If you’re looking for living room inspiration, you’ve come to the right place. We have 100s of pictures for all styles of living rooms, so you’ll be sure to find your perfect look. If you’re a traditionalist, you’ll find everything you need from our traditional living room pictures. If you fancy something a little bit different, we also have ideas for modern living rooms and country living rooms. Happy browsing!
Paint up and over a picture rail to make a ceiling seem higher. Stop a room featuring one strong colour from looking flat by adding a variety of patterns and textures through plush cushions and a tufted rug. An understate Christmas tree, dressed in golden fairy lights and paper decorations is festive without dominating the room.
Jewel and spice tones glow deeply, bring a rich yet cosy look to this living room. The mantlepiece dressed with simple sprigs of foliage intertwined between coloured glass votives adds an ambient. The saturated blue wall colour adds an air of sophistication to the overall look, ensuring the space is stylish even when seasonal decorations come down.
Retaining the beauty of a barn structure this living room features beautifully high vaulted ceilings and exposed stone walls. While the architecture is traditional in style the eclectic furnishings are wonderfully modern in contrast. Brightly coloured mustard and teal velvet sofas add a contemporary edge the decor. A sleek glass coffee table offsets the traditional farmhouse-style dining stable and chairs.
An on-trend patterned rug paired with bold floral curtains and cushions help to make a style statement. The rug and sofa positions helps to cleverly define a living room zone, away from the open-plan kitchen.
A feature wall of family portraits is the perfect way to add personality to a living room. The frames hung precisely in one continuous line, as if on a picture ledge, creates a more striking finish.
Grey is the ideal accent colour to soften a smart monochrome decorating scheme. Here a blue-grey wall colour and a darker charcoal sofa lend two contrasting tones to the black and white cushions and frames.
Contemporary living rooms need modern storage solutions, that are as attractive as they are useful. A stack of floating shelves creates a wall of storage and display in a living space. Just add chairs for the perfect place to perch with a laptop and make the space work as a home office.
In a modern living you can afford to have fun with functional furniture pieces. Turn functional storage into a display opportunity for all the things you want to show off. Dress with propped artwork, decorative vessels, plants and a reading lamp. Add interest to the walls behind with a panel of painted colour and giant hooks for hanging planters and baskets.
A mustard yellow sofa paired with modern artwork helps to create a style statement in an otherwise neutral space. The are of wall above the sofa is often crying out for a mirror or picture to add interest. go for one big piece, whether picture or mirror, for a sense of simplicity and scale. If choosing a picture or piece artwork let the colours inspire and dictate the scheme for the entire room – as the ochre yellow does in this living room.
A statement armchair offers the ideal place to retreat with a good book. This cosy ready corner is made al the more inviting thanks to the wood burner. The walls are a cool light grey, painted in Farrow & Ball’s Manor House Gray.
A snug living space just off an dining area creates the ultimate place to retire after dinner with drinks. This delightful sunlight-filled space has been painted in Manor House Gray by Farrow & Ball to give it a cool and calm aesthetic.
Armchairs either side of the woodburning stove provide a welcoming place to rest after mealtimes, to let food go down.
Nothing says coastal quite like while-washed clapboard walls. This living room space teams the look with beautifully exposed wooden beams and a traditional open fireplace. Striped loose covered furniture and driftwood accessories help to stamp a further seaside vibe onto the decor.
Sage green walls provide the perfect backdrop for Millennial pink chairs with brass legs and co-ordinating brass table. A round coffee table is the right choice for a connecting living space – it encourages free circulation of traffic.
A rustic living room can be giving a glam edge thanks to smart furniture choices. While the bones of this living room are rustic and natural, it’s been given a contemporary and luxurious twist with plush velvet upholstery and touches of matt gold.
Make the best use of space with built-in seating that provide hidden storage. This smart seating solution sits in a family snug area, with a need for a streamlined use of space. Fitted open and closed storage keeps a heavily-used room free of clutter.
Simple finishing touches can add a stylish and practical addition to any room. This up-turned crate with castors makes for a perfect side table in this coastal living room. Dressed with beachcomber finds to add a decorative touch.
For a softer take on coastal styling, take inspiration from chalky cliffs and shingle beaches. The key to emulating this more off the beaten track coastal look is embracing imperfections. From hewn wood to jagged edges of broken seashells. The feel is textural and relaxed, with slubby linen upholstery and bleached wood tones.
This living room has all the characteristics of a traditional country interiors. From the wood grain visible in the real wood floor and exposed wooden beams, to the classic log burner. In contrast the modern sofa shapes add a contemporary edge. A wooden trunks creates the ideal pot to display flowers and coffee table books.
Store and order is the ethos of this busy family living space. To maintain a cool vibe, that we get from the furniture and accessory choices, this pace thinks outside the box when it comes to storage. A selection of willow baskets hang from decorative metal hooks to create a stylish storage solution. Ideal to quickly tidy away toys, books, magazines and odd bits and bobs that tend to lay around.
A grey sofa is brought to life with statement blue and burnt range accent cushions. The laid-back decor is further enhanced thanks to a mix of playful patterns. The Berber-style rug provides a diamond print pattern, the armchair adds an Ikat inspired print while the footstool adds a classic stripe.
The mix of patterns, elements of natural textures and houseplants creates a very on-trend aesthetic.
Create a cool laid-back living room vibe with contemporary furniture choices. An simple bench is the perfect moveable furniture choice to provide extra seating, it can be moved around to suit any room layout.
A wooden ladder, most associated with bathrooms to house towels, makes for an interesting choice in a living space. We’ve styled ours here to act as a quirky magazine rack and bag holder. Dressing it with a string of paper lantern lights adds a further decorative touch.
Pair back the coastal look by thinking outside the box. Opt for a mellow mix of blue tones, taupe and white blended beautifully with modern, warm-oak furniture. Add woven accessories and furniture pieces to give the scheme a natural element.
Adding accents of coral gives classic coastal blue a hit of summer heat.
