Long narrow living rooms or family rooms can be a chore to lay out and decorate not to mention live in.
Rectangular long narrow living room with fireplace at one end.
Nobody wants to feel like they re entertaining in a train carriage or watching tv in a hallway.
From here how you position your living room furniture around a fireplace and tv will depend upon the shape of your room.
Please pardon the mess in the photo we dragged around.
The number one thing to avoid is sending your foot traffic between a seating piece and the coffee table in front of it.
Living room fireplace arrangements by shape.
Without the right furniture arrangement a long living room can feel like a hallway.
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.
This condo s main living areas are one long rectangle with tall ceilings that made it feel even more narrow.
Here s some layout help for living rooms of all shapes.
Here are five ways to lay out a long narrow living room plus some bonus tips on.
Place a loveseat against the short wall to help stop the eye.
How to decorate a long narrow living room with a fireplace on a side wall.
One of the main difficulties in arranging furniture for a long narrow room is where to have people walk through.
To help remedy this effect create a conversation area at one end of the room.
But with some layout tweaks and a few visual tricks up your sleeve you can learn to love your long room.
Long narrow living room with fireplace at one end and one entrance.
Large rooms can pose some design challenges especially if you have more than one focal point in the room.