Long and narrow living room? Discover the tips to make it more beautiful and comfortable
It may happen that the arrangement of the rooms in a house, especially when it comes to a house of modest size, causes the living room to be long but narrow (like a sort of corridor).
It is not easy to arrange the living and lounge area and it may be tough even to deploy a table to eat at or a corner to set up with a small desk in a long and narrow space like this, but there are some tips that design experts use to still create a beautiful and liveable room, which seem more spacious than it is and remains comfortable. Read on to find out more:
It is a space that will almost certainly have more focal points: the narrower back walls, those towards which the eye is directed by the very shape of the room, and then the point in which to place the television which is often the fulcrum of a living room, the one around which we gather.
Therefore, if you need to create a space that is comfortable both for chatting around a coffee table (perhaps for tea or entertaining guests) and one where you can relax and watch movies and TV series, it is often good to place the sofa in a more central part and relegate the armchairs with a small table for entertaining at one end, perhaps by a fireplace on the back wall or in any case decorating that wall in a way that is worthy of the attention it will receive.
A rug can help define the relaxation area, indicating the point that is used to transit to reach the other parts of the living room or to move towards the other rooms.
If the sofa area is relegated to the end of the room, it can help to use an L-shaped one, or add a chaise longue. And when you prefer to put the furniture on the walls, then it is good to break it up a little and not fill a single wall: to do this, however, you must still keep it so that the path to take to cross the space is not unnatural. The furniture will then have to automatically show where to pass without appearing to be an unwanted obstacle.
Also the colors and paints will then serve to make the space more comfortable: white amplifies the brightness and makes the room seem more comfortable and spacious, and then maybe furniture with more bold shapes or colors that stand out to articulate the space in an interesting way.
If the space is very long and narrow, it is always advisable to divide it into at least two areas: living room, mini office area, sitting area for entertaining... depending on what you want, you can combine the spaces.
How would you furnish a long and narrow living room?
