As a place where your families and relatives will spend a lot of time together, the living room should be comfy and relaxing to make those times enjoyable.
However, this can be quite difficult to achieve if you had a small living room. With limited floor spaces, obviously, you can’t put a large sofa set to give a lot of seating spaces to accommodate everyone. Or maybe you can, but it can take too much available space so you can put any other essentials furnishings such as cabinets or table.
There are two important keys to these kinds of situations. First, set up the layout ideally so it can accommodate all of your needs. And secondly, choosing the right furnishings.
In this article, we will try to help you make the most of your small living room by sharing some effective seating arrangement ideas.
Best Seating Arrangement for Small Living Room
Couch Only
For any young families, especially who doesn’t had any children, then obviously this can be the best choice. Since a couch can be enough to fit you and your spouse to sit, relax, and enjoy any entertainment inside your living spaces, but in a smaller size compared to a sofa.
This option an also give you a plenty of extra available spaces that can be used for any other important functions, such as for extra storage space to keep your living room stay organized.
Couch and Armchair
The problem with couch only seating is that there are no extra place for any guests or relatives that may come to visit. So alternatively, you can add one piece of armchair next to the couch.
The one extra seating space may not seems as much, but trust us, in small living room, that can be really helpful and beneficial to avoid the awakward situation when there are no available place to sit when some guest comes to your home.
However, some armchair may come in a quite large size that can take a lot of important spaces, and if you don’t want to wasting away those precious floor space, then the next choice may be better for you.
Couch and Ottoman
In most cases, ottoman may works better than an armchair, as it had a relatively smaller size. Plus, it can be very easy to move around, so when it’s not in use, you can move it to the corner or against the wall to make your living room looks more spacious. And that’s why, adding an ottoman as additional seating for small living room will bring a lot of benefits.
Additionally, some ottoman are built with storage spaces that can be very helpful to bring extra spaces to keep and organize your daily items.
However, as ottoman is not as comfy as other kind of chairs, surely you must sacrificed the comfortness and prefer the effectiveness and functionality that it brings.
Two Armchair
If you want a more flexible arrangement, then rather than using any couch, you can go with two or more armchair set as the primary seating for your living room.
These setting will bring some extra spaces compared to any typical couch, and additionally, it can be easier to move the chairs whenever you need to adjust your living spaces.
We love to use this configuration for any narrow living room, as you can easily set the placement of both chairs to maximize the spaces.
Two Chairs and Ottoman
This is the upgraded versions of the previous option, with the additional seating using ottoman.
All of those objects are very flexible and easy to reconfigurated, not to mention their size that is relatively small so won’t take a lot of precious spaces in a small living room.