It’s Week Four (a very late posting of my Week 4) of the One Room Challenge and I am talking all about Furniture layout.
Or How to Move Furniture in a Small House with Small Rooms and nowhere for stuff to go
If this is your first time here- Welcome! My name is Jackie and I am a Guest Participant in the One Room Challenge. A six-week interior design challenge hosted by Calling it Home and the media partner- Better Homes and Gardens. This time around there is over 200 Guest Participants, I am so excited to be a part of such a great group of Design and DIY bloggers. The ORC is a fun and supportive challenge where we each take on a single space in our homes and make it over. We’re taking on all sorts of rooms too- Baths, Dining, Bedrooms, Laundry, Sunrooms, Patios- you name it! If you’re looking for inspiration for your next project be sure to check out the other Guest participants in the link at the bottom of my post.
Weeks One to Three
If you have missed any of my other posts for this One Room Challenge- you can check them out below, click on the title to take you to the post
New Furniture= New Layout
We’ve had this layout for a couple of months in our front room. It was just where everything landed after the sectional and china cabinet sold. No real plan- just furniture put wherever. It was time for that to change!
For our living room makeover, I purchased a new leather sofa and this big beautiful rattan egg chair. With these new pieces in the space, I wanted to try out a new layout where they are the center of attention.
We are renting this small midcentury house built in the late 1950s and there are no extra rooms in it for us to move everything out of the living room. Most of the other current furniture is staying in the room, it just needed to be moved around a bit to get a new and better flow for the room.
The question is: What do you do if there is no extra space, and taking everything outside is not the best option? That’s what I am going to show you- how I made as much space as I could to move all the furniture pieces around.
Take out everything that you can
To start I took out as much of the small pieces of furniture and rugs and lamps as possible. I moved what I could into the small hallway and the rest was piled and pushed into the dining space. This left an empty space in the middle of the room to move the large pieces around in.
Try out different options with the larger pieces of furniture
I tried to put the Opalhouse Egg Chair in the window to see if it would take up a little less space. It was good for the egg chair but the rest the room felt a bit off and awkward.
Try the New Sofa on a new wall
I tried moving the Article Sven sofa on the front wall. I liked it but I had a hard time fitting in tables for lamps and etc.
A Big TV Cabinet- for now
This big Pine Wood TV Armoire is for sale. I have had it listed for a couple of months, and it hasn’t sold yet. My idea is to have a low dresser or sideboard for the TV. So, for now, while we still have the cabinet- I tried it on this wall, but again it just wasn’t quite right.
Put that Baby in a corner!
Then I tried moving the Egg Chair in this corner by the front window. And as soon as Pepe jumped up on it and made himself at home I knew that it was the spot!
Almost back to the start…
Once the Egg Chair was in the corner, back went the TV cabinet to the same wall. And then all of the rest of the furniture just fell into place. Almost right back where they started.
The Final Reveal of the ORC is coming soon! In the meantime check out all the other Guest Participant’s Posts at the One Room Challenge
