When you are lucky enough to have both a living room and a multipurpose room that you can use for entertaining, it can make life a bit easier in arranging furniture. For one thing, you can use your living room for relaxing none media entertain or just taking in a good book. You can use the multipurpose room for entertaining electronic or television wise, or use it for a dinning room especially if your kitchen isn’t designed to allow for a dinning section.If you are first moving into a home that has a multipurpose room, you will first need to decide what its function is to be. You may decide to use the room for more than one purpose if the room is big enough such as a dinning room and an office desk area for dealing with bills and whatnot. If you are one of those that just can’t miss a certain television program, you may combine a dinning area with an entertainment area. Once that is decided, you can begin to decorate and arrange your furniture specific for the room.
When you begin arranging a multipurpose room, give each area you intend to create an dominate feature. Say it will be a dinning room/office. The dinning room’s main feature could be a hutch or it may be your dinning room table. The office section would more than likely be your desk. Place the dominate features at opposite sides of the room to create a balance. Sketch a basic diagram of the room and where you intend to place furniture first to save you a lot of moving labor. This will also give you a feel for the balance of the room. Once you are okay with it you can start placing furniture. If you find as you go that something doesn’t feel right, play around with the space some more. You may find, due to the dimensions of the room, that striking a equal balance between two themes may be impossible, such as an entertainment area and a dinning area. These two are fairly big arrangement groups and can take up quite a bit of space. You may have to combine the two rather than having two separate areas in one room.
Use furniture to make a natural divide between the two living areas by using the back of a sofa facing the backs of the dinning table chairs, or the back of an office chair to the back of the sofa, etc. You can also use room dividers to create the same effect such as folding screens. Throw rugs also help to create division
Create balance by using two or more smaller items against one large item. So say you are creating and office/dinning room multipurpose room. Since the desk and office chair is small compared to the dinning room table and chairs and a possible hutch, maybe add a filing cabinet or easy chair to the mix to create more balance.
Make sure that both areas have a nice flow for traffic allowing for at least three feet of space between each area and if one area is a dinning room area, at least 3 feet of space behind sitting area for comfortable seating as well as ease moving from seating and around others still sitting.
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I'd give a lot to have an extra room to make into a tv/play room. During the winter, the kids take over the living room and it's seldom in condition for company. You might have a good idea with the hutch. The toys and games could be stored out of sight when not in use. I do have enough room to add the biggest hutch. That will work out great!
ReplyDeleteWe don't have an all purpose room, so I guess that would make our living room the all purpose room. A corner hutch is about all that would work in there. The extra storage would be a big plus for us.
ReplyDeleteWe've converted our basement into a combination rec/tv room. We hav a ping pong table at one end and a couple of couches near the TV. We've been looking for a storage unit to dress that area up and the corner hutch is just the thing we need.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem I have is that I want all three of the hutches! For different rooms, of course. I can't decide which one to get first.
ReplyDeleteMy nephew just bought an older farm house and is going to remodel it room by room. They started with a room that will be the kids' play/rec room. I'm going to get them a couple of the large hutches to use in there. I figured the kids need a place to store all of their games and their Mom can store her statues in the top to dress it up. They're having a house warming party and since I couldn't get the pieces delivered that quickly I'm going to copy it and put it in a card with an IOU. I think they'll get the idea.
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