City villa living and dining area 43m² too small

  • Erstellt am 2020-06-14 21:49:06

saralina87

2020-06-15 11:39:24
  • #1
Yes, a peninsula. But we also don't have a "corridor" but an L. We have adjusted our windows or lift-and-slide doors to the furniture.
 

haydee

2020-06-15 12:06:17
  • #2
I find 43 sqm to be small. Others are engaging in polemics here.

How is a large corner sofa, an island, a counter supposed to be accommodated without a sliding door?

Kitchen, table, sofa yes similar to proposal 2. Someone who has it themselves has also confirmed that. For the other proposals the room is too small. That's a fact.

Please draw the kitchen as well as the other furniture, sofa, cabinet, shelf, table. Existing furniture that should not be replaced, maybe mark in color.
 

immermehr

2020-06-15 13:58:56
  • #3





Thank you for your many opinions and advice. After several hours, I was able to convince my wife to accept the L-kitchen (instead of island). I also think it is the best variant. Otherwise the room will be full of furniture. Changing the door to a sliding door will be difficult or associated with great effort/costs (building with general contractor).

Now I have another challenge: TV area. I have sketched the TV between 2 windows in the sketch. My idea is that you can also watch TV while cooking/eating. It doesn’t seem to be that popular. What are your reasons (light, glare...)?

I have now tried to sketch (again) three possibilities (see attachment). One of them is a home cinema wall variant. Currently, all furniture and kitchen are still open. The sofa might even be enough for us / possibly a corner sofa.

Which one do you like best and why? Thank you for your opinions.


 

Tolentino

2020-06-15 14:03:23
  • #4
I would choose option 2 with the small sofa against the window wall. Then you do block a window, but many people wouldn’t like that someone can walk behind them. Many don’t like that unprotected feeling. Maybe you could also address that feeling with an almost ceiling-high room divider and still keep the window free.

I have to say that I am a home cinema enthusiast and a positioning of the TV like in 1 or 2 would be out of the question. On the one hand, backlight has to be avoided (although you could also shade here), on the other hand, you couldn’t get a proper front speaker arrangement with a symmetrical picture. No no, you really need a nice wall to place it. That the rear speakers get an asymmetrical sound image due to the open side is not quite so bad, since in home cinema a diffuse sound image in the rear area is desirable anyway.
 

ypg

2020-06-15 14:04:00
  • #5
Has anything been built yet with walls and so on? I would skip the half-height window and then put a double door on the West?_side, but not in the middle, rather about 70 cm from the corner. Then you have a nice free wall for placing a TV etc., and you can also look into the garden from the sofa. We have it like that, and I also watch TV while cooking.
 

haydee

2020-06-15 14:09:43
  • #6
With all 3 variants, it gets tight with the balcony door when the table is occupied.

Don’t you have a lowboard, shelf, DVD collection, games, hobby stuff that has to go into the living room?

I would choose variant 3 with smaller upholstered furniture.
With the TV between the windows, you often have the problem that it reflects, unless you have a north-facing orientation. Maybe you are limited in size. Those things are getting bigger and bigger. Some of the pieces that hang on the walls.
I don’t like a sofa in front of floor-to-ceiling windows at all. I don’t find it visually appealing, I don’t feel comfortable, and it somehow takes away the light and spaciousness that the windows are supposed to bring.
 

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