The narrow, oblong room, it is not uncommon in our homes. Moreover, in such rooms is often a single window, which suffers illumination of the space. Before deciding how best to dispense with the “pencil box”, we need exact measurements.
Polina Anikeeva
3 meters or less?
The narrow width of the room is critical. If across the room is occupied by three or more meter options to arrange the furniture quite a lot. If it remains in the region of two and a half meters or even less — will have to get out.
MWAI Architecture and Interiors
Narrow living room
To arrange lounge in a narrow room — perhaps the most difficult task. In the living room going to all the family members, so the seats should be plenty. Your choice — long sofas; it is even desirable that they were longer than usual. Strict the perspective lines smoothed out, and the room will appear more rectangular.
The opposite wall, you can arrange shallow shelves or make a built-in storage system. And if the width of the room allows, opposite the sofa you can even set a couple of chairs. Never mind that they will close approach to cabinets — if necessary, the chair easy to move. But this decision will allow you to a relaxing family time.
Make Interiors
Not only narrow, but long room is reasonably divided into several zones: for communication (chair or Desk), sofa + TV. Quite often narrow elongated rooms have an alcove — on the situation in them is a sleeper or a closet.
Juliette Byrne
If the length of the room is not enough, and you can do without chairs. Then the extra seat will serve to compact the tables, poufs.
You can use a corner sofa to compensate for the lack of seats. The lighter the model, the less its visual weight. If that same couch was in intense contrast to the walls to the upholstery, it would seem gigantic. Consider the visual weight of the items!
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Question: Why does the interior seem overloaded
Arina Volkova
To visually expand the space, narrow living room will help light carried furniture on thin legs. The main thing here is that the floor was clearly visible — it creates a sense of space.
Visually adjust the volume of the room will help and bright accents. Look at the photo above — thanks to the parts of bright yellow living room it seems bright and airy.
Interiors By’agostino’s
Under a compact area with a living room functions can be adapted and a room with a window near the door. In this case, the alternative to the long sofa soft group of chairs and table. A great option is to furnish such a room design in the style of 50-60-ies of the last century: visual light, high wooden legs and wooden arm rests. Complement their shallow drawers-credenza, as in the photo.
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► Narrow living room
COUTURE INTERIORS
Narrow bedroom
If the width of the room more than 2.6 m, the double bed can be placed across the room with the headboard against the wall and put her closer to the window. If the width is about 2.3 m, about the big bed in the bedroom will have to forget, unless you make it built-in from wall to wall or not to settle for “lorry” — a narrow double bed 140 cm.
In the case when bedroom is quite small, try to expand the end wall with headboard decorating techniques: for example, the issue of its mirrors, or Wallpaper with optical effect.
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The design narrow bedrooms
Interior Marketing Group
There is another way: to save some inches for the aisle, refuse enclosure beds order your the heavy and thick mattress and put it on low base, as is usually done in hotels.
Thick mattress by the fitted sheet will look like a proper bed, but you will save at least 15 centimeters on the body of the bed. On the passage between the wall and the items must be not less than 40 cm, better 50 to 55 cm
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There is a task: the Design narrow bedrooms
Beau Intérieur
If passage is between the bed and the wardrobe, this distance should be as large. In this case, the bed is more convenient to put along the room against the wall and head to the exit.
As a variant, it is possible to make a high headboard combined with shelves. This wardrobe is a successful zoning. On the other side of the wardrobe, you can organize a mini-closet or put a small Desk for a laptop.
INT2architecture
Best may be the in-line design, plug the passages between the berth and the wall at all. However, this option is rather young. For the elderly (they often Wake up at night) to get out of bed depth and climbing back will be uncomfortable.
aminteriors
Built-in design offer a variety of options: in the narrow bedroom can provide an additional pull-out mattress or linen Cabinet in the headboard.
Turchenko Natalia
Photo: the bedroom is so narrow that the bed can be put either crosswise (as pictured), or a headboard to the window (the hostess was uncomfortable). The passage deliberately sause bed rests on the ledge, which allowed us to put the sofa from the kitchen (see plan)
AIBD – American Institute of Building Design
Narrow kids bedroom
Reception symmetrical placement of objects often makes a narrow room. Especially children’s bedrooms for one or two children. Children usually do not mind a small distance between the beds. Moreover, they are glad and happy in the absence of adults will jump from bed to bed.
Important: If the location of the window allows, it is better to install two beds opposite each other than one above the other (on the upper floors of attics usually stuffy).
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► Narrow children’s room for two children
Olga Shangina | Photography
The idea with the pictures: bed in a narrow bedroom often have to move long part of the wall. Designers in these cases, turn it into a couch — sofa with orthopedic mattress: remove the linen and use it as an ordinary sofa
Maria Pilipenko
Narrow Cabinet
In the offices you can use the same rule of symmetry relative to the window, only for built-in wardrobes and surfaces. If shelves and surfaces are the same width, this will visually balance the room. Yes, perhaps the table would like a little wider, but this width is less than 50 cm, it is enough.
Tradition Homes
FRUKTOV INTERIORS
If the window is not in the center of the room, and closer to one of the walls, then insertions are logical to do only one side, but in this case will increase the depth of the work surface. Using the built-in tables is easy to get around load-bearing columns, if they are in the room.
Clifton Leung Design Workshop – CLDW.com.hk
In rooms where the width changes from window to door due to the load-bearing structures, it is possible to mark several jobs: one along the window, the other along the wall. A very useful thing, if the family has two actively working from the person’s home and they are uncomfortable to share the same table.
Yana Ivanchenko
Narrow dining room
Oddly enough, but the narrow room with one window it could be a dining room if the kitchen and cooking area are located nearby. The main thing here is to pick the right table. If need be unconventionally narrow option, you can look for ready-made countertops to desks (they have outdoor dining) and complement designer legs. Either make the table for order.
Teresa Sapey + Partners
Benches near the table significantly save space, but the chairs can not be abandoned. It will fit models without armrests.
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This archival material. First published in 2015 updated in 2019
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