Living Room Decorating Ideas You’ll Love

These design ideas will help you transform your living room into a cozy retreat.

FEB 26, 2017

These design ideas will help you transform your living room into a cozy retreat.

Bright Florals

This Catskills home is bursting with color and beautiful florals from ceiling to floor. “You can sum up our aesthetic in three words,” said owner Jason Oliver Nixon. “No. Beige. Sofas.”

The living room in this Nashville treehouse channels both natural and retro vibes. In an appropriately outdoorsy shade of moss-green, the 1950s-era seating encourages visitors to linger well past curfew, while the bright blue trunk is home to a host of cleaning supplies.

Room With A View

In this living room, a piece of dead cedar, a massive 1920s corbel, and mismatched tile makes for a dramatic focal point. In addition to the fireplace, the coffee table is a bass drum topped with salvaged wood. "We love that you can take 'leftovers' from some old place and turn them into magic," says Amie Sikes of the "Junk Gypsies."

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Reclaimed Wood

In this living room, a piece of dead cedar, a massive 1920s corbel, and mismatched tile makes for a dramatic focal point. In addition to the fireplace, the coffee table is a bass drum topped with salvaged wood. “We love that you can take ‘leftovers’ from some old place and turn them into magic,” says Amie Sikes of the “Junk Gypsies.”

COURTESY OF TOUCHSTONE

Accent with Porcelain

Displayed together as a collection, blue and white ceramics add instant color and detail to your living room.

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Vintage Couch

Because of this ranch-style California home’s open floor plan, the owner had to get creative with carving out designated spaces for “rooms.” To help differentiate this living room from the adjacent kitchen and den, she placed the midcentury sofa (recovered with leather in the 1970s) on a vintage Moroccan rug she found on eBay. The floor-to-ceiling storage nook keeps books, blankets, and firewood at the ready.

VICTORIA PEARSON

Collected and Eclectic

The owners of this tiny Maine college wanted their living room to look like they could have inherited a lot of what’s there, even the newer things, for a collected but unique look.

Add a touch of black to balance out the textures and softness of fabrics in a room. Start small with matte lampshades or add a little more drama with a black coffee table or bold artwork, like the charcoal-print botanicals. We love how black immediately adds sophistication to this blue-and-white room.

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Punctuate a Room With Black

AMY NEUNSINGER

Barn-Style Living Room

Country superstar Ronnie Dunn’s living room features towering white wingbacks and an impressive antler chair which demonstrate the home’s cozy-and-inviting meets rough-and-tough aesthetic. The corner table (far right) was a wedding gift from June Carter and Johnny Cash.

A weathered clock face hung on Paris's Boulevard Saint-Germain in the late 1800s acts as a statement piece in the living room of singer-songwriter Holly Williams' 1908 Nashville cottage.

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Antique Decor

A weathered clock face hung on Paris’s Boulevard Saint-Germain in the late 1800s acts as a statement piece in the living room of singer-songwriter Holly Williams’ 1908 Nashville cottage.

PAUL COSTELLO

The owner of this 105-year-old Texas home paired the room's showstopping farmhouse icons—a buffalo check-covered sofa and wildflower chintz armchair—with a streamlined steel-framed coffee table and graphic longhorn watercolor painting (by Houston artist Mary H. Case) to keep the mix from going too traditional.

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Farmhouse Style

The owner of this 105-year-old Texas home paired the room’s showstopping farmhouse icons—a buffalo check-covered sofa and wildflower chintz armchair—with a streamlined steel-framed coffee table and graphic longhorn watercolor painting (by Houston artist Mary H. Case) to keep the mix from going too traditional.

ROGER DAVIES

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