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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]girls, girls!

you can pick any color!

it's fine!

seriously though pull your couch away from the wall.

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Oh we are tacky and have one room with two couches against opposite walls. We are just looking for livability right now with dogs and kids and don't need focal points or conversation nooks. Is there hope for us?[/quote]

Yes but honestly it will look so much better if you pull them even a little off the wall. Like 6 inches. Try it. [/quote]

I will try and report back[/quote]

NP here -- can you tell me a little more about pulling couches away from the wall? I've lived in houses/apartments with tiny living rooms my whole life, so I always had the couch against a wall for space reasons (or lack-of-space reasons). I'm getting ready to finish a renovation now that will give me a good sized family room -- what does pulling the couches away from the walls do, visually?

I swear I'm not trying to be snarky...just sincerely trying to understand![/quote]

There is a great book called “decorating with what you have” or “use what you have” or some such. I’m jealous of your big room. Take a look at pictures of rooms you love and look up some guidelines for furniture spacing. Usually a big room looks best with several conversation areas not jammed against the wall.

The 2016 dc design house (RIP) had some good examples I thought of furniture placement in big living spaces. See how neither the couches nor the desk face a wall?
[img]https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/b16163c2087d04d1_4-3529/home-design.jpg[/img]

There are other rooms in the same house where couches against a wall totally works - but I find giant rooms where [b]it looks like the furniture got scared of the rug and jammed back against the wall are common[/b]. It’s much nicer to travel around a seating area imo if you can swing it than in a canyon between two couches or a couch and a chair off in exile. [/quote][/quote]

I'm the NP you were responding to, and thanks for the bolded description! Not only did it make me laugh out loud, but I also know exactly what you mean and have been trying to avoid that!

I'm planning to divide the room into two seating areas, and on one side, it will only make sense to have the couch against the wall, given the placement of the fireplace. (It's kind of hard to explain, but I want the fireplace to be the center of a "conversation area" with a couch and two chairs, and to do that, the one couch has to be against the wall.) But I think it will look okay.

On the other side of the room, we actually can't put the sectional against the one wall because of a heating vent, and I was worried about this -- but your post and its photos make me feel more confident about putting a console table behind the couch and moving it forward.

Of course, this is all in my mind because our renovation isn't actually finished yet (that's a whole other thread, and not a happy one, lol)...but THANK YOU for your post! It really helped clarify some things about how I was planning to furnish the room and made me feel more confident about my "conversation areas" plan for the larger space. Thanks again! [/quote]

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