Large rooms can pose some design challenges especially if you have more than one focal point in the room.
Rectangular long narrow living room with fireplace at one end.
But with some layout tweaks and a few visual tricks up your sleeve you can learn to love your long room.
One of the main difficulties in arranging furniture for a long narrow room is where to have people walk through.
Some rectangular living rooms are very long and narrow creating the feel of a tunnel or bowling alley.
This condo s main living areas are one long rectangle with tall ceilings that made it feel even more narrow.
Long narrow living rooms or family rooms can be a chore to lay out and decorate not to mention live in.
It s a little over 13x22 and with the fireplace at one end and the slanted high ceiling it s proving difficult for me with no vision.
Without the right furniture arrangement a long living room can feel like a hallway.
The number one thing to avoid is sending your foot traffic between a seating piece and the coffee table in front of it.
Here s some layout help for living rooms of all shapes.
I absolutely cannot figure out how to lay out this room.
Here are five ways to lay out a long narrow living room plus some bonus tips on.
Please pardon the mess in the photo we dragged around.
Nobody wants to feel like they re entertaining in a train carriage or watching tv in a hallway.
To help remedy this effect create a conversation area at one end of the room.
Place a loveseat against the short wall to help stop the eye.
From here how you position your living room furniture around a fireplace and tv will depend upon the shape of your room.
Place a small end table between two chairs facing each other or angled facing out if there is a window.