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The best living room layout ideas serve both your space and your lifestyle.
Find the best layout for long or narrow rectangular, L-shaped, oropen-concept spaces.
Check out these functional living room layout ideas to help youfigure out the best planfor your space.
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An intimate conversation area for two by thebay windowsfeatures a pair of upholstered armchairs.
Just be sure to create a zone for relaxing and another for working.
A console placed behind the sofa works as a virtual room divider to further define the space.
Tessa Neustadt /Emily Henderson Design
A side table on one end of the sofa is balanced by a standing industrial lamp on the other.
A sculptural 50s-style armchair and a knotted velvet pouf add visual interest and offer additional seating for occasional entertaining.
Rectangular Room Layout
DBurns Interiors
A fireplace mantel is a natural focal point in many living rooms.
Ajai Guyot /Emily Henderson Design
A pair of wooden chairs flanking the hearth add extra seating.
In this spacious living room fromEmily Henderson Design, the ample sofa was pulled away from the back wall.
Work around anawkward living room layoutwith the rightfurniture placement and decor.
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Create a conversation zone by floating four or more large armchairs around a central round coffee table.
Float furniture away from the walls on a large round rug.
John McClain Design
Sara Ligorria-Tramp /Emily Henderson Design
Alvin Wayne
Alvin Wayne
DBurns Interiors
Studio KT
Sara Ligorria-Tramp /Emily Henderson Design
Midcity Interiors
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