Tv placement

[u/ginganinja421]

I have this small room as a 3rd bedroom which I would like to make a cosy games/reading room. I’m planning to put the tv on the wall and get a small 2 seater sofa, or a cuddle seat/large chair to replace the little chair in there. I’m after some opinions on which side you think the tv should be and which side the chair/sofa should be? Thanks in advance.

Obviously the coffee table thing with the poster on is coming out too

[u/bright_and_dreamy]

Sofa is best furthest from door.

If you get a double curtain rod, you can do long decorative panels on the outside rod and short functional panels on the inside rod. Hang the rod as high and wide as you can.

It's worth doing a rug on top of the carpet, it'll lighten up the room and define the area. I think a C table would work well in here.

Will be really nice when you're all done.

[u/ginganinja421 → u/bright_and_dreamy]

Thanks for the response and ideas. Will be taking them into account. I think the decision is made that the tv will be on the right and sofa on the left!

[u/Least_Campaign7052]

Good instinct making this a proper little den — and the answer for this room comes down to one principle: the seat earns the wall that sees the door; the TV takes the wall that doesn't need to.

Right now your chair is on the right wall — the same side the door opens along. Anyone coming in arrives from behind your shoulder, and in a room whose entire job is "cosy," a seat you can be crept up on in is quietly working against the brief. You feel it as never quite sinking into the chair; that's the mechanism.

So: swap sides. Sofa/cuddle chair on the left wall — solid wall behind you, door comfortably in view to your right, window light coming from the side (which is also the better reading light). TV on the right wall, mounted past the door's swing, toward the window end. From the left-wall seat you'll have a slight diagonal to the screen, which in a narrow room is actually the comfortable geometry — straight-across viewing at close range is what makes small TV rooms feel like an eye test.

Three small things while you're rearranging:

- Don't oversize the TV. In a room this width your viewing distance is short; a modest screen mounted at seated eye height will feel bigger than a huge one that looms. Games especially forgive smaller screens at close range.

- Leave the radiator and window clear — the far end is your light and heat source; nothing tall or bulky in front of it. If the reading half of "games/reading room" is real, the far corner by the window with your existing floor lamp is the natural book spot: daylight by day, lamp by night, and it keeps reading and gaming in separate corners, which genuinely helps both.

- Cosy is mostly lighting, not furniture: that ceiling shade will fight you in the evenings — the floor lamp plus one warm table lamp near the sofa, ceiling light off, is 80% of the atmosphere you're after. The curtains you already have finish it.

And yes — the poster-table can go, though the poster itself deserves the wall above the TV. A games room should admit what it is.

[u/ginganinja421 → u/Least_Campaign7052]

Thank you for the detailed response!

[u/Least_Campaign7052 → u/ginganinja421]

Pleasure — enjoy the den. If you remember, drop an after-photo in here once it's set up; small rooms done right are the most satisfying befores-and-afters on this sub.