Love country style? Browse our pick of the best country living room schemes and find out how to put your favourite country look together to create a welcoming and relaxing space to enjoy. If a country living room isn’t your thing, don’t miss our modern living rooms ideas and traditional living room ideas. Haven’t chosen a style? We have 100s of living room pictures to help you out.
Warm up your scheme with colour. Dark sky blues, fading reds and rustic neutrals add character and depth to a living room. Choose embroidered cushions and throws in updated country weaves or chunky knits for the ultimate in relaxed style.
Sofa
Parker Knoll
Curtain fabric
Sanderson
Inject some colour into a neutral country living room with a large red patterned rug – it’s a classic look for a room of this style. The last thing you want to be concerned about in a country home is footprints on a cream carpet so a rug like this makes a practical choice, too.
Similar rug
My Rug Store
Woodburner
Clearview at The Sack Store
Paint country living room walls in an off-white yellow shade to create a neutral scheme that suits the style and period of your home. This tone is warmer than white, but still versatile enough for all manner of colours to be included in the scheme. Here, interest has been added with the purple velvet armchair, patterned ottoman and plush mixture of cushions.
Similar paint
Farrow & Ball
Similar sofa
Sofa.com
Create a focal point with a wood-burning stove – after all, there’s something about the gently dancing flames of a real fire that makes people feel instantly at home. Fairy lights hung on a beam above the inglenook fireplace and on the main supporting beam also send a warming glow around the room.
Woodburner
Jøtul at Falcon Fires
Chair
George Smith
Put your favourite photographs on display by grouping them together on top of a table. It’s much simpler than committing to hanging them on a wall, and you can move them around very easily when you want others to come to the forefront. Keep the bigger frames towards the back, though, so that the smaller ones can be seen.
Similar frames
John Lewis
Similar flooring
Wickes
Add plenty of textured fabrics to a country scheme to create a welcoming feel. The dog-patterned cushion is super cute and goes perfectly with the green wall paint. A wood-burning stove or open fire is almost essential to achieving a country look. Ideal for keeping chilly nights at bay, stoves create a focal point in a room and achieve the hygge look we all aspire to.
Throw
John Lewis
Stove
Clearview at Robeys
Make the most of the natural structure of an old house by highlighting wooden beams and turning them into a real feature. This double-length living room benefits from a large open-plan feel, while providing two separate living spaces marked out by the supporting wooden structure. You can easily sneak between both, but it’s easy to get space, too.
Sofa
Whartons
Rug
Lee Longlands
Enhance a neutral country living room with traditional furniture in a beautiful wood that has plenty of character. The antique cabinet here has gorgeous markings on it and its depth of colour warms up the scheme. In this space, the walls are low-key and pared back, though the overall look quite ornate, with its gilt-framed pictures, wall-mounted candle holders and lavish log burner.
Similar paint
Annie Sloan
Similar table
La Maison Chic
Think outside the box – rustic often means going back to the bare walls and stripped timbers, but don’t be afraid to add a touch of comfort too. Choosing a wallpaper with an endearing linocut motif, such as the wheatsheaf print shown here, instantly evokes the sense of a country cottage. Brass accents and woven wool fabrics enhance the cosseting effect.
Bespoke armchair
I Gigi
Wallpaper
Blithfield
Choose tailored pieces, such as a neatly upholstered sofa and elegant table lamp, to create a pleasing juxtaposition with the rustic look of bare brick and roughly hewn wood. The lesson to learn here is simple: don’t be afraid to mix and match smarter, clean-lined pieces with the more pared-back elements typically found in country rooms.
Bespoke sofa
No.1 Lewes
Log basket
Neptune
Rustic often means stripped back walls and bare floors, but don’t be afraid to add colour and wallpaper to soften the look. Choosing a wallpaper with an endearing lino cut motif, such as the wheatsheaves seen here, instantly evokes the sense of a country cottage. Brass accents and woven wool fabrics enhance the cosseting effect.
Bespoke armchair
I Gigi
Wallpaper
Blithfield
A smart sofa, plus simple flooring and lots of rustic wood, is the perfect base for a country living room scheme. For a more refined look, swap traditional neutrals for a silver-grey palette throughout the space. Here, the wallpaper pattern features a subtle shimmer, while accessories with gleaming finishes – from cushions to glassware – bring a chic touch.
Wallpaper
Romo
Sofa
Sofa Workshop
Similar glassware
Cox & Cox
Filling the bottom of a wide staircase with gifts, present sacks and other Christmas decorations is a great way to build up the excitement ahead of the big day, as the family will pass them regularly ahead of the holiday. Cover the banister with greenery and garlands and fill individually named Santa sacks with beautifully wrapped and beribboned presents.
Garland
The White Company
Reindeer sack
Modo Creative at notonthehighstreet.com
Lighting is essential to the Christmas mood – really brightening festive spirits. Lights, glitter, pine cones and sparkling baubles all come together to create a pretty decoration idea here for your living room doorway. Pop battery-operated copper wire lights inside brass lanterns and then layer these up with pine cones and baubles to create the right effect. Then place them in the doorway of your room and watch them twinkle.
Brass lanterns
MiaFleur
LED fairy lights
Lights4Fun
Warm up neutral spaces with thick rugs, in easy-to match primary colours. This white rug is perfect, with a geometric print in blue and red. The red velvet chairs are perfect for this time of year, and the whole space only needs a few Christmas baubles to celebrate the season. And a mince pie or two, of course.
Red paper baubles
Daylesford
Party Porcelain Silver Saucer crackers
Talking Tables
Create a cosy corner in a shabby chic home, or a living room with a rustic vintage style, using carefully selected rough-luxe furniture and tactile accessories. Warm up a cool-coloured room with a large floor rug, re-upholster a French regency-style armchair in a simple blue linen and layer with cosy accessories such as a faux-fur throw and plump cushion. A handy side table and an old steamer-trunk-cum-coffee-table, both with distressed paint finishes, provide plenty of useful surfaces for personal displays (and cups of tea). Floor-length curtains in a light-coloured cotton complete the vintage-meets-rough-hewn country cabin feel.
Similar armchair
French Bedroom Company
Similar throw
House of Fraser
Use bright furniture to bring your living room to life. Here the moody blues and pale greys highlight the graceful outlines of these mid-century armchairs. The furniture the owners originally brought with them from their more ‘normal’ house didn’t work, so they had to look at replacing everything. If you’re lucky enough to have space, pieces need to have more stature and depth to avoid if feeling cavernous.
The eye-catching green sofas here are a real vocal point of the room, designed by Stephen Ryan. They add a contemporary twist to the traditional country-house look. And the panel-effect wallpaper adds to the period feel. The finishing touch for Christmas is this huge artificial Norwegian Grand Fir Christmas tree, with decorations in traditional colours.
Christmas tree
Balsam Hill
Sofas
Stephen Ryan Design
A grey and white palette, reindeer skins and sheepskin throws make this living room the height of cosy Nordic style. Crisp, white walls, wooden floors and neutral accessories create a light and bright room – a great setting for a brightly decorated Christmas tree. The log-filled alcove is not only useful, but is a feature in itself.
Sheepskins
Barnscroft of Devon
Reindeer hide
Toast
Wooden stool
Louisa Grace Interiors
Gather by the fire this holiday season. Pile seating with cushions and throws in warm wood and snug sheepskin. Warm your toes in front of the fire on a beautifully upholstered footstool and soft rug underfoot.
Sofa and throw
Neptune
Rocking chair
John Lewis
Sheepskin
Ikea
