11 Modern Living Room Design Ideas to Upgrade Your Quality of Lifestyle

Your living room is where the social part of the home life takes place, a space designed to be used as you decide: entertaining, spending time with family, skateboarding, watching TV, or waiting for Santa Claus while enjoying the jolly fireplace entertaining system. The following examples will help you create your own version of the ultimate living room. Just add… you.

Instead of rummaging through your living room in search of comfort, you could be lounging carelessly in your highly functional living room where there’s a place for everything and everything is in its place. These living room design ideas guide you through the design maze and help you figure out what actually makes you want to live in the living room.

Always reminding you of what is strictly necessary  – you don’t need much while lounging on your dearest chair or resting on your favorite sofa – a curated living room is like your life’s book you left open before guest’s eyes. But if you ever find yourself in need of anything, it would be a panoramic view of an unrivaled landscape.

11 ideas for modern living room design

Create a living room with a panoramic view

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A stunningly eye-catching panoramic view promotes the deeply desired lifestyle in permanent contact with the surrounding landscape. And when you have a view like that, it’s inhumane not to open your flawless living room to nature’s entertaining system. A decadent feeling of awe floods you when you know you’ve made the best of every panoramic angle available around your living room.

Make your small space compact, yet elegant

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Homes are not always dramatic and dazzling, but details make a huge difference even in the most compact spaces. Take this home as example: comfortable furnishings and colors create a parlor room where socialization is key. The fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows leading to a terrace are massively charming, but all the details shape a elegant yet snug living room.

Try an eclectic-style living room

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If you are looking for an affordable way to make your home look like a luxury hotel, remember to have the living room well-organized from the beginning. An eclectic style like this one helps the living room reach its maximum potential. A respectfully chosen color palette, mirrors and artwork make way for an elegant living room design.

Add a touch of luxury

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Adding a touch of glamour to your modern living room can inspire your daily activities to become more centered around your own preferences and hopes about the future. This spectacular living room design might have the details you can borrow to add a little bit of five-star luxury to your everyday life.

Don’t hesitate to add a pop of color

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Living room ideas can come from small spaces. An educated eye for details can create colorful spaces that seem larger, brighter, happier. A colorful living room needs simplicity and functionality to be stunning and this one has clearly been thoroughly organized.

Make it transparent

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Daring to use glass walls in your home could be surprisingly helpful and visually attractive. This house boasts a transparent living room, where a neutral color palette was attractively contrasted by dark  frames that add depth to the view. This solution allows a visual connection between space that runs all the way outside, thanks to transparency.

Add a modern touch to any style

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This beach house’s living room reflects a relaxed atmosphere rich in comforting textures, a balanced color palette and spaciousness inviting to socialization. It is an example for those searching for a way to transform their living room layout into the main social space. With an open kitchen nearby, cooking, eating and lounging become a continuous energetic flow.

Go bold

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A luxury living room with bold features can keep you on your toes and an eclectic, vibrant mix can mean the difference when it comes to your desire to return to a comforting home. You can make your home look like you’ve hired an interior designer. Redefine elegance by using the right pattern and color combination. Choose the right decorations and details to make your living room luxuriously luminous and enjoy the results alongside friends and family. You earned this.

Stick to one color

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A monochromatic living room can easily gather inspiration from nature only to maintain a powerful connection to our natural environment. Prints and textures compose the extra dimension needed to bring a refreshing, cozy feeling to a white living room. Light-colored wood is not only a trendy choice, but also an easy way of earthing the overall living room design.

Make your living room functional

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Living rooms created for sharing social moments and relaxation are easy to spot: the more places to sit, the merrier the social gatherings. Yet another home impresses us with its functional living room. Essential to creating that feeling of home we all search for was keeping the design simple, functional and elegant.

Add some texture

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Textured living rooms that display different hues can virtually showcase your affinity for a toned down or a vibrant elegance. Choosing to adorn your sofa with pillows, your walls with art and your living room with beautifully functional pieces shows your home is more than a social hub, it’s also a captivating realm where you feel wonderful alone just as you do alongside friends and family.

Have yourself a happy living (room)!