Furniture Dilemma

Okay, I am going to start by saying "I HATE the furniture that I have right now!" It's is OLD and so not my style and worn out, and ugly and hand me downs. It is functional, but it is not pleasing to the eye.

That being said, I am "Suppose" to be getting new furniture. Yes, I put it in quotes on purpose. Because I was promised that new furniture at the beginning of December as my Christmas present, but it's not even close to being ordered. It's picked out. But if he waits too much longer, I am going to have to look at everything again, to make sure that there is nothing new, that I like more. It's already going on 4 months.......

This afternoon, I decide to move the furniture into the "proposed" layout of how we want the new furniture to go into the living room. The T.V. is already in place. (We moved it across the room) We plan to get a sectional, so I put the couch and the loveseat in the corner to take the place of the sectional, and then the recliner, where the new recliner is going to go. And........I HATE IT!!!!! Okay, maybe not hate....but I am not loving it. At all. It might work. It could work. But there is a lot of OPEN space in the middle of the room, and it just looks wrong. I can't explain it any other way.....Just too much space and nothing to fill it with.....Maybe it will grow on me. Maybe......

The room layout is so odd, that ever since we moved in, we've had a struggle of where to put things. Too many doors in odd places. No flat wall with out other stuff breaking it up. There is not a "Perfect" solution for this room at all. I played around with the other scenarios till I had a headache, then I finally figured out that there is NO other solutions, UNLESS we went back to what we had before. Neither of us loved that layout. The T.V. was cornered before. So to go back it would have to be cornered still. (Or Jody's other solution is to put it on the wall where the two big front windows are. As in, in front of the windows....Uhhh... NOT!) Plus since we are going to get a bigger T.V., it needs more room than the corner really allows.

So, I either need to come up with a solution to help camouflage the big open space (an area rug would not work, at least not while I have my cat) OR, I need to get used to the layout. I may. It is possible. I did not love the furniture layout that we had previously, but I eventually got over it. Maybe, once I have the new furniture (IF I ever have the new furniture) it will look better, because there won't be a big gap in the corner.......Plus the sectional will come out into the room differently, since I will have the chase.

I don't know. For now, I am going to leave it. I am going to see how I feel about it in a few days. Maybe my opinion of it will change. I doubt it. But, you never can tell.