Interior Design | Creating The Perfect Family Room

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Designer Miriam Manzo shares her tips for designing and selecting the components that make up the perfect family room for TV watching and lounging.
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[@jurggjon]

I'm so glad to know I’m not the only one that hates TV above the fireplace.

[@paulacaffey6026]

Miriam, your videos are soooo appreciated!! They have got to be some of THE most detailed, useful and mature decorator videos I have seen on You Tube. You don’t talk gimmicky or present ridiculous ideas as I often see. So, thank you so much for doing these.

[@johnnycomelately6341]

The value of your work Miriam is that you have drawn on past global designs of wonder and brought them to the present in their evolved and suitably contemporary form. This has given us timeless beauty.

[@sarakanne]

Fantastic video Miriam. Count me in for future floor-plan videos which help viewers understand the entirety of the design process. You’re doing an awesome job. This is one of my favorite KZbin channels.

[@josephforsuh6929]

Mine too!!!

[@janine4360]

Ditto and ditto! I really LOVE seeing the design process in action!!!

[@janine4360]

Wow, each video is its own design masterclass! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us!

[@kaystinebrink1220]

This video was very helpful. Your floor plan explanation were very perfect. Thanks for choose an room where furniture placement isn't easy.

[@josephforsuh6929]

These utube videos allow an individual get a better finished home overall. Love the detail that most other people do not offer in the interior design world.....

[@mbellishedhomewithfelicia]

Hello, Very helpful information and tips on space planning in this video!! Greatly appreciated! ❤❤❤

[@misseee965]

Yes!!!!! Please share how you space planned the other rooms. I think this is one of the hardest things to do when redecorating.

[@carolineJ66]

Can’t wait to see your video on trims and moldings ❤

[@sunflower8035]

I’m binge watching her channel. Love how she doesn’t just share her design videos but shares her knowledge on design and materials. I ordered a down sofa and spent a pretty penny. I just can’t stand how lumpy and worn sofas look. We USE our sofa. Down is so fabulous as you can plump it back to form.

[@pjc2262]

I agree with others on this channel, your work is one of my favorites and so inspiring and educational. I love the high low approach to projects. I’m in favor to see the finished floor plan and beyond. Thank you Miriam. Much appreciated.

[@elvirareyes-ro5cs]

Thank you, for your generosity in this invaluable information. I appreciate you very much!

[@marinamacielsoares9223]

Loved looking at the floor plans and listening to you describe the options. Your designs are amazing and very inspirational. Thanks for sharing!

[@mcmccoy1184]

Thank you for sharing your home with us. And going into the key factors in determining and designing such stunningly beautiful interiors! I appreciate the checklist approach -> here are the most critical aspects AND here’s why! Sharing your plans for a real client, both the budget-friendly and the stepped-up option, is a wonderful peek inside a your amazing world.

[@cendygorman1911]

I would love to watch the floor plan videos!!! You are a great mentor!!!

[@mouriefeeney1903]

Miriam, you articulate your videos from the second you begin to speak. You tall with a great rhythm, not too fast or too slow and so easy to capture your audience. It is refreshing to understand each sentence and point of discussion. Great tips!! Thank you....😊

[@lisarumley-lewis5513]

Oh my goodness....SOOOO much amazing information! Thank you! I would love to see the other designs for awkward rooms in this house.

[@christinemack2153]

I'm always excited to watch. Thank you for explaining the distances from TV to sofa, etc.,

[@marjorie3951]

I would love to see more videos with floor plan options. I found it extremely helpful to see it on paper as well as visually in place. Your video are very informative beyond just highlighting trends and resources. I am currently living in Italy and am not able to use the resources provided by so many vloggers from the US. I am really enjoying your videos. Thanks!! 💕👍🏼

[@claudiamann7111]

Thank you so much for all the hints and tips for decorating our family room. I always learn so much when watching your videos. Would love to see how you decorate the bedroom of the house.

[@quetzali8654]

Great advices, thanks for sharing. You look gorgeous!!

[@sharronhagen8442]

I learn from everything you present on this channel. Many thanks Miriam.

[@sharonchilds3871]

Great video… yours are always helpful and visually appealing

[@arthurgroff20]

Yes I would love to see more. I love your channel and everything you do!! Thank you.

[@kidsloveyoga6768]

Love how you look!

[@carolineJ66]

Thank you for another great lesson, I love these videos, I discover options and solutions, it gets my mind working on creative solutions for my own home or when I’m helping my friends and family 🥂🥰

[@extraordinarywomennextchapter]

I love your videos Miriam. I even shared them with my daughter-in-law as they are working on plans to redo their basement family room. I learn something from every one of your videos! Yes, do share the space planning of the other rooms.

[@genas.3536]

Such good advice! Thank you.

[@Anzhela.Piano-Life]

Very interesting and informative ❤. Thank you, Miriam.

[@jstones9872]

great video thank you. would love to see some kitchen and baths.

[@yonelledrakes2036]

Keep going Miriam. Real valuable information for us all.

[@donnanolan8913]

So informative.

[@carlawhite6041]

Another great detailed video, these informative videos are what sets you apart from others, they just decorate, we want knowledge and that is what you deliver. A video on how to do a floor plan would be great, (if that's possible) thank you Miriam.

[@mireyaharo6977]

Thank you Miriam your video gave me a couple of great ideas for my home I enjoy all your videos you are so creative in your design

[@davidjones9146]

A video on trims and wall moldings would be great! Please include how to hang artwork when wall molding is present. What if the art is larger than the opening on the molding? How do you hang it? Thanks!

[@Donnaconrad1]

Thanks so much for the coffee table height info. Very informative.

[@gerhard6105]

My coffee table is 18,5" high and my tv furniture is 19" high and 2,2 meter long and 20" deep. The coffee table was a kitchen table wich i made less wide and i lowered the legs. It is from about 1900. The hight is good because i do not get younger. The tv is on the long, dark brown, furniture. My italian dark grey cough/sofa is 2,5 meter long: a four seater but i only live with my son (11). Tv's should not be above the fire place: that is looking stupid and it is way too high. A laptop is also on your desk and not 20" above it. Regards from a dad with his son in the Belgium Ardennes.

[@roseandrade2114]

You are so very chic, and such a great designer.

[@hendrozeni5332]

thanks u, I'm always excited to watch..

[@helenaneumann1872]

Great video, Miriam!

[@juliannekamau6937]

Amazing videos Miriam , always informative, always inspiring. Greetings from Kenya. Do you have tips for selection of fireplace mantles, how to know what materials are suitable especially if you have wood burning fireplace. Thanks in advance!

[@kathleenkalt3852]

I so agree about not placing the tv above the mantle. Now, if you could convince two very successful Canadian brothers to stop doing that in their renovations......

[@emiliebova]

My last house main room had too many focal points. We had a spectacular view over a large bay facing south. We had a fireplace at right angles to the view. We had a Steinway grand piano in the room too. We had to put the tv over the fireplace and the piano on an inside wall. It was a problem of too many focal points.

[@deniseb7013]

Yes loved this video. I also don’t like the tv over the fireplace. Our family room measures 17’ x 23 it has a fireplace that is centered. We have the tv in the corner next to the fireplace. The sofa and loveseat are across from the fireplace and tv for perfect viewing . I had a friend say to me why don’t you put two sofas facing each other in front of the fireplace. As much as I would love that it would not work for us, we watch tv in this room. So yes thank you for confirming that for me. I would love to see the rest of the home. ❤

[@joefloyd7127]

Interesting and informative video! Please do share more videos on floor plans and deocorating the rooms.. ....Toni Floyd

[@justatitle]

I noticed on the drawing the dead space in the corner opposite the reading chair. Is it okay to have a dead space? ie Without a piece of furniture, or grounding type structure. Or can a piece of Art be that grounding? Sorry for too many questions! I just highly trust your opinion.

[@mylisse105]

Would it be possible to get some info about the beautiful framed art print/painting that is showing sitting on the ledge to the left of your chair by the fireplace? It has the most beautiful blues, and looks to be a painting of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Is it an oil painting or a print? If it is a print, where could I purchase the same one?

[@looovegoodmusic]

Thanks for this wonderful video! Would love to know what the owners chose.

[@justatitle]

The Rug use is assuming you have hard surface floors! Correct? What if you have carpet ? Can you use a Rug? Some designers say No! I’d like to know your thoughts?

[@misseee965]

Can you talk more in depth about scale. How do I know if my sofa is scale to the room?

[@kathleen6349]

Excellent video, lots of helpful tips. It was very helpful watching the floorplan options too. Everything was great except the wardrobe oops, that was a bit distracting.

[@pearlmoos7802]

Why is that table in from of the fire place to your right, and not beside you on your left? Is that a design style?

[@allaa570]

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[@carliajones4583]

👍🏾🤗

[@ginalowe1924]

Would you just get wall to wall carpets instead of rugs..

[@hazel1960]

Do you think your age and experience you have realistic views I watch and see many different designers they apparently haven’t a clue on day to day living in a enclosed space I say well done you certainly make sense to me.

[@warningsigns4526]

children, animals and toys with lots of music - not my ideal home - sorry - family farms on the way IN now - this is out

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