Modern Living Room with All Types of Fireplace Ideas and Designs

Inspiration for a large modern open plan living room in San Diego with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, a ribbon fireplace, a tiled fireplace surround, a wall mounted tv and brown floors.

Irving Street Condo

Advantage Services Construction

Design ideas for a modern living room in Portland with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and brown floors.

LEED-Certified Greenwich Modern

HOBBS INC

Large modern formal open plan living room in New York with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a tiled fireplace surround, a built-in media unit and brown floors.

Capitol Hill Residence

serra|wersinger architects

living room and screen detail Eirik Johnson Photographer
Medium sized modern open plan living room in Seattle with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace and a plastered fireplace surround.

Lucius 140 Tunnel

European Home

The Lucius 140 Tunnel by Element4 is a perfectly proportioned linear see-through fireplace. With this design you can bring warmth and elegance to two spaces -- with just one fireplace.

White Oaks

Barc Architects Ltd

Justin Foulkes
Modern open plan living room in Devon with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace and a wall mounted tv.

Griffin Modern Remodel

Ellen Pandorf Interior Design

Inspiration for a medium sized modern enclosed living room in San Diego with a home bar, white walls, painted wood flooring, a standard fireplace, a metal fireplace surround and a wall mounted tv.

Lincoln Park Modern

Summer Thornton Design, Inc

This living room directly off the entry sets the tone for the rest of the home with its low slung furnishings, plush turkish rug and ethereal chandelier. The palette for this space was pulled from the antique wool rug in the dining room with splashes of blush, chartreuse and ochre. Summer Thornton Design, Inc.

Statement fireplace with seashell decor

AA Design Firm

We needed to create some sort of statement on this wall. So we built a fireplace with custom shelves and cabinets to match. We made sure that the line from the fireplace matched the height of the cabinets to ensure very clean lines on this wall.

Prairie Village Modern kitchen/living room

Faust Construction

Photography by Travis Bechtel
Medium sized modern open plan living room in Kansas City with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a metal fireplace surround and a built-in media unit.

Full Home Remodel

Reliance Design Build

Inspiration for a large modern formal open plan living room in Columbus with grey walls, light hardwood flooring, a two-sided fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and a wall mounted tv.

Living In Color

John Robert Wiltgen Design, Inc.

Photo of a medium sized modern formal living room in Chicago with a standard fireplace, white walls, medium hardwood flooring and a tiled fireplace surround.

Living/Fireplace Projects

Crossville Studios

Peninsula Heraclia by Century Ceramica on floor
Inspiration for a medium sized modern open plan living room in Denver with porcelain flooring, a standard fireplace and a plastered fireplace surround.

Modern, Elegant Living

Avo Construction Llc

This is an example of a large modern open plan living room in New York with a standard fireplace, a built-in media unit, white walls and medium hardwood flooring.

Lancaster Modern Rooms

Stimmel Consulting Group

Design ideas for a large modern open plan living room in Philadelphia with beige walls, light hardwood flooring, a two-sided fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and a wall mounted tv.

Park Lane

Uptic Studios

Oliver Irwin Photography www.oliveriphoto.com Uptic Studios designed the space in such a way that the exterior and interior blend together seamlessly, bringing the outdoors in. The interior of the space is designed to provide a smooth, heartwarming, and welcoming environment. With floor to ceiling windows, the views from inside captures the amazing scenery of the great northwest. Uptic Studios provided an open concept design to encourage the family to stay connected with their guests and each other in this spacious modern space. The attention to details gives each element and individual feature its own value while cohesively working together to create the space as a whole.

Toorak House

Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors

RMA took a site with a derelict duplex in Melbourne's Toorak and turned it into an impressive family home that is at the same time functional, sleek and contained.

Collector's Paradise | Estancia - Living Room

Drewett Works

Designed to embrace an extensive and unique art collection including sculpture, paintings, tapestry, and cultural antiquities, this modernist home located in north Scottsdale’s Estancia is the quintessential gallery home for the spectacular collection within. The primary roof form, “the wing” as the owner enjoys referring to it, opens the home vertically to a view of adjacent Pinnacle peak and changes the aperture to horizontal for the opposing view to the golf course. Deep overhangs and fenestration recesses give the home protection from the elements and provide supporting shade and shadow for what proves to be a desert sculpture. The restrained palette allows the architecture to express itself while permitting each object in the home to make its own place. The home, while certainly modern, expresses both elegance and warmth in its material selections including canterra stone, chopped sandstone, copper, and stucco. Project Details | Lot 245 Estancia, Scottsdale AZ Architect: C.P. Drewett, Drewett Works, Scottsdale, AZ Interiors: Luis Ortega, Luis Ortega Interiors, Hollywood, CA Publications: luxe. interiors + design. November 2011. Featured on the world wide web: luxe.daily Photo by Grey Crawford.

Modern Hilltop

Kathy Ann Abell Interiors

Gradman Residence

Swatt | Miers Architects

Cesar Rubio
Medium sized modern open plan living room in San Francisco with blue walls, light hardwood flooring and a standard fireplace.

Modern Living Room with All Types of Fireplace 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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