In the living room, you host guests, meet your family, and spend your free time with loved ones. Its design and decoration are crucial.

To inspire and guide you, we’ve found 40 living room decor ideas and prepared 16 detailed tips. Explore these styles and adopt the one that suits you!

40 Living Room Decor Ideas for All Tastes

1. Focus on Cushions, Throws, and Natural Colors

Here’s a simple decor idea for a cozy living room. In your white living room, prefer beige, light gray, and greige. For materials, choose tufted cotton, jute, and bouclé fabrics. Finally, for a cozy effect, add plenty of cushions and a large knitted throw.

2. Opt for Pastel Colors

Dress up your entire living room in pastel blue, powder pink, and cream white. For an elegant and refined tone, adopt art deco-style furniture.

3. Mix Modern and Bohemian Styles for a Travel-Inspired Look

Feel free to add a rug with warm colors, a jute pouf, and a large terracotta pot decorated with dried branches to your modern living room. If you’re lucky enough to have exposed beams, whitewash them. Your living room will take on a southern flair.

4. Simplify Everything to Focus on Design Objects

For this living room decor idea, clear out the space to make room for sleek, timeless furniture and design objects. Choose them in bouclé fabric, travertine, or marble. The colors of your living room will be beige, black, and light wood.

5. Dare to Use Olive Green with an Indoor Olive Tree!

While it may seem strange, the modern Mediterranean style achieved is magnificent. The colors of olive green and lime green sofas blend wonderfully. The olive tree completes the sunny effect.

6. Create a Scandinavian Cocooning Atmosphere for Winter

Night or day, you’ll love spending winter here! The play of colors between the black, light wood of the walls, and the beige of the sofa area softly contrast. For your cocooning, use two throws: one in (faux) sheepskin and the other knitted. A few lit candles on the coffee table, and your living room is ready for the cold season.

7. Green a Mid-Century Decor with Plants

Simply adding plants can change everything. For a lush style, opt for exotic indoor plants like monstera or indoor banana trees.

8. Embrace a Mix of Luxury and Ethnic Inspirations

Mix warm colors with gold, and place very low aged solid wood tables. For textiles, look for aged velvet, a well-worn Turkish rug. Finally, a few important details will add a luxurious touch: a gold palm tree floor lamp, a crystal chandelier.

9. Integrate Leopard Print Armchairs in a Minimalist Living Room

If you’re looking for a slightly extravagant living room decor idea, consider armchairs with animal prints or upholstered in faux furs. The advantage of the armchair is that it’s a noticeable piece, but less imposing than a sofa.

10. Create a Design Relaxation Island in the Middle of an Industrial Loft

If you have a huge open space on the ground floor, why not make a sofa corner in the middle? By assembling back-to-back parts of a modular sofa, you’ll create a cozy island where it’s good to lounge. Don’t forget the cushions!

11. Display Luxurious Design Unabashedly

If you love precious metals and design decor, combine the two in your living room! If these items appeal to you, explore the Kare Design brand.

12. Adopt a Modern Gray Monochrome

In your living room, shades of gray are sober and elegant. Play with contrasts, for example, with a pearl gray sofa and an anthracite gray rug.

13. Embrace the Elegant Comfort of the 1950s

In addition to geometric patterned cushions, set up two armchairs with dark wooden armrests facing each other. Want to reinforce the design aspect? A solid metal coffee table with organic shapes will take care of it.

14. Install Design and Voluptuous Seating

For armchairs or a sofa, organic shapes will make your living room voluptuous. If you want luxury as well, add golden elements.

15. Refresh Your Living Room with a Sage Green Sofa

Install a large modular sage green corner sofa in your living room. Add more freshness by arranging cream-white and pop-colored cushions in battle.

16. Multiply Candles in a Cocooning Living Room

Candles and more candles. Especially in a faux fireplace mantel, candles create a warm atmosphere. Don’t forget to have a sofa equipped with cozy throws and cushions nearby!

17. Combine Minimalism and Comfort with a Mid-Century Style

For this decor idea, limit yourself to a minimum of furniture: just two 1950s-style armchairs and an abstract art-inspired rug. Combine then khaki green, lime green, and sage green.

18. Use White for a Monochrome Decor

At the crossroads of the 1960s-1970s and modern space-age, an all-white monochrome living room is both inviting and inspiring. For this decor idea, think “design”: a rounded white sofa, a relief monochrome painting, a glass and marble coffee table.

19. Accent a Black Decor with Boho and Cozy Details

Black decor in a white-walled living room is full of character. Its highlights? A corner sofa and a marble block coffee table! Contrast it with gray-shaded cushions.

20. Invite Acapulco Chairs Indoors

Long reserved for outdoors, Acapulco chairs are a decor idea gaining traction indoors. With a simple stool as a side table, you’ll create an elegant and refined conversation corner.

21. Install a Marble Block Coffee Table

A massive ally in a neutral-colored living room. A gray marble block coffee table contrasts and makes a powerful piece.

22. Paint Walls in Teal Green

With exotic and design decor, teal green paint makes your living room sophisticated and elegant. There’s no need to match all your furniture to your walls, the mismatched ensemble remains harmonious and very modern.

23. Mimic Aged Walls in a Romantic Living Room

If you live in an old apartment with ceiling moldings, why not amplify this old-world charm? This trend involves applying an aged effect to a wall, also known as a trash wall. This decor idea can only be used if your furniture is delicate and impeccably matched, also considering the room’s lighting.

24. Paint One Wall Olive Green

Rarely used in a living room, olive green paint on one wall gives a Mediterranean charm to a neutral modern decor. For a nod, place a small indoor olive tree nearby!

25. Limit to the Essentials to Highlight Design

The concept is simple: decorate your living room with only a few essential elements of innovative design. Here, organic shapes are prominent with a wavy table, a rounded bench, and a kidney bean-shaped sofa.

26. Mix Greige and Aqua Green

A fresh, even cold color, aqua green on your walls, sofa, and rug pairs well with greige furniture, warmer. The resulting contrast combines icy freshness with cozy warmth.

27. Fit a Large Curved Sofa in a Small Living Room

Dreaming of a curved sofa in your small living room? Know that you can opt for a two-seater kidney bean sofa without cluttering your space.

28. Sprinkle Colorful Accessories in a Neutral Living Room

In a beige and cream white design living room that’s a bit dull, don’t hesitate to scatter a few brightly colored decor objects. You’ll draw the eye to various spots in the living room.

29. Paint One Wall in Petroleum Blue

Play with dimensions by painting the back wall of your living room in petroleum blue. To lighten the room, then focus on light-colored furniture.

30. Draw Inspiration from a Contemporary Art Exhibition

Are you drawn to the arty style? Display decor elements inspired by contemporary art everywhere: framed prints, clocks, cushions, vases… All surfaces lend themselves to this as long as you maintain the same style.

31. Reserve a Small Art Deco Dining Area

Take advantage of small and privileged spots to create a tea room. The refinement of the Art Deco style suits it perfectly. Just install two cocktail armchairs, a clean table, and a beautiful flower vase.

32. Diversify Colors to Create Strong Pieces

Like fruity touches, various colored furniture and decor brighten a cream white living room. To replicate it at home, make sure not to overload, choose similar types of colors (for example, only powder colors) and similar materials (here, velvet).

33. Display a Pop Orange Coffee Table and a Large Abstract Painting

Is your gray living room too classic and lacking personality? Add contrasting arty elements like an orange 70s marble base table and a large abstract painting.

34. Play on the Contrast of Black, White, and Beige

Elegance, clarity, and personality. This is the ambiance you’ll achieve in your living room by using cream white as the dominant color, then white, black, and beige as accent notes.

35. Create a Total Look with Rounded Sofas

For the living room of your large Haussmann apartment, dare the play of eras with a set of rounded sofas and bench. Placed in an island, they will be as beautiful to look at as they are pleasant to use.

36. Bring Out a Summer Style with Natural Fibers

Give your living room a year-round vacation feel by multiplying elements in natural fibers. An original rattan pendant, jute cushions, a seaweed rug. For the finishing touches, think of olive trees, a few travel books, and a shell trinket tray!

37. Adopt Transparent Plastic Chairs

Transparent plastic chairs are not only reserved for vintage or pop decor styles. On the contrary, in a modern living room, they sophisticate the overall tone, making it airy and refined.

38. Choose Rust as an Accent Color

Rust is a hot color trending for interiors. To use it sparingly, limit it to a chair, a few cushions, or a vase.

39. Light up the Space with a Frosted Glass Pendant

Modern living room decor means ultra-clean lines and materials. For lighting, choose a frosted glass pendant. Its opacity creates a soft and flattering glow.

40. Choose a Patterned Armchair as a Focal Point

A neutral living room needs a focal point to catch the eye. The decor idea to adopt is a patterned armchair: vintage floral, geometric, or abstract.

16 Complete Tips to Redecorate Your Living Room

1. Plan a Ceiling Lamp to Brighten the Living Room

This is the first element to place in your living room. Of course, you should multiply light sources with floor lamps, table lamps, and even string lights, but the ceiling lamp remains essential.

2. Frame the Living Room with an Arched Library

Whether for books, travel souvenirs, or decor objects, a large wall library gives character to your living room. Especially if you choose an arched shape!

3. Multiply the Plant Green Spots

Cacti, rubber trees, peace lilies, palms… Indoor plants warm and bring the living room to life. Group the plants in 3 spots: on a side table, in front of a window, and in the middle of the room.

4. Hang at Least One Large Framed Print

Your living room needs a large framed print to visually expand and decorate the walls. Choose it according to your decor and the ambiance you want to create. To avoid mistakes, pick a print in the same colors as your furniture and rugs.

5. Include a Quality Hand-Tufted Rug

In wool, silk, or cotton, hand-tufted rugs have incomparable beauty and softness. For the living room, think of a pattern that harmonizes with your curtains, cushions, and furniture.

6. Add Small Art Deco Furniture

From an armchair to a coffee table, and not forgetting the bookcase, Art Deco style furniture suits living rooms that aim for elegance. Whether gold, green, or dark wood, Art Deco always makes an impact.

7. Consider Wooden Blinds as Window Dressing

Often neglected, blinds can, however, add a refined touch to your decor. For the living room, choose high-quality blinds in white wood or light wood. They harmonize with all colors, so you can change the rest of your decor as you wish.

8. Include One Marble Element for Timeless Elegance

An elegant decor element par excellence, marble is very trendy in living rooms. An ashtray, a table, or a lamp base. Choose at least one marble piece!

9. Invest in an Armchair for a Corner

Comfortable and aesthetic, an armchair invites relaxation. Also, it often attracts the eye to a corner of the room and allows you to display decorative objects on the floor or on a nearby piece of furniture.

10. Decorate Shelves and Side Tables

In the living room, your shelves and side tables are made for displaying collections of vases, sculptures, and candles. For these trinkets, avoid strict color or style matching. Your shelves will be even more interesting!

11. Add a Large Wall Mirror

Mirrors enlarge the space and increase the brightness of the living room. The latest trend is to place a large mirror horizontally on a dresser.

12. Make the Ceiling a Decorative Element

Don’t forget to work on the ceiling of your living room! You can decorate it with ceiling moldings, a massive chandelier, or even an accent color.

13. Place Two to Three Small Rugs Under a Large Coffee Table

For a very refined effect, place several small hand-tufted rugs under your coffee table. They will structure the living room and multiply the seating areas around the coffee table.

14. Highlight a Solid Wood Coffee Table

A solid wood coffee table often makes a strong centerpiece in the living room. In square or round shapes, it’s beautiful in its simplicity. Choose it in the same wood as your furniture for harmonious decor.

15. Consider the Visual Balance of All Elements

Harmony is the key to successful living room decor. To achieve this, consider the visual balance of all elements: do the shapes of your furniture fit together? Do the colors of your objects match? Is the light well distributed?

16. Include a Personal Decorative Element

Your living room will only be truly complete if it reflects your personality. This is why you must include a personal decorative element, whether it’s a travel souvenir, a childhood toy, or an artist’s painting.

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