Modern Living Room Designs and Ideas

Living rooms cater for many needs. They are for relaxing and socialising, listening to music and entertaining. They can also be used for eating and drinking, watching TV and playing. Modern living room design tries to cater for the whole range of activities and making the most of the space we have often becomes a top priority when thinking about decorating and furnishing the room. The trend in modern living rooms is for a more open design – you need to look carefully at the quality of natural light in the room and how to supplement it with additional light sources. Wooden furniture with a natural finish is a good choice as it tends to lend a light and airy aspect to the furnishings, as well as giving some much-needed warmth and character.

Now think about what you actually need, and what you might desire to have space for – in other words, separate your needs from your wants. For instance, you might need space for a sofa, TV and music, lighting and a coffee table and sideboard. You might want space for toys and books, DVD and CD storage and your hi-fi speakers. What you can actually fit into your room will depend on the size and shape of the space you have. You may have to be ruthless in your choices – it is important to obtain a balance between the areas taken up with furniture and open areas you use for access around the room.

A good sofa is high on the list of essentials. After a hard day at work you often cannot beat just throwing open the door and collapsing in front of the TV to catch up on your favourite programmes. Or perhaps you prefer to listen to music or even just flop around and do nothing. Whatever your choice, you need a comfortable sofa as a key foundation in your design. Be careful with the size and shape – if it is too large it will simply take up too much space and dominate the room, and if it is too small you may not be able to fit as many people on it as you would like to.

Open spaces do attract clutter. The more space we have the more we try and fill it, often with things that could easily be tidied away if only some storage had been planned for them. Built-in cupboards are a solution here but if your room does not suit this style, then think carefully about some other options. Solid oak sideboards or oak cupboards work very well. A natural wood finish helps to keep the living space look open and spacious, and their solid construction will resist many knocks. Solid oak, and indeed solid pine, can be easily looked after – minor scratches and marks are easily sanded away and a light application of oil or wax will bring out the natural warmth and give the furniture a really mellow appeal. Cupboard space like this will give you plenty of room to tidy away toys, DVDs and books.

A good-sized solid oak coffee table is another desirable item and one that can be thought of as an investment as well as a practical piece of furniture. One with built-in shelving underneath will give more storage options, or perhaps a nested set of tables so you have the flexibility of producing more surface area when you are entertaining friends and family.

Modern living room design just needs a little thought and planning – if you think ahead it is easier to set a budget and buy the things that will make your living room more comfortable as well as giving you furniture that will give you and your family pleasure for many years.

It is the needs of a family that decide the kind of furniture that would be right for a living room. Homes with children and pets need sturdy and functional furniture that is easy to maintain. The often chosen furniture items to enhance living room décor include couches, loveseats, recliners, coffee tables, entertainment centers, pianos, and other useful or decorative pieces. The living room also features the best pictures and art work in the house as well as other accessories like lamps, decorative lighting and area rugs.

Many modern furniture pieces are done up in leather or designer fabrics. The use of wood or metal frames ensures durability. Contemporary or modern furniture has a streamlined appearance and features varied color tones with soft textures. Bold geometric shapes in vivid colors are often the hallmark of modern living room furniture. This style is often chosen by the younger generation who like to use décor as a style statement.

A lot of emphasis is placed on lines and shapes in modern living room furniture. Those who appreciate innovative designs and are not very keen on highly ornamental pieces enjoy the look of contemporary furniture.

An entertainment center is the latest fad in modern living room furniture. It often turns out to be the focal point for the living room. Entertainment centers can be purchased for a few hundred dollars and up to thousands of dollars depending on several features. Domestic as well as international manufacturers provide furniture that can house such entertainment centers. These are available in several variants like specialty woods, carved decorations and stained glass inlays.

Other furniture items like sofas, couches, recliners and the like are planned around the entertainment center. End tables within easy reach of the seating are essential, as entertainment goes hand in hand with refreshments.

Mix and match is a distinctive feature of modern living room furniture. Instead of buying a streamlined set, people go in for odd pieces from different places that will go together. Bean bags are a popular seating option that gels easily with a living room furnished with modern furniture. These bags add a trendy look to the living room.

I one of my childhood homes, (that I happened to suffer abuse in) I am having sex with this man that I am very attracted to, have never met. First we are in what used to be my parents bedroom and then we are in the bathroom against the sink. The whole house is being remodeled around me.
The next night I dream about the home that I lived in right after the one mentioned above and the are carpenters (three) remodeling the living room and changing the entire layout of the townhouse. I come down stairs looking for a ruler to measure some curtains that I am making for these new windows they are putting in where the stairs are. The widows have these wonky curtains on them that don’t match. One window has earth tone red and greens and golds and the other one has maroon fading to a lighter color ending with white.
I am trying to make all white matching curtains, but I realize that I’ve never made curtains before and there is a feeling of not wanting the curtains at all.
Then I leave and I am in this French hole in the wall cafe with the man from the previous night. we leave in this whimsical happy frolic and end up in a tall room that is completely red with white furniture. I start some what hallucinating I think because I see bubbles or small lights floating around me and when i touch them I see sound. Then I am at a concert with this man and we are watching masked men in baby blue suits beat on drums and play familiar music. They are in an arena like a wrestling arena.
(Also before these dreams I have a dream about the same man living in a house similar to my current one but it is newer and more modern and he is using a sex toy out on me after wards I begin to look around his apartment and i sew two baby cribs in a large white room both are in front of windows with white curtains. There are no babies anywhere and I am not with child in the dream.)

My furniture is a cream color that is just a tone or two darker than my carpet and I have black accent furniture. I have been working on my house one room at a time, and I am stumped for ideas for the living room. New flooring or furniture is totally out of the question, so I am trying to get ideas for paint colors that would make the room look a little less washed out… any ideas?

Hi guys,

I just bought this house, where we live house prices are really expensive..therefor in the meantime we cannot afford to do any major projects. I would have liked to change the floor to wood, as it would go with all the furniture i want to buy. I do not like those tiles.

The 2 main things i do not like is the floor and kitchen. I think the kitchen is too "woody", do you have any ideas on how to make it look less woody and more stylish/modern? and the rest of the house?

Furniture was not included, except for bathroom/kitchen. I just have pics for the kitchen, dining room and bathroom. It has 2 other bedrooms and living.

My apartment has no living room,and a big enough kitchen.How could I make the kitchen into a living room also?
I need Ideas so it doesn’t looke completely stupid.

Hi guys,

I just bought this house, where we live house prices are really expensive..therefor in the meantime we cannot afford to do any major projects. I would have liked to change the floor to wood, as it would go with all the furniture i want to buy. I do not like those tiles.

The 2 main things i do not like is the floor and kitchen. I think the kitchen is too "woody", do you have any ideas on how to make it look less woody and more stylish/modern? and the rest of the house?

Furniture was not included, except for bathroom/kitchen. I just have pics for the kitchen, dining room and bathroom. It has 2 other bedrooms and living.

hello, im moving into my first place and i would like to decorate my living room and kitchen in pink purple and blue. any ideas? thank you
here’s the exact colors ( all the ones on the 1st page)

http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1251&bih=443&site=search&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=pink+color&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=

http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1251&bih=443&site=search&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=royal+blue+color&aq=f&aqi=g9g-m1&aql=&oq=

http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1251&bih=443&site=search&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=purple&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=

i didn’t ask if it looked good or not i asked if you had any ideas on decorating them in that color so please DO NOT suggest any other color OR a different location

need some advise on paint color my furniture is a light blue may have a shade of green and i have Chocolate throw pillows on my couch and for curtains. my walls are white now and i want to paint.

People think im rich is that true? am I’m rich? I”ll list below my lifestyle,house,and stuff my family has. I’m a 14 year old male btw.
-Ok so we live in a middle class area but thats by choise we could live in a really rich area if we wanted
-So we had a house built up on a mountain where there is no neighbors or anything and that was not cheap my parents spent a ton of money
-When you enter my house you go through a mile long forest that is pretty nice it has waterfalls,lakes,ponds ect. That I own and it says private property so no one can enter the forest
-Then you go up a long stone drive way and there is my house
-my house is like 7k square feet which is made out of lime stone,glass,and brick
-It has 4 floors including the basement,5 bathrooms,and like 14 bedrooms,2offices,a gym,a living room,a kitchen,a game room,and most of the bedrooms have walk in closets
-So when u enter there r 2 really big doors,when u go inside there is a pretty long hall way with hard wood floors,high walls,to the left is a small closet for coats and stuff and there is an antique chair,and an antique table
-To the right of the hallway is the family office,Inside is hardwood sloors,an antique table,a pretty nice desk with our family computer which is a year old sony touch screen computer then there is a closet with another desk inside there with my moms 2011 imac and macbook pro
-When you go back to the hall way and keep going straight there is another door to the right,That is my parents bedroom
-In there is more hardwood floors,a really fancy expensive king bed,a medium large brick fireplace,antiques on the shelf of the fireplace,a 27 inch flat screen tv,a glass wall that has a really nice view of the mountains,a walk in closet,a bathroom with a water fountain sink,hot tub,and nice shower
-when u go back 2 the hall way and keep going foward you see two big doors if u open them then theres the living room
-The living room is really big the walls are like 20 feet high,it has really expensive leather couches that were thousands of dollars,a persian rug,a huge brick fire places,really huge paintings,a granite bar with stools,an armoir with big doors that are usually closed cuz my mom doesnt like the look of modern day electronics but if you do open the dorrs there is a 52 inch flat screen with speackers,a wii,and a blue ray player,behind the armoire is a huge glass wall with a view of the mountains and another glass wall that views my porche
-Then there is a door to another hallway,its pretty long,has stairs to the left and a door to the basement,but if u keep going down it you see to kitchen
-The kitchen is pretty big as well,ahas another huge stone fireplace,a glass wall,antique furniture,a mahagony long table,granite counters, a sub zero stainless steel refrigerator,a space maker microwave,a bosche dish washer,a viking stove,and hard wood floors
-There is a littledoors intergrated into the stone wall that goes to a little bathroom,and the loungary room which has two lg washer and dryers and some high tech towel warmer
-the porche has a stainless steel barbeque,a high stone table,and lime stone floors
-If you go back to the hallway and go to the door to the basement there is a door to the garage and then long stairs to the basement,the base ment has 4 rooms,first is some random work out room,then a glass door to the gym which has three treadmills,and much other workout stuff,and a regular tv,then there is a glass door to my dads office
-his office has a pretty nice desk,hardwood floors,a 73 inch flat screen tv,a 4 month old sony computer,his ipad 2g,and his sony laptop which is a month old,he usually upgrades his computer and laptop every 5 months but that only because what he does is all on computers so he needs to use a new one
-Then if you go back up the stairs theres a door to my garage,that has all our cars which is a 2007 lexu rx350 which we are upgrading soon and thats our family car,my dads car which is an infiniti fx50 and a 2008 forde van which we use to store quads and dirtbikes in, a white refrigerator and a regular big screen tv,my dad usually upgrades his cars every 2 years because he commutes 2 hours every day so he needs a new car and he usually gets nice cars which he owns,like in 2000 he had a lexus es,in 2002 he had a mercedes benz amg,in 2004 he had an audi a4,in 2006 he had a saab,in 2008 he had another mercedes benz
-So anyway when you go up the stairs there is another flight of stairs,the first floor is a game room with air hockey,flat screen,fuz ball table,and other games
-then if you go to the 4th floor you see my floor,my floor has a guest room for when my causins sleep over they stay there which has a pretty nice bed and walk in closet,then there is a few other random rooms and the theres my room,my room has a pretty expensive queen bed that was like k,an acer touch screen computer that is like 3 months old,a month old macbook air,a 32 inch flat screen tv,an a
view over the mountains
-We also do vacation every month and stay at expensive hotels
-We also go to very expensive restaurants
-I usually wear clothes from ralph lauren,nautica,michael kors,calvin klien,and other designers
-My parents also have very nice clothes
-We also do have nice electronics too
-My dad and I both have ipad 2gs
-My dad use to have the older ipad but we donated it to Charity
-My dad has the blackberry torch,my mom has the samsung smartphone,and I have the Iphone 4
-My dad makes pretty good money cuz he owns a huge building in a city I will not mtell you
-His office is pretty cool its on the top of the building,over looks the city,he has two brand new imacs on his desk,has a 62 flat screen,and a pool table
-He has owned other business’s before as well like ,real estate,dealer ship,stock,office supplies ect
-when he owned a dealer ship he sold Lamborghini’s,corvettes,mercedes,audis,Ferrari’s,jaguars,and vipers
-Also we have had two limos in the past
-And I do go to a