An important manifestation of a highly consistent living room layout is that the sofa is always placed against the wall, and the TV background wall is always carefully decorated but similar. Today we will talk about the different layouts of the living room when the sofa is not against the wall.

1. The dining room is behind the sofa

Generally speaking, the space required for a restaurant is quite large, so this approach still needs to be supported by a specific apartment type. The most suitable is a horizontal hall, where the living room and dining room are in a large space without an aisle in the middle to forcibly separate them.

The advantage is that the whole space looks transparent and spacious, and you can watch TV while eating in the restaurant.

To be honest, there are not many houses of this type. Most of them are vertical halls with the living room and dining room separated by an aisle. Even the location of the dining room is very compromised.

2. Open kitchen at the back

The premise of this approach is to make the kitchen open or semi-open.

The advantage is that you can watch TV while cooking in the kitchen, or communicate with people in the living room, or keep the children in the living room within sight. Relatively speaking, the living room also looks bigger.

3. Rear working area

We often recommend that if there are few people living in your home (to avoid being disturbed too much), you can set up a space in the living room as a work area. Creating a work area behind the sofa is a good idea.

Another way is, if there is a room behind the sofa, you can knock down half of the wall of the room to make it semi-open, or use glass partitions. The transparency of the entire space will also be good.

4. Rear storage cabinet

The design of placing a shelf behind the sofa is relatively easy to implement, and the requirements for the house type are not too strict, as long as the cabinet is not too thick.

What kind of storage rack you put depends on your actual needs. If you have a lot of books, then put up a bookshelf and turn the living room into a reading area.

If you don’t have that many books, you can put up a long table as a display rack.

If you simply want to increase the storage space, then you can build a storage cabinet with doors, which is also an effective use of the living room space.

5. Notes

1. First of all, the design of the sofa not against the wall requires a lot of space. The distance from the TV to the sofa should be about 4 meters.

2. It is best to choose a small sofa and combine it with a single chair. The combined sofa is more flexible.

3. Ground planting should be planned in advance.

4. You can place a low cabinet behind the sofa to reduce its presence and avoid affecting your sight.

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