Keep sofas and televisions away from shorter walls of long living rooms to avoid a bowling alley effect. Double sofas, vertical shelves, and L-shaped sectionals can balance a long living room's shape.

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Long, narrow living rooms (or family rooms) can be a chore to lay out and decorate, not to mention live in. Nobody wants to feel like they're entertaining in a train carriage or watching TV in a ...