open up

Your aged unit may have recently been sterilized by a well meaning developer who has opened up the square footage.  Living in an open plan home where the kitchen and dinning room are exposed to the lounge area means you will need to use the furniture to define the areas.  This sounds easy to pull off, but requires a thoughtful solution to be successful.  Fortunately, the majority of well designed contemporary sofas are composed of various seating elements.  This offers a much wider choice of configuration which leads to better use of your space.

More choice is almost always good thing, but choose well.  Think through the ways you hope to present and use this part of your home.  Will this be the main entertainment area, mostly for watching movies, and Mad Men?  Surely you will be spending time here after dinner with guests debating the merits of Angola Soundtrack vs. Brandt Brauer Frick's latest album.  Hopefully, too, you expect to spend more intimate, quiet time gracefully chatting about nothing at all.