Winter Family Room - A New Furniture Arrangement

After we packed away all of the holiday stuff, I was craving a change in our family room for winter. We spend the most time in this space during the winter months and I like it to function as well for as family as possible. I thought about the different ways we use this room and decided to break it up into sections. The three main activities we enjoy at this time of year are tv watching, playing games/puzzles and reading by the fire.

I knew that I wanted to separate the wall unit into three separate pieces because that is an easy way to change the whole feel of the room. We put the two side pieces together to give them more of a bookshelf feel.

I enjoy reading in front of the fire at this time of year, so this arrangement works perfectly. The plaid armchairs by the fireplace are the sweet spot in the room for sure. I kept the snowshoes up on the mantel for winter and kept things simple. The jute rug under the chairs is a new addition that we picked up at Ikea a couple of weeks back. I love how much texture and warmth it adds to this space.

We moved the big tv part of the wall unit to our planked wall and moved most of our gallery wall items to where the tv used to be.

I decided to leave the red and black buffalo check pillow covers that I had out for Christmas on the sofa pillows for a few more weeks.

 I will share more about the nook area I created in this corner of the family room in a future post.

This arrangement allows for our gallery wall to be more spread out. I enjoy having the Pottery Barn mantel shelf as a centerpiece because it makes it easy to change up the pictures on the ledge. That way I can change the pictures with the seasons.

In a few weeks, we will be looking forward to spring, but for now we are all happy to hibernate and enjoy some family time by the fire in our family room.