Some entries are three feet of concrete between a door and a railing. There's no room for a grouping on each side, no room for a bale laid flat, and no room to step back and look at what you're doing.
These entries can still look finished. The material just has to go up instead of out.
Stand the bale on end
A straw bale laid flat eats floor space you don't have. Stood upright, it occupies a fraction of the footprint and gains real height.
Set it tight against the wall on whichever side has more room, with the string lines running vertically. That orientation sheds water, and on end it also gives you a platform at roughly knee height for the pumpkins that would otherwise be underfoot.
An upright bale plus pieces on top of it is a display with two levels in the space one grouping would normally take.
Use the wall
Narrow entries have something wide porches don't: a wall right there, close enough to build against.
Push everything to it. A display hugging the wall reads as intentional and leaves the path clear; a display floating in the middle of a narrow space reads as clutter and makes the entry feel smaller.
If there's a column or a railing post, that's your corn stalk tie point, and the bundle is worth having precisely because it costs almost nothing in floor space.
One grouping, not two
There isn't room for symmetry and attempting it produces two thin halves.
Commit to one side. Mass everything there, take the vertical element up the wall or the post, and let the other side stay empty. That asymmetry is the correct answer for the space rather than a compromise.
The path is the constraint
Keep the walking route to the door genuinely clear — not technically passable, but comfortable for someone carrying something, in the dark, in a coat.
On a narrow entry this usually means the display occupies about a third of the width and no more. If you find yourself turning sideways to reach your own door, the display is too big regardless of how good it looks.
Shared entries need more care than private ones. If you're on a landing your neighbor also uses, their route matters as much as yours.
Which package fits
The Welcome is built for exactly this: 1 straw bale, 1 corn stalk bundle, and 26–32 pumpkins and gourds.
Sizing up is usually a mistake here. The Classic's 2 bales and 2 bundles need somewhere to go, and on a narrow entry there is nowhere; you end up storing half the delivery or crowding the path with it.
If you want more without more footprint, an extra corn stalk bunch at $25 adds height rather than floor coverage.
Check the rules first
Townhomes, condos, and apartments frequently have restrictions on what can sit outside a door, and shared-entry buildings often have fire code requirements about keeping egress paths clear.
Worth confirming before you order. All sales are final, and a restriction discovered afterward is a problem without a clean fix.