How to decorate a rectangular living room. 40 photos, ideas and tips

Each room has a shape, and each shape has its peculiarities. The most common, rectangular and square rooms, and in this article, we will explore how to decorate a rectangular room.

With photos, ideas and advice.

I have separated them into two groups: rectangular rooms with a generous size and small rectangular rooms; Let’s start with the big ones, below we will see the small ones. Take good note and be inspired by these ideas.

With light furniture and painted in a tone of off-white.

Photography Sílvia Caballero

This rectangular living room is much lighter, by using furniture that does not occupy the entire surface, or shelves or other solutions to dress a room on this floor.

Vintage Revivals photography and design

This other room does not have a rectangular floor plan, but we can see how the two areas have been distributed, something that we can imitate in the decoration of our rectangular room.

Photography @Silje Spilde

As in the previous large rectangular room, this one does not have what is said to be an exact rectangular plan, but we can take advantage of its distribution for our room.

All in neutral tones, this living room shares space with the kitchen and the entire space is uneven.

The table has been set up in front of the kitchen, leaving the rest for the sofa and seating area.

Although only the sofa area of this other rectangular room is visible, we see that a large corner sofa has been installed completing this entire area and leaving the other free for the dining table.

Decor Aid design and photography

White and elegant. The arrangement of the furniture in a square is a success. And with a whole wall with a great and precious kind of boiserie installed in matt white.

Photography Mauricio Fuertes | Interior design The Room Studio

With two large L-shaped sofas covering the large living room area, plus a large-sized rug just to cover the entire sofa area.

The rest, lots of wood, big windows, small blinds and yellow accents.

Photography Mauricio Fuertes | Interior design The Room Studio

With a large work shelf on one of the short walls, and the rest for furniture. The decoration in warm tones, gray furniture, with a yellow armchair and a dark blue chaise loungue.

With the sofa placed on one of the shorter walls, delimiting the sofa area thanks to the blue carpet.

Decor Aid Photography and Design

Elongated and elegant, this other rectangular living room is tastefully decorated in relaxing neutral tones, very bright, without curtains on the windows with black carpentry, and furniture also in neutral tones.

In addition to having a rectangular floor plan, it is a large living room, in which two light areas have been created, one with a sofa and a television with two L-shaped sofas and the other, next to the open kitchen, for the dining table.

Everything decorated in a very soft beige to standardize the space.

Interior design Nook Architects | Photography by Yago Partal

Elegant and contemporary with lots of wood, white tones and black accents. Also, without curtains, very bright.

Eijerkamp Photography

In pink tones, leaving on one side the sofa and television area and on the other the dining table. It is usually one of the most effective ways to furnish, distribute and take advantage of a rectangular room.

HERZUNDBLUT PHOTOGRAPHY

This other rectangular lounge decorated in white separates the two areas, dining room and seating area through the back of the sofa. A simple and effective solution to delimit both spaces with elegance.

Ethnic in style with many nuances and textures to explore and, equally, with two separate areas in the same space, this other room has been designed by + Fotogenica

Decor Aid Photography

Open to the kitchen, the entire floor is a single large and bright space, with the exact furniture and arranged in such a way that everything flows, from the sofa to the kitchen. Perfect. No curtains on the windows to gain more light.

Decor Aid design and photography

Simple, minimalist, but sophisticated, nothing cold, despite the fact that blue (cold color) and gray (neutral color) have been used as the main colors of this elegant rectangular living room.

Little Big Bell Photography

This other rectangular English-style living room with the bay window has the furniture distributed on both walls, leaving the center for the coffee table.

In this case it can be done since the living room, although rectangular, is narrow. If it were not narrow, the coffee table would be far away from the sofas. The distribution of the furniture would not be proportional to the space.