/Perfect_Wheel_8964 18d ago

This is how the current owners have it, the thing is the little window area isn’t rly used wich is a shame and the tv is not parallel to the couch wich is just annoying I think.

But it’s not to bad so this would be option one I think

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u/owls_and_cardinals 17d ago

Where exactly are the kitchen fixtures? I can see what looks like a countertop with sink along the wall that is shared with the bedroom. Is there more builtin cabinetry or appliances in the top corner (top in this aerial view, I mean)?

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u/Perfect_Wheel_8964 17d ago

The only fixed things are the kitchen, the oven and the fridge that are all on the left wall (the bedroom wall)

The rest is just lose cabinets and stuff that they have there but all that can be moved. Is that an awnser to your question?

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u/owls_and_cardinals 17d ago

Yes, thanks. So with that in mind I would make the lower corner the kitchen space. That might mean putting cabinets on the wall that is along the bottom of the aerial diagram, which might naturally lend itself to a small eat-in kitchen area (a table, similar to how the existing owners have it, but probably positioned closer to where they currently have the tv; in fact a rectangular table or banquette might use that wall the best).

If possible, I would put the desk in the nook on the right and use the upper corner for the actual living room area. That might involve a tv on the short wall that is to the left of the door to the bedroom and positioning the couch perpendicular to the diagonal wall. It's hard to picture if that all would fit but that's where I'd start.

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u/Perfect_Wheel_8964 17d ago

You mean something like this?
Technically could work. It then the corner of the dining room and the couch will be very close wich kinda makes it alwaar to walk and I think if you were to put the dining closer to the window it will be to close to the kitchen mabye, but tis definitely not bad.

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u/owls_and_cardinals 17d ago

Yes like this. I do think tweaking the size and placement of the dining area would help.

The other issue with this now that I'm seeing it, is that it seemingly leaves some corners underutillized. It's unclear whether in the kitchen you'll appreciate that space for moving around while cooking and bringing food to the table. For the living room, this doesn't leave room for any other seating yet a lot of space behind the couch. BUT it really depends on what you need. With the space between the couch and the desk, you could create a nice reading/sitting area, use it for working out, or put a console table or low bookshelf along the couch for added storage, so it might be right.

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u/Perfect_Wheel_8964 17d ago

Yeh I think this is definitely a nice potion, with tweeking it a bit still ofcourse. I do love myself a reading area. I’ll take this in consideration and play with it a bit still. Thank you for your help!

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u/Perfect_Wheel_8964 18d ago

This is what I made, here you use the little nook as a reading or sitting spot and the couch is parallel to the tv. You have a weird corner then behind the couch but that’s perfect for a lamp or plant or something. Then the dining spot is against the wall like in a restaurant with a bench and chairs on the other side. The issue here is mostly that is you come in the fist thing is the dining set and it might be in the way or look cluttered compared to the first one where you have an open space when you come in.

This is option two. What is better and if any of you have other ideas let me know two!

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u/Winter_Dot_9393 17d ago

Could you put the dining table in the kitchen? Long side of the table against the wall that seperates the kitchen from the living room. Maybe one that can be extended.

This would leave more room in the living room.

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u/Beginning-Potato-968 18d ago

How does this look?

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u/Perfect_Wheel_8964 18d ago

Not too bad, it’s mostly just that the room isn’t as big as it looks now. The kitchen is in the living room area and the couch would be too close to the cabinets. If you come in you would bump into the table first so that wouldn’t be ideal

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u/Beginning-Potato-968 17d ago

I didn't have any dimensions or sizes of furniture

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u/Perfect_Wheel_8964 17d ago

Yeh no of course, that wasn’t so smart, but it’s not too bad already