How to arrange furniture in a rectangular room, mistakes and important nuances

The layout of the interior of the room necessarily includes the correct placement of furniture products. If you follow the advice of designers offering to arrange objects rationally, you can correctly organize recreation areas, work, without occupying the entire space of the room. Before you arrange furniture in a rectangular room yourself, you should study the main features of such a room, how to arrange according to the purpose of the room.

Room Features

A rectangular room often looks narrow. Most Khrushchevs of the Soviet period have such a layout, where the bedrooms and living rooms are a narrow rectangle. If the duct passes through the room, this greatly complicates the layout of the interior. If the apartment is new, then in a rectangular room often have a bedroom, living room or nursery. The latter option seems more acceptable to parents, since the baby does not need a lot of space for study and leisure. To understand how to plan the interior and arrange furniture correctly, it is worth highlighting the main features of a rectangular room:

The difference in the lengths of the perpendicular sides. The most common indicators of the perimeter are 3 meters by 5 meters or 2 meters by 4 meters. The last option is a very elongated room, which, as a rule, has a window opening on the smaller side and a doorway on the opposite;
Lack of empty corners. With self-placement, people make mistakes, the main of which will be indicated in the last section. A feature of the room is the inconvenient location of the door and window. On the one hand, the window occupies almost the entire wall, which is why furniture cannot be placed in the corner. On the other hand, there is a door, which also makes it impossible to install objects. As a result, there remains one free corner, which is often made incorrectly.

If we are talking about spacious rectangular rooms, then there should not be any problems. In these rooms, a large amount of furniture is easily installed to the taste of the owners of the house.

Placement Methods

The placement option will depend on how successful the rectangle went to the owners of the premises. In addition, it is necessary to determine in advance how many functional areas the room will have and what it will be intended for. The main rule when arranging furniture in a rectangular room is to avoid empty areas.

Below are some photos of the arrangement of furniture in a rectangular room that describe the information in the table.

Option	Description	pros	Minuses
Layout near the window	Most owners of rectangular rooms try to equip the most functional place closer to the source of natural light - the window. It has a TV, armchairs and sofas.	The light from the window perfectly illuminates the entire area of the main action in the room.	The rest of the room remains unused. If there is a bed or other furniture, part of the natural light takes the foreground by the window.
Arrangement of two opposite walls	If the window is on a short wall, furniture is placed along the long walls. A sofa is installed here, in front of it is a TV, a coffee table or a cupboard.	The room is equipped functionally, while the light enters all corners of the room.	The arrangement of furniture along the walls is not suitable for too narrow a room. In this case, there will be a small passage, the movement of people along it will be difficult.
Functional zoning	The best method is to arrange the furniture, creating separate areas: for work, for relaxation, for leisure. This option is ideal for a large room area of 20 square meters.	All zones are involved, each of them is intended for a certain occupation.	No.
Creation of the central part	The option is well suited if the rectangular room is a walk-through has 2 doors. Then in the center of the room have comfortable chairs, a table, a floor lamp. In the corners rationally arrange indoor outdoor flowers.	Furniture in the center does not interfere with the passage of people, in addition, space remains in the room, which visually increases it.	Not suitable for narrow rectangular rooms.

As you can see, the presented placement methods will be relevant only under certain conditions of the house planning. To equip your premises, you can choose ready-made options or supplement them with your ideas.

How to place depending on the room

The purpose of the room plays an important role: according to its function, the arrangement of furniture will vary. For example, a child in a nursery needs to provide a comfortable pastime for lessons, a berth, an area for games with friends. An adult bedroom is a place where a person rests and dreams, comfortable closets for linen and a soft functional bed should be located here.

A correctly furnished living room is a rationally used room, where each corner has its own function. In order to avoid mistakes during planning and arrangement, it is worth highlighting the features of the placement of furniture in various rooms.

Living room

In most modern dwellings - a living room, the place where family gatherings, meeting parties, spiritual feasts with guests take place. For people interested in reading books, it is important to place a special extensive library in the living room. As it uses high bookshelves and shelves that accommodate a large number of different publications.

The main nuances that should be considered when arranging furniture in a rectangular living room:

Availability of seating and rest;
The presence of a small table for refreshments;
Functional bar for placement of alcoholic drinks;
Entertainment area for guests and relaxation.

If the room is too elongated, designers recommend placing large furniture against the walls. This applies to wardrobes, sofas. As a result, free space remains in the center of the room, it is also recommended to install light, light armchairs, a small table as a stand. According to the arrangement of doors and windows, the table and chairs can be moved as needed.

Bedroom

The main piece of furniture in the bedroom is the bed. The first thing you need to pay attention to is whether clothes storage systems are needed there, or whether they are located in another room, and the bedroom is just a resting place. If the answer is yes, then it is better to install a bed near the long wall of a rectangular room.

If you can place any amount of furniture in square rooms, then a rectangular bedroom is a limited area, intended only for the following furniture:

Comfortable bed;
Bedside tables;
A small chest of drawers for linen;
A small sofa.

The main advice from designers is to install the bed in such a way that there is a distance of 40 cm around it. This is necessary in order to ensure an unhindered approach to the bed. Since the bed is the main subject that attention will be paid to in the room, it should be decorated in style, combined with the decoration of the premises.

If there is not enough space in the room, you should move away from the canons and put it in a corner so that access is only on one side. Then you can save a large amount of space for other furniture.

Children

In an oblong room for a baby, it is most logical to place furniture along a long wall. This will allow on the contrary to place a large number of other objects: a crib, a little table for drawing, a leisure mat or a workplace for a student. If the room is intended for a newborn - it is recommended to create a kind of triangle, allowing parents to move freely indoors.

It is necessary to highlight several features when arranging furniture in a children's room:

Set up a suitable place for your work area. It is better to place the furniture for the headset near the window, so that during work the child receives a maximum of natural light. If the window opening is located on a short wall, arrange a corner to the left or right of it;
Comfortable bed. A place to sleep should be located near the storage system. Ideal is the location of the bed in front of a small closet or chest of drawers for linen. Near the bed, it is optimal to install a cabinet for storing improvised items - a phone, an alarm clock, family photos;
Leisure area. If the space of the rectangular room allows, equip the child with a place to play and chat with friends. Today it’s fashionable to build a podium where soft pillows are scattered.

The color for decorating furniture and walls is better to choose light or bright, so as not to overload the psycho-emotional perception of the baby. Do not forget to equip the room with properly organized lighting.

Kitchen

It is much easier to equip a spacious rectangular kitchen than to solve the problem of a square small kitchen in Khrushchev. It can easily fit a refrigerator, other household appliances. The dining table is selected based on the size of the room: if there is a lot of space, the oval or rectangular option will be optimal, for small narrow kitchens a square table is suitable.

Some options for arranging furniture in the kitchen:

Linear - a headset with this layout is located on one side of the room. On the opposite side there is a dining table with chairs;
L-shaped - in this case, the furniture is installed on the border of two adjacent walls. With this layout, a visual improvement in the proportions of the room is created;
Double-row - if the rectangular silhouette of the room is wide, you can use a two-row arrangement: arrange furniture along two walls, and put the dining table by the window;
U-shaped - this option will completely take all the space under the kitchen, there will be no space left for the dining table and it will have to be moved outside the kitchen.

Depending on the quadrature of the kitchen, you can choose one of the proposed options for arranging furniture in a rectangular shape: the owner of the apartment decides how to arrange the set. In a private house, a spacious rectangular room can be distinguished as a kitchen. The desktop, combined with the windowsill, looks beautiful. In the center is an island that serves as a dining table and hides an oven, dishwasher and other appliances.

L-shaped

Linear

Double row

U-shaped

Basic Rules

The main tips that designers emphasize when planning a rectangular room are the rational use of space. A few recommendations and rules for the placement of furniture products:

Division into visual zones;
Emphasis on certain areas of the room;
Zoning furniture;
The desire for the visual transformation of the room into a square shape;
The use of light shades of furniture.

Dividing the room into visual parts, the room creates not only an atmosphere of functionality, but space saving. Each corner of the room is responsible for a certain area - rest, work or leisure. In addition, it is convenient to use furniture as dividers: shelving or a sofa can divide the living room into 2 functional rooms.

Common mistakes

Well-known designers recommend that you adhere to the above rules, however, many people who plan their interior on their own often make mistakes:

They install furniture along an elongated wall - with this arrangement, the shortcomings of the rectangle are emphasized and its proportions are violated;
They install furniture around the perimeter - this constrains the boundaries of the interior, making it unattractive;
Arrange the products symmetrically - this emphasizes the disproportionality of the room, so it is better to place the products asymmetrically;
They install large objects far from each other - empty corners and spaces create an uncomfortable feeling, as if you are in the corridor.

Try not to make these common mistakes, then the rectangular room will look beautiful, functional and spacious.