A favorite trick of designers, when working with long narrow spaces, is to expand the width of the space by using visual tricks to push the long walls further away from each other. This includes furniture layouts as Arrangement 3 above, but also decisions like running any wood flooring across the space rather than down it, using linear lighting, or even striped fabrics (like the rug in this room from Better Homes Gardens) and wall treatments, so long as they are oriented width-wise in the ro

A favorite trick of designers, when working with long narrow spaces, is to expand the width of the space by using visual tricks to push the long walls further away from each other. This includes furniture layouts as Arrangement 3 above, but also decisions like running any wood flooring across the space rather than down it, using linear lighting, or even striped fabrics (like the rug in this room from Better Homes Gardens) and wall treatments, so long as they are oriented width-wise in the ro

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