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Hollywood Regency Style @ The Morse House
Hollywood Regency Style @ The Morse House
LMB InteriorsLMB Interiors
Our clients wanted their home to be host to charity functions, community events, and their family and friends, as well as a showcase for their eclectic and colorful art collection featuring works by local Oakland artists. Oh, and when they moved in, they did the work to register the house as an Oakland Historical Landmark. The fact that the couple was looking to upgrade their living room in the Hollywood Regency style (which is known for bold colors, shiny metallics, luxe fabrics, and an eye to mixing opulence with comfort while holding true to the glamor of 1930s Hollywood) made this project all the more inspiring and fun for me and my team. John recalls, “We wanted a place that was glamorous, and compelling, so that people who visit would be excited and inspired by it!” Our mission was to bring the very grand living room with its high ceilings and leaded glass bay windows to the next level for the family (including grown children Tom and Mandela) and their guests — ranging in number from 6 to 60 or more, on any given day or night. The Hollywood Regency aesthetic was a perfect canvas for mixing and matching with the couple’s significant and hyper-local pop art collection, including pieces by famed Oakland artists Mel Ramos and K-Dub. Kim and John’s personal views and aesthetics, together with their vibrant art collection, called for a bold design that is more funky and eclectic overall than many owners of historic homes like this tend to prefer. I mean, don’t get me wrong; many of our clients like to do something a little daring, and often they opt for elements of glam. However, John and Kim agreeing to our specification of a pair of peacock blue sofas — that is no small commitment to audacious color! Another furnishing element I love from this project is the custom-designed birds-eye-maple and antique glass inset bar — on wheels, which allows flexibility: a bartender can serve a large party from behind it or it can be turned around for use as self-service for a more intimate gathering. My team and I couldn’t be more proud to have created a design that inspires and supports this family so that they may continue to make significant contributions to their causes and community.
Family Room looking into Foyer
Family Room looking into Foyer
Kimmel Studio ArchitectsKimmel Studio Architects
Photo of an expansive modern open plan living room in Baltimore with a home bar, white walls, light hardwood flooring, a ribbon fireplace, a stone fireplace surround, no tv and brown floors.
Modern Rustic Living Room Design Ideas
Modern Rustic Living Room Design Ideas
The Inside ViewThe Inside View
This modern rustic living room features vaulted ceilings and large windows with a classic, neutral color scheme. A large, comfortable couch offers comfortable seating for guests. A large wooden coffee table and white round ottamon offer additional storage and comfort.
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Sherwood Lane - Living Room
Sherwood Lane - Living Room
Jamie Banfield Interior DesignsJamie Banfield Interior Designs
A sophisticated family home that encompasses the perfect details for this family of four's lifestyle. With a drive for entertaining, family gatherings and simple home cooked dinners, this home was designed around an open everyday entertaining space by taking down a few walls in order to grow the living and kitchen space. This family home showcases the perfect balance between sophisticated and relaxed.
Sherwood Lane - Living Room
Sherwood Lane - Living Room
Jamie Banfield Interior DesignsJamie Banfield Interior Designs
A sophisticated family home that encompasses the perfect details for this family of four's lifestyle. With a drive for entertaining, family gatherings and simple home cooked dinners, this home was designed around an open everyday entertaining space by taking down a few walls in order to grow the living and kitchen space. This family home showcases the perfect balance between sophisticated and relaxed.
Invergordon
Invergordon
AFT ConstructionAFT Construction
This is an example of a large modern formal open plan living room in Phoenix with beige walls, travertine flooring, a ribbon fireplace, a tiled fireplace surround, a wall mounted tv and beige floors.
Breakwater
Breakwater
McClellan | TelloneMcClellan | Tellone
Photo of a large modern formal open plan living room in Seattle with white walls, porcelain flooring, a ribbon fireplace, a stone fireplace surround, no tv and white floors.
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Mountain Modern Chalet
Mountain Modern Chalet
Skowron Interior DesignSkowron Interior Design
Design ideas for a modern living room in Other with dark hardwood flooring and a stone fireplace surround.
Casa SG II
Casa SG II
Bernardo Pozas Residential DesignBernardo Pozas Residential Design
Modern living room.
accent wall
accent wall
D&L Wall Design/wallpaper installation miamiD&L Wall Design/wallpaper installation miami
D&L WALL DESIGN
Design ideas for a modern living room in Miami with a built-in media unit.
Electric Fireplace, St Petersburg, FL
Electric Fireplace, St Petersburg, FL
Urban Concepts Modern Hearth & Outdoor, Inc.Urban Concepts Modern Hearth & Outdoor, Inc.
Dimplex 74" Ignite linear electric fireplace with recessed TV
Medium sized modern living room in Tampa with white walls, porcelain flooring, a ribbon fireplace, a plastered fireplace surround, a built-in media unit and white floors.
2541 Carman Crest Dr
2541 Carman Crest Dr
The House GroupThe House Group
Large modern formal mezzanine living room in Los Angeles with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, no tv, beige floors and a vaulted ceiling.
664 Peninsula Point Rd
664 Peninsula Point Rd
Sustainable Nine Design + BuildSustainable Nine Design + Build
This is an example of a modern living room in Minneapolis.
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Boca Raton Splendor
Boca Raton Splendor
Bravas Boca RatonBravas Boca Raton
Fully integrated Signature Estate featuring Creston controls and Crestron panelized lighting, and Crestron motorized shades and draperies, whole-house audio and video, HVAC, voice and video communication atboth both the front door and gate. Modern, warm, and clean-line design, with total custom details and finishes. The front includes a serene and impressive atrium foyer with two-story floor to ceiling glass walls and multi-level fire/water fountains on either side of the grand bronze aluminum pivot entry door. Elegant extra-large 47'' imported white porcelain tile runs seamlessly to the rear exterior pool deck, and a dark stained oak wood is found on the stairway treads and second floor. The great room has an incredible Neolith onyx wall and see-through linear gas fireplace and is appointed perfectly for views of the zero edge pool and waterway. The center spine stainless steel staircase has a smoked glass railing and wood handrail. Photo courtesy Royal Palm Properties
CASA DEI VIAGGIATORI
CASA DEI VIAGGIATORI
ARCHISPRITZARCHISPRITZ
Design ideas for a medium sized modern open plan living room in Turin with a reading nook, white walls, ceramic flooring, a wall mounted tv and grey floors.
House IS
House IS
小島光晴建築設計事務所小島光晴建築設計事務所
和室／Photo：Kai Nakamura
Inspiration for a modern living room in Other with brown walls, tatami flooring, brown floors and no tv.
Covered patio design
Covered patio design
ULLE StudioULLE Studio
Inspiration for a medium sized modern open plan living room with beige walls, concrete flooring, no tv and grey floors.

Modern Living Room Ideas and Designs

Looking for modern 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 modern 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 modern 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.

Modern 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 modern 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 modern 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 modern small living room ideas to help you make most out of what you’re working with. A couple of modern 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 modern 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 modern living room furniture

When it comes to the layout of your modern 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 modern 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 modern 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 modern 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 modern 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 modern 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 modern 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 modern 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 modern 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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New build - Proctor
New build - Proctor
Simon Burt PhotographySimon Burt Photography
Simon Burt
Design ideas for a medium sized modern enclosed living room in Cornwall with white walls, carpet, a ribbon fireplace, a plastered fireplace surround, a wall mounted tv and beige floors.
Freddie Mo
Freddie Mo
Centre Sky Architecture LtdCentre Sky Architecture Ltd
The Living Room is a mixture of rustic wood with natural stone. Photos by Gibeon Photography
Design ideas for a modern living room in Other with beige walls, dark hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and brown floors.
Corbett Lighting
Corbett Lighting
Farrey's Lighting and BathFarrey's Lighting and Bath
Living room decorating design, chandelier, wall sconce, lamps, modern decor and more. Available at Farreys.com.
This is an example of a modern living room in Miami.
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