Hello everyone, we recently purchased a house and are currently considering how to redesign the living room to create more space by combining the bedroom and utility room into one area, as this will later be used as an office with about 10-12m² (108-129 sq ft).
At the very end, I will, of course, attach the floor plan.
The plan is to create an opening from the living room towards the bedroom. However, the bedroom will not be fully used but connected to the utility room through another opening between these two rooms.
Between the bedroom and living room, there will be a drywall partition at the same height as the utility room wall to ensure it looks visually coherent.
The couch is supposed to go into the approximately 2-meter (6.5 feet) freed-up space. It is 3 meters (10 feet) wide. Now, my problem is that on both sides there must be a base about 25cm (10 inches) high for the steel beam, and these two bases would be exactly at the height of the couch and TV.
Do you perhaps have a great idea for this?
I would appreciate any suggestions.
At the very end, I will, of course, attach the floor plan.
The plan is to create an opening from the living room towards the bedroom. However, the bedroom will not be fully used but connected to the utility room through another opening between these two rooms.
Between the bedroom and living room, there will be a drywall partition at the same height as the utility room wall to ensure it looks visually coherent.
The couch is supposed to go into the approximately 2-meter (6.5 feet) freed-up space. It is 3 meters (10 feet) wide. Now, my problem is that on both sides there must be a base about 25cm (10 inches) high for the steel beam, and these two bases would be exactly at the height of the couch and TV.
Do you perhaps have a great idea for this?
I would appreciate any suggestions.
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hanghaus202312 Apr 2025 11:19In my opinion, a ground floor with a bedroom should be preserved.
Try drawing all the furniture in your plan.
Access to the living area through the kitchen is not a good idea.
Try drawing all the furniture in your plan.
Access to the living area through the kitchen is not a good idea.
So, if we consider both ideas at the moment, it would be as follows:
I would actually prefer to avoid making a breakthrough, but unfortunately the current corner where the sofa is supposed to go later is not deep enough. Therefore, I am hoping for some suggestions here, such as using the TV wall as a room divider.
I would actually prefer to avoid making a breakthrough, but unfortunately the current corner where the sofa is supposed to go later is not deep enough. Therefore, I am hoping for some suggestions here, such as using the TV wall as a room divider.
yorolf87 schrieb:
Oh, I really like the idea of the TV wall as a room divider; I hadn’t even considered that before. Thanks for the suggestion.
It would be flush with the current dining room window and maybe have a small one in the newly created living room area as well, so the corner around the TV wall room divider doesn’t feel too dark. Or you could leave just the front section of the wall open to create an entryway, and the TV wall would then extend all the way to the opposite wall.
Please add exact measurements next to the furniture as well.
A centered wall would only need to be as tall as the TV, which should allow enough light there. Try sketching out different options for yourself and also think about how and where you want to design the back wall facing the dining room.
It might even be possible to place the dining table lengthwise directly against the back of the TV wall, which would let you extend the kitchen area slightly further forward.
I think you should actually try drawing it on graph paper to scale, including REAL furniture dimensions, otherwise you might create a problem for yourself.
As a non-expert, I would say that you don’t necessarily have to support the beam on posts; instead, you could cut a recess into the wall on both sides and rest the beam there. I don’t see why a beam should behave differently from a load-bearing wall, and in my opinion, it’s enough if the beam rests a few centimeters on each side. I remember our first house, where we had a similar situation during construction, and the recess was only 5cm (2 inches) deep or couldn’t be made any bigger.
Maybe you could also close off the current angled dining room door and create something nice as a large kitchen flowing into the dining area. I would actually like to see a plan with the dining table positioned so that its end is directly against the back wall of the TV, and the kitchen slightly expanded, which clearly wouldn’t hurt in your current setup.
As a non-expert, I would say that you don’t necessarily have to support the beam on posts; instead, you could cut a recess into the wall on both sides and rest the beam there. I don’t see why a beam should behave differently from a load-bearing wall, and in my opinion, it’s enough if the beam rests a few centimeters on each side. I remember our first house, where we had a similar situation during construction, and the recess was only 5cm (2 inches) deep or couldn’t be made any bigger.
Maybe you could also close off the current angled dining room door and create something nice as a large kitchen flowing into the dining area. I would actually like to see a plan with the dining table positioned so that its end is directly against the back wall of the TV, and the kitchen slightly expanded, which clearly wouldn’t hurt in your current setup.
kbt09 schrieb:
You don’t like to cook much, do you?
The kitchen is basically limited to about 3.3 x 2 m (11 x 6.5 ft). The rest is just a passageway, also leading to the terrace.It’s simply an existing house. Arauki11 schrieb:
As a layperson, I would say you don’t necessarily have to support the beam on posts,Columns. The required depth of the columns must be determined by a structural engineer.The other thread isn’t being managed by you @yorolf87?
Anyway: I would probably leave everything as it is and turn the bedroom into a nice TV lounge—just add a sofa and that’s it. You can still create an office space as a niche or with an office cabinet somewhere. These ideas only seem to work here if you ignore the dimensions.
Is a storage room/laundry room no longer needed?
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