The 75 Best Living Room Ideas for Beautiful Home Design (2024)

Of all the rooms in your home, it's likely you spend the most time relaxing with family, welcoming friends, and just simply living in your living room, great room, or den. For these reasons, you want to design it with function, comfort, and above all, your very own personal style. To help you find inspiration for how to decorate your living room, we've curated some of the most beautiful living rooms from our favorite interior designers.

Whether your living room is small or expansive, your taste leans modern or traditional, your unique point of view should inform every design decision you make in your living room, from the style of your sofa to the fabric that covers it. Browse our collection that includes neutral living room ideas, as well as those with eye-catching living room color combinations that bring your space to life. Look to designers' favorite living room paint colors for walls, ceilings, and trim, or perhaps you've dreamed of wrapping your living room in richly patterned wallpaper. In these photos, you'll discover the most luxurious rugs and flooring, stunning window treatment ideas, and brilliant ideas for lighting for your living room for the most pleasing ambiance.

These grand, sophisticated, and even cozy living room ideas are sure to inspire your next living room design project. As you pour over fabric and wall patterns, color palettes, furniture, and more, we hope these pictures from our extensive house tour archives provide all the design inspiration you need. Read on for the best living room ideas, straight from designers.

The open-air living room at Summer Thornton's Casa Rosada serves as the perfect setting for late-night conversations. Carved parota wood coffee tables act as the centerpiece of the expansive sunken area, designed to withstand the salt and humidity with ease.

Blue and white hues inspired by Oscar de la Renta’s porcelain made its way in the redesign of this storied Casa de Campo property by Philip Vergeylen. Batik throws brought from flea markets in the South of France enliven the white cotton-covered rattan seating in the great room.

In this New York living room designed by Carrier and Company, a palette of rich neutrals—featuring mink- and mushroom-hued upholstery along with a pair of fringed suede ottomans in pale gray—provides a subtle contrast to the striking artwork displayed. Commanding attention in the space are a French lacquered curved screen from the 1930s and a gold-leaf filled coffee table by Yves Klein.

The creative team at Marc-Michaels Interior Design, Inc. transformed this living room into an entertainer's paradise. An exquisite Arte wallcovering fashioned into a screen serves as the backdrop for an array of art and sculptural seating.

Designer Mary Graham has infused her traditional English countryside cottage with a blend of patterns, textures, and colors, creating a warm, family-friendly retreat. In the drawing room, a gold ottoman adorned with Soane Britain fabric is elegantly finished with Salvesen Graham’s Thornborough Rose bobble braid trim.

Instead of adhering to a traditional room layout, Oka Co-founder Sue Jones opted for a spacious great room designed for entertaining in her Cotswolds cottage. She masterfully blends family heirlooms and antiques with contemporary pieces, achieving the ultimate lived-in and curated look.

Original ceiling plasterwork and wood paneling pair with an ocean blue cowhide rug (Moattar) and drip-glaze lamps by Paul Schneider Ceramics in this stunning Atlanta home's study by designer Heather Dewberry. The space is finished with Art Deco-inspired furnishings and an "indestructible dyed cowhide rug that's perfect for high-traffic events," says Dewberry.

This family room’s custom Ebanista chaise is dressed in lemon linen, which makes for a supremely cozy perch with a picture-perfect view of this Palm Springs villa's rose garden. Centered around a minimalist fluted co*cktail table (Ebanista), the citrus-hued seating was the catalyst for the home's redesign.

Mia Reay's English country house is a grand laboratory for exuberant color, wild pattern, and decorating with heirlooms, as illustrated here in the Green Hall, the room the family uses every day. Once a somber dark green, freshly painted paneling (Pea Green by Farrow & Ball) alongside Pierre Frey curtains proves a compelling combination, adding a lightness of spirit.

In Liz Lange’s restoration of Grey Gardens in East Hampton, teal pops from two vintage chairs by Mastercraft and an eye-catching light fixture overhead complement the sofa’s Arbre de Matisse Reverse upholstery (Quadrille) in a nod to Billy Baldwin.

Designer Summer Thornton pulled inspiration from both places near and far when it came to decorating the living room of her 19th-century Chicago townhouse. The apricot shade on the living room walls comes from a sunlit building she’d seen in Venice while the hand-marbled paper (Marbled Art) covering the ceiling also mimics styles found in that region.

Designer Jane Schwab's Charlotte penthouse showcases a carefully edited selection of beloved objects, as seen here in the pale, loftlike salon. Schwab’s favorite color palette—shades of ice blue, cream, and beige—take on a soft luminosity, thanks to floor-to-ceiling casem*nt windows that overlook the tree canopy. A light background highlights the Schwabs’ growing collection of contemporary art. Works by by Imi Knoebel adorn luminous plaster walls in the salon.

It had always been a dream for Garrow Kedigian to live at the legendary Carlyle Hotel, and so when that dream became a reality, the decorator looked for ways to pay homage to the iconic landmark. The citron color covering the living room walls nods to Dorothy Draper, whose signature yellow velvet banquettes are still found in the Carlyle lobby. Meanwhile, the black moldings were inspired by the building's iron doors and the faux window mullions.

The great room of this Palm Springs villa features twin hand-carved wooden sofas with an antiqued and distressed 12-karat white gold finish (also by Ebanista). Their leafy green silk upholstery seems to pull the radiance of the surrounding palm leaves through the tall glass doors. Italian artist Daniele Bacci’s geometric paintings spark conversation. The sterling silver urn on a marble-​topped Regency chest (Ebanista) originally belonged to Doris Duke’s estate.