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i'm moving to a new place and have absolutely no clue how to lay out my new apartment. the bedroom has an alcove where i will put my bed, then i'll use the rest of the space for a living room. the kitchen/dining room is very square. i am drawing a blank on how to arrange everything! i'm getting completely new furniture, so all design ideas are welcome.
can you provide a floor plan with door/window openings and room dimensions? hand-drawn is fine, as close to scale as possible...
wow! lots of questions! haha! let's see. we live in new orleans and are a very casual, fun, energetic family. dh and i are in our mid 30's and have a 9 year old and a 6 year old. both kids are active outside of school. tv is a big part of our lives because of sports, movies, kids, etc. but mike's den is where lots of the sports programming will take place. :) we are planning to offset the tv and put it to the side of the fireplace for two reasons....1) now that the kitchen is further over, if someone is in there, it will be more centered to the room as a whole and 2) it can be a bit lower and more at eye-level if it's not above the fireplace. we can make the built-ins accommodate the tv at a level more comfortable for viewing. there will also be a playroom/media room upstairs for the kids. so the living room tv will be the group/family tv i suppose. we take turns cooking but both work. so we aren't gourmet cooks but we enjoy cooking meals. we enjoy conversations from the kitchen, thus wanting the open plan. i'd say that because of kids' evening activities, we probably cook 3-4 days a week maybe? other nights we grill or get take out, pick something up or go out to eat on the way home. the porch. the house (again, in new orleans...flooding) must be elevated a bit). this porch is elevated with the house. i know we will also have lower space for a table and chairs and the grill, that we haven't laid out yet. we actually did talk about widening the porch. how wide would you suggest? my dad suggested 1-3 feet wider. what do you think? the front door...you see the stairs to the right of the kitchen? and the open pass-through there under the stairs in the drawing? if you go through that pass through...actually straight from the back door, you'd pass the turned stairs above you and a guest room above, master below (in the drawing) and the front door is that way. it's a narrow, new orleans lot...50x122, which has made things interesting to lay out! :) thanks again guys! your feedback is great! oh, and again, the furniture placement and the kitchen appliances, etc. is just there in the drawings as a guide. it's not fixed or anything. it's just a visual thing for reference.
this is a pic of the space, please ignore the make shift table in the center and cabinet to the left, its my workable cooking/prep space during construction. this is the view when you walk into my dinning room and the opening into the kitchen(kitchen reno still going on). on the far back wall by the sliders is the color gray we painted i don't have a pic of the soft green we had and would be reusing in the dinning room.


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