Arrangement of living / dining room

[Helpmepleasesofa]

Hello

we are trying to arrange our living/ dining room and buy a new sofa. Unfortunately we have a rectangle shaped room with a lot of windows! The only workable place to put the sofa (that would put it against a wall- also a good idea as we have a climbing toddler who likes to climb the sofa) puts the side of the sofa in direct line of the front door- although there is/ will be a cabinet for shoes or a buffet against the wall closer to the front door and there is a distance of around 4m-5m from the front door to the sofa.

Is this still a bad place to put the sofa- or, are there any other positions you could suggest given the room layout? If it is a bad place to put the sofa, what remedies could you suggest?

 

thank you 

[Cecil Lee]

Under Shapes and Forms Feng Shui, your layout plan makes sense.