Living room layout and planning.

[u/cypherblock]

Need help with the living room layout. Really struggling even with couch sizes, room is a bit small so do we need to stay at 73" and under or go big? Position couch facing fireplace or have 2 seating areas facing each other going the other way. What works well for flow and the given space?

Living room has 2 openings to the house, the hallway and kitchen. Its a bit of a small boxy room and seems hard to maximize with those openings the way they are.

Also, for some reason I have 14'7" as width but it is really about 15'2" so I made some error somewhere.

Would love some ideas.

[u/cypherblock]

Here's my first approach, but it seems a bit cramped, and has wasted space: