As we mentioned at the start, the living room can have a lot of uses, but primarily it’s a place where you want to be comfortable. That means you might be planning your space around creature comforts like a comfy couch, a TV, or a fireplace. Here are ideas for planning windows to work with these features:

• Furniture: To avoid blocking the light from your windows with your furniture, think about placing it in the center of the room. Another approach could be placing the windows higher on the wall to preserve privacy while also carving out enough space underneath to fit your couch, which is likely to be your largest piece of furniture. Finally, you could go ahead and put the couch in front of the window. You might block a little light but gain a little privacy for a win-win. To help avoid fading your furniture, we have a low-emissivity (Low-E) coatings that can block out 95% of harmful UV rays, check out SmartSun™ glass. Low-E coatings are a standard option with our windows. 
• TV: When planning a room with lots of windows and a TV, you’ll want to think carefully about the direction the windows face. If you’re working during the day, most of your television viewing time will be in the evening when the sun is in the western sky. If your living room has western-facing windows, avoid mounting the TV where it will be subject to a glare from the setting sun. And if you can’t avoid that, remember that good window coverings can solve the problem too.
• Fireplace: Speaking of TVs, there’s a great debate about whether they should be mounted above the fireplace — though doing so can save space for windows. Wherever you land, that’s only one aspect of selecting windows for a room where this feature is present or planned. The two don’t have to be in competition for wall space. We like using windows as a complement to highlight a fireplace focal point. It’s an approach that can work in a traditional home or a modern home, as the examples above and below illustrate.