Living room with width 3m

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Has anyone had a narrow living room with width of 3m? Do you feel comfortable to stay there? I keep feeling squeezed, will I be used to it soon?

I do! And it has two doors so doesn’t help much with furniture placement.

How long is yours? Mine is only 5m so doesn’t really feel narrow, just small. I’ve reframed it as a snug in my mind which helps but I miss our old place which has a huge living room.

It works fine at the moment as our kids are small but I worry about how it’ll feel when they’re teenagers. We could extend out by just about 1m to make it 4.4x5. I think that would make a big difference.

It's 6m long but the end part is only 2.85m wide, which doesn't help much. How do you arrange your TV and sofa?

I don’t feel squeezed though no, not with my snug mentality. But we’re only in it for an hour or so a day to watch TV which I guess speaks for itself about how we really feel about it.

We’ve got quite shallow sofas. That helps with making it feel roomier.

We have initially planned to put our dinning table there, but it seems too crowded with the table in

Can’t find a photo but we have a fireplace on one of the long walls so on the other we have a three seater sofa which has a door out on each side. Then a two seater sofa on a short wall. The other short wall has a window with a radiator under it. Sofas are pushed back to the walls and we have a very large rug which goes under them and covers most of the floor. TV is on a unit on the long wall with the fireplace at the window end.

No other furniture in there and walls are painted dark.

That's bigger than our living room. Yes, you'll get used to it. Helps that we don't go for enormous TVs.

Do you not have another room for the dining room though?

Thanks, I might need to arrange sofa in a similar way.

Yes, we do, but we initially wanted to use the dinning room as an extra bedroom.

Ours is not much wider - about 3.4 m, by 7m long but the dining area at the back will at some point be partitioned off to turn into kitchen diner. At that point we'll only have a snug of 3.43x4 m. It is fine - similar to PP we currently have one 3 seater sofa on long wall facing fireplace, arm chair on short wall. However we will block off one of the doors to put in a corner sofa in future to add more seating area in the most space efficient way.

Tbh this area of the room is used for watching TV and reading books and we don't need much space for that - kids have a separate playroom in the loft (which will in future be their "teenager hangout space"). For entertaining it will be tight but we will also use the kitchen diner for that once it's done.

Our last lounge had better proportions, but we are now used to the smaller snug and the rest of the house gives us a lot more flexible space. You get used to it and buy furniture to suit.

We’ve got a kitchen diner like this. We’ve used round stuff to try and trick the eye a bit, round table, round rug. Split the space up with a very big pot plant that arches over. We also put 3 big picture mirrors on the wall…

Mine is 3m wide and about 8m long, it actually feels nice because it makes the tv end feel quite cosy especially as the room is so long. We have a next Wilson sofa and a footstool and it fits fine.

I'm moving soon and started planning my layout. My room is 3 x 5. I'll be getting rid of a fireplace and buying 2x 2.5 seater couches. Sideboard on the left and TV on the right. I'll be on my own though so not sure if this layout would work for you. PS I like lamps 😁

Ours is 9m x 3.77m (narrowing to 3.47m).

Originally it was two spaces -

1. 4.26m x 3.47m and

2. 4.87m x 3.77m

but, because the previous owners had extended which left a 'middle' room with no external window (it had an internal one 🙄), we decided to open up the space and put a wall of floor to ceiling windows at the other end to bring in more light.

We have our dining table at the narrower (3.47m) end (although we have a large kitchen diner we chose to have island and sofa rather than a dining table in there) and don't find it remotely a squeeze. That's despite having a working fireplace, bookcase with adjacent chair and a pair of cabinets in addition to the circular table/chairs.

At the wider (3.77m) end we have a three/four seater sofa along the long wall, a large loveseat at right angles to this with the TV on a sideboard on the right in a similar set up to @HappyGG above. Oh...and a coffee table, drinks trolley and two lamp tables.

We have huge rugs at both ends and loads of lamps (six - a mix of floor and table lamps) spread about the room. Walls are a fairly dark Olive (by F&B).

Imho the room feels cosy/intimate at the dining end and spacious/bright at the sitting end.