Living Room with Feature Lighting Ideas and Designs

Jane Lockhart's award winning luxury model home for Kylemore Communities. Won the 2011 BILT award for best model home. Photography, Brandon Barré
Medium sized classic formal living room in Toronto with beige walls, a standard fireplace and feature lighting.

Kwinter Design

Kwinter & Co.

Contemporary living room in New York with white walls, a standard fireplace and feature lighting.

Living Room

Eleven Interiors

Contemporary living room in Boston with white walls, medium hardwood flooring and feature lighting.

Warmington & North

Custom cabinets by Warmington & North Architect: Boswoth Hoedemaker Designer: Larry Hooke Interior Design
Inspiration for a rustic living room in Seattle with no tv and feature lighting.

2010 Colorado Homes & Lifestyles "Home of the Year"

Andrea Schumacher Interiors

Photography by Emily Minton Redfield http://www.emrphotography.com

Contemporary Beach Living Room

Julia Ryan

This is an example of a traditional living room in Charleston with blue walls, a brick fireplace surround and feature lighting.

South Boston Living Room

Jace Interiors & CreateGirl Blog

Design ideas for a traditional enclosed living room in Boston with feature lighting.

Beach Style Living Room

Inspiration for a coastal formal living room in Miami with white walls, a standard fireplace and feature lighting.

Coastal chic

Kate Jackson Design

Nat Rea
Design ideas for a medium sized nautical living room in Providence with beige walls, medium hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround, a concealed tv, a reading nook and feature lighting.

Family Chic

Morgante Wilson Architects

Morgante Wilson Architects added color and pattern to this Music Room. The lounge chairs are covered in fabric from Carnegie. The Artisitc Frame side chairs bring in more color. A pendant from Currey & Co. hangs above. Werner Straube Photography

A contemporary, organic space.

Anderson Design Studio

A contemporary, organic and simultaneously glamorous transformation of a home in Nashville, TN.
Photo of a contemporary living room in Nashville with grey walls and feature lighting.

Greenwich Showcase House

Clark Gaynor Interiors

Grand Salon in Old Greenwich. Multiple seating areas and large scale rugs to bring the massive space under control. Dynamic cofferred ceiling that instantly draws the eye.

Open Living Room

Creative West Architects

The Living Room is very connected to the outdoor spaces in this rural setting. It is approached off the entry hall by a small flight of formal steps.

Charlestown Renovation

Boston Premier Remodeling LLC

Jamie Keskin Design, Kyle J Caldwell photography
This is an example of a medium sized traditional enclosed living room in Boston with grey walls, medium hardwood flooring, no fireplace, brown floors and feature lighting.

Luxury Custom Home Renovation, Living Room

CBI Design Professionals, Inc.

The home is roughly 80 years old and had a strong character to start our design from. The home had been added onto and updated several times previously so we stripped back most of these areas in order to get back to the original house before proceeding. The addition started around the Kitchen, updating and re-organizing this space making a beautiful, simply elegant space that makes a strong statement with its barrel vault ceiling. We opened up the rest of the family living area to the kitchen and pool patio areas, making this space flow considerably better than the original house. The remainder of the house, including attic areas, was updated to be in similar character and style of the new kitchen and living areas. Additional baths were added as well as rooms for future finishing. We added a new attached garage with a covered drive that leads to rear facing garage doors. The addition spaces (including the new garage) also include a full basement underneath for future finishing – this basement connects underground to the original homes basement providing one continuous space. New balconies extend the home’s interior to the quiet, well groomed exterior. The homes additions make this project’s end result look as if it all could have been built in the 1930’s.

Cambridge Residence

MANDARINA STUDIO interior design

Photo of a traditional living room in Boston with pink walls, a standard fireplace and feature lighting.

Tangley @

Sally Wheat Interiors

Laurie Perez Photography
Photo of a classic enclosed living room in Houston with white walls, no tv and feature lighting.

Formal Living Area

KannCept Design, Inc.

This is an example of a large classic open plan living room in Chicago with a standard fireplace and feature lighting.

Family Room

Brian Watford Interiors

Large traditional formal open plan living room in Atlanta with beige walls, medium hardwood flooring, no fireplace, no tv and feature lighting.

Bordley

Thompson Custom Homes

Photographer: Steve Chenn
Medium sized mediterranean formal enclosed living room in Houston with beige walls, terracotta flooring, no fireplace, no tv, red floors and feature lighting.

Living Room with Feature Lighting 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:

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