Living Room with Light Hardwood Flooring and Cork Flooring Ideas and Designs

Country enclosed living room feature wall in Devon with light hardwood flooring, a wood burning stove and a stone fireplace surround.

Refurbishment & Redecoration of a Family Home in Holloway, London

Sarah Thomas Interiors

Inspiration for a bohemian living room in London with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace and beige floors.

Moseley Victorian semi-detached house, Birmingham

Rumi Bunya Design Ltd

Design ideas for a medium sized traditional open plan living room in West Midlands with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a wood burning stove, a stone fireplace surround, grey floors and a dado rail.

The Goat Shed - Devon

TFQ Architects

The Goat Shed, Devon. The interior complements our design beautifully, with light, bright finishes to create a calm country feel, mixed contemporary materials and tones with country rustic textures.

Parisian design in London - Silverton Project

Mon Concept Habitation - London

In the living room, the elegant fireplace is enhanced by the integrated bookshelves and home office that nestle in the chimneybreast alcoves on either side.

Living room - seating area

Brooke Copp-Barton Interiors

This is an example of a large classic formal enclosed living room curtain in London with blue walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace and a wooden fireplace surround.

Somerset Country House - Drawing Room

Rebecca Roberts Design

Traditional living room in Other with white walls, light hardwood flooring and a standard fireplace.

Lightkeepers

Unique Homestays

Inspiration for an expansive beach style open plan living room in Cornwall with light hardwood flooring, a wood burning stove, a stone fireplace surround, a freestanding tv, brick walls and feature lighting.

Mid Century Modern Living Room

My Bespoke Room

Design ideas for a contemporary living room in London with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a wood burning stove, a freestanding tv, beige floors and exposed beams.

Living Area

Oakwrights

Living Area
Inspiration for a small farmhouse formal and grey and purple open plan living room in Surrey with multi-coloured walls, light hardwood flooring, a wood burning stove, a plastered fireplace surround, no tv, brown floors, exposed beams and a chimney breast.

Embassy Gardens

Burbeck Interiors ltd

Design ideas for a contemporary living room in London with white walls, light hardwood flooring, no fireplace, a wall mounted tv and beige floors.

Kent Drawing Room

ALEX JORGENSEN STUDIO

This is an example of a large formal living room in Kent with grey walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace and no tv.

Best of Gallery

Pineapple Interiors

Photo of a contemporary living room in London with grey walls, light hardwood flooring and beige floors.

The Museum Apartments

Iain Robinson

Inspiration for a large scandi open plan living room in Other with grey walls and light hardwood flooring.

Surrey Hills Family Home

Hill House Interiors

Large contemporary formal living room in Surrey with beige walls, light hardwood flooring, no fireplace, no tv, wallpapered walls and feature lighting.

Chelsea townhouse

Angel O'Donnell

The large oval coffee table is made from a high-gloss, cloudy-brown vellum. The puffy, nimbus-like shapes have an ephemeral quality, as if they could evaporate at any moment. By contrast, two angular lounge chairs have been upholstered in a fabric of equally striking angles. Richly embroidered curtains mix matte and metallic yarns that play the light beautifully. These things, combined with the densely textured wallpaper, create a room full of varied surfaces, shapes and patterns.

Fulham Renovation

HURST + GILLANDERS

Photo of a traditional living room in London with blue walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace and beige floors.

Elissa

Unique Homestays

Inspiration for a large bohemian open plan living room in Gloucestershire with white walls, light hardwood flooring and a standard fireplace.

Strawberry Hill Drawing Room

Kindly

to keep a childlike sense of fun in the room, we picked out the bold orange from the artwork, and the blue from our client's round rug, and chose accessories that matched. The orange glass side table gives incredible shadows when the light shines on it.

Notting Hill Apartment

Emma Tutill Ltd

Contemporary living room in London with beige walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a wall mounted tv and beige floors.

Living Room with Light Hardwood Flooring and Cork Flooring 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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