Lopez Island ResidenceContemporary Living Room, Seattle

Try putting your sofa at an angle to divide spaces and create a walkway between them. Balance the seating with an additional chair and ground the arrangement with a showy area rug.

Sometimes it takes a recliner to fit comfortable seating into a smaller space. This long and narrow room would not allow for an ottoman in front of this side chair. Design Within Reach, producers of this chair, tasked a furniture designer to come up with a comfortable recliner minus all the bulk. This scaled-down chair would fit well in any space requiring smaller-scaled furniture. But the real bonus is that this one also reclines.

4. Put some furniture on an angle. To reduce the feeling of tunnel vision, try an arrangement with some of your furniture on an angle. By most people's standards, this isn't a terribly narrow room. But it is much longer than it is wide, so it could easily get that bowling-alley look with the wrong furniture arrangement. Here they actually had room to put their entire sectional on an angle, breaking up the long straight lines of the room.

4. Put some furniture on an angle. To reduce the feeling of tunnel vision, try an arrangement with some of your furniture on an angle. By most people's standards, this isn't a terribly narrow room. But it is much longer than it is wide, so it could easily get that bowling-alley look with the wrong furniture arrangement. Here they actually had room to put their entire sectional on an angle, breaking up the long straight lines of the room.

Awesome interior finishes and design

Wood color and drop ceiling with accent lights

Try putting your sofa at an angle to divide spaces and create a walkway between them. Balance the seating with an additional chair and ground the arrangement with a showy area rug.