I am thinking of grooming myself living room for the new Year? Here are 10 living room design ideas taken from Dezeen’s collection look BookWhich includes suggestions for color, furniture, and lighting.
Since 2020, Dezeen has published over 350 lookbooks that provide visual inspiration for all types of interiors, based on the stories we publish.
Below, we’ve collected 10 lookbooks into one handy guide that reflects the key trends for designing and updating a living room.
This is the latest in our lookbook series, providing visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archives. For more inspiration, check out previous lookbooks bedrooms with creative lighting solutions, Interior design with gold and silver accents And all white interior,
An increasingly popular interior design trend is the combination of Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics, known as Japanese,
Defined by minimalist design and natural materials, Japanese style creates a serene living room setting, as in the example Our lookbook of 10 beautiful living rooms that embrace the style,
The picture above is of a house in Tokyo Norm Architects And Keiji Ashizawa DesignFeaturing wooden surfaces and neutral-toned furnishings.
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Adequate storage is key to creating functional, clutter-free interiors Our Lookbook of Living Rooms with Statement Shelving Provides examples of how to incorporate beautiful storage into the design of a space.
A selection of interiors include custom shelving designed to showcase the owners’ book collection and units that double as room dividers.
The image above shows a renovated factory new yorkWhere architects Ravi Raj and Evan Watts added built-in storage in a striking pale yellow.
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If you want to make a bold statement in your living room, add a spacious sofa.
Our lookbook of living rooms with huge sofas Shows spaces that prioritize ample seating space, making the sofa the focal point of the interior.
For his overhaul of the classic Haussmann-era parisian apartmentShown above, interior designer Rodolphe Parente aimed to combine the building’s original features with contemporary pieces, including a sculptural sofa that dominates the space.
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Make a sculptural coffee table the centerpiece
You can also make a sculptural coffee table the focal point of your living room, using it as a focal point to arrange seating around it.
Our lookbook included tables ranging from geometric stone slabs to curved and wavy shapes Eight contemporary living room with sculptural coffee tables,
In the image above, the interior is solid DAB Studio Opted for a glass tabletop mounted on cuboidal and cone-shaped blocks, which complements other angular furniture pieces dutch house,
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Paper lamps provide a versatile lighting option for the living room, creating a warm, cozy glow and adding organic textured surfaces.
Illustration on traditional Japanese rice paper lantern, our lookbook living room lit with paper lamps They display a variety of shapes and sizes.
Shown above is a beach house hamptonWhere a large circular paper lamp was hung in a double-height living room to shed its glow on the wooden structure of the house.
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Adding a rug is one of the easiest ways to transform your living room, whether it’s to inject some color or help separate different areas.
our lookbook Living Rooms with Statement Rugs Provides inspiration for how to use rugs to tie the furniture together in a space.
New York firm No Architecture used a warm-colored rug in the living room pictured above, which complements a wooden coffee table and contrasts a navy sofa.
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To increase the feeling of comfort in your living room, add a suspended chimneys,
like us Lookbook of lounge areas with suspended fireplaces showThe rooftop stove and log burner create an interesting focal point that hovers above the ground.
An example of this is the fireplace in the Marramarra Shake. AustraliaPictured above, that’s surrounded by tiered seating on one side and a large window overlooking a bay on the other.
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Although autumn only comes once a year, the red and orange colors associated with the season make for a cozy living room color palette all year long.
Dezeen’s Lookbook The living room is decorated in autumn colors The deep red color highlights the living room with furniture and surfaces in rusted terracotta and burnt orange.
The image above shows an apartment new yorkof the West Village, where interior designer Olivier Garcé added a terracotta-toned upholstered chair, a coffee table with a pink-glazed lava stone tabletop, and a floor lamp with a fire-engine red shade.
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For a cozy and informal feel, furnish your living room with low-slung furniture.
Sofas, tables and storage units that sit low to the ground are featured in our lookbook Eight living rooms where low-slung furniture creates a cozy lounge atmosphere,
Pictured above is the one converted Factory apartment in Barcelona, ​​where low-lying shelves, tables and sofas with deep seats add height vaulted ceiling,
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If you want to go even lower than low-slung furniture, you can build retro-An inspired conversation pit for an intimate gathering space, as shown in our lookbook Residential interiors with cozy conversation nooks,
Popular in the mid-twentieth century, conversation pits have made a comeback in recent years as architects have re-imagined the sunken sofa.
Purple cushions line a 13-square-metre sunken alcove in the living room of the Pam and Paul House. Californiashown above.
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This is the latest in our lookbook series, providing visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archives. For more inspiration, check out previous lookbooks bedrooms with creative lighting solutions, Interior design with gold and silver accents And all white interior,
