If you have a really long and narrow living room you can create two separate seating areas instead of one.
Long living room with two seating areas.
There are three in the room here.
Nobody wants to feel like they re entertaining in a train carriage or watching tv in a hallway.
We move in a few weeks and will be starting with a blank canvas in our main living area.
Imagine how busy this would have looked if all three sofas were different.
Arrange a seating vignette on one side of the long wall of your living room.
A long living room often demands more than one sofa.
For example place a sofa up against one wall and pull close two chairs that face the couch.
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The scheme works because the two opposing sofas match even though they occupy separate seating areas.
By creating a small seating area you ve created a clear path behind the chairs on the opposite long wall of the space.
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Long narrow living rooms or family rooms can be a chore to lay out and decorate not to mention live in.
It would be a good idea to paint the wall where you place this set in a vivid shade too.
Add in a stylish coffee table.
But with some layout tweaks and a few visual tricks up your sleeve you can learn to love your long room.