Long living room

Do you have a long, narrow living room and don't know how to decorate it? Check out this article for tips on how to plan your layout.

We're helping Melinda decorate her long, narrow family room with an entryway and game table.

We asked two interior designers to find solutions for three of the trickiest living room layout scenarios. Pull up a chair and take some notes.

Small living rooms can be a P.I.T.A. Especially long narrow ones. It often feels like you’re playing Tetris; trying to maneuver a beefy couch next to a an even beefier chair. You lug and push until you’re too exhausted to care and you just leave your furniture any old way to avoid more stress. After a couple of weeks of “living with it,” you look at it and you know there’s a better way to arrange it so, on you go again, lugging and pushing, micro-positioning and tweaking angles…

When it comes to arranging furniture in a room, most people will come up with one or two ideas about how they want the furniture placed. Sometimes with a little extra thought, and some imagination ...

An eclectic space with a dramatic wall colour.

When I start working with a new client I usually walk into a space and see the potential of what it could be. Not in a judgmental way! I’m not picking apart what is wrong with the cosmetics of a house or room so much as I immediately begin to visualize how this space can be best utilized f

We helped Amy decorated the long living room in her townhouse with two separate seating areas.

10 clever long living room ideas to help make the most of your narrow lounge

When you live in a small place, it seems that it is harder to get the decor right, especially when it comes to the furniture in your living room. To get the right arrangement, you need to be cautious about measures, focal points, and the purpose of the space. But there are a lot of ideas you can follow to create harmonic compositions without even buying new items.