7 Smart Ways to Fix a Long Rectangular Living Room Layout With TV
When we moved into our current home, the living room stopped me in my tracks — and not in a good way. It was long. Very long. And narrow.
The kind of room where you feel like you’re standing at one end of a bowling alley, wondering where on earth to put the sofa.
The TV made it worse. We kept moving it around, trying different walls, different angles, and nothing felt right. The room looked stretched, cold, a little awkward — which felt particularly unfair given how much time our family spends in it.
Tasos thought we just needed a bigger rug. Maria thought we needed a new sofa. Marina thought we needed fairy lights everywhere (she thinks this about most problems).
A long rectangular living room is actually one of the most common layouts out there, and once you understand how to work with it, rather than fight it, it transforms into a genuinely lovely space.
Here’s everything I’ve learned.