My house is really small and quite awkwardly shaped. Downstairs is only about 60 square meters and upstairs I basically just have my bedroom as it’s not very practical space due to the low ceiling.
The obvious choice here would be to just have the couch on one wall and TV on the opposing one but that just feels like a waste of space for a house this small. The two doorways also heavily limit where I can place furniture. However the room is also not large enough to be turned into two rooms so I figured a semi-open partition like this could be a viable compromise and it would then also allow me to create a little office space for myself which I currently lack entirely.
The only other option I can come up with is to block the left doorway and move it to my kitchen instead (the right doorway leads there) so then I could move the TV set onto that wall and put the sofa where my desk is here.
I guess I’m just looking for any thoughts or suggestions. I don’t feel like I have much of an “artistic eye” so I find it quite difficult to figure out a coherent interior decoration. The building part is my speciality, not so much the design.
This picture is based on a SketchUp model that I did so it’s to scale and based mostly on existing furniture.
I think hitmyspot is right here- that’s a long narrow corridor doing not much for you. Is it necessary to have a full partition where the TV is? If you can have the partition be somehow impermanent (roll-up or to the side maybe), you’d gain more visible space making it feel more open and getting real use out of the window that’s hidden in the corridor.
I have a relatively small house, not a tiny-house, but ~100 sq meters and I took down a non-structural wall to a room adjacent to the dining room (entry room of the house) and made the kitchen ‘wall’ a bar so you could see through to the kitchen from the dining room (that one is structural so there’s a good header above it). The place feels so much bigger than it actually is after that.
I currently have a solid wall about the length of that partition but located roughly where the stairs are. The sofa is under the window where that office is now and the TV set is against that wall I set up. My intention was to make a walk-in closet of some sort into that spare space but it didn’t end up working out how I imagined it.
In this new version I intentionally didn’t make a solid wall but a half wall instead with open shelving on the top to let light shine through. It’s true that the “corridor” there doesn’t serve much purpose due to how narrow it is but I’m possibly planning on blocking that left doorway at some point so then I can fit something into that corner of the room as well.
Something that plays a factor here as well is that I don’t want people seeing my display when I’m on my computer so that too limits my options. Additional benefit of that half-open partition is that it lets me directly communicate from my “office” to the living room if by some miracle a day comes that I no longer live here alone.
My current living-room section of my living room is even smaller than the space in this new design and it still works. I have only a 48" TV so the optimal viewing distance is around 2.5 meters I believe.