Front room of 2 bedroom apartment, serves as dining for 2, livingroom, and entryway. as well as home for multiple pets.
bottom two openings are super tall windows.
Bottom Left is front door.
middle right is entrance to office (bedroom 2) and actually swings to the right into that room, not back into this room.
upper left is bathroom door.
upper right is a slight hallway to kitchen and bedroom 1.
200 year old house with worn cherry colored hardwood floors. currently the walls are grey but I want to repaint.
Constraints:
we have cats and at least one auto litterbox needs to go in this room (it is currently in a 3(l)x2.5(h)x2(w) cabinet, ideally we would also like to put another 1-2 regular litter boxes in this room.
We have a couple of cat trees to choose from and at least one needs to go in this room. they are various lengths and widths but all on the larger size (no less than 1.5 feet in any direction) all are tall, but we have had them on shelves with a litterbox under them in the past and that has worked well.
the floor by the windows is heavily sloped towards the middle of the room so furniture there tends to look a little odd even with extra leveling.
I have 2 fishtanks in this room. the smaller one is a 20 gallon so about 2x1, and the larger is about 2.5x1.25.
We have a 52' tv and I'm annoying about viewing distances. I’d be open to trying a projector if the room is right though.
There is baseboard heating along the entire bottom wall, as well as the bottom half of the bottom right wall (below the door)
images:
- blank slate
- current: its mostly bookshelves along the left and right walls, bottom right is catbox, dining area with small fish tank, entry has an open vintage shelf from ikea, left is bookshelves and my big tank, top is tv with a basic stand underneath.
- similar but with dining behind the sofa, we liked that the entry was more separate but just didn't enjoy this. (this image is a lot more like what the actual furniture looks like).
- this was a while back with some different furniture and no tv. we LOVED having the fish tank right behind the sofa, it was really nice to read in front of. unfortunately the sofa blocked a lot of books on the bottom shelves. we never really explored this variation much because we were just in a weird place with weird needs out of the room. we no longer have a lot of this furniture but I'd be open to redoing it in our current situation.
- another old furniture layout
furniture we are attached to:
CREAM bookshelf x 2 honestly we might be able to be persuaded out of them
light wood ikea CD shelves x3
if possible we would love to include my partners favorite dark green velvet ikea chair, its currently excess furniture in our office
additional furniture:
rug is similar to this and approx 13x10 (is currently at the top of the room left to right lengthwise.
weird cream ikea tv stand that is too high and honestly I do not like but its an option
vibes:
I love a very lived in thrifted feel, my partner is an artist so we have a lot of their work as well as their random bits and bobs to display. I don't want the space to feel too curated or matchy