Long living room

The living room is the heart of the home, just like the kitchen is. So to help you with planning a layout for your own living room, I’m sharing five foolproof floor-plans, plus a couple of tips and tricks for arranging furniture!

Interior designer, Lauren Gilberthorpe, shares her step by step guide for how to plan a rectangular sitting room.

We all wish we had perfectly shaped living rooms. Heck we all wish we had perfectly shaped everything. But often they are unique in size and shape but they might need some finessing. Meet the narrow living room – America’s ...

While it is not ideal to have the main traffic path between the TV and the seating it is sometimes necessary to get the best layout. This arrangement offers a lot of casual seating and a pleasing vista from the doorway as well as ample walk space. And because the stairway wall is not centered opposite the window wall, a sectional is the perfect solution to adjust for that and look visually correct.

Welcoming, cozy and comfortable are the words I want to think as I enter my home. A welcoming and cozy home is as much about a layout as it is about the furniture you put in it. Today I’m sharing a few of my favorite tips for arranging furniture in a long narrow living room. What...Read More »

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 ...

I have been having difficulty furnishing my living room which is long and narrow and has no real focal point.

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

So, here's the deal. I still feel like I'm not quite grasping my living room layout. You know, the flow of each room. But what if we don't have a frieplace?

If you possibly are the inhabitant of a row house or town house that was built somewhere around 1890, you could now have a living room that measures about 12 feet wide by 24 feet long. Your living …