Fitting 3 rooms in a 40 sqm living room. Ideas

So somehow forcing a study room in there is one thing, but a living space is another.

Light outlet is all well and good, but where do you switch it and is it switchable separately?
Are there at least sockets everywhere?

What would the size proportions be if you vertically divide the room once so that the study room is located to the east/balcony?
Does living/dining still fit to the west/south then?

We have now sketched our last idea and are quite impressed. We have now set the wall to the dining area at an angle (please only refer to the hand drawings). An advantage would also be that the fireplace area remains in the living room. The electrician is coming soon and from him we will find out if there are four circuits. In any case, we have 2 light switches for the 2 lights each in the balcony area and window area. Sockets are available everywhere. The vertical division with the office in the balcony area is not an option because the office would then be oversized. Secondly, we want to keep the balcony in the living room area.

In the office, as shown in the 2nd version, two desks should be accommodated, as well as 2 shelves.

I meant more what is done there: two people is clear, but are they there at the same time, many hours a day, cramming for exams and: doing bookkeeping, composing film music, ...? – all things we do not know, but might be important for useful advice.

Whereas we will only stay in the apartment until the house is ready ;-) Are 8sqm really that small for a 3 or 4-year-old child?

I did not have this info on my radar, for example. House construction already in the life plan, three or four years after the child is born. Aha, at first that does not sound very reasonable to buy an apartment now (?). And will you no longer be working from home once the child is here?

8sqm for a toddler is certainly okay if it is only for sleeping and _storing_ toys, but playing happens in your living room. Otherwise – 2sqm for the bed, 6 remain. [...]

I see that similarly.

We have now set the wall to the dining area diagonally (please only consider the hand-drawn sketches)

You really have to look at it with practiced insight, the contrast between erased and “officially” drawn could be stronger.

You can do the diagonal wall, I don’t see that it causes a significant difference in quality – neither good nor bad.

Another advantage would be that the fireplace area remains in the living room

What relevance does it have in which room the “pillar” on the wall is located?

Good morning

My husband is a teacher and needs the office daily.
I need it for processing my files but also sometimes sit with my laptop at the dining table.

If the child should be there, then they would get this room and my husband would go into the bedroom (there is an anteroom of about 6.5 sqm available there) and I don’t need an office for now or have one at my workplace.

Regarding the slanted wall, I see the advantage that the desk would no longer collide with the fireplace.
If I left it straight and went down as far as possible to maximize the size of the office, it would get tight with the dining table (also because of the fireplace).

We think the fireplace seems disturbing in our first variant in the office; while it “fits better” in the dining area. That way we can also use it sometime in the future if we want.

In general, I now find the last variant harmonious because when entering the room the stairwell wall is simply continued through the office.
Behind it comes the dining area.
This way we have preserved the light from the first window and designed the living room openly.

In general, I now find the last variant harmonious...

Well then. :o

I find the office way too small, the dining table miles away from the kitchen, dead space behind the sofa wasted, the fireplace lost as an option, and the slanted wall as the icing on the cake.

So my desk is 80 deep and 160 wide. OK, there are also children’s desks with a depth of 65, but as a teacher I imagine that to be very cramped. What are the dimensions of the current desk?

When I try to furnish it, I always come back to the solid wall. You want to be able to stand up and take files out of the cabinet without falling backward over the other person’s chair. But to each their own.

I would do it exactly the opposite of Kaho's suggestion since the floor plan's left side is south? Although the original post says the window front faces south (so floor plan left?) and the balcony faces east (floor plan right?). I don't know how that fits together right now :)