strange shaped lounge

[nextqueen]

how do you make a strange shaped lounge feel like one whole room. the room is a bit like a t shape, wide at the top where you could put a fireplace and then it narrows out on both sides, not too narrow though. there are 2 windows, one in the wider part and one in the narrower part on the same side. i dont want to divide it off basically by putting a settee in the middle with the back to the narrower area, unless of course you have any ideas as what i can do with other half of room. just want a big lounge really.

[mollykins]

Any dimensions, even if they're guestimates?

I'd make the wider end wall a feature and if you do put a fireplace or tv or both on it, you couldd possibly have a chunky print wallpaper aswell . . .

[nextqueen]

like a square mushroom, or wide handled hammer shape, will try and get measurements.

[nextqueen]

6.38m(20'11'') max x 5.22m(17'2'') max
the hammer head is not that deep vertically leading up to the wall for the fireplace then the walls come in and narrow as you walk back towards the back of the room and door to hallway.

[mollykins]

Thanks, without dimension or picture i'm useless at imagining things like this.

[The Builder]

That's always going to be a problem, with such an odd-shaped room. It's probably never going to "read" as one entity. The trick is to "zone" it. that is, to have say, a third of it with a fireplace and easy chairs............ another part with sofas, coffee table etc for a TV-free sitting/social area .......... then maybe another part with a table and chairs or "office".
The reason is to make it so that whichever part you're in, although you're sat in a small area, it will feel bigger because your within a much larger open space.
Hope that doesn't sound too poncey!!
The idea is to have small "rooms" but without walls.

[arwyn]

'I' shaped is easy. 'L' shaped is easy, but 'T' is really hard, can you knock down any walls? lol it would give more options.

[nextqueen]

the t shape is formed by the hallway partly then it goes in, the other side is the frontage where part of it sticks out then goes in and across with a second window.

[arwyn]

It's hard to understand but could you knock out a wall and make the hall part of the livingroom, like open plan. I once had a door moved 12" so I could have fitted wardrobes going the full lenth of a bedroom. So I'm all for knocking things down lol.

[boxtops]

Aww me too arwyn, one of the first things I did in my house was knock down the wall between the narrow hallway and what is now the dining room - I couldn't bear it!

[nextqueen]

i dont think there is enough to make up 3 zones, i just dont want the back of my settee in the middle of the room facing as you walk in.