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This looks a lot like the studio I had when I lived in Hyde Park! (Except you have a bigger kitchen.) Okay, assuming the wall is long enough (looks like around 7' at least?), I would put the sofa along the wall adjoining the bath. The entertainment center can be tucked into the corner by the window, and I'd also try to find a small chair to face the sofa. How about dressing up the desk a little bit so that it can serve as a console table, and placing it near the entrance?

Dear Heather and Anne:

Thanks for your comments, your tips are greatly appreciated. I promise I will send pictures of the apartment once I finish with the decorations!

What a great place for the Murphy bed!

If it were my place, I think I might actually make the "dining room" the office - I'd put the desk directly in front of (up against) that window and bookshelves on the long wall of that room. It's so much more pleasant to look out a window than at a wall from a desk, and, for me, I'd much rather contain the "visual noise" of a desk area in the one separate room you have, rather than staring at my desk/cords/etc. when I'm relaxing or entertaining in the main room. I also think it'll seated meals are more pleasant (and better lit) in the main room, and you never have to stare at kitchen stuff even when you're using the "dining" room well.

I'd then put my dining/multipurpose table with a nice lamp directly in front of the two main room windows, with just two chairs (one in each corner, facing into the room). Two "extra" chairs can go in the "office" room.

I'd then put the sofa along the wall between the Murphy bed and the entrance to the "office" room, the entertainment center on the wall across (to the right of the closet door) - where it can be seen from both the sofa and the bed, and I'd add at least one upholstered (but small-scale) side chair to make a conversation area with the sofa, and add a nice slim console table along the "bottom" wall, just a tiny bit clear of where the foot of the bed will land.

I doodled all of it out, please let me know if you'd like me to email the doc (since I have no idea how to post images).

Just my two cents, regardless. Congrats on the place, and please do keep us posted on how you make the space your own!

Hi Silvana
Would it be possible to use your bookshelf or entertainment center as a room divide between the area by the windows (most likely where your sofa would go) and your bed area? Perhaps the desk could then go on the back side of what you would use as a room divide. If the back of your bookshelf, for example, has seen better days, you could just put some fabric across the back of it which could be the backdrop for your desk or if you decide to put your desk in your dining area, then you could still use the back of the bookshelf (or entertainment center) in some kind of fun way (paint it and put some pictures on the back so you see them from the bed, whatever. Hope this makes sense. It sounds like your place is large enough to pull this off.

Thanks to everyone for the tips ! HELLOAT: I will love to see the doc, maybe you can send the link so AT can upload it, or you can email it to silvana.bonilla@mch.com

Silvana, my pleasure! Emailing it now - and I promise someday to learn how to upload images.

Congrats again on what looks like a very cool place - and to send us some pictures when you're getting settled in!