Welcome to our beautiful gallery of formal living room design ideas. These luxuriously decorated living room designs were created by top interior designers and showcase a variety of colors, textures, patterns and types of furniture.
Accent colors go well with the elegant gray-white palettes of many formal living rooms. In the example above, a generous helping of navy blue is applied on the arm chairs and playfully-patterned throw cushions; this complements the gray paint of the walls and the white of the crown moldings and tray ceiling.
The navy theme is further carried out by the knotted white rug and dark oak wood flooring. The white leather English sofas and glass chandelier give the room an extra touch of class.
Formal Living Room Ideas
An integral part of any household is the living room, where everyone gathers to spend time together and for conversation. However, have you ever considered the effectiveness of the design that would impact the mood and patterns of those who use the room?
The setting of the interior space bears a major impact upon our behavior by the elements that it addresses. For an instance, the color palette, furniture and living room layout are a few of the important features that need to be analyzed.
The main key is to understand the living room space excluding its furniture. Once that is done, you may be able to come up with innovative configurations for an optimum living room layout. Analyzing the essential traffic patterns such as the main entrance door to the optional exit door, can come in handy to understand where to install additional furniture pieces without obstructing circulation patterns.
Listing out the functions wanted, and the quantity of users of the space are a great option to further enhance the design. The lighting, material consideration, and the layout should be designed accordingly, giving prominence to the activity that happens regularly.
Most commonly in a casual living room a fireplace and a TV compete against each other to be the main focus of the living room. You have the choice to select what you want others to see at their first glance when they walk into the room right away.
The focal point/s should be given prominence by arranging the other furniture around it or by making it stand out more than the other objects.
Usually, there are average rules that are adhered to by people to create more orderly spaces. For instance, furniture pieces are supposed to be placed in a parallel line to create a more organized view, whereas angled furniture may create a bit of a cluttered viewpoint depending on how it is positioned.
If the furniture pieces are large, the interior layout should be designed accordingly. For example, the sofa could be faced directly towards the fireplace or placed perpendicularly.
If you have problems with two main focal points, you should choose the focal point that bears a lot of visual weight and merge it into the secondary focal point. For example, at the same time the sofa faces the fireplace, it can be placed perpendicular to the secondary focal point. That way, the idea of merging the whole interior space is a dream come true.
In older homes, you’ll frequently still find aformal living roomand a lessformal family roomor den. Many homes – both old and new – rely on a single room as the living space for the entire family. – Living Rooms, Coleen Cahill
By analyzing the functions and needs of each person you have the ability to customize your living room to fit your family. When not in use as a formal dining room the space can even be transformed into a cozy corner, and with the addition of two seater couch, it could be easily transformed into a play area with a little thought.
Formal Living Room Design Pictures
The black geometric patterns on the white armless lounge chairs, the gray modern sofa, and the knotted rug define the main living space.The stonetop coffee table in the middle of it all goes well with the stone surface of the fireplace. The white crown moldings, tan-painted walls, and the dark-stained cherry flooring are intelligent design choices for this type of space.
Crown moldings and wall panels, gold gilding on the wall and ceiling elements, and various carvings and Neo-Classical elements on the columns and walls around the fireplace, and the classical Persian rug on the wood flooring top off this thoughtful piece of formal and traditional design with sophistication and elegance.
Contemporary also mixes with traditional design styles as seen in the minimalist designs of the windows, balcony glass railings, and the stylistic elements of the walls that all blend surprisingly well with the traditional glass chandelier, English style seats, and polished stone flooring.
The low-hung chandelier makes the space feel personal and private but does not diminish the spacious sophistication of the room. The simple striped wallpaper as well as the accent wooden wall panels are also a nice touch. The travertine floor adds a nice final bit of warmth to the space.
The use of black leather cabriole sofas and arm chairs with white linings, as well as the use of a solid wood black coffee table, add a touch of minimalist sophistication to the area. Finally, the use of a checkered animal print rug and the floral gold patterned throw cushions add some personality to the space.
The cozy wood-burning fireplace, the use of rustic wooden cabinetry and shelves, not to mention the subtle cold and white patterned rug all do its part in making this place truly feel like home. The generous use of windows and view doors give the place a spacious feel, despite its small floor space.
This brings out the elegance of the furniture – the white English sofas and the pink winged leather arm chairs, the large ornately patterned Persian rug, the the floral tapestry hung on the wall, and the sophistication of the grand piano. The mahogany wood flooring, the high windows and glass view doors, and the glass chandelier make the space feel open and bright.
The mahogany floor boards, the white mid-century modern sofas, ottomans, and lounge chairs, as well as the white painted walls and ceilings, are all enhanced by the large door openings that bring much of the charm of the outdoors into the coziness of the indoors. The abstract piece of art displayed on the white console side table is also a nice touch of creativity in this example of interior design.
The floral motif used in the form of the table top flower-filled vases and the strikingly scarlet hung paintings also add a bold splash of personality to the space.
However, the best part of this piece has to be the ocean views outside. In seaside locations such as this, the use of large sliding windows are common: they give you amazing vistas of the sea as well as letting sea breezes into the area to help with passively cooling the space.
The marble stone floors, the crown molded ceiling panels and the velvet red door curtain, all add to the eye-catching stylish ambiance of this formal living room.
The red and tan carpet, the white and maroon window curtains, and the playful choice of throw cushions bring the color palette even further. Lastly, the use of polished marble flooring, large full-length windows and view doors, and the bronze chandelier keep the space feeling high end and sophisticated.
The knotted carpet on brown cherry wood flooring, the patterned throw cushions, and the variousflora that decorate the space, and the tabletop and shelf top decors that are used further give the space life and personality. White-framed single hung windows and glass view doors were used to keep their space feeling spacious and not too cramped by letting light in and giving the users ample views of the outdoors.
These patterns can also be seen used as tablecloths for the side tables. The matching glass-top wooden coffee table and side table are nice touches to the design. The floral patterned rug on polished granite floor tiles anchors the whole design together, while the gold-trimmed curtains add an additional touch of class to the space.
Couple these with the classy use of mahogany floor boards, yellow and blue green accent walls and crown moldings, and the subtle yet undeniable charm of a draping golden window curtain, this design goes to show that some of the best examples of interior design comes in small packages.
The black leather furniture feature minimal ornamentation or stylistic elements, further giving the room a bold and simple ambiance. It makes one feel as if you are in a Piet Mondrian painting.
Its use of white and gray marble flooring and the tan and brown marble siding of the wood-burning fireplace make the space feel classy and sophisticated; the Venus mini caryatids are also a nice touch. The generous employment of glass doors and windows as well as the wall mirror keep the room feeling spacious and bright.
Certain parts of gray accent walls aside, almost everything else in the room is a beautiful splash of white. The white leather Lawson-style sofas, the white door and window frames of the large glass windows and view doors, the white crown moldings and wall trimmings – these all add a nice brightness to this wonderful piece of formal living room design.
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