6 Stylish Living Rooms: What Makes Them Classy

We love to look at designers' projects and notice interesting details that make an interior stylish and unique. We also select items that help create a similar atmosphere in your home.

Texture variety

A key requirement from clients was to make the living room a space for communication, not TV watching. The designers from Aiya Design proposed creating a neutral interior and focusing on combinations of diverse textures.

In one room, they paired natural cotton and linen, soft carpet pile with a pleasant-to-the-touch wood. The wall painting ties all the colors of the interior together, and the bright spot is a raspberry-colored armchair.

Design: Aiya Design

This fits well:

Classic white spot light with light wood accents, OBI

Jacquard multi-level woven tapestry, OBI

Laminated flooring resembling natural parquet, OBI — a great option for the living room, bedroom, kitchen or office

Black metal floor lamp with fabric shade, OBI

Large details

In this interior everything is big: from ceiling height and windows to decor. The designer Diana Mal'tseva's idea was to create a minimalist background using high-quality finishing materials, and then add accents in furniture and accessories.

For the walls, they chose water-emulsion paint in various shades of gray. For decor, large pear-shaped lampshades and mirrors with complex geometric shapes worked perfectly.

Design: Oh, Boy! Interiors

This fits well:

Jacquard multi-level woven carpet, OBI

Net shade pendant, OBI

Wooden pattern and calm soft tone of Egger laminate, OBI, imitating natural wood surface

Loyard door panel, OBI, made of coniferous wood species

Home library

The feature of this living room is a huge 2000-book library. Its owners don’t fear open shelves, they liked the idea of making books part of the interior design. As a result, there’s a storage system about 40 linear meters long, designed to accommodate even more personal books.

"The tone of the interior decoration was set by light walls, warm natural wood tones and live plants. They are complemented by colorful book ends," — explains designer Dmitry Sivak.

Design: S&T Architects

This fits well:

Soft single-person sofa-bed with a convenient transformation mechanism, OBI, when assembled it doesn’t take up much space

Wall-mounted shelf, OBI suitable for a small home library or decor display

Egger laminate, OBI. The edgeless surface creates a flat look that not only looks great in any interior but is also easy to clean

Ceramic planter made of artificial rattan, OBI

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Mid-century modern furniture

The overall color palette of this living room turned out soft and calm, dominated by restrained tones. The designers from OM Design decided to add a touch of fun and painted the partition between the bedroom and living room salmon pink. Opposite the sofa, a large painting based on Joan Miró's work "Woman and Bird" was placed.

Furniture items were chosen from wood and always on legs. They visually look lighter, making the interior appear more airy. They opted for light Roman blinds instead of dense drop-down curtains. "Exposed" windows were framed with veneered panels.

Design: OM Design

This fits well:

Soft and comfortable double sofa-bed with a convenient transformation mechanism, OBI

Pomezia ceiling chandelier, OBI. The absence of shades adds originality to it

Tarkett laminated flooring, OBI, mimicking natural parquet planks, making the floor surface look natural and very effective

Vase "Briollet", OBI, made of decorative thick glass

Scandinavian Style Decor

For wall finishing, they chose textured plaster in gray tones, and laid parquet flooring. The designers are not fans of mixing different materials for the floor in one room, so the flooring is uniform throughout.

"Clients leaned towards a strict color palette: gray shades became the main tone. For accents, they added dark turquoise color: for curtains and patterned carpet in the living room. When selecting furniture, they focused on functionality, simple design and universal finishes. Against this background, decor, modern paintings and posters look great — all of it can be changed according to mood," — the project authors explain.

Design: Tvoy Designer

This fits well:

Moldabela carpet, OBI, not only hypoallergenic but also easy to clean from stains

Coffee table with storage compartment, OBI

Vitaluce chandelier on black base with transparent shades, OBI

Egger laminate, OBI, with realistic wood pattern and four-sided V-shaped edges that precisely mimic parquet planks

Contrast Details

For the living room, they mainly used monochromatic gray paint. This helped visually make the space bigger, cleaner and more minimalist. But contrast black details bring dynamism to the neutral interior: metal loft partition, black chairs in retro style, metal lights and black-and-white textiles. The interior looks graphic but very cozy.

Design: Studio 20:18

This fits well:

Closed PVC tiles — a modern flooring where the advantages of linoleum, ceramic granite and laminate are successfully combined

Four-lamp floor lamp, OBI. Looks unusual due to the lack of shades

Agnes pendant, OBI. On a light background, the contrasting metal shade looks particularly effective

Lustra Cream door panel, OBI, with a decorative coating in the form of CPL film protects doors from damage and temperature effects