If you’re spending more time at home lately, you may be taking a fresh look at spaces where you relax and unwind, especially your living room. To inspire a remodeling or decorating project in your living room, consider these standout ideas from the most popular living room photos uploaded to Houzz in spring 2020.
1. Calming Color Palette
In this living room in Scottsdale, Arizona, designer Lissa Lee Hickman marries patterns and neutrals to create a mood of energized calm. Varied textures — on the rug, fireplace brick, hutch, ceiling beams and the basket beneath the console table — add visual interest to the room’s palette of cream, beige and blue.
In this living room in Scottsdale, Arizona, designer Lissa Lee Hickman marries patterns and neutrals to create a mood of energized calm. Varied textures — on the rug, fireplace brick, hutch, ceiling beams and the basket beneath the console table — add visual interest to the room’s palette of cream, beige and blue.
2. Built-In Firewood Storage
This room from BearRidge Homes in Nashville, Tennessee, features built-in open storage that hold stacks of split wood near the fireplace.
The exposed wood also provides an opportunity for coordinating decor choices. Numerous plants and a tree stump side table near the Eames lounge chair work nicely with the fireplace wood. And the warm tones of the brass coffee table complement the warmth of the wood.
This room from BearRidge Homes in Nashville, Tennessee, features built-in open storage that hold stacks of split wood near the fireplace.
The exposed wood also provides an opportunity for coordinating decor choices. Numerous plants and a tree stump side table near the Eames lounge chair work nicely with the fireplace wood. And the warm tones of the brass coffee table complement the warmth of the wood.
3. Gallery Wall
Creating a gallery wall is a wonderful way to personalize a living room and pull together a color scheme. The cream-and-black palette of this living room by Allison Pidgeon Interiors in London gets punched up by a bright orange pillow on the sofa. The art — featuring hits of orange and black — reinforces the palette. Notice the variety of frame finishes, which add visual interest to the arrangement and prevent an overly formal look.
Creating a gallery wall is a wonderful way to personalize a living room and pull together a color scheme. The cream-and-black palette of this living room by Allison Pidgeon Interiors in London gets punched up by a bright orange pillow on the sofa. The art — featuring hits of orange and black — reinforces the palette. Notice the variety of frame finishes, which add visual interest to the arrangement and prevent an overly formal look.
4. Vaulted Ceiling
You can add a lot of character to a living room if you have the ability to expose or add a vaulted ceiling during a renovation. Several of the most popular living room photos uploaded to Houzz in spring 2020 feature a vaulted ceiling.
This living room by Coddington Design in Oakland, California, showcases wood beams against white wood shiplap. The high ceiling, combined with the sliding door and tall window, brings an airy feel to the room.
You can add a lot of character to a living room if you have the ability to expose or add a vaulted ceiling during a renovation. Several of the most popular living room photos uploaded to Houzz in spring 2020 feature a vaulted ceiling.
This living room by Coddington Design in Oakland, California, showcases wood beams against white wood shiplap. The high ceiling, combined with the sliding door and tall window, brings an airy feel to the room.
The vaulted ceiling in this living room from Cabana Rehab Interiors in San Jose, California, features white-painted beams against white-painted wood boards. The all-white ceiling offers a visually pleasing contrast to the black window frames and mullions.
This popular room from a la Maison in Syracuse, New York, has a vaulted ceiling with weathered gray beams that complement the room’s neutral palette.
5. Accent Wall
Lace and Grace Interiors in Arizona added drama to this space with a deep blue paint (Dark Night by Sherwin-Williams) on a single wall. The light wood shelving and cabinet offer contrast to the rich wall color. Over the leather sofa you can just glimpse blue pillows that coordinate with the wall color.
Lace and Grace Interiors in Arizona added drama to this space with a deep blue paint (Dark Night by Sherwin-Williams) on a single wall. The light wood shelving and cabinet offer contrast to the rich wall color. Over the leather sofa you can just glimpse blue pillows that coordinate with the wall color.
This living room from Mélanie Montagne in Lyon, France, features sage paint on a bumped-out wall, bringing in a color from nature that adds to the organic feel of the space. The pillows in the hanging macrame chair and the cactus echo the wall color.
6. Warm Neutrals
Warmer neutrals seem poised to overtake popular cooler grays and whites. This living room by Lissa Lee Hickman in Scottsdale, Arizona, features a palette of creams, beiges, greiges and browns that exemplifies how fresh and restful warm neutrals can be.
Warmer neutrals seem poised to overtake popular cooler grays and whites. This living room by Lissa Lee Hickman in Scottsdale, Arizona, features a palette of creams, beiges, greiges and browns that exemplifies how fresh and restful warm neutrals can be.
7. Relaxed Furnishings
This living room by a designer in St. Petersburg, Russia, practically beckons you to curl up on the sofa beneath the cozy throw. Both the chunky sofa and the broad armchair feature fabrics that look inviting, and the unfussy way the toss pillows are scattered across the back of the sofa gives the impression that this room is meant to be experienced, not just admired from a distance.
This living room by a designer in St. Petersburg, Russia, practically beckons you to curl up on the sofa beneath the cozy throw. Both the chunky sofa and the broad armchair feature fabrics that look inviting, and the unfussy way the toss pillows are scattered across the back of the sofa gives the impression that this room is meant to be experienced, not just admired from a distance.
8. Graphic Pattern
To make a room feel cohesive, try repeating a color or pattern. In this room in Woodland Hills, California, the motif of angled shapes repeats on the rug and in the black-and-white artwork. Throw pillows pull from the rug colors and add a lively note to the neutral seating.
To make a room feel cohesive, try repeating a color or pattern. In this room in Woodland Hills, California, the motif of angled shapes repeats on the rug and in the black-and-white artwork. Throw pillows pull from the rug colors and add a lively note to the neutral seating.
9. High Contrast
Contrasting light and dark tones delivers a dramatic, timeless style. This appealing Los Angeles space from Bella Casa Luxury Home Staging pairs a dark built-in bookcase with a dramatic piece of art in white, black and gold. Cream-colored chairs and a gray sofa keep the contrast going.
Contrasting light and dark tones delivers a dramatic, timeless style. This appealing Los Angeles space from Bella Casa Luxury Home Staging pairs a dark built-in bookcase with a dramatic piece of art in white, black and gold. Cream-colored chairs and a gray sofa keep the contrast going.
This space from The Design Chaperone in Queensland, Australia, features a high-contrast theme comprising black, white and cool grays. Touches of brown — in the stools in front of the fireplace, the pillow on the gray sofa and the edging and legs of the club chairs — add warmth.
Content provided by Erin Carlyle at Houzz.com
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