The Living Room

This model has one of the largest living rooms in the development, with large windows facing the front (north) and a side window (west). To the south, the room faces the dining room. There is no entry foyer, with the house door opening directly onto the room. A side door on the left leads to the bedroom hallway.


As you can see, the sellers used their sofas to separate the entry space from the living room.


I have a large mirror with a cherry wood frame (4' 2" by 3' 2") that can go on the wall where the current mirror is located (that wall is 9' long). The floor furnace will be removed and the wall patched.


The living room window is 10' long, with a foot wide sill (concealed by the drapes). My inclination is to take down the drapes and replace them with wooden shutters, like I saw in the Koi Pond house.


[For those of you who don't remember the shutters, this is what they looked like]

The entire living room is 19' 2" by 12' 3".

The window on the west wall of the living room is currently blocked by an entertainment unit.


The space on either side of the window is 3' 11" and the window is 4' 5" wide.

One of the thornier questions I face is where to put the television. I don't want to do what the sellers did and block the west window. Unfortunately, my other choices aren't that great. I don't like the idea of putting it on the wall opposite the front door. As I see it, I have two choices: 1) I can put the television in the office or 2) I can angle the tv so that it runs on the hypotenuse between the two windows. If I don't want to block either window, that means the tv can not be larger than 4' 4" (you do remember your Pythagorean theorem don't you? A² + B² = C². In this case, 2² + 3.9² = 19.34, whose square root works out to 4' 4" or 52").

Given the limitations of the space, I could not put an "entertainment unit" like the sellers have, but rather would have to rest the tv on stand that did not run longer than 52".

In terms of furniture placement, my gut instinct is to run my black leather sofa parallel to the main window, and put the love seat where their sofa is now. That would leave about 3'6" between the back of the sofa the separation between the living room and dining room.