If you are the one struggling with how to arrange a long narrow living room you may know it better as the bowling alley when we were looking at houses several years ago we kept seeing these long open spaces and inevitably the furniture would be pushed up against the walls making it look well even longer and not very cozy.
Long narrow living room with fireplace on end wall.
Place furniture away from the short walls wherever possible.
Long narrow living rooms or family rooms can be a chore to lay out and decorate not to mention live in.
Nobody wants to feel like they re entertaining in a train carriage or watching tv in a hallway.
Large rooms can pose some design challenges especially if you have more than one focal point in the room.
Creating two seating areas works well in a long narrow living room and enables it to be used to it s full potential.
How to decorate a long narrow living room with a fireplace on a side wall.
So that they will be drawn more into the center of the room.
I absolutely cannot figure out how to lay out this room.
But with some layout tweaks and a few visual tricks up your sleeve you can learn to love your long room.
If your living room looks like a long hallway use a few clever illusions to open up the space so you don t feel like you re living in a bowling alley.
Here are five ways to lay out a long narrow living room plus some bonus tips on.
Long narrow living room with fireplace at one end and one entrance.