35+ Beautiful Small Living Room Ideas to Make the Most of Your Space

Having small livings rooms can be challenging. Without proper floor plan, you’ll stumble or yell at your carelessness all the time. Now if you have those situation, if you still in the dark of what to do with you furniture, how to set the lighting good, or how to find room for another chairs,

We have here some 35 small living room ideas to offer. All are cute and full of inspirations if you’re now still trying to get the best of your rooms without having to tear down and expand it.

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Decorate a Small Living Room

by: Havenly

Never let your small living room makes You live miserably. No matter whether you have only a shoe-box size living room which barely enough for a regular sofa, you can always make it stylish, fresh, and feels bigger. Yes, here we have gather some of the best tricks to make your small living rooms alive and fresh with new look.

Embrace Your White Walls

by: Ikea Ideas Lab

Still in love with your vintage white brick wall in your living room and want to make it fresher? Try this recipe from Interior designer Mercedes Daczi. All you need is to do the white-on-white pairing of the room and your furniture, and your room will feel bigger and brighter.

Find white furniture with color in tone with your brick. Wooden colors, including the charming wicker furnishings, and green houseplants colors add the needed accent in order to make the room neater and look fresher.

Work Your Weird Angles

bt: Alvhemmakleri.se

Not every room has the neat and regular boxy shape. Sometimee you’ll find an oddly shaped room (or even you have one?). It can be confusing to decorate neatly. But there’s always a way, isn’t it?

As in this illustration, turn the odd wall into a gallery wall. And you can see that in turns into a stylish wall.

Putting a sofa in this odd-shaped room also presents problem. Avoid it by making the odd area into a center point, use bold patterns to even further the effects. Set it as your sofa’s background, like the example

Pile on the Textiles

source: Happy Interior Blog

Declutter your hectic small living room with fabric and sprinkled it with house plants. This charming and neat room belongs to Igor Josifovic, an expert in houseplants. Apart the houseplants, he uses combination of Turkish rug, killim pillows, cotton tapestry and even a kitchen towel (see the framed stuff on the wall? It’s the towel), to makes his room this cute.

Stop Living Dorm-Style

by: Homepolish

Using floating style furniture also helps, if you want to make your small living room larger. This small bachelor living room shows you how.

All the furniture have slim and long legs/stands, making them seems to float. Even the sofa has the slim legs. These make the room looks larger. And don’t forget about the floating desk on the left and hanging bicycle on the right.

Added with all the details and decor styles, the living room turns into a cozy living room for a classy bachelor.

Green With Envy

by: JASON INGRAM

Having a small living room doesn’t mean that you can’t have it in style. This inspiration from Adam Sykes living room can helps you to have one, with a cute Claremont’s ‘Drap de Soie’ mid-century armchair. It helps to make the center point of the living room.

Compact Seating

by: ANDREW BEASLEY

Living room without books will lack its soul. You can build your bookshelf in line with your fireplace, like this Somerset railway cottage. It’s in a wall, making your small living room neater and space-efficient.

Floor to Ceiling Bookshelves

by: DAVIDE LOVATTI

A book lover like their books available at any time. If you have small living room, make use of its wall as your bookshelves. This small living room of Christine Van Der Hurd, a textile designer, can be the best inspiration. The accessories like fluted ceramic from Joachim Lambrecht, Christine’s own ne fabric design, the Mid-century coffee table making the living room lovable.

Grey Snug

by: LUCAS ALLEN

This design by Christopher Howe is an example of simple-elegant living room. The combination of grey linen on the wall and jajin rug on the floor is nice. This further charmed with vintage chest and the contemporary chair as the point of interest.

Mirror, Mirror

by; RACHAEL SMITH

Mirrors makes a small room look larger. That’s why it’s often placed in lift or other confined space, to avoid claustrophobic feeling. This small living room by designer Ann Boyd is an example of efficient use of mirrors. They are on the wall as mirror-glass paneling and one tilted on wall as an accent. They works well in making this room larger and fresher.

Get Your Reflection On

by: West Elm

This will be another example of efficient use of mirrors to make a living room feels larger and fresher. This example from West Elm shows you how mirror the right mirror placements’ not only makes your room larger, but also chic, brighter, and airy at the same time.

Fill ‘er Up

by: Cathy Pyle

You love big furniture, but you hate to make your room feels too stuffy? Try this simple trick. Find the furniture you love, and lined them on the wall. Choose the one with slim legs like the example. This helps making your room looks larger. Let them huge the wall. You’ll have the needed free room, and you have the beloved furniture.

Go for the Wow Factor

by: One Kings Lane

Sometimes the best way to visually increase the square footage in a space is to keep the eye constantly in motion (so you don’t notice how small it is). Take a cue from entertaining expert Lulu Powers in her LA bungalow seen on One Kings Lane: pattern on pattern, bold color next to bold color—cozy perfection!

Keep things Linear

by: Design*Sponge

Among small living room ideas, linear print and geometric patterns also help you to make small living room larger. The patterns gives the needed neat accents and repeated structures that make a room looks has additional width and length, just like this example on Design*Sponge.

Make the Best of Strange Angles

by: Alvhem

If your living room has an awkward wall angles, try this small living room idea from Alvhem. It uses bold floral patterns (though you can use any patterns of your liking) on one wall and making it the center of attention, pulling all the visual attention to the area.

Keep It Cozy

by: SUGAR AND CHARM

If you love cozy and snug seating, try to keep them close together. These furniture often look heavy and stuffy (That’s it, all the cozy stuff), and in a small living room often present problems if not set properly. This example keeps all the plus furniture close together, emphasized intimacy and still offer enough space for other activities.

Add A Hammock Chair

BY ZEKE RUELAS/DESIGNED BY EMILY HENDERSON

As briefly said before, floating furniture helps to makes small loving room looks airy and larger. The now popular hammock chairs offer you the practical choice. It floats and it’s chic on your living room.

Go All White

by: ERIN GATES DESIGN

In making a small living room looks larger, try to not to make the wall and floor too stand-out and attract your visual attention. Paint the wall white, and matched it with white floor. If you want the wall as a gallery, try to use matte art works with white frames. This way, your wall won’t attract attention and you can put colorful furniture as its focal point.

Float Furniture

by: ROGER DAVIES

Resist the urge to push all of your furniture up against the walls. If you create space behind the furniture, it makes the room look wider than it is.

Bring In Dramatic Color

by: MAURA MCEVOY

Dark, glossy walls create a sophisticated backdrop for simple, clean-lined pieces. Use the small space to your advantage and make it feel like a jewel-box.

Use Stools as Seats

by: Robert Sanderson

The first thing you should never do if you have a small living room is cram in too much furniture. Instead, choose a sofa that’s proportional to the size of the space, and if you’re still in need of more seating, use stools. They’ll take up far less room than bulky armchairs, and can be easily manoeuvred. If you like your living room cute and cosy, try clustering colour-co-ordinated objects together – from pictures to cushions – to create a coherent look.

Make the most of natural light in the room by keeping window dressings simple. If you are lucky enough to have high ceilings, full-length curtains are a good choice as they’ll draw the eye upwards and create the illusion of space, even if the square footage in your living room is a bit meagre. Subtle stripe designs add to the feeling of extra depth. If you do choose curtains, make sure they can be swept away from the window for light or alternatively go for Roman or roller blinds.

Invest in Multi-Functional Furniture

by: Lizzie Orme

When it comes to small living rooms, hard-working, multi-functional pieces of furniture are your friends. Take this coffee table, which doubles as a storage bin, allowing you to clear away any clutter at a moment’s notice. You could also invest in lidded stools, or even a sofa with storage under the seat. Add wall mirrors and furniture with reflective surfaces into your design scheme to maximise the amount of natural light in your living room to make it feel bigger and brighter.

Draw Attention Away from the Door

by: Polly Eltes

Whether it’s a bijou country cottage or a studio flat, it can be tricky to create a relaxing bolt hole when your front door opens straight into your living room. Take the emphasis away from the entrance by creating a focal point with thoughtfully arranged seating. Here, a neat two-seater and comfy armchair have been placed at a 90-degree angle to a slim side table and lamp. A cool neutral palette works beautifully with the rustic plasterwork and the roller blind makes the most of a recessed window to add extra square inches to the room.

Decorate Vertically

by; Paul Raeside

Think about living room wallpaper designs to complement your lounge. Take that décor up high when floor space is limited. Here, a small corner of a brilliant white room has been transformed with a column of geometric pattern that pulls the eye upwards to make the most of a high ceiling. The pattern is echoed at the window in a sheer voile, which allows the natural light to filter in for a clean and bright effect. The neat base of a marble floor lamp negates the need for a side table while providing great task lighting for when the sun sets.

Get Creative with Space

by: Brent Darby

Before decorating or furnishing an awkwardly shaped living room consider how best to optimise the space available. Think about an L-shaped sofa in a tight eaves space teamed with trunks that can function as coffee tables as well as handy storage. Keep a dark room white to make the most of what little light there is.

Add Living Color

by; Candy Pop

Nothing prettifies a living room like plants. Blooming perennials like daffodils or tulips add lovely color, while leafy beauties including ferns and spider plants bring interesting texture (plus they clean indoor air!) Don’t like gardening? Try a few low-maintenance options from the succulent family and put them in cute DIY planters.

Transform That Boring Box Shaped Living Room

by: Joe Human

If your living room is lacking architectural detail, it’s easy to create an affordable and unique touch without undergoing a complete and costly renovation. Show off your personal style by creating a feature wall that transforms your room into an eye-catching focal point.

The Perfect Sofa for Narrow Living Rooms

by; DecorAid

A living room that’s both narrow and small can be particularly challenging to decorate. However, like in this bright and airy space redone by Decor Aid, a carefully chosen sectional sofa can make the most of the precious square footage. Look for sofas that are long and can lean up against a wall to give your living room more depth.

Invite Tiny Keepsakes & Treasures into Your Space

source: Domino

In this charming living room via Domino, your attention is occupied and delighted by all the personal accents and accessories that draw you into each area of the little space.

A Wall of Books

by: Minette Hand

To turn a small, sort of sad living space into your favorite room, consider taking an empty wall and turning it into a top-to-bottom mini library. It’ll provide plenty of storage opportunities, but also makes such a statement and gives a luxe built-in effect. For an even more stylish push, pick a rich color, like the hunter green of this room, and add molding to polish off the custom look.

Use Lighting to Your Advantage

by: James Merrell

Mark out a living space with an overhanging pendant light and carefully positioned round coffee table. The two pieces work together to create a focal point around which you can sit a couple of chairs and add floor cushions or stools when guests visit. Here, a selection of accessories and books are displayed on industrial-style open shelving to create a relaxed feel without hiding the beautiful texture of a slate feature wall.

Show off Interesting Objects

by: Lizzie Orme

Just because your living room is verging on the small side, it doesn’t mean that you should hide away all your favourite belongings in storage. If you have objects that are worthy of showing off then display them along an open shelf, above the sofa. This idea is great for when floor space is at a premium.

Warm Up White

by: Paul Raeside

Give a white room heaps of character and personality by adorning it with artwork that you just can’t live without. A crisp, clear wall is a good backdrop for styling with colourful accessories and won’t make the space feel cluttered. Keep to a palette of one or two colours to keep the look consistent and cohesive.

Make the Most of the Space Under the Stairs

by: Jamie Mason

Make the most of the unused space under the stairs by incorporating everything from storage to quirky accessories. If you have space issues in your small abode and need to make the most of every nook and cranny then turn to that nimble spot under the stairs into a warm and cosy living space. Here, a built-in bookcase and sofa tucks in neatly in that often unloved and underused area.

Work with Original Features

by: Colin Poole

Give architectural features a modern update with a fresh coat of paint and light retouching. Here original features have been painted to give this living room a modern edge. The black fireplace remains the focal point, and adds a sense of cosiness along with the chunky sofa and rustic wooden coffee table. A wool rug brings texture to the scheme and enhances the inviting feel of the room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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