100 Beautiful Living Rooms to Nurture Your Home’s Tranquility

Clutter and mess add unnecessary stress to any room in your home. It’s incredibly distracting when you are trying to relax and makes a room feel much more chaotic. Tidy away unnecessary clutter in hidden cabinets and minimize the number of trinkets you have out on display at one time.

• How To Create a Peaceful and Calming Living Room
• The Living Room Colors
• Top 5 Colors For The Living Room
• The Most Popular Living Room Styles
• 100 Beautiful and Tranquil Living Rooms You Won’t Want to Leave
• FAQ

Gallery walls are fun to organize due to all the possibilities. If you’re afraid that a gallery wall will be too overwhelming in your living room, pay attention to your colors like this display by Studio Gild. When they’re all in a certain color pallet, it will feel full without being too busy.
Gallery walls are fun to organize due to all the possibilities. If you’re afraid that a gallery wall will be too overwhelming in your living room, pay attention to your colors like this display by Studio Gild. When they’re all in a certain color pallet, it will feel full without being too busy.
Natural sunlight works wonders to boost your mood, so try to avoid blocking your room’s natural light when you are redecorating. During the daytime, keep your shades pulled up and your curtains open to allow more sunlight into your home.

36. Switch Out Your Lighting to Upgrade Your Living Room

Does your living room have a fireplace? Make it the focal point of your space like Studio Steidley did with this nice living room. It will make your living room seem even cozier than any number of throw pillows could bring.
Comfort is key when you host a lot of parties. Samantha Hauvette chose plush seating with soft fabrics for this otherwise very French apartment and it created the best spot for hanging out with all your best pals.

37. Cover Up a Brick Wall with Statement Art Pieces

When choosing the curtains for your living room pay attention to things like the type of fabric, the level of opacity, the color which should be in sync with the rest of the room’s décor, the length which is based on personal preference and practicality and the width.
If you think that just because your home has French or Spanish architecture, you have to decorate that way, let this beautiful space prove you wrong. Even with wrought iron accents or elaborate crown molding, you can still have a tribal rug.

38. A Modern Black Statement Wall

Just because you have shelves doesn’t mean you need to fill them. Nook Architects used the credenza for the TV and left the rest bare to create a pleasant look with the negative space.
So many people push their furniture against the walls but if you have enough floor space, let your walls breathe. In fact, it will make your whole living room look bigger.

39. Paint a Picture to Display in Your Living Room

Kitchens are gathering spaces for creativity and nourishment. Bedrooms are calming spaces to find rest and rejuvenation. Bathrooms are preparation spaces for cleanliness and self-care. But what about living rooms?
It can be so fun to experiment mixing styles in your home. Alison Damonte put a lime green sectional in this midcentury living room and it definitely worked to update the style without losing the charm.

40. Add a Pouf to Your Living Room

41. A Brick Wall and Unique Ceiling

Some colors we might like but we aren’t sure if we want to decorate with them. Design your living room around a neutral color pallet to create your canvas and then add just a few pops of the questionable color. It’s a great way to decide if it’s going to stay without spending through your budget.

42. Bright Floral Accent Chairs

Sometimes a bookshelf wall can overwhelm your living room with all it’s colors and styles. But Studio RO+CA turned all the books backwards so the creamy pages add texture without the busyness.

43. An Aqua and Coral Living Room

Old homes have such wonderful features. Grey Dove Design kept the style of this living room light and simple to really draw attention to the wood floors, heavy beams and brick fireplace in this historical space.

44. Create a Library Feeling for Your Living Room

If the walls of your living room are a neutral color, don’t shy away from brightly colored accents. The myriad of lush fabrics in bright shades in this living room by Casa Botelho can’t help but invite you to stay awhile.
Is your living room desperate for a little more light? Use a large mirror to help brighten up those dark corners like the big mantle mirror in this apartment by Maison Hand.

45. Don’t Shy Away From Pink

A rustic home doesn’t have to be all heavy wood and buffalo check. With a myriad of creams and linens, the heavy wood accents you do choose will stand out better without weighing down your space. M Naeve shows off some rustic wood in that beautiful coffee table which makes the perfect focal point.
It’s suggested to paint social areas like the living room in warm colors such as yellow, coral, cranberry or certain tones of orange to make them feel more inviting, exciting and cozy.
This question is related to a previous one where we talked about decorating corners. In a living, a few things that you can put in a corner include a tree or a large potted plant, a floor lamp, a decorative ladder, artwork, a round accent table, a chair or a bar cart.

46. A Scandinavian-Inspired Living Room

There is something to be said for monochrome decor. Michael Del Pietro basically used three colors in this living room; gray, black and brown. Even the accents are all one shade, creating a simple looking shelf.

47. Make Your Living Room a Mirror of Your Personal Space

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48. A Modern Yet Rustic Living Room

Leslie Rylee is a master of pattern mixing. This living room displays four different patterns, not counting the walls’ architectural interest. It’s a great example of how you can really infuse your space with playfulness.

49. Retain Elements of an Older Home

When you want to style a really relaxing space, minimalism is key. Arent & Pyke achieve this even in a traditional sense with deep colors and a lack of wall art. The negative space feels cool and clean.
There’s plenty of design tips and tricks that you can use when decorating a small living room if you want it to appear bigger and to feel inviting and comfortable.

50. Bright White Walls

You might not choose a patterned couch from the get go but after seeing this living room by Arent & Pyke, you might just reconsider. It eliminates all need for throw pillows because it’s comfortable and bright enough itself.

51. Install Shelves on the Wall

52. Add Color to Your Floor

Since your living room will be the space that guests will see the most, don’t be afraid to make it a mirror of your personal style. Mix a modern painting with a vintage sofa if that’s what floats your boat. It will make your living room uniquely you.

53. A Living Room with Shiplap Walls

So when styling your living room, you want to be sure that it incorporates the elements that help you let your hair down.

54. A Simple and Creative Living Room

55. Mix Styles in Your Living Room

Let’s talk about that painting because if there was a good example of statement art, this would be the poster for it. While it can cost you a fortune, you can also put your own paint brushes to work and create your own masterpiece.

56. Add a Patterned Rug on the Floor

Recessed lights are installed into holes in the ceiling and they’re also known as pot lights. The installation is done in a few steps. First is the planning stage where you decide where you want the lights to go. Make a sketch of the layout of your living room and use it as a guide.
Corners are always awkward and difficult to decorate but you shouldn’t let this bring you down because there are actually lots of cool and interesting ways in which you can make your living room corner areas look amazing.

57. Position Your Sofa Against Your Windows

While you should choose your home’s color palette based on your own personal preferences, you might also want to take into account what color psychology experts say about some of the nuances.

58. Quirky Living Room Decor

59. Stick to a Few Simple Colors

60. A Classic Scandinavian Living Room

Also, think about the visual effect the plant will have on the space around it. A tall plant draws the eye upwards while a trailing plant sitting on a shelf directs the eye to the floor. Small plants look great when arranged in groups on shelves and mantels and large plants make great statement pieces.

61. Plank Walls for Your Living Room

While some might say a white sofa is a bad idea, it’s certainly the perfect background for any pillows you want. So grab that opportunity by both horns and collect all the spring patterns for your living room.

62. A Comfortable Living Room for Hosting Parties

Believe it or not, black is a great color for a living room. It’s not one of the most popular choices but that’s partially what makes it great in the first place. Being one of the more underused colors, black adds a surprise factor to the décor and makes it almost dramatic in a way.

63. A Pink Sofa in a Traditional Living Room

Black is so edgy and dangerous in the decorating world. But when you choose it for materials like fur and velvet, like in this beautiful living room by Ryan Korban, it becomes a little less dangerous and a little more luxurious.
Starting with a beautiful living room as you decorate your home, it’s important to take into account what each room will provide for you and your family.

64. Gallery Walls

This style puts a lot of emphasis on simplicity, eco-friendly materials and finishes, natural light, and nature-inspired details. A few more specific things you can include in a Scandinavian living room design could be a small corner fireplace, white wood floors, a few potted plants, and burlap window treatments.

65. Add Spaces for Your Cats to Explore

66. Use Black Fur and Velvet

The color palette of a room influences the way the room looks and feels. Each color or nuance has a unique effect on the space around it and there’s a lot of aspects to take into consideration when choosing the color scheme of a space like the living room.

67. Splash Out on Fancy Chairs

Flowers and plants are soothing thanks to their scent and their visual appearance. Even just a vase of flowers on a living room table can really transform a space. Especially during the winter months where we can’t spend as much time outdoors, bringing a little bit of nature indoors will add a relaxing touch to your home.

68. Stained Glass Windows

Rather than covering up the ceiling and beams, Maison Hand makes them the centerpiece by painting the walls black. Somehow, against the dramatic backdrop, the imperfectness of the original structure becomes more interesting.
A good place to start when coming up with a color palette for your beautiful living room is to have a look at what the popular choices are in this sense.

69. Paint the Walls Black

Electric Bowery did fantastic work infusing this modern space with Scandinavian comfort. Warm wood tones and a plush rug will do so much for space that would be rather colorless and cold without them.
It’s ever so easy to make your living room feel like an art gallery. Like Nest Architects displays, keep your space neutral and let your artwork do the talking.

70. Add Fur to Your Space

High ceilings and large windows are prime real estate for potted plants. Having a tree in your living room will make the whole space seem a little more like a greenhouse.
How do you create a modern living room that’s cozy at the same time. You’ll find the answer in the books. Bookshelves lend that feeling of home and comfort to a space, even if the rest of your living room is straight edges and black accents.

71. Embrace Imperfection in Your Living Room

72. Soft and Warm Gray Walls

Nathalie Deboel knew that the key to bringing modern style to this cottage living room was a blank slate to begin with. Painting the walls and ceiling in the same shade really makes them blend into the background while the modern styling stands out.
Such a bright couch really takes up so much visual space, it’s almost essential to use see through accents for the rest of the room. Itta Estudio adds those bamboo accent chairs for the perfect supplement seating.

73. Focus on Secondary Lighting

Have you ever thought about putting curtains other places than windows? Let the line shine in and hang your curtains across a doorway instead. Or maybe create a curtain wall that hides your TV. So many possibilities.

74. Shop for Souvenirs on Your Travels

Robert McKinley certainly had his work cut out for him with that asymmetrical fireplace hearth. But by installing shelves on the wall, it fills the space and makes it look intentional instead of wonky.
living room feel so modern, even though all the textures are comfortably woven.

75. A Giant Coffee Table for Hosting Friends and Family Members

It’s easy to find all the things you dislike about a rental living room. Workroom used large statement art pieces to cover up a brick wall and make this living room feel decidedly industrial, teaching us that it’s all about creativity.

76. Design Your Living Room Around a Neutral Color Pallet

When you’re working with neutral colors, it’s essential that you think about your textures to give your living room a rounded look. Lisa Sherry Interiors added fur, jute, and weaves to their accents and the space definitely feels finished.
This method is nice because it’s based on experience and personal taste and it allows you to come up with a custom palette. Let’s say there’s a shirt that you really like or a pillow or a painting and so on. Pick three colors from its design and go to the paint store.

77. A Fun Conversation Piece

The industrial style is unlike anything else. Most other styles seek to conceal the structural elements and basic building materials that go into a home’s design but not this one. Here the raw materials are put front and center.
Beige is one of the most popular colors for living rooms and social areas in general. It’s neutral and it’s a great main color because it creates a nice and simple canvas for the rest of the furniture and decorations to stand out against. Beige and other neutrals like taupe or ivory are perfect for minimalist living rooms.

78. Create a Unique Chandelier

Natalie Haegeman Interiors had an interesting living room layout to work with here but they made it work for them instead of fighting it. Using a deep windowsill as a side table and a beam as a focal point, it makes everyone’s job easier.

79. A Large White Sofa

When your living room doesn’t have a good focal point, you obviously have to make one. TomMarkHenry filled a wall with this statement print and it’s definitely an attention grabber.

80. Black and White Patterns

When you are the hosting guru among your friends, seating is one of the primary elements in your living room. Caroline Legrand Design uses a circle rug and sectional to bring everyone together, whether it’s your book club or your cocktail buddies.
Brown Design Group really did this living room a favor when they kept the Spanish Revival accents. It’s a great example for how you don’t have to completely start over in an old home, even with your modern style.

81. Make Your Living Room Feel Like an Art Gallery

Every living room needs a pouf. Amanda Webster Design used an coffee table with space underneath to stash them when not in use. They make wonderful extra seating!

82. Find A Small Corner for a Bookshelf

Life gets busy and when your living room acts as several rooms put together, it can be tough to keep the tasks separated. Monique Gibson put a desk behind the sofa to give some separation between work and play in the same room.

83. Mix and Match Pastel Shades

These days, who doesn’t love a good wallpaper? Gregory Shano covered this living room in a textured wallpaper that really brought this space to the next level. Can you imagine it in flat paint? It just wouldn’t be the same.
Marie Flanigan might have been questioned when she covered the living room in shiplap, but in the end it all worked out. The simple white pattern gives a good canvas for all the texture going on in this space.

84. Add a Large Mirror to Brighten Up Your Space

We spy a duck in the corner of this living room. While we’re not sure why Shoot Factory would include one, it’s certainly a conversation piece and makes us wonder what other things could serve the same purpose in a living room.

85. A Simple Daybed Covered with Cushions

86. Turn Your Books Around

87. A Minimalist Living Room

Thank you Anders Bergstedt for this classic Scandinavian living room. Simple furniture allows for you to focus on the knits, furs and weaves of the room’s accent pillows and blankets. Just goes to show that you don’t need color to be perfectly cozy.

88. A Patterned Pink Rug

Starting to feel like your furniture is blah? Rather than buying a whole new living room set, switch out your lighting for something more fun. Corrine Bensimon Maison uses bright basket shades to liven up an otherwise neutral living room.

89. A Patterned Couch

Salt + Bones really outdid themselves in this beautiful living room. The black and gray tones against white walls are completely modern in concept but lay it all on top of a plush rug and it really feels like home.

90. Combine Modern and Farmhouse Living Room Decor

This is the color of nature, a color that evokes freshness and harmony. It fills the living room with energy and it gives it a fresh and vibrant look without being too bright or becoming overpowering. It’s a wonderful living room color choice if you want the space to look inviting and homely but you’re not a fan of neutrals.
In a shabby chic living room, you can include old furniture pieces with distressed finishes and you can mix and match different pieces. Also, include a few vintage details, maybe some family heirlooms, and stick with colors that look dusty and faded like some greens, rusty tones, off whites and so on.

91. A Masculine Leather Chair

The color you choose to decorate your living room with can completely adjust the mood of the space. As you’ll see below, many of these beautiful living rooms use neutral colors such as white and beige on their walls. Alternatively, other relaxing colors for your living room décor include blue, green, and gray. Avoid very bright colors or wild patterns, as they can add too much energy to a room.
Is your most relaxing space void of color? If that’s what really lets you relax, embrace it in your living room. Use black, white, and brown in your color scheme and focus more on texture to make things interesting.

92. Show Off Your Collections

At first glance, this beautiful living room seems modern. But then you realize that Standard designers have added a Persian rug and rustic coffee table. Together they make the perfect balance that would fit in any home.

93. A Statement Print for Your Wall

94. Add a Tribal Rug

95. Let The Architecture Speak For Itself

Hello, beautiful living room we all envy. When you have elements like a brick wall or a gorgeous ceiling, you really want to make those work for you. Because the more original character you can display, the less decorating you will have to do yourself.
Looking to create the perfect bachelorette pad to come home to? Take a tip from Géraldine Prieur and don’t shy away from pink. From the walls to the furniture, infuse your space with a good dose of blush and you’re living room will feel fit for a princess.

96. Add Curtains to Your Doorway

97. Push Furniture Against Your Walls to Make the Room Look Bigger

Don’t rely only on your wall art to give your living room the color you need. POCO Designs took their pink scheme and went wild with it, all the way to the floor. It certainly gets the imagination going.
As a general rule, you should always be considerate of the requirements each plant has when choosing its location. Some plants enjoy direct exposure to the sun, some prefer shade, some like higher humidity levels, and so on.

98. A Mustard Yellow Sofa

For example, colors like blue and green have a calming effect on most people because we associate them with nature and the clear blue sky. Yellow is a sunny and cheerful color which makes room feel inviting and orange is warm and welcoming.
Nikki Tibbles home is a beautiful mash of all the pastel shades you can think of. With black accents thrown in to make it feel more grown up, it really achieves a beautiful living room.

99. Bright Red Bookshelves

Ahh pink. We just can’t seem to get over it, probably because it’s such a happy color. The pattern of the pink rug helps all the shades to really blend in the same space.

100. A Plush Rug for a Cozy Living Room

If you find most other styles to be too formal and too focused on everything looking super clean and perfect, perhaps a shabby chic décor would suit you better. This is a style that’s meant to give a lived-in look and to feel comfortable and breezy.
Bright colors are also a trademark of a kid friendly home. George Penniman Architects really embraced turquoise in this beautiful living room and you know that it is inspiring to kid play.

FAQ

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Living rooms are the spaces in our homes where we relax and have fun. Whether it’s just with your family or the friends you host, your living room becomes the space to watch a movie, play a game or even just talk about the last book you read.

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Black isn’t the only eye grabbing color. These red bookshelves by Desjeux Delaye beckon you to host cocktail parties and late night soirees galore.

How to decorate a corner in the living room?

How to place recessed lighting in the living room?

Calculate the spacing between the lights based on the heights of the ceiling. Divide the ceiling height in half and this is how much space you should leave between the lights. Also, decide whether you want the recessed lights to add ambiance to the room or to be used for task lighting. This helps you calculate the numbers of lights you’ll need as well as their intensity.
When your living room is rather lacking in light, it can be difficult to get a good vision for it. But Tiffany Duggan solved the problem by giving this space a serious library feel with blum bookshelves and plaid chairs. It ends up feeling cozy instead of cavelike which is the goal for every living room.

What can I put in the corner of the living room?

Tiffany Duggan does it again with this gorgeous traditional living room. And a pink sofa OF course because it balances out the other pink elements in the room.

Beautiful Living Room: Bottom Line

Most sofas require you to add your own cushions, but a sofa like this one comes with everything you need. Plus all those pillows are going to be the same color, making it a calming scene in your living room.