lovely house

I would move the beige recliner out of the traffic pattern of your grandkids.

Thank You Sabina. I feel like I need to arrange the furniture so the kids can't run circles through the kitchen and living room. I don't want them to fall and hit heads on the corner of the wall, but I feel it needs to be arranged a different way somehow.

Ahhhh... So you would like to make it harder to run the circles? I can totally understand that.

for sure needs to be harder to run in circles. Kids get hurt that way and they always want to do it.

Your red wall is really part of the hallway - so if you put anything on that wall it has to be tight to the wall. Having the big chair there interfers with the traffic flow. Maybe put that big chair where the black one is and put the black chair closer to the fireplace and pull the sofa down towards the bay window a bit. If the fireplace is a movable one then try switch places with the TV. ( OR ) If the the fireplace is infact movable then try it and the TV on the same wall together side by side.This will also give you the red wall to arrange for a family photo wall. Then the chairs can be sit at each end of the sofa. Put a storage ottoman in the bay window for toys etc. for the grandkids and that will protect the kids somewhat from the window . Your room is very narrow so that adds to the room layout problems. I love the colors you have used so I don't think you have to paint.

Lefty 47 Lynda, Thanks for the suggestions. They give me something to think about.

Can you tell me what your kitchen floor is? manufactuer? color?

Fareann, The tile is from Home Depot; brand is Montagna; color is Cortina. I love this floor. We have it in the bathroom also. It never shows dirt and is super easy to care for.

From all the plastic kids toys around, it looks like the grandkids pretty much own the house anyway so...enjoy it!! OR

It would be nice to make the fireplace the focus rather than the tv. If there is room-I'd move the tv a bit closer to the end of the wall and move the sofa to face the fireplace (if it's not too long) Add a coffee table hopefully w/ storage. Floor lamp between the red wall and arm of the sofa. Move the recliner to the other side of the room-near the fireplace yet facing in to the center of the room-table and lamp next to that. Relocate the other chair somewhere else in the house.

Hang patterned curtain panels (w/ the red/orange of your wall) at the bay window

Kids could still run...but they'd have to zig and zag more...

...and I would paint the vent on the red wall to make it "go away"!

I am not sure the couch would fit facing the fireplace, but I have thought of that. I will give it some more thought. You have some good ideas. Thanks.

I would put the TV above the fireplace for one focal point. I would buy a child gate for the hall area where the TV was and place my couch horizontally, almost at the end of the red wall. place the Tv stand as a sofa table behind it and an end table between sofa and red wall making a longer way around to the kitchen. This would also make space for a lamp. The room would be much bigger and eliminate a straight through runway :) Place one chair on the red wall and the other oppposite it on the other wall. I would palce a low bookcase that holds baskets, magazines, toys, blankets, etc opposite the red wall for the children. A large soft ottoman instead of coffe table perhaps with storage too. With a TV above th e fireplace, you can see it even if childrn are playing in the center of the room. Display childrens photos or art on the remaing red wall area.