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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Contents
- 1 Decorate a Small Living Room
- 2 Embrace Your White Walls
- 3 Work Your Weird Angles
- 4 Pile on the Textiles
- 5 Stop Living Dorm-Style
- 6 Green With Envy
- 7 Compact Seating
- 8 Floor to Ceiling Bookshelves
- 9 Grey Snug
- 10 Mirror, Mirror
- 11 Get Your Reflection On
- 12 Fill ‘er Up
- 13 Go for the Wow Factor
- 14 Keep things Linear
- 15 Make the Best of Strange Angles
- 16 Keep It Cozy
- 17 Add A Hammock Chair
- 18 Go All White
- 19 Float Furniture
- 20 Bring In Dramatic Color
- 21 Use Stools as Seats
- 22 Invest in Multi-Functional Furniture
- 23 Draw Attention Away from the Door
- 24 Decorate Vertically
- 25 Get Creative with Space
- 26 Add Living Color
- 27 Transform That Boring Box Shaped Living Room
- 28 The Perfect Sofa for Narrow Living Rooms
- 29 Invite Tiny Keepsakes & Treasures into Your Space
- 30 A Wall of Books
- 31 Use Lighting to Your Advantage
- 32 Show off Interesting Objects
- 33 Warm Up White
- 34 Make the Most of the Space Under the Stairs
- 35 Work with Original Features
Decorate a Small Living Room
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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