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New and vintage furniture & accessories, infused with color, create a warm “lived in” feeling for an active family’s new home.
Inspiration for a contemporary living room in Boston with a standard fireplace and feature lighting.
Westlake Residence
Westlake Residence
Cornerstone ArchitectsCornerstone Architects
Nestled between multiple stands of Live Oak trees, the Westlake Residence is a contemporary Texas Hill Country home. The house is designed to accommodate the entire family, yet flexible in its design to be able to scale down into living only in 2,200 square feet when the children leave in several years. The home includes many state-of-the-art green features and multiple flex spaces capable of hosting large gatherings or small, intimate groups. The flow and design of the home provides for privacy from surrounding properties and streets, as well as to focus all of the entertaining to the center of the home. Finished in late 2006, the home features Icynene insulation, cork floors and thermal chimneys to exit warm air in the expansive family room. Photography by Allison Cartwright
Transitional Living Room
Transitional Living Room
Inspiration for a large traditional enclosed living room in Boston with blue walls, a built-in media unit, light hardwood flooring and no fireplace.
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Family Room with French Doors
Family Room with French Doors
Meadowbank DesignsMeadowbank Designs
Family Room with French Doors and lots of natual light on Philadelphia's Main Line
Design ideas for a traditional living room in Philadelphia with beige walls.
Urban Homestead
Urban Homestead
Cuppett Kilpatrick Architecture + Interior DesignCuppett Kilpatrick Architecture + Interior Design
All images by Paul Bardagjy & Jonathan Jackson
Inspiration for a classic open plan living room in Austin with no tv.
Studio Marcelo Brito
Studio Marcelo Brito
Studio Marcelo BritoStudio Marcelo Brito
photo: Gui Morelli
Inspiration for a contemporary living room in Other with white walls.
Putney House
Putney House
EMR ArchitectureEMR Architecture
This is an example of a contemporary open plan living room in London with a reading nook, grey walls, light hardwood flooring, a ribbon fireplace and no tv.
Natural & Neutral Family Room
Natural & Neutral Family Room
Cote InteriorsCote Interiors
The Palm Co
Inspiration for a medium sized coastal open plan living room in Sydney with no fireplace, white walls, medium hardwood flooring and brown floors.
Reinterpreted Mid-Century
Reinterpreted Mid-Century
Marc-Michaels Interior DesignMarc-Michaels Interior Design
©Edward Butera / ibi designs / Boca Raton, Florida
Photo of a large contemporary open plan living room in Miami with grey walls, porcelain flooring, a ribbon fireplace and a wall mounted tv.
A perfectly pale interior with Nordic influences
A perfectly pale interior with Nordic influences
Louise de MirandaLouise de Miranda
Photo: Louise de Miranda © 2013 Houzz
Bohemian living room in Amsterdam with white walls and a freestanding tv.
Lafayette
Lafayette
FAB ArchitectureFAB Architecture
Traditional living room in Austin with white walls and a standard fireplace.
Idaho Residence
Idaho Residence
Transom Design BuildTransom Design Build
Melissa Day
Inspiration for a retro mezzanine living room feature wall in Portland with black walls and medium hardwood flooring.
Portfolio
Portfolio
JONATHAN CALVERT | Interiors PhotographerJONATHAN CALVERT | Interiors Photographer
Contemporary living room in Houston with beige walls.
Country Houses
Country Houses
Austin Patterson Disston ArchitectsAustin Patterson Disston Architects
Traditional formal living room in New York with white walls, a standard fireplace, no tv and feature lighting.
21st Century Bungalow
21st Century Bungalow
The Inman CompanyThe Inman Company
21st Century Bungalow-Style Home - Living room with 30 foot ceilings featuring a custom designed tiled fireplace with engineered stone hearth and custom mantle flanked by custom shelving and entertainment unit that enhances the board-and-baton style wall treatment
Neo-Prairie Style Parade Home
Neo-Prairie Style Parade Home
Hobbs' Ink, LLCHobbs' Ink, LLC
This Neo-prairie style home with its wide overhangs and well shaded bands of glass combines the openness of an island getaway with a “C – shaped” floor plan that gives the owners much needed privacy on a 78’ wide hillside lot. Photos by James Bruce and Merrick Ales.
Brookline Residence
Brookline Residence
PLATEMARK DESIGNPLATEMARK DESIGN
Photos by Michael J. Lee Photography
Design ideas for a contemporary living room in Boston with a tiled fireplace surround.
Cozy Living Room
Cozy Living Room
Smith & Vansant Architects PCSmith & Vansant Architects PC
The built-in bookcases in this living room help provide much needed storage in a small home while helping to bounce light into the room from the windows. At night the books are illuminated by the monopoint track fixtures. Renovation/Addition. Rob Karosis Photography
Pima Canyon Residence Interiors
Pima Canyon Residence Interiors
John Senhauser ArchitectsJohn Senhauser Architects
Our client initially asked us to assist with selecting materials and designing a guest bath for their new Tucson home. Our scope of work progressively expanded into interior architecture and detailing, including the kitchen, baths, fireplaces, stair, custom millwork, doors, guardrails, and lighting for the residence – essentially everything except the furniture. The home is loosely defined by a series of thick, parallel walls supporting planar roof elements floating above the desert floor. Our approach was to not only reinforce the general intentions of the architecture but to more clearly articulate its meaning. We began by adopting a limited palette of desert neutrals, providing continuity to the uniquely differentiated spaces. Much of the detailing shares a common vocabulary, while numerous objects (such as the elements of the master bath – each operating on their own terms) coalesce comfortably in the rich compositional language. Photo credit: William Lesch

Living Room Ideas and Designs

Looking for living room ideas? Whether your living room is lacklustre, your lounge is limited in space, your sitting room is suffering from outdated decor or your front room is full of clutter, there are living room ideas and designs that will inspire you to breathe life into your living space. Discover small living room ideas to help maximise tiny spaces or layout ideas that will work with awkward shaped living rooms. Perhaps you’re struggling to decide on living room colours? Read on for help with colours, layout and design ideas, or find inspiration from the millions of living room photos on Houzz.

Living room wallpaper ideas

A good place to start when it comes to redesigning your living room is with the walls. While paint may seem the simplest choice, and easy to change, don’t discredit the design opportunities of wallpaper in living rooms. There are tons of great living room wallpaper ideas, from modern geometric patterns to traditional florals, and loads of ways to use them – you don’t have to cover the whole room or go for the ubiquitous feature wall. You could wallpaper only above the dado rail (if you have one), either side of a chimney breast, or behind a shelving unit to give your displayed items a stylish backdrop. Discover more living room wallpaper ideas or if paint is more your style, there’s plenty of living room designs to discover when it comes to paint ideas; just browse through the huge selection of living photos and search for the specific paint you’re after if you really want to narrow it down.

Small living room ideas

When it comes to our living room design, we want it to feel as welcoming and personality-filled as possible, but that can be a struggle when we’re working with a small space. But not to fear, there are small living room ideas to help you make most out of what you’re working with. A couple of small living room ideas can include: working with the height you have – installing floor-to-ceiling bookshelves or drawing the eye to the top of the walls with wallpaper; choosing space-saving or storage-incorporating (or both!) furniture, such as corner sofas with storage space under the chaise longue section; and keeping things symmetrical – a central fireplace with seating opposite, or seats facing each other, can give the illusion of a larger, more grand room. When it comes to the best decor for small living rooms, you can either choose to keep things light and airy to open up the space, or embrace the cosiness of the smaller area you have by going for warm colours and filling the room with your favourite accessories.

Living room layouts and choosing the right living room furniture

When it comes to the layout of your living room, it will depend on what pieces of furniture you have – but how do you choose what living room furniture to add, whether you’re refreshing your living room design or starting from scratch? The best place to start is with the seating – one corner sofa will usually seat three to four people, and if that’s all you think you’ll need, then you can leave it at that. Placing your sofa along the longest wall helps to make the most of the space, but think about where you want the focus of the room to be, too. If you need more seating, look at armchairs that offer comfort but don’t take up too much space – cramming a room with too many large armchairs is something to avoid. But armchairs and sofas don’t have to be your only options – go for bean bags and floor cushions for an eclectic feel, pouffes and ottomans if you’re more traditional, and smart design chairs for contemporary living room ideas. Coffee tables are always handy, but you can always add a couple of side tables if you don’t want to clutter the central space in front of seating with anything. If you centre your living room design around a fireplace or TV, then you might want storage and shelving to feature around the focus of your room. There are plenty of style options when it comes to TV units, and you can even go for bespoke living room storage units to make the most of the space if you want a sleek, built-in look. Keep reading below for more living room storage ideas. Discover a huge range of living room furniture, as well as living room accessories, to help you finish your room design.

Living room design ideas

Struggling with what living room colours to choose, or what style to go with? While a grey living room design is popular at the moment, you might not want to go with the ubiquitous colour. Although, if neutral and contemporary are the living room ideas you’re after, a grey sofa or grey walls will give you a good base to work on. If you want to stay neutral, beige is not your only other option, either. Light yellows, taupes and soft greys will work. Why not try adding simple but plush cushions to your sofa and a rug in these colours to achieve a modern-traditional look? For contemporary living room ideas, dark blues and greens are on trend, but if you don’t want to dive straight into the dark wall trend, you could opt for a couple of pieces of furniture, or go for dark-hued living room accessories instead. Whites, woods and pastels could work well for Scandinavian living room designs. If an eclectic living room is what you’re after, you could go for large print wallpaper, a statement lighting piece, vibrant rug and lots of colourful book or ornament displays. For a country feel, rustic carpet, stone hearths, comfy armchairs and traditional patterns in creams, greens and browns will give you that cosy cottage feel.

Living room storage ideas

It’s natural that our living rooms tend to attract lots of items and belongings seeing as they act as multipurpose living spaces. Whether you love to read a book; watch a film; let your children play with their toys; practise a craft like knitting or drawing; play a musical instrument or play video games in your sitting room, there will always be a need for a few extra living room ideas that can help you with storage. Apart from the standard bookcases, side tables and TV units, there are a few other handy living room storage ideas you can invest in. As mentioned before, if you have the room and budget for it, a built-in storage unit could be the way forward. With a well-built unit you could hide your TV, DVDs, players, books, video consoles and all sorts away in one place. If you don’t quite have a large enough area for one, you could look at shelving – either side of the chimney breast is a great place to install shelving if you have one in your living room. And don’t forget living room furniture such as sofas, benches and ottomans that lift up to reveal hidden storage; providing seating and storing space at the same time. With the right storage solutions your living room design could open up and feel so much more spacious and stylish. Discover more living room storage ideas by browsing these photos. Once you have your living room storage, colours, design, layout and furniture sorted, all that’s left is to browse the millions of living room ideas on Houzz and save your favourites to an ideabook. If you’re still searching for specific living room ideas, check out the popular pages below:
Atherton, California Estate by Markay Johnson Construction
Atherton, California Estate by Markay Johnson Construction
Markay Johnson ConstructionMarkay Johnson Construction
Builder: Markay Johnson Construction visit: www.mjconstruction.com Project Details: Located on a beautiful corner lot of just over one acre, this sumptuous home presents Country French styling – with leaded glass windows, half-timber accents, and a steeply pitched roof finished in varying shades of slate. Completed in 2006, the home is magnificently appointed with traditional appeal and classic elegance surrounding a vast center terrace that accommodates indoor/outdoor living so easily. Distressed walnut floors span the main living areas, numerous rooms are accented with a bowed wall of windows, and ceilings are architecturally interesting and unique. There are 4 additional upstairs bedroom suites with the convenience of a second family room, plus a fully equipped guest house with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Equally impressive are the resort-inspired grounds, which include a beautiful pool and spa just beyond the center terrace and all finished in Connecticut bluestone. A sport court, vast stretches of level lawn, and English gardens manicured to perfection complete the setting. Photographer: Bernard Andre Photography
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