Living room, a space where one can relax and spend some leisure time, watching TV, chatting with friends, or even while reading a book. Living rooms are also formal, modern, gathering spaces. These gathering spaces are sometimes divided into two spaces: a family room and TV rooms or meeting room. This usually happens in large houses. These spaces are furniturised with sofas, center tables, bookshelves, lamps, armchairs, and other aesthetic furnishings. The family rooms have these furnishings along with fireplaces or semi-open spaces. Living rooms have to be inviting and comfortable. With the help of colour palette, different material palettes, interior lighting types, etc. This article helps one design and introduces you to the process of designing a welcoming and cosy living room.
1. Solid Color Based Theme | Cosy Living Rooms
The example shown above has dark walls and dark colored furnishings. The most incaptivating element of this space is the painting. The artwork with bright pop colors on dark subtle colored walls changes the mood of the space. The coffee table and the lighting fixtures are kept minimal in order to exaggerate the greys.
2. Pop Color Based Theme
This living room follows a subtle beige color palette. The flooring of the apartment is dark such that the chairs almost merge with the flooring. Here the most eye-catching element is the pop colored rug. To give some bounce and life to the space this rug has been chosen. While designing in the tones of beige where the walls are also kept white or cream colored it is important to have some element which adds contrast to the space.
3. Subtle Color Based Theme | Cosy Living Rooms
The informal, flexible seating arrangement gives a friendly vibe. Here the walls and floors are kept light colored and the couches and furnishings are pop colored. This color palette creates a friendly bubbly atmosphere of the space.
4. Placement of Furnishing
The sofas here are the center of attention. It is the main element, and everyone entering the space has to have their attention on it. The size of the sofa, with a dark colored wall next to it and an opening on the other side, acts like a barrier. This stops the visitors from entering the dining and the kitchen space.
5. Textured Rustic Theme | Cosy Living Rooms
The warmth of the space is experienced because of the wooden ceiling and the subtle yellow colored sofa. To experience this, the walls and the rug are kept dark colored. Even a warm yellow light is used to keep the space warm.
6. Textures and Prints
While designing living spaces, texture and prints of the material adds depth to the space. Above the texture and print on the rug along with the glittered texture wall, bring warmth to the space. The lamps along with the coffee table are such that they give a floating or elevated effect.
7. Textures And Solid Colors
This living room has a modern chic finish but the minute details like the textured flooring, rug, textured brick wall, and the texture of the couch. These textured elements add depth and warmth to the space.
8. Lights at backdrop | Cosy Living Rooms
Wall with the lights acts as a backdrop for the couch. The printed rug and cushions with floating coffee-table make the space look warm.
9. Chandelier In Interiors
Here the play of light in the wall and chandelier with warm yellow light and textured rug all together bring the entire cosiness of the space together.
10. Contrast Tones | Cosy Living Rooms
11. Artwork and Tints
Again here the palette is beige but the pop colored yellow cushions are good enough to pull the entire space together. To follow the language, the painting also has a tint of yellow.
12. Material Textures
To give warmth and highlight the space, the walls are kept light but textured and the furnitures are kept dark colored. This is a usual contrast of light and dark but a layer of texture is added.
13. Artworks
Here the color palette is pop colored but with a tint of grey, which makes the colors look subtle. The artwork and furniture has a texture which brings depth in the space.
14. Metallic Furnishings
The artwork with a monotonous background, and metallic furnishings gives a warm finishing in the space.
15. Texture-Prints-Material | Cosy Living Rooms
Textured walls and printed fabrics are the main elements that made the space cosy.
16. Vintage Furnishings
The textures here bring depth and warmth with flat background and openings.
17. Rustic Theme
A rustic theme based design with printed cushions and wooden furnishings along with textured surfaces makes one experience warmness.
18. Subte-Pop Colors
The dark subtle couches, with pop coloured fabrics and printed fabrics and minimal metallic furniture gives a cosy effect to the space.
19. Traditional Theme
20. Printed Fabrics | Cosy Living Rooms
The entire space has printed fabric and rounded cushioned furnishings which bring warmth. Even the openings help in bringing the warmth.
21. Walls And Furnishing
The rustic wooden furniture with brick textured walls and exposed lighting points brings a sense of warmth in the interior spaces.
22. Velvet Fabrics
The glossy smooth texture of the velvet, with bright colors in the contrast. The shades used in the furnishings here are also used in rugs that complement each other.
23. Plain and Printed Fabrics
The rugs and pillows are printed and textured, with plain matt finished walls, creating a contrast within the interiors.
24. Curtains and Carpets
The coffee table is the centerpiece of the space, with pop colors and contrasting subtle background.
25. Mismatched | Cosy Living Rooms
The background is subtle grey, but the furnishing is in contrast to the background. The fixtures like centre table and lamps are metallic and kept minimal.
26. Prints and Furnishings
The flooring near the chimney, printed rugs and veneered furnishings bring a traditional warmth sensation within the space.
27. Printed Pop Colors
The walls here are bright, but the fabric is kept printed. This is a contrast between the furnishing and walls.
28. Lightings
The play of light mixed with the combination of the fabrics creates warmth and cosiness in the space.
29. Volume
A kin decision has to be taken, while designing living rooms. The entire designing is a continuous process, it can’t be done in bits and pieces. A language has to be seen in the entire project.
30. Exterior and Interior | Cosy Living Rooms
The living space spills over to the deck, with the windows framing the horizon. To compliment the horizon and the blues of sky and ocean the major furnishing is in lighter tone.
