This makes the room feel a little charmless and it can often leave the room lacking soul and story.
How to put furniture in an open floor plan.
It s not only chic and sophisticated it ll provide plenty of seating whether you re hosting an hoa meeting or a girls night.
Australians have long had a love affair with open plan spaces and it s not hard to see why they re bright airy inviting great for entertaining encourage family togetherness and offer endless design opportunities.
The wide spaces of an open floor plan can be a blessing and a curse when it s time to arrange furniture.
While substantial furniture pieces such as big upholstery and a banquet length table will fill out an open floor plan beautifully there s a certain panache in sticking to wood pieces with slender silhouettes.
That s when the long sofa comes into play.
The above snap from freedom is a nice illustration.
Yes you can have your open floor plan and an intimate living area too.
The largest piece of furniture is the sofa or sectional.
Place a rug under your living room furniture and viola.
To begin define a living room space around your fireplace perhaps anchored by a rug and bordered by the lines of your furniture.
Draw paper scale models of your furniture or search for printable versions online.
Then arrange the rest of the seating around the sofa sectional to create a conversation zone.
I started by defining the space with a rug and placed two identical sofas at opposite ends and then balanced out the window wall with a couple of accent chairs.
The last thing you want to do in an open plan space is buy an entire set of furniture from the one store that all matches perfectly.
Sometimes a narrow space is light and bright but placing furniture in it can be a bear.
Creative placement of furniture and rugs allows you to create the illusion of separate rooms within your open floor plan.
Before ordering new furniture or moving around existing pieces use some painters tape to map out the arrangement on your actual floor.
As for the coffee table only one would have been tiny for this type of layout so instead.
But for all of the perks that come with open plan living there are a number of downsides too.
For this a large rug can be your best friend.
To draw your own use the same scale of 1 box equals 1 foot to cut out shapes for your furniture pieces.
Open floor plans can be just as quirky as any other layout.
The first step is to put your largest piece of furniture opposite a focal point.
So much room to fill.
Layout idea 3 a long and narrow open concept living room this third example is similar to number two except it has more of an open concept.