Living Room Design Styles

English Style Living Room Interior

Living room design in this style suits large, spacious rooms with high ceilings.

A living room in the English style features natural wood paneling and stripes or small floral wallpapers on the walls, parquet flooring, cornices on the ceiling, large crystal chandeliers, a fireplace, heavy curtains, elaborate wooden furniture, subdued and muted tones, paintings, tapestries and more. The English style is distinguished by restrained luxury, abundance of natural textiles and wood.

Photo 1 — English Style Living Room Interior

Modern Minimalist Living Room Design

A minimalist living room design is simple and functional, characterized by precise lines, geometric shapes, minimal decor, contrast, and monochrome color schemes. Everything is kept clean and simple, including technology.

A minimalist living room can be described as "only what is essential".

Photo 2 — Minimalist Living Room

Provence Style Living Room Interior

The French country style is simple, natural, and comfortable.

A living room in the Provence style features lots of light, saturated pastel tones such as yellow, milk white, lavender, and ocean wave colors. Floral motifs in wall treatments, furniture upholstery, textiles, and curtains, natural finishing materials, blacksmithing, bright natural textiles with ruffles and trim on curtains, aged furniture, and antique accessories like small table lamps, porcelain, figurines, frames, and paintings.

Photo 3 — Living Room in Provence Style

Modern Living Room Design

A living room in the modern style is characterized by smooth lines and functionality.

Modern living room design features natural finishing materials, mobile and transformable furniture such as a sofa, armchairs, and a small side table. A must-have element is a wall unit with many diverse shelves.

Photo 4 — Modern Living Room Design

Japanese Style Living Room Interior

Japanese style is the same minimalism but ethnic. A Japanese-style living room features soft lighting, natural materials, minimal furniture, low tables, neutral muted tones for finishes, Japanese paper sliding doors, moveable partitions, paper lanterns, and some Japanese décor such as calligraphy, bonsai, etc.

Photo 5 — Japanese Style Living Room Interior

High-Tech Living Room Design

High-tech is minimalism with an emphasis on the latest technologies in interior design. A high-tech living room design features functional furniture and technology, minimal details, metal and glass, pastel or vibrant colors but not multicolor.

Photo 6 — High-Tech Living Room with Italian Furniture by Tomasella

Country Style Living Room Interior

Country style, of English origin, now unites rural styles from different countries and cultures.

A living room in the country style implies a countryside home interior with specific ethnic finishing and decor elements, natural materials, aged furniture, predominantly pastel colors in combination with a rich palette of saturated muted reds. Floral and geometric patterns.

A country-style living room is also a Provence living room, an English cottage, an American-style interior, a living room in the chalet style, and many others.

Photo 7 — Chalet Style Living Room

Italian Style Living Room Interior

An Italian-style living room, also called a dining room, features high ceilings, window shutters, and double doors. An Italian-style living room interior includes minimal furniture but all of it is exquisite, made entirely from wood. A limited color palette for finishes, stone or tile flooring, a large dining table, and decor elements such as glass, blacksmithing, and porcelain.

Photo 8 — Living Room by Italian Manufacturer VILLANOVA, CAPRI Collection

Scandinavian Style Living Room Interior

A living room in a rustic or country style can also be done in the Scandinavian style.

Scandinavian living room interior design features minimal color and decor, lots of light, and natural materials. Functional furniture, open shelving, grid and stripe patterns in upholstery and curtains, bright textiles, many indoor plants, various lighting elements, and light-colored floors and walls.

Photo 9 — Scandinavian Style Living Room

Eastern Style Living Room Interior

The Eastern style has many directions, but many of them share a warm color palette featuring red and gold tones, wallpapers that imitate expensive fabrics such as damask, low comfortable furniture with wood carving or inlay, delicate partitions, blacksmithing, glass, and lots of decor and textiles.

Photo 10 — Eastern Style Living Room Interior

Empire Style Living Room Interior

Empire style is characterized by solemnity, symmetry, proportionality, geometric shapes, substantial furniture, and rich decor. In the Empire style, expensive wallpapers, parquet, cornices, tapestries, luxurious solid sofas, armchairs, sideboards, tables, heavy curtains, lots of textiles, and decor are used.

Photo 11 — Empire Style Living Room Interior

Loft Style Living Room Design

Loft has no internal walls, and space is zone-divided with partitions.

High ceilings, large open space reminiscent of attic or warehouse rooms, brickwork, rough plaster, concrete slabs, wood, large unusual sofa, armchairs in matching tones, small side table, no wardrobes or sideboards, minimal textiles, glass and steel, vintage accessories or pop-art style accessories – this is a Loft-style living room interior.

Photo 12 — Loft Style Living Room Design

Mediterranean Style Living Room Interior

Simple and unpretentious: solid furniture, preferably handcrafted, natural materials, and finishes.

Photo 13 — Mediterranean Style Living Room Interior

Marine Style Living Room Interior

All shades of blue, sky blue, and azure combined with white. Painted or whitewashed wooden floors, wooden or wicker furniture that looks sun-baked, and sea and nautical symbol decorations.

Photo 14 — Marine Style Living Room

African Style Living Room Interior

Wallpapers made from natural fibers or imitations of natural materials, warm natural saturated colors like savanna tones. Stone, sand, or exotic wood flooring, low furniture made from natural wood, wicker, rattan, bamboo, coconut fiber. Upholstery in animal skin-like prints, matching cushions, and decorations such as carved wooden items, rough textiles, leather, traditional ceramics, masks, engraving, and woven products.

Photo 15 — African Style Living Room Interior

Retro Living Room Interior

Retro is a broad concept but not necessarily a vintage interior. Retro covers the 1950s to 1980s and uses the best design ideas from that era. A wide bright color palette, unexpected color combinations, abstract futuristic furniture forms or classical furniture, carpets, chandeliers, table lamps, and period accessories.

A retro living room interior can remind one of hippie or stylish aesthetics.

Photo 16 — Retro Living Room Interior