Home Cinema Plans Help

[maj]

I've recently bought my first ever house. Since it's a new build it won't be completed till May - July next year. Exciting times In the meantime I've got to decide pretty how I want my living room arranged so I can make the plans final to the builder in time. It is a very rough sketch but based on the rather small size and layout of room I've decided I have 3 possible options to have the TV point and power sockets etc.

I'm wanting to put TV on a stand and eventually get some floor standing speakers if there's space and/or surround sound.

Option A) Put TV on a stand and have a sofa in front of windows where B is.

Option B) Option A but flipped. Sofa on kitchen wall where A is and TV where windows are at front of house at point B.

Option C) TV on a stand with a corner sofa in middle of room in a L-shape.

Based on the sofa's I've liked that I've measured, all 3 options work but I have negative points about each.

Option A) Worried about sun shining on back wall and may need to constantly close blinds/curtains. Plus not sure about back of head facing only windows in the room.

Option B) Again not sure how much of an issue sun shining directly onto TV will cause. Plus don't really want TV blocking the view and only light source into room.

Option C) Would mean being sat side-on to the window and door into living room would open right onto back of the sofa.

I haven't put an option D in bottom left-corner as I'm not a big fan of TVs at an angle. Thought please?

 

[maj]

Well it really depends on what you want to achieve, what size TV screen you have in mind, and what suround options and equipment you plan on.
It's a small room, I have a feeling stand mounts may offer more than floorstanders, but if it's only for movies and gaming wall mounting maximises space. Though with such a small width your not getting a great deal of benefit from three speakers up front.

I would be tempted with C first, prefering a complete blank wall for the screen/tv and a bit more width for speaker placement, with a 5.1 system using small wall mounted rears, most likely side mounted.

But if your not going 50" plus screen size and content with a smaller wall mounted speaker system, option A is most likely the least to compromise on living space.

Where do the stairs lead and are they open? Are those two doors cuboards or something else?

Thanks for the reply.

Well I currently have a 49" TV which I only bought a year ago come January so I'll be sticking with it for the time being. I very rarely watch normal TV so it will be used for movie streaming and gaming. I'd consider stand mounted ones too, I just like how floor ones look but if there's no benefit due to size of room and they aren't going to be practical I will rule them out. Other than brands to choose from I'm not really sure what layout I want.

C was my preference too as it maximises the best of the space available to me, which isn't a lot to begin with! Wall mounted rears could work, possibly ones mounted on the two small walls either side of the stairs.

The stairs lead upstairs and I'm going to say they are closed as they are built-into the wall if that makes any sense? The door in top right is kitchen door, bottom right is door into living room.