Nobody wants to feel like they re entertaining in a train carriage or watching tv in a hallway.
Narrow living room with fireplace on long wall.
How to decorate a long narrow living room with a fireplace on a side wall.
Large rooms can pose some design challenges especially if you have more than one focal point in the room.
Place furniture away from the short walls wherever possible.
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.
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.
But with some layout tweaks and a few visual tricks up your sleeve you can learn to love your long room.
Long narrow living rooms or family rooms can be a chore to lay out and decorate not to mention live in.
So that they will be drawn more into the center of the 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.
Creating two seating areas works well in a long narrow living room and enables it to be used to it s full potential.