Rooms with sleek lines can feel chillingly austere, but you can create instant visual and tactile warmth through throws or scatter cushions on the sofa, or an artistic arrangement of lamps, books, vases or photographs on a coffee table.
Large rugs allow the space between seating to become continuities, and help space-manage smaller rooms such as this blue and white space whose blue furniture and green fabrics are held together by a palm tree triptych and a mulberry cloth.
Black and White
Monochromatic living rooms in black and white are a great way to provide visual interest in any home, providing the perfect place for an art piece or furnishing to stand out – or to use in dark or dramatic schemes.
If you’re not keen on making a pattern commitment, then paint one of your walls a colour of your choice as an accent wall for visual depth. Ensure that it goes with the rest of your living room scheme, as in this Decorilla client’s opulent scheme that harmonises beautifully through grey and beige tones.
The metal accents, like the iron coffee table by Amanda Carol Interiors in this refined living room, can be a perfect way to bring in a little colour without making a larger design feel too busy – especially if that requisite shade is already a part of the space – or breaking up a monochrome palette. A gallery wall or other artwork can become a room’s focal point thanks to the coordination of metal hues.
Blue and White
Blue and white decor simply has a calming aesthetic to it. Pale blue is the quintessential colour for elegant living rooms, but this sophisticated colour scheme has other avatars, and both home and wardrobe can be dressed from ocean hues to midnight tones. Blue-and-white decorating makes a real style statement, but one that appeals to a wide range of aesthetics, from grand chinoiserie to pretty country and clean-lined geometrics.
You can get carried away and apply wall paint to the ceiling for an immersive, dramatic look. Or you can play it safe and create an accent wall. Either works just great. The living room of this high rise apartment, designed by the cool aesthetic of Erin Williamson Creative, uses bright shades of blue on the ceiling – a great colour that complements the tufted sofa perfectly.
Add pops of blue to the pretty decor of your living room by layering pillows of solid and patterned colours to enhance the perspective. Covers in solid and pattern create maximum visual interest.
Elk Antler
Add a touch of rustic woodland touches to your home. You can give your home a cabin feel with our collection of rustic cabin furniture and chandelier, sconces and unique antler touches from Woodland Creek. We have a selection of real moose and deer antler table designs that can be the perfect finishing touch to your log home, rustic lodge or cottage.
Whether large and displayed in the more traditional wall-mount fashion or amorphous and left as a sculptural base, natural antlers incorporate the 2024 trend for layered finishes, warm tones and artisanal details. They also play to the recent trend for mixing the rustic and the urban in an individualistic way.
Antlers make lovely frames for a mirror over a cabin bath (or even a washbasin), table legs for a console table, or base for a rustic candleholder. You can also use antlers for a window frame, entryway for a rack or part of a centrepiece with flowers, pumpkins, or moss balls.
Rainbow of Colors
No more all-white reticence, these stylish living rooms have embraced colour! Bold splashes of orange and blue are winkingly used to pep up and pop out of interiors without being garish. At the same time, textures from stormy grey walls to wooden coffee tables, work to ground the rooms.
This bright room has splashes of colour through its vases, throw pillows and books as decoration on the walls; the palette however, comes from the neutral carpet and sofa.
A scattering of pictures on a gallery wall is a good way to add interest, drama and style to a grown-up living room, especially if it is not a perfect match of prints or paintings and the arrangement is random. This picture is typical – an assortment of older and newer oil paintings in mismatched frames, making for an eclectic look which is exceedingly elegant.
Salvaged Materials
Should you double-glaze? Or perhaps wrap the house in a hopscotching insulation zig-zag? No expense is too great. As far as style goes, you are completely free to follow your preference. It is a language that can take any form. you could save money by using recycled materials to fashion a distinct, one-of-a-kind look to your house Recycled materials can be scavenged from thrift shops, antique curio stores and bulldozed construction yards. Look for materials whose surfaces have been weathered or otherwise pockmarked; they might be more visually interesting than pristine new models.
A classic sense of style might incorporate extra flourishes, such as ruffled curtains and fringed lampshades, thus bringing depth and personality to a room.
Often with clean patterns and a formal, orderly elegance, surprisingly cosy living rooms can be achieved by properly using fabrics and colours. For creating a cosy home environment via interior design, think woolly rugs, soothing colour palette and plush piles – soft carpeting included – and a wood palette paired delicately with velvet cushions adds a little bit of dimension!
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