Long narrow living rooms or family rooms can be a chore to lay out and decorate not to mention live in.
Furniture layout for long living room.
Nobody wants to feel like they re entertaining in a train carriage or watching tv in a hallway.
If you caught my last post like this i shared some ideas for large living rooms but this time let s take a look at long and narrow ones think new york city san francisco style apartments condos and townhomes.
Finding the right balance between comfort and style is not easy when dealing with such a difficult layout.
A long and narrow living room can pose serious challenges in the decorating department.
In the above floor plan the long sofa anchors together the 4 armchairs into a u shape arrangement.
Frederick design stefano dorata.
The number one thing to avoid is sending your foot traffic between a seating piece and the coffee table in front of it.
Two sofas with arched chair arrangement.
This condo s main living areas are one long rectangle with tall ceilings that made it feel even more narrow.
Place a sofa perpendicular in the room and put a console table or short cabinet against its back.
I placed a sofa parallel to the fireplace and for balance i placed two chairs facing it and used matching console tables on both sides of the fireplace.
Use the table or cabinet as a desk for a small home office zone.
But with some layout tweaks and a few visual tricks up your sleeve you can learn to love your long room.
Since i have just spent a bunch of time re arranging the furniture in my living room to get ready for my annual super bowl party and then re arranging it again after the party was over i figured now is as good a time as any to talk about living room layout ideas.
Here s an awesome collection of 13 custom living room furniture layout ideas in a series of custom living room floor plan illustrations.
I m back at it sharing some more furniture layout ideas and floor plans.
One of the main difficulties in arranging furniture for a long narrow room is where to have people walk through.
Here are five ways to lay out a long narrow living room plus some bonus tips on.
But there are many ways in which you can use such a space efficiently.
A formal living room with colorful furniture and art by elizabeth krueger design.
Sculptural wood tables complement leather side chairs and a gray upholstered sofa in a massachusetts living room design crafted by found design studio.
Orient the main seating piece toward the focal point and arrange the secondary seating pieces around the main piece.
Layout idea 2 a long and narrow living room in this second idea the entrance is on the shortest wall so i kept the foot traffic flowing in a linear central path throughout the room.