Lucy Collins
Generally, a living room will feature comfortable couches, seating, coffee tables, entertainment center and possibly a fireplace. Dark brown furniture surrounds the over-sized ottoman and gives this area a feeling of masculine security while also offering calm and comfort. Higher ceiling heights allow more headroom for larger center accent lighting such as chandeliers and exposed downlights. French doors or large windows – Being the center of the home, the living room needs to be a space of warmth and lightness. Large windows or French doors leading out into a garden or verandah are amazing features any luxury living room will have. The plate rail above done in Neo Classical detail for its cornice and mouldings provides a space to display exotic trinkets and accessories.
Luxury living room furniture comes in different textiles meant to match the style and era the house wants to imbibe. There is a great variety of leathers and soft textiles that can be upholstered into different styles from Modern to Neo Classical to Italian Gothic. The large white, L-shaped sectional couch sits atop a dark black carpet offering a very clean contrast to the room. The impressive slate fireplace makes an excellent backdrop for the white mantel with its black marble insert. A baby grand piano graces the corner of the room where one can appreciate the large white framed windows and beautiful view outside. This opulent living space makes quite the impression with it’s massive fish aquarium housed in its large wood enclosure.
The wide brick fireplace and light colored hard wood flooring provides a feeling of charm. Recessed lighting and a white round shade pendant over the dining table gives illumination and ambiance to the room. The stone fireplace in this home is inviting and makes a great complement to the grand piano in the corner of the room.
Green and cream couches rest atop an American Indian style area rug of deep rust and yellow colors. An oak entertainment center back against the other side of the fireplace and offers storage and additional opportunities for related American Indian decor. Dark hardwood flooring and a chocolate brown sectional sofa give this room a soothing and calming appeal.
The stone fireplace makes a grand impression and serves as a focal point for watching television and hanging out. A stylish glass coffee table sits center in the room and is lit by hanging wrought iron chandelier. This semi formal traditional style combines textures, vibrant colors and patterns to create refinement and elegance. High key interiors like this white living room in a penthouse apartment help to visual extend the space. Tile flooring is covered by a white shag rug and mirrored glass table that adds personality. Enormous windows in this house make a great first impression and emphasize the high ceilings and decorative white chandelier.
Exposed brick walls, a large recessed alcove give this space an attractive element of design. A huge l-shaped couch is the perfect spot to kick up the feet and watch a game on the wide screen TV positioned in the oak entertainment center.
The tan sectional couches sit atop a light colored area rug and the room is brightened by a wall of windows and sliding door.
Decorative pieces like the leather ottoman, brown love seat, small end table and stylish hutch add bits of flair. Attractive vaulted ceilings like the one shown here can make a great architectural statement and give the appearance of increased square footage and floor space. This modernistic space contains a multi-toned reclaimed hardwood floor that goes well with the textured cream fireplace, leather sofas and ottoman.
An attractive tray ceiling offers a darker colored paint and is stepped up to become higher than the perimeter of the room. Touches like the black based glass table , and deep brown art pieces give a warm feel to the space.
Retro seating and modern furniture stand out in this beautiful high rise apartment living room.
A cream colored sectional sofa and chair make a great place for conversations around the decorative modern fireplace. To avoid making the room look to “heavy” with too much wood, the moldings are painted in white, while the walls are in a beautiful warm shade of beige. This is combined with a very fresh light yellow paint for the walls which helps making the room look bright and still keeping its homey feel.
This living room combines ultra-modern finishes, colors and architecture with more classical elements like furniture and patterns. The electric fireplace contrasts the rough-looking floors with its use of black graphicote glass and gray-laminated wall panels laid out horizontally.
These are all combined with classical furniture pieces and a Moroccan-inspired rug which makes an interesting focal point in the room.
A modern minimalist approach in design, this living room boasts of its abundance of natural light.
The smooth finishes include the use of laminates for the cabinets, the plain white semi-gloss paint, the satin-finish metals and the clear tempered glass of the windows and the coffee table. The steps for the stairs uses hardwood beech planks in a similar tone with the floors, while the rest of the walls and ceiling are kept simple with plain white paint with wenge cornice and baseboard.
The floors are hardwood golden walnut, while the accent wall in the living area uses stamped concrete panels. The ceiling and furniture pieces are mostly kept white, while the sofa uses a light gray upholstery in a cooler shade than the walls.
The floors are of engineered walnut, and the walls are a combination of plain white and a dark shade of warm gray. This living room design opts for a softer material for its floor – carpet tiles in a light beige colors. To balance the softness of the floors, the window and door frames, as well as the tables and chair legs uses stainless steel. It combines its modern cherry laminate floors with light cream wall paint and white ceiling and moldings.
The columns are finished with cream-colored marble, and the counter face uses white-painted wood planks with white balusters for support. The back of the TV has graphicote glass panel with stainless steel edging, while the doors and windows have dark brown powder-coated frames that matches well with the wood finish of the furniture pieces. It uses engineered oak floors for the dining and living room and plain white ceramic tiles for the kitchen. The walls, ceiling and all moldings are all in white, and the kitchen cabinets uses dark oak laminates and stainless steel counter top.
A very grand and elegant living room design, this space uses top-notch cream marble floor tiles. A large natural stone fireplace and area rug act as the centerpiece of this corner living room.
Gorgeous Elm wood laminated floors are combined with light beige walls white semi-gloss finish. A large sectional sofa and matching ottoman make this a relaxing space to catch a game or movie on the TV. A Scandinavian-inspired living room, this design uses beautiful contrasts of colors and textures, The floors are of laminated bleached oak, while both the walls and the ceiling are painted white in semi-gloss finish.
The kitchen cabinets are laminated in coffee brown, surrounded by very interesting vertical acoustic panels in light oak finish.
The soft furnishings are in light cream color, while the curtains and coffee table adapts the mocha tone of the floors. The TV wall uses graphicote glass panels with circular designs while the warm color of the zebrawood entertainment table helps make the mood warmer.
The doors and windows adapts a wood tone finish for its frames to help put together the look, while the furniture pieces like the laminated cabinet and the sofa set are in light cream color. The stairs and its landing is clad with salt and pepper stone and the accent wall is painted in a dark gray color.
This living room is reminiscent of old English interiors with its elegant drapes and heavily upholstered furniture pieces set in a more modern architecture.
The cabinets and other wood elements are of hardwood in a red-orange sandalwood tone, including the baseboards, while the walls are clad in cream-colored wallpaper with intricate patterns. Many luxury living room design ideas use light color wood flooring to help brighten up the space. This is combined with faux marble paint finish for the walls, with matching Teak wood frames for the doors and windows.
Cabinetry also uses solid Teak wood, and the kitchen counter top and walls are clad with black granite material. The furniture pieces are laminated with dark walnut, and to give a different texture to the walls, the shelves are in chrome finish with the back of the TV installed with an off-white graphicote glass panel. The electric fireplace is surrounded by natural stone tiles in a light beige color similar to the pain used for the rest of the walls.
