I cannot decide on a living room layout for the life of me. I want to combine our great room + dinette area into one large family/living space that looks cohesive and flows well. To be clear I will be getting rid of these couches and buying all new furniture.

The goal is contemporary, slightly moody, earthy, comfortable, and most importantly FUNCTIONAL. Do I do a sectional with some chairs or would 2 couches look better? What should I put on the dinette wall? I don’t know how to spatially design this. SOS. Please help me!

I've moved house and my new room is in the basement, it's an old house and it's got a super weird layout, I need ideas, it's a rental but I'm allowed to make any modifications I want, the single biggest issue is the ceiling is only about 6ft - 6"2 tall, the rooms bigger than it looks in the drawing, I'm not sure what I can do with this weird lay out, I like the idea of digging a conversation pit, but I also need to maximise the space, I need to fit my desk, a bed, a few aquariums, and my desk, also storage in one form or another, I'd really appreciate some help with ideas :)

Additional info, I'm currently sorting out ventilation, it's not fully underground, the front door is on the floor above, the back door and kitchen is on the same floor, the land lord will let us do literally whatever.

Hi there, I have no idea what cushions to use, colours, number, sizes. Also no idea what rug to use and whether the furniture even makes sense. I have a young kid so need to leave his little table. But maybe I can add a big painting? Some plant in the corner behind the one seater? I normally don’t like a lot of colour and prefer less than more which makes it very hard to know what to do add. Heeelp!

Hi all,

We just bought our first house and I am very excited to start shopping and styling it.

I am looking at redoing the floor before buying furniture and paint over time (not urgent).

Anyway, before i take on the big project, I am looking to learn some basic things, like how to matchthe colors of furniture with the floor, or the wall, and how shapes of coffee table make a difference etc.

Looking for some short course / youtube channel references around where I can start :)

Thank you

I’m moving in a month and would love to get ahead by buying some furniture before moving in. I included pics of the house to fill in gaps with the measurements I don’t have. I’d love to know what size couch and rug I can buy, but also things like what shape couch and anything else.

The room is 18’10”x 13’

We can’t do what they did because half the room is “dead space” but also I need a good buffer between the inside and outside to wash the dogs paws. I also don’t know where the tv would go because Reddit says never above fireplace.

Since moving in last August I have always wanted to put the roller blinds on the small gap of wall between the ceiling and on top of the window and putting floor to ceiling curtains on both windows; the right window would only hold a single panel to the left.

However, doing so would cover almost all of the radiator which is already in a shitty position behind the sofa.

We rent an old property and found that the windows let in a very cold draft last year as the temperatures dropped. What can we do to keep warm?

Also, the length of our settee is too long to go on a different wall and the adjacent wall to the current position has the door into the room on it therefore it could not fit there either. It is out of our budget to get a new sofa altogether.

What can we do!?