Decorating A Long Narrow Living Room. Long, narrow living rooms (or family rooms) can be a chore to lay out and decorate, not to mention live in. To decorate a narrow living room all you have to do is exercise a little thinking.
Decorating Dilemmas is a weekly column in which our stylists answer your design questions, so you can tackle your home decorating project with complete confidence. The trick to decorating a lengthy, narrow living room is to ensure it is functional while also unifying the space, even when room is broken up into separate sections. The number one thing to avoid is sending your foot traffic between a seating piece and the coffee table in front of it.
If you have a really long and narrow living room, you can create two separate seating areas instead of one.
Creating a balanced room that feels as good as it looks is something anyone can do by following a few tips for arranging furniture in a long narrow living room.
Decorating Dilemmas is a weekly column in which our stylists answer your design questions, so you can tackle your home decorating project with complete confidence. And try to zone the room. This is true for any shape of living room, but long lounge ideas really do start with establishing different pockets of use.