15 Solutions for a long and narrow living room

There are many solutions, ideas and tips for decorating a narrow and long room, and while they are all good, you should choose the ones that suit your living room and your needs. Well, although a narrow room is a narrow room here and in Japan, each of us has certain needs, demands and characteristics, right?

That's why I have prepared these 15 narrow, long and short rooms, some small, some large; so that among all the solutions they have adopted to decorate and furnish successfully, you can choose the one that really suits your needs.

With that, we will see these 15 solutions to decorate and furnish a narrow living room.

Prioritize the sofa

Photography by Marie Lyne Quirion

The sofa is the most important piece of furniture in the living room or most of it. If that is the case in your case, buy or choose the sofa first.

A sofa that makes you feel comfortable and relaxed even when the terrain is rough.

Consider that if you are one of those who use the sofa a lot, if you put a small one that does not suit your wishes and in which you do not feel comfortable, you will have a clearer but uncomfortable living room.

So if you need, need and love a big sofa, bet on it. Of course, keep in mind that when prioritizing the sofa, you will have to make other sacrifices, such as a smaller TV cabinet or doing without it, among other examples.

Look at the room above these lines. It has a large, comfortable sofa where you can watch TV, sleep, or gather with friends or family. But the rest is small.

Also, even if you choose a large, multi-seat sofa, try to choose it as small as possible. There are 4-seater sofas that are relatively small in appearance, and then there are 4-seater sofas that look like buses. See small:

Lightweight 4 seater sofa:

Large 4 seater sofa:

Which one would you say is bigger? The second sofa, right? Actually, the first one is 40cm longer than the second one, but the second one looks much bigger and heavier, right?

I don't mean to say that the first sofa is better than the second. This is an example, even if you want a large four-seater sofa, you may find that you don't need to buy a sofa that looks like a warehouse.

There are wide sofas with a slight cut, which are ideal for small narrow rooms.

Go ahead:

Use the corners and architecture of your living room

Design and Photography by Jacquelyn Clark

If we place the furniture according to the natural lines of the living room interior architecture, we will make everything look more fluid, more harmonious and appear to be in its natural place.

Look at the room above. A large corner sofa is placed in the corner and it fits perfectly.

It's not always possible to do this, but if you can, try to fit the furniture into the natural lines of your living room by taking advantage of any nooks, crannies, or other features your living room has.

Let's see another solution for furnishing and decorating a narrow living room.

Don't put it on TV

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This tip or solution to save space in a small room only works if you are not watching TV.

There are many people who do not watch television, but because the collective idea of ​​​​the telecentric living room is so widespread, when it comes to furnishing their living room, they always put televisions and television furniture even if they do not use them. .

If you do not use it, you can do without it altogether, as well as the TV cabinet, and gain space to put a fireplace, for example, as we see in the narrow living room above these lines.

Or a bookcase or a dining table or something else that you can use instead of a TV.

Go ahead.

Imitate the furniture

Something that works very well for integrating furniture into small or large spaces is to paint the walls the same color as the furniture, blending in with the walls and making everything visually lighter.

You only have to look at the narrow living room with white furniture and white walls upstairs to see that what I say is true and works.

If you already have light-toned furniture and want to make changes to your small living room without spending too much, this advice will come in handy: Paint the walls the same color and you will see the change.

Let's see more solutions for narrow rooms.

Do not put a TV cabinet

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If you need a TV in your living room, you can save space or make the living room look more organized without a TV cabinet.

Nowadays, almost all of us already have flat TVs that we can mount on the wall for a very affordable price.

So, if you only use the TV cabinet to place the television and do not need storage space, you may consider the option of foregoing the TV cabinet.

In the upstairs living room they did not put a TV cabinet but hung the TV on the wall and as you can see the result is a narrow but bright and tidy room.

If you need a tv cabinet or like to have one, you can do the following idea:

Install a shelf

A shelf as a TV cabinet allows you to have a surface on which to place a television as well as some storage space, for example loose on the shelf or in a box.

However, since it is a shelf and not a piece of furniture, the living room does not lose depth, because the eye can see the entire wall even with the shelf open and it does not look too overloaded or narrow.

Let's move on to another idea:

Lift the curtains

I am in favor of removing curtains in small spaces unless you are using them for a practical purpose like regulating light or providing privacy in the home.

They make rooms look bigger, brighter, and as we saw just above, they make narrow rooms with windows at the end of the room look wider.

Do you have curtains?

Take the test. Take them off. Get out of the house, have a beer, and when you get home you'll see what a difference it makes to see the room without curtains.

And if you need curtains…

If you put up curtains like the ones we saw in the room above, make sure they are light and, if possible, don't cover the entire wall.

If they cover the entire wall and the eye does not see that part of the wall, everything will appear smaller, narrower.

But if they are light curtains and allow a wall to be seen, the eye sees continuity with the rest of the walls and the space does not appear too narrow or too small.

Something as “small” as the type of curtains you install can greatly define how you see your living room, so pay special attention to this element because you can get a lot out of it.

In addition to curtains, if you need to put something on the windows, you can also use blinds. They are usually lighter than curtains and have less visual weight.

Pay attention to architectural details

Design and photography by Apezinho, Nathy

Although it is not always possible, if you are going to make a reform or if your living room has eye-catching architectural details such as double-height ceilings, recesses and lugs for lights, take advantage of these or have them installed in your renovation to add visual richness and decorativeness.

Notice how small and narrow the room above is. Apart from being very well decorated, it is the illuminated ceiling and recessed double height spotlights that give this room a modern and unique design that gives it a lot of personality and style.

Take advantage of vertical space and height

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If you need a furnished living room to store many things, no matter how small it is, you will always have walls to add furniture and thus increase storage capacity.

In this room, which we saw just above IKEA, we see how several Billy shelving modules have been installed next to and above the window, making great use of vertical space.

Make it flirty, make it beautiful

Design and photography by MeuApartamentinho

Think about each piece before adding it, how it will look, how it will appear, and in conjunction with other elements.

Everything you add to make the whole beautiful.

Look at the room above, how narrow and small it is, but it still reflects her personality, perfectly decorated, beautiful, flirtatious and charming. It does not lack details!

Communicate interior with exterior

To realize this solution for narrow rooms it is necessary to reform, since the idea is to place a window in the wall that gives access to the terrace instead of a door.

Many floors have access to the terrace via a simple door.

One idea to visually expand and enlarge the living room is to have it communicate with the terrace or balcony through a large window, without walls, so that the living room extends outside.

Then it is up to you to add curtains or not. If you do not add them, the sense of depth and harmony of the exterior and interior will be greater.

Do not force the furniture

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In general, we all want a space for sofas and another space for eating in the living room, thus achieving a classic dining room that will last a lifetime.

And that’s okay, as long as it’s not forced in. If you have space for a dining table in the kitchen but not in the living room, it’s best not to put it on a shoehorn and use the space where you’ll be putting the table to add other elements.

It was decided to add a seating area to the upstairs living room that would complement the living area and not overwhelm the space, and the result is stunning, to say the least.

As long as you have space in the kitchen to eat, of course.

Do not add more decoration than necessary

Design and photography by Casinha de Brinquedo

With only the necessary and fair furniture, you can achieve a magazine room, no matter how narrow it is and no matter how little furniture you have.

As long as you add these wisely, by planning and studying your space in advance, you will achieve a truly enchanting atmosphere.

The room upstairs shows us this idea in its purest form.

It has the right furniture and decor for a small space, but each piece stands on its own and the whole set makes a very nice and complete living room. It doesn't need anything, and there isn't enough.

Pay attention to visual effects while painting

Design and photography by Rose on the Row

This room on the upper floor is well decorated, although it looks more used and larger than it is.

If you notice, they painted the walls black except for the window area which is painted white. This makes the living room visually appear narrower than it is.

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