Long Narrow Family Room With Fireplace

The key to decorating a long narrow living room is to make it functional while also unifying the space even if the room is divided into separate sections.
Long narrow family room with fireplace. See more ideas about long narrow rooms narrow rooms narrow living room. Nov 2 2013 explore heather schultz hurt s board long narrow rooms followed by 216 people on pinterest. In this room if they had placed a long sofa facing the fireplace by the time you put a coffee table in front of it you would have to walk right through the sitting area to get by. This works particularly well in a symmetrical room when the furniture can be centered around a window or fireplace.
Plus the room would have looked longer and skinnier. Just because a room is long doesn t mean you need to fill it all with furniture. A fireplace provides a built in focal. With the fireplace slightly off center it created a little nook for a credenza but this meant that if you want to have other furniture in there you can t really position the sofa directly opposite the fireplace.
Place some furniture perpendicular to the length of the room. Although the fireplace is centered in the room it is not quite centered on the back wall. The space above centers the furniture arrangement in the middle leaving the sides as open but not dead space.