So that they will be drawn more into the center of the room.
Narrow living room with fireplace on long wall.
Large rooms can pose some design challenges especially if you have more than one focal point in the room.
Long narrow living rooms or family rooms can be a chore to lay out and decorate not to mention live in.
Creating two seating areas works well in a long narrow living room and enables it to be used to it s full potential.
You may be tempted to push furniture up against the walls in a long narrow living room to open up the space but the effect will only highlight the shape of the room making it feel longer and.
Our design agony client hilary wrote to us asking for help with her narrow living room and here s how we solved it.
But with some layout tweaks and a few visual tricks up your sleeve you can learn to love your long room.
Meet the narrow living room america s most pervasive living room problem.
I m struggling with the layout of my living room which is very narrow like 8 5 wide from the wall to the fireplace surround.
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.
Nobody wants to feel like they re entertaining in a train carriage or watching tv in a hallway.
Place furniture away from the short walls wherever possible.