AWKWARD SPACES- How to Design Around a Corner Fireplace (Furniture + Space Planning Tips!)
AWKWARD SPACES- How to Design Around a Corner Fireplace (Furniture + Space Planning Tips!)
I am so excited to bring you a brand new series for a brand new year: This "Awkward Space Solutions Series" was born out of the hundreds of comments that I read and reply to weekly. I began to see a common pattern and it’s the fact that MOST of you feel like there’s something awkward about your home. My goal from this series is to help you understand your space, use it to your advantage, and creatively come up with viable solutions no matter what size, shape, and budget you are dealing with.
We are going to start this series with one of the most popular issues a lot of you have: The awkward corner fireplace and how to design your furniture layout with this condition.
Do you have any questions when it comes to your awkward space? Comment below!
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I love the look too! 👏
Thank you for featuring TV placement! Very appreciated content for real folks with (Gasp) TV's!
I have a TV in almost every room of my home Beth 😆
This series is a winner! I know it’s coming soon but, sloped ceilings...🤯🤯🤯
Next week Doneil! Just finished filming it ☺️
Yes, yes, yes! This series is right up my alley! Thanks, Julie!
Awesome! Let me know if you have any awkward space issues Nengi 🙏🏻☺️
Hoemahgawd. It's 2am. I opened KZhead to search for a 'cool way to deal with my stupid corner fireplace with an awkward top space' and as I pressed enter.. I thought "I really hope Julie comes up in the results." Thank you for your enormous help with creating and curating our new(est) home!! I thoroughly enjoy your videos and haven't come across a single one that didn't have some helpful tips or make me laugh or say 'omg okay good not just my picky ass thinks that'. You also help with my homesickness! We move every couple of years as my wife is in the military. You are the super stylish, cool, smart, and sensible pro designer friend I always wanted or wished would help me make good decisions.
Hahah Aw I’m so happy to hear that I can help you create your dream space! Thank you for watching and following along, your support means the world 🙏🏻☺️💕
Thank You for doing this video! I recently removed our tv from our living room and I love having it gone. My husband watches whatever he wants on his laptop. I watch KZhead videos on my iPhone. Sometimes I just sit and read or look through design catalogs with our cats and dogs snuggled up with us. I really think our living room looks prettier and it actually makes the entire space feel larger. And I agree that tv’s do not work well hung above a fireplace in most layouts. My husband teases me that I have moved furniture so much that our next house will be one like the houses in Mexico where the furniture is anchored to the floors, lol! I just now told him, “Well Julie said to move furniture and have fun!”😂😂😂
Haha exactly Renee, you’re having fun and he gets a space that functions better than expected 🙌🏻
Thank you for making helping put these things into perspective! With all the 20-second remodeling KZhead videos out there we get discouraged looking at the structural things in our our house that aren’t “perfect”. Thank you for showing us how we don’t have to fret and just tweak a few things and not overthink it. You are awesome!
Julie, you are the best!!! You know exactly how to reach your audience! Thank you.
Thank you for watching Candice! I appreciate the support and feedback 🙏🏻☺️
I feel like this was willed into being at the exact right time. Thank you so much!! Super helpful! Cant wait for the rest of this series
Yay! Thank you for watching 🙏🏻☺️
I was so excited when I saw this Title!!!☺️👍
Thank you for watching Karen! Please let me know if you have any questions when it comes to an awkward space in your home 🙏🏻☺️
Yes I love when you post a new video. I get so many ideas from watching your channel.
Thank you for watching Antionette 🙏🏻☺️
I SO look forward to this new series!
Thank you for watching Cara! 🙏🏻✨
I love this series already!! Thank you Julie!!
Thank you for watching Ari! It’s gonna be fun!
Exactly what I need! Thanks!!
Woohoo! Thank you for watching Kieracoco 🙏🏻☺️
A New series??? Great! I can use any advice in this area. Really good video! Thanks so much!
Thank you for watching Estrella 🙏🏻💕
By the way, can’t wait for more episode from this series. Love it already! Well done Julie!
Thank you so much Vanessa! 🙏🏻☺️
Thank you! Love the content as usual.
Thank you so much BossLady ☺️🙏🏻
Thank you Julie. I always learn from your generous given knowledge. Thank you again Dimitria.
Thank you for watching Dimitria 🙏🏻✨
Thanks Julie!!! This series is so much fun to watch and certainly extremely helpful!!!
Thank you for watching Vicky! Check out the Dream Space series if you’re starting from scratch in any room 👍🏻☺️
Bravo, Julie! This has been a much awaited video. I now have the answers I could not find. It seems so simple when you are doing the explaining! Very well done. xo
Awesome! So glad I can help Audrey 🙏🏻💕
This is great! Please share more! I am interest to know about furniture placement, especially sofa, display rack, storage cabinet etc in the living room... Besides that i would like to know more about how to treat low ceiling n awkful beam and also space underneath the staircase. Your videos always amazed me. Thanks so much for willing to have great tips on house deco.
Thank you for watching and the wonderful suggestions Karmun! I’m taking notes 📝
I love a corner fireplace. Too often, when they are in the center of the room, there's nowhere to put the tv or worse, it's on the opposite wall so the fp is behind you. In the corner, you can see both the tv and the fp but the tv doesn't have to be OVER the fp and too high. It's a win/win for me.
My thoughts exactly. A corner fireplace does all of the furniture placement for you 👍🏻☺️
I have that problem now and my mantal has a built in mirror and pillars.
OMG, this is the content I was waiting for and did not even know 😁 Love it! ❤️ I’d love to hear more about bay windows vs furniture placement and window treatment. I’d also be interested in seeing something regarding slop ceilings vs window treatment, decor and furniture placement. That’s brilliant content! Thank you so much Already looking forward to the next video Love the channel
Thank you for watching and the feedback Lillian! I have sloped ceilings coming up, will add bay windows if anyone else is interested? 👍🏻☺️
@@JulieKhuu Thanks a mil, Julie!
Thank you ! I really really needed to see this. I've been playing around with furniture placement in a small, open-concept floor plan with a corner FP. I even had a custom rug made for the area, which is another difficulty with such a situation. Your ideas and photos were the best I've seen.
Awesome KBS, check out my video on open concept layouts for more inspiration 👍🏻☺️
Thank you Julie! This was very helpful!
Thank you for watching Jasmine! Hope it makes sense for you! So many ways to make your space work 🙌🏻
Love this! You answered so many of my questions! BRB, binge watching all your videos as I dive into designing the fixer upper condo I just purchased and have no idea what I'm doing!
Thank you for watching Angel! Let me know if you have any questions 👍🏻☺️
I love this series! Can you do an episode on how to create a feature wall in a room with sloped ceiling? PLEASE do an episode on front door facing a flight of stairs and a hallway right when you enter the house. Thank you for the great content!
Yes! Feature wall with sloped ceiling and three walls. One wall has a fireplace between two floor to ceiling windows. So builders clearly intended the fireplace to be focal point but that doesn't fit our functional family tv room needs. Thanks
You got it Claude 👍🏻
Thank you for watching Awake 🙏🏻✨ I have a video on sloped ceilings coming up in the next few weeks- will address this issue with the focal wall 👍🏻
@@JulieKhuu - awesome! Thank you.
Yay!! New series! I ❤️ your videos and of course your professional opinions.
Thank you for watching Dennis! 🙏🏻☺️
Julie you are brilliant! Thank you so much
Thank you for watching Bree! 🙏🏻☺️
Needed this! Thank you, Julie!!
Thank you for watching Lisa! 🙏🏻☺️
Entryways! If you can cover how to decorate with furniture in entryways that would be great. Not very entryway can fit a bench or console table - however I don’t want to leave it bare either. Any tips would be great!
My same problem!
Awesome idea Alexis! I’ll get on it 🙌🏻
@@JulieKhuu First- congratulations on this terrific series; Ms. Khuu, I appreciate your blend of practicality with genuineness...I love how you default to how the customer ultimately feels! Second, I concur with Ms. King above. California entryways are for the most part short and dark- anything on lighting and furniture placement. As for another awkward space, where best to place an upright piano? Baby grands- no problem, but an upright? In the living room against the wall next to the sofas or create a separate space altogether on another wall? Clearly, many folks don't have a separate music room. Thank you and, again, this series is the answer to COVID confinement!
Love love love this video. My corner fireplace layout has been driving me crazy since we moved in. I’m so inspired now to move some things around.
Awesome! Let me know how it goes Anna! 🙌🏻
One choice that seems to help with furniture layout in a room with a corner fireplace or awkward doors is adding chairs that swivel for viewing options. Great series!! Really hope you do an episode on awkward open ledges or niches above doors -- for example above an entry door or even small niches on walls on a stairway! Thanks!
We’re in sync 🙌🏻 Awkward niches and alcoves is coming up in a few weeks
I LOVE this series! Thank you!
Thank you for watching Makirio! 🙏🏻☺️
Perfect for my small living area with corner fireplace!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Awesome, hope my tips can help Cathy 🙌🏻
Exactly the video I have been looking for. Can’t wait to use some of the ideas!
Thank you for watching 🙏🏻✨
Thanks you so much for this! I have an awkward 80s house so I'm extra excited for this series!
Thank you for watching Lanay! Let me know if there’s anything specific I can help with 🙏🏻☺️
Julie: This is the most helpful video I've seen on dealing with furniture arrangement, particularly for difficult areas. I have a corner fireplace, flanked by one wall which is mostly windows, and another which is a huge cathedral ceiling room wall where I have to put the television. I found the answers on your video, and I want to thank you sincerely. But in addition to this, thank you for your wonderful professionalism, your articulate presentation that doesn't drone on with "chit-chat" that completely wastes time and makes the viewer lose interest. Very impressive, and I look forward to future posts! Best, Martha
Aw that warms my heart and is precisely the intent of my channel Martha! To help you create your dream space, no matter what your style or budget! Thank you so much for watching and supporting my channel 🙏🏻☺️
Awesome! So looking forward to the new series!
Thank you for watching HR! ☺️🙏🏻
Thank you so much for this! I downsized a few years ago and my family room has a corner fireplace and is small family room This video is very helpful as I struggled with this. Thank you!!!
Scale and proportion is usually the foundation for a successful layout in a small space 👍🏻
Julie, I love your series. I have a modern house, with a high pitched ceiling, with a large corner brick fireplace to the ceiling . And windows across both walls. I need to place sitting and a baby grand piano. Thanks katie
Thank you for watching Katie! I would probably place the baby grand opposite the brick fireplace on the shorter wall and create a seating group facing both focal points
Excellent tips on a problem I've been dealing with for nearly two years. Thank you for the high quality narrations and multiple photos of each concept.
Thank you for watching 🙏🏻☺️
Spot on with this series and with the corner fireplace / TV as my biggest challenge. Thank you!!!
Thank you for watching G! 🙏🏻☺️
I love the quiz!! A perfect tool to ignite our brain cells & check our understanding 👍🤩
Haha yes! Hope it helps you to remember when the time comes Lois 🙌🏻☺️
Wow Julie, thank so much for this content 🌹🌹🌹👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you for watching Lebo! 🙏🏻☺️
Oh wow! Just what I needed! I have so many design delimmas. Thanks dear,for starting this new series!
Let me know what I can help with Dr! 🙏🏻☺️
@@JulieKhuu sure ,!dear
Sorry! I mean -Sure,dear!
OMG!! This is topic is so helpful right now! Thank you!
Thank you for watching Akio! ☺️🙏🏻
This is a fantastic idea. Took screenshots and great, great, great ideas!! Julie, thank you!!
Thank you for watching Sibongile, hope these tips helps you in your space 🙏🏻☺️
I love this idea of decorating the “awkward” space!
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The case studies were great! Very helpful.
Thank you for watching Carolyn 🙏🏻☺️
So helpful! I love the way you think
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Happy that you started this new series looking forward to watch it
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Ah I love this series! I will be moving to an awkward LR space soon...this info is perfect 👌
Awkward living rooms coming up Francesca!
Julie, always so practical. Although I don't have the luxury of the fireplace challenge, the thinking behind your solutions is helpful in just planning through spaces and seating ideas. Your channel continues to give me confidence as I redesign my main living area...
It all starts with a plan on paper 📝 Once you understand your space and measure accordingly, sky’s the limit! 🙌🏻
Thank you so much!!! Thank you to all the people who made comments that led to this video. 🤩 I have an awkward dining room as well, two of the walls are arch’s (one to the kitchen and the other to the door. The third wall has a window to the street. Oh, did I mention that this room is not large and we have pretty standard ceilings. I painted an accent wall green before I watched your video about that. I have a rectangular table but want to buy an orb chandelier. I am so confused 🤷🏾♀️
Thank you for watching Marishka! Definitely check out my dining room mistakes video for more tips. It may clear up your dilemmas 🤞🏻
Wow! Was literally in the midsts of trying to figure out out how redo our corner fireplace. Thank you!
Awesome, hope these tips can help Renee! 👍🏻☺️
Great series!!!
Thank you for watching Rebecca ☺️🙏🏻
Thank you so much for addressing these issues and answering my questions! ❤️
Thank you again for tuning in 🤗
Julie you have finally given me the confidence in how we’ve arranged our Queenslander home which has a very large brick corner fireplace...I think it’s beautiful. Thank you for speaking up for us owners of corner fireplaces so as not to feel ashamed of it from a design point of view! Carol...
No shame ever Carol! It’s all about celebrating our home’s unique qualities 👍🏻☺️
@@JulieKhuu thanks Julie...it’s so nice to find someone speaking my “design” language 🌸
Thank you Julie very inspiring video again !!!❤💥💯👍👍😊
Yay! Thank you for watching Michelle ✨😊🙏
Thank you Julie ❤️
Thank you for watching Felicia! 🙏🏻☺️
Definitely enjoy your design styles, I would like to see open concepts were sofa backs to kitchen. My family leans on my sofa back.
I have an open concept video coming up Sheena! But right off the bat, I’d place a slim console there if that bothers you.
My corner fireplace has led to many design fails over the years. This video was so helpful! Look forward to more videos in the series.
Hope you found a great solution today! Thank you for watching 🙏🏻☺️
YES YES YES! I was just going to ask you to help with my curved fireplace! Its very large and takes up the majority of the living room with this huge curved line. Thank you thank you Julie! Can't wait for the whole series :)
Yay! Hope you got some cool ideas Weeze! 🙌🏻
Love the series!! Awkward family rooms!
Thank you for watching Terina! Let me know if you have any specific questions you’d like to address ☺️
I needed this! Thanks please do more
Check out the entire awkward space series for more tips!
It's a winner Julie ☺️... thanks much for answering my questions...can't wait to see the rest of the series...
I got you Maria 🙌🏻 Thank you so much for watching and your continued support 🙏🏻💕
This just saved me SOOOOO much frustration!! Thank you ♥️♥️
Awesome, thank you for watching Beth! 🙏🏻☺️
thank you! what a great series as many people live in older places that have been updated and added on to throughout the years.. which means a lot of it doesn’t make sense!
Ain’t that the truth 🙌🏻😆
Thanks so much for this! I wish our fireplace was in the corner and then the TV could be the focal point in between the windows. This was helpful! I'll play around with the placements suggested. Keep up this awesome series! Can't wait for more!
Some people love the corner fireplace, some find it awkward. Glad you found some inspiration from the video Mariana! 👍🏻☺️
Love these tips, thank you. 💖
Thank you for watching Lorraine! 🙏🏻💕
Every time I see beautiful rooms, I think to myself that people must be really happy living in them, and probably rooms never get dirty.
Beautiful rooms simply inspire us to live better, don’t you think?! ☺️💕
@@JulieKhuu I think so, yes. For the first time I felt the influence of architecture to my well-being was in a building that was designed by Jože Plečnik. Lobby in dark gray marble, small copper lights, doors were made from whole solid wood, but it didn't feel dark at all, it was very well designed place, it worked for many decades and materials didn't wore out at all and the design is still beautiful. I used to live in an apartment of an architect for external house design... What can I say, not all architect are able to be internal designers. It wasn't really ugly, but very impractical and the energy just didn't flow there. There is a really dark black kitchen and there is a black kitchen that you don't notice that is black. Well here was the first one and the symmetry was over the functionality... That meant that the kitchen could have a meter of counter top more if they wouldn't go for the symmetry. It was a really small L shaped kitchen, rather corner shaped kitchen. Total NO! A student room: Big black book shelves full of books and little statues covered the whole wall on the opposite side of small bed for students in a really small room, where there was only room for study table and small closet. The book shelves didn't feel good during the sleep. Books get the smell, they are dusty if you don't clean them regularly. During the sleep you exhale a lot of moisture and the paper soaks it. So the smell is there. I couldn't stay there for a longer period of time. There is a nice feeling dark and a dark that is too much. It's a big difference if you know how to balance the dark and make it work in the room.
Thank you for this series. I have learned so much from you without spending a lot of money. I have an awkward entrance area. When you walk in, there is a small landing area (8x4) the.there are steps going downstairs to the left and a hall way that leads to an all open living area. It’s dark narrow area that desperately needs some attention.
You can create a small, beautiful landing space to the left of the door Pamela. I have awkward entries coming up in a couple of weeks, stay tuned 🙏🏻☺️
We have a small corner fireplace, but a door to right and windows to left. No adjacent wall. So tv is above fireplace. We have it set quite high and tilted downward on swivel arm. SInce we usually watch TV while reclining back in chairs, it helps with our neck posture, making our line of sight perpendicular to tv screen. Much better for proper spinal alignment. For us, a high tv works.
That’s the perfect solution when you have nowhere else to place the TV 🙌
Thanks for these great tips!!!
Thank you for watching Tammy! 🙏🏻☺️
Oh, awesome, great video! I’d really need advice on sloped ceilings, especially what to do regarding curtains or drapes when the window is in a non sloped niche but the ceiling on both sides is, because curtains can look kind of awkward and crammed into the space, but I’m probably doing it wrong.
I have sloped ceilings coming up in this series 👍🏻 But right off the bat, hang your curtain rod at the highest point of the slowest slope
I just painted the fireplace my boyfriend built for me and my house of course. I painted it medium to a darker gray. Our tile and carpet is tan and browns. So I’ve been pulling the gray/brown into some of the decor to have some assembly. I’m so in love with the fireplace. Thank you for the ideas!
Sounds brilliant Jennifer! 🙌🏻☺️
I’m soooo glad I came across this expert advice. It opened up my eyes to designing my space. Now I really don’t see it as awkward.
Awkward = OPPORTUNITY ✨ Seeing our homes this way makes our design choices that much more unique and so personal to our conditions 🙌🏻
Sloped ceilings for upstairs bedroom bungalows. Mirrors? Headboard? Dresser? One regular window. One smaller rectangular window. Low ceiling.
I got you LT! Check back next week! 🙌🏻
@@JulieKhuu Excellent!! Thank you!
Very helpful! Thank you!
Thank you for watching 🙏🏻☺️
Yass! You rock! Thank you for this video 🥰
Thank you for watching Ferrill! 🙏🏻☺️
Very informative. Thank you!
Thank you for watching Sherry ☺️🙏🏻
This series was a great idea, Julie!
Thank you so much for watching! Hope you’ll stay tuned for the rest! ☺️🙏🏻
Thank you. This is so helpful! I am having difficulty with our narrow entryway. It is too narrow to include a bench or small console table on the wall where the door does not hit. Right next to the wall where we can’t add any furniture to, there is a hallway entrance followed by a small corner facing in the direction of the entrance. That seems to be the only place to add furniture, but that corner is so small that the only thing that may fit is a small pedestal table (less than 20” diameter) Unfortunately the only ones that I can find are short end tables and it does not look grand. Most corner furniture available are bookcases which I am not sure if it’s appropriate for an entrance. Would love to see a video in the future on awkward entryways. Thank you for all of the great tips! I look forward to this series.
Lots of requests for the small awkward entry Lizeth, thank you for watching and providing feedback! I’m on it 👍🏻☺️
@@JulieKhuu thanks so much! I look forward to this series :)
I have the angled sofa for my room (first example of latouts). I almost never see anyone do that, loved seeing that I'm not crazy for this layout haha. I love my awkward space with its corner fireplace and pitched ceilings. It makes it unique and visually interesting. Also I love the guess the spot challenge. I learn best from doing things myself and this helped so much. Sometimes I can watch all the interior design videos but when it comes to implementing them I can sometimes be stumped. This was really helpful and I hope to see it in future videos in this series!
Thank you for watching and the helpful feedback S! Will be quizzing you all more along the way 🙌🏻😉
Yes! So waiting for sloped ceiling video 😊 not sure if this other problem is popular enough to address in a video... but our parking place is reachable via garden, garden doors are in the kitchen/dining room (which further flows into the livng room - open concept) and another important part - there is not much wall space near the garden door (the whole garden door wall is doors and windows till the floor). We almost never use the front door. How do we end coats on the chairs and shoes on the floor in the dining room?
Sounds like you would have to place a furniture piece to accommodate this need. I would put it perpendicular to the window wall to make it work.
Thank you again for your videos. I had to reference again because my family room is driving me crazy. It's small and shares the space with a breakfast bar. Trying but can't seem to get it right but your video is helpful.
Scale and proportion is usually the issue Rochelle. Check out my Dream Space series on measuring your room for more detailed tips!
Hi Julie! Happy New Year! Love the new series. You explain everything so eloquently. I don't have a corner fireplace in my living room but my front door opens to a closet and small entry that faces a staircase that opens to the living room with a bay window and one large wall which opens to dining room that has one wall and a 6ft slider on exterior wall that opens to a peninsula in the kitchen. I love the semi open concept but the entryways and lack of walls in living and dining room make furniture placement difficult for me to figure out. Julie, I know you can figure out this conundrum and would love to see a video on it.
Don’t look to the walls to create space Cassandra, look to the floors to figure out your seating groups. Most of the furniture in this episode aren’t backed up against walls. They float in space. Watch again to dissect the arrangements 👍🏻
I am so here for this series!!!!
Thank you for watching Tamara 🙏🏻☺️
I look forward to this new series too! Right now I’m struggling with a fireplace that is not centered, that takes half of one long wall and I haven’t decided what to put in that other half. I’m thinking of putting some bookcases
Check out my video on awkward long and narrow spaces Angelo. I cover offset fireplaces in that one 👍🏻
I didn’t even watch this yet, but I’m so excited, because I have an awkward corner fireplace!
Update after watching the video. I’m still not sure what to do lol. The wall across from the corner fireplace is a sliding glass door to the balcony, and next to that are openings to the dining room, kitchen, and entryway 😆
Measure a minimum 36” clearance for passages and walkways and that is the maximum space you can allot for furniture Theresa 👍🏻
Wow, this was a great lesson on placement - well done
Thank you for watching Sons ☺️🙏🏻
Fun and very helpful content as always. 😍
Thank you for watching Raffla ☺️🙏🏻
love it!!! Hi from sunny Queensland 🇦🇺
Thank you for watching Bisdak 🙏🏻☺️
I love the idea for this channel!
Thank you for watching Anya! Let me know if you have any questions about your awkward space ☺️👍🏻
Transom windows! Sun blasts in the room, but how do you apply window treatments? Also when you have different window shapes an sizes in the same room . A patio door, transom windows and a regular window all in the same room.
You can use privacy film for the transom windows if you don’t go the custom route Janice. All other openings can be treated with window treatments hung at the same height to create visual continuity
Looking forward to more 😊
Thank you for watching Deepika ☺️🙏🏻
Excellent input! I have a 70s ranch that has a wall of brick running the length of the room. The hearth has a seating ledge the length of it, and the tv sits on left side of ledge with fireplace towards the right. There are no shelves on wall or pillow/cushion for brick ledge. I’d love some suggestions how to style this intrusive, boring wall. I do plan to paint the brick soon as it saps the small amount of sunlight entering room. Looking forward to this series!
Hi Jill! Did you see the mid century home featured in this video (TV placement portion)? It has a similar vibe as you described! Try upholstering a long bench style cushion that is sleek and minimal to make the ledge more functional. Or you can leave it alone and address what’s happening in the center of the space more 👍🏻
I am so glad you did this video. I have a corner fireplace with a awkward shaped kitchen adjacent to it and the dining room on the other side. It's so small and so difficult to design. I now have some ideas what to do with it. Thank you.
Yay! So glad you got some inspiration to try out Kathy 🙌🏻
I enjoyed the quiz, thank you 😊
Thank you for watching Salma! Hope it makes TV placement more obvious in awkward spaces 👍🏻☺️