Changing it up

I'd grown bored with the furniture layout of the living room, or "the fireplace room" as I sometimes call it. Literally years have gone by since I last moved things around. I was ready for a change. So I decided on a facing the couch in front of the fireplace instead of catty-corner to it. I put the Windsor chair by the diamond partial wall divider off the kitchen, and I put the Ethan Allen "Martha Washington" chair by the bay window. Somehow it all made the room look a lot bigger. Funny how objects can trick the eye that way. I always thought the former placement of the couch allowed me to look at the fire in the winter and also out the window to see the snow at the same time, but this new arrangement does pretty much the same thing.





UPDATE: I added one more piece of furniture to this arrangement. I had a little side table just taking up space in the home office upstairs. I decided to put it next to the Windsor chair underneath the standing light because I like sitting in that chair when I read. I needed a place to put a drink. It tucked in nicely underneath the lamp's arm.