ᐅ Living Room Layout Planning Ideas?

Hello everyone,

I have been following along here and find you a knowledgeable group when it comes to floor plan ideas. We have a living room problem: it is too small. We have two options to enlarge it, both of which come out roughly the same in cost (according to the builder).

The house is small and cozy, usually 10m (33 feet) long and 8.5m (28 feet) wide. We have visited this house many times and find it perfect except for the living room, which feels cramped being too close to the dining/kitchen area.

Option 1 is an extension where our large sofa (2.60×2.10m (8.5×7 feet)) would fit nicely. The other two options are simply lengthening the house by one meter to 11m (36 feet). However, then we’re not quite sure where to place the sofa. That extra meter does seem to help with spacing, but what about the sofa!

Could you please take a look at my amateur sketch and let me know how you would approach it?

Yeah, sometimes you just don’t know where to put oversized furniture.
You should ask yourself whether it’s right to design the house around a single piece of furniture or if the house simply doesn’t suit your needs.
We in this forum can’t just look at the living room alone, or should we say: wrong house size because the sofa doesn’t fit?! Just add $10,000 more to the house price because it’s bigger. For me, the windows don’t fit first, and a new sofa costs about one-tenth of an extension...

Regards, Yvonne

No, no, we don’t think like that at all. It’s basically about the size of the living room. I mentioned adjusting the layout, either by adding an extension or by lengthening the house. I didn’t draw the windows correctly. I’ll look for the base floor plan of the ground floor... we are basically mirroring it.

The floor plan doesn’t really impress me. There are certainly dozens of other standard layouts that handle the design differently, better, or just as well. I wouldn’t focus too much on the brackets just because it’s heavily staged somewhere. Show homes are styled to perfection by five interior designers... you won’t really be able to replicate that.

I find an extension the most appealing, as it at least offers some zoning. But what does that mean for the upper floor?

The house is currently empty. It is a solid masonry house built by a local contractor. The question was not whether we like the floor plan, but how you would enlarge the living room. We like the floor plan as it is—simple, open, and straightforward.

Difficult. The windows don’t fit as they are... I also don’t see how a smaller sofa could be placed there. Can you still change the windows?