Narrow and small living/dining area dilemma!
Clementine Stoddart
6 years ago
Hi all! I’m hoping you will be able to help inspire me with options for furniture placement, type of furniture and styling for my narrow and quite small living/dining room. The problem is that due to it being narrow and also being a walkway through to the kitchen and having a dining area, I’m struggling to style it and put in enough furniture for visitors without making it feel cluttered. The fire place is decorative only and isn’t attached to an actual chimney so I’d happy remove it if that was deemed the best idea!
Open to wooden flooring, decor ideas and furniture...
Thanks in advance,
Clementine
Open to wooden flooring, decor ideas and furniture...
Thanks in advance,
Clementine
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Carolina
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoHi,
What a lovely room! Love the windows and the ceiling height. I would go for a sofa and chair(s) on legs (swooneditions), so you can see the floor under it. Perhaps a wooden/LVT woodlook floor; herringbone or laid widthwise, both will make the room look wider. An eye catching chandelier (westelm) would be great.
If you're brave, you could lay a rug widthwise, from under the sofa to the wall opposite.
I'd probably go for a small round dining table (this one is 100 cm, John Lewis)
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6 years agoCarolina
6 years agoHere's a layout you could try. Click on the pics to enlarge. Paper and tape are your friends. If you want to know how much space a certain piece of furniture will take up in the room, you can tape the size and shape on the floor, but if you make it out of paper and tape, you can move it around too. I would probably remove the fireplace and put a shelf or narrow(ish) media unit, sideboard or console table in its place. (Ikea has great options)
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6 years agoDepending on how much space there is next to the door, you could also consider something like this. I've used a two seater sofa here. Two bookcases on either side of a lower cabinet which has the TV above. I'm waiting for 3d images to download, will post them when I get them
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