Design living room / dining room. Looking for ideas

I could rather imagine windows with a sill height of 55 cm in the living area and patio doors in the dining area and/or kitchen area. Because as a rule, you go from there to the terrace (grilling, fetching drinks, etc.) and less so when sitting comfortably on the sofa.

One could also make a door from the kitchen to the terrace, which in my opinion should in any case extend up to the kitchen. Only: what does one want with an architect who is so largely out of this world?

Hello everyone,

we have been wildly debating back and forth about the design of the living room and just can't make any progress. Before this whole thing ends in a dilemma, I wanted to ask you for advice :)

Attached is the floor plan of the "living room" which is quite open....

Would you maybe like to discuss the entire floor plan? It seems to me, especially regarding the windows/doors, very "immature."
Also the office up there....
Maybe in the new year? :)

If you push the exterior wall towards the terrace further out, there will be more space

I also find the implementation with the floor-to-ceiling windows/doors in the living room very questionable. I am a fan of beautiful large window fronts, but somewhere the sofa and the cabinets have to be placed. If only one wall is left for that, it is very, very stupid..... If the floor plan is fixed like this: I would not put the sofa in front of the terrace doors. Even if you don’t use them for walking through, it is simply wasted space. From the outside it looks bad, from the inside the window then has absolutely no added value compared to a normal window and cleaning the windows is also unpleasant. I don’t think kaho674’s suggestion is bad either. We had it like that in our old apartment and it was a great room division. But it shouldn't be too tight. So if the space is rather limited, solution 1 looks CLEARLY airier. Depending on the size of your dining table, that could already be tight for you. Also, variant 1 is easier to clear for birthdays etc. Moving the whole sofa is already annoying depending on the model. But I would reconsider getting a new sofa: due to flexibility, etc., we also had two 2.5-seaters and are now very happy having switched to a corner sofa, which was definitely better for the two of us. Before, everyone lay on "their" sofa, which we didn’t like. I would also not position the fireplace directly next to the sofa, because it can get quite warm. It might look nice, but it’s impractical. If I really want to look into the fire, I don’t see a really good solution, only compromises. In this configuration, I would definitely not put the TV on the long wall. Since I assume your terrace faces south, you have sunlight on the TV all day. You always have to pull down the blinds to watch TV properly. The left wall is not optimal, but definitely much better. I find it hard to imagine the solution with the TV on a column in the room as "nice." In my opinion, that is always a disturbing/not fitting element in the room. Except for a few flowers or an armchair, I can’t imagine anything in the lower left corner either. Really very badly planned. PS: I just see that you only have the terrace door in the living room area and normal windows in the dining area. If possible, I would definitely swap that, as, as a previous speaker already said, this is the ideal way onto the terrace (short way from the kitchen, shorter way from all rooms except the living room, etc.).