Formal Living Room Plan

The main living area is the central core space in your home. It is both public and private - a space that you share with family members and with guests. From the main living room, one should be able to connect easily with dining areas, kitchen, and hallways to bedrooms. The living area should be given top priority in the hierarchy of rooms. Often it is not.

Sometimes the front door opens right into the living room, and the passage deeper into the house cuts right through it. Please! Before you go a step further, stop to imagine how you will furnish and enjoy sitting in a room like this. If you home has this layout, consider some serious surgery to correct this problem. Never allow walkways to cross through the middle of living areas. This creates a division within the space which no amount of furniture placement will help. If you have this floor plan, face up to it, and make the necessary changes before moving on.

Most buyers today prefer two or more living areas. These may include a main living room, plus a family room or den, a study, and a game room. Keep in mind that the trend today is to avoid wasted space. Rooms that are used primarily for display have very little real use and value. Consider converting an unused formal living room to a study. Sometimes a wall can be opened up to bring a seldom used room into a real relationship with the house. This is much cheaper than adding on more space. Remodeling tip: Make better use of the space that you have.

The "greatroom" is a popular layout that combines the living-dining-kitchen space. This open style is efficient in its use of space, combining multiple uses. The house seems bigger than it would if divided into small rooms. People are able to work in the kitchen and talk with family members or guests in the living area. If you can open a kitchen wall to allow a connection between spaces, you will be making a change that most buyers prefer.

If budget allows, a gameroom is a space that serves a multitude of functions. It is a more private living area that is often used for TV watching, computers, pool table, or children's toys. It is often an upstairs common area that connects to bedrooms. Special media rooms are sometimes added, although the trend today away from little used spaces.

When it comes to keeping your living room clean, the kind of living room that you have will determine the amount of cleaning that needs to be done. There are various kinds of living rooms and they have different cleaning requirements. The following are two standard types of living rooms:

A Formal Living Room

You will find formal living spaces more so in older homes. It is a room that is a sign of the times. Houses were cheaper and people could afford to pay for unused space that is just decorated and sits until they entertain guests. Usually this type of entertaining room will be furnished better than any other room in the house. Since it is used only for special occasions, it rarely requires more than a basic cleaning. Mostly all that has to be done to keep it clean is to dust, vacuum and air out the rooms from time to time.

The modern trend is moving away from the formal living space and into the pen floor plan. This allows for the entire main living space to flow together. This trend has become so popular in fact that it has even become the big trend in home renovations. That is right people are knocking down those old barriers and opening all the new possibilities.

An Open Floor Plan

Modern homes tend to have open floor plans. Space is a premium and many people cannot afford to have extra rooms that are never used. This type of floor plan consists of a living room/dining room floor plan that is accessible to the kitchen. This is where the family spends the majority of the time doing things such a watching television, conversing, playing games and entertaining their family and friends. As a result it is a very busy room that gets dirty on a regular basis.