Small Homes: Victoria’s Small Family Room

Our family room is 25′ by 9 1/2′, with a door leading out the garage, a door leading out to the patio, and doorways to the kitchen on one end, and the dining room on the other. So I was basically limited to one wall against which the furniture could go. Any other placement would have blocked something off. Or would have put our backs to people elsewhere in the room.

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Highlights of Victoria’s Room…

With the chandelier hanging in front of the bay window, I thought it was the perfect place for a little table, so there is a dinette set there, giving us more seating. The purchase of a flat screen tv was the only way to make the room work the way I intended it to. With the stand, it sticks out by about 11 inches, and can be seen from pretty much the whole room. The big floor lamp was also a space saving purchase. The base fits under the end table, and the lamp itself is up out of the way.

We built the tv stand ourselves, as we needed it to be just big enough to hold the television, and most of the stands available for purchase are a little too big. To hold the cable box, vcr, etc., we took an old microwave stand and shortened by a shelf or 2. It fit nicely in the corner, and was the perfect size to hold everything. We managed to turn this long, awkward room into a place where at least 9 people can curl up comfortably for movie night.

Note: Thank you, Victoria. That’s a nice room you got there and you did a great job with the space that you had!

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