Formal Living Room Design Photos with a Home Bar

Sitting Room, London
Mid-sized eclectic formal open concept living room in London with white walls, light hardwood floors, no tv, beige floor and coffered.

Oksana Krichman
This is an example of a mid-sized mediterranean formal enclosed living room in Other with a standard fireplace, no tv, white walls, terra-cotta floors and a plaster fireplace surround.

This is an example of a large scandinavian formal open concept living room in Christchurch with brown walls, light hardwood floors, a ribbon fireplace, a tile fireplace surround, a concealed tv and brown floor.

A contemporary space designed for Telford Homes as a show home for their New Garden Quarter development. When designing this space, I really focused on bringing the outside in, as all apartments are centered around a beautiful communal garden, created to encourage community. The brief was to portray the fast-paced city lifestyle, with clean colours and natural woods with greenery throughout, representing the landscaped garden development, whilst conveying a luxury meets convenience lifestyle. It was to be stylish, cool yet cosy in design with a light and more 'earthy' environment and a mixture of materials.

Anders Bergstedt
Photo of a mid-sized scandinavian formal enclosed living room in Gothenburg with black walls, light hardwood floors and no fireplace.

Photo of a mid-sized transitional formal enclosed living room in Barcelona with grey walls, light hardwood floors, no fireplace and no tv.

Mid-sized traditional formal open concept living room in Melbourne with white walls, dark hardwood floors, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and no tv.

Mid-sized modern formal enclosed living room in London with white walls, light hardwood floors and a freestanding tv.

Elegant, bright and neutral colour scheme with a modern touch for |MC |Lounge.
Photo of a mid-sized modern formal enclosed living room in Other with white walls, light hardwood floors and a built-in media wall.

Development: The Brambles Location: Dunmow, Essex Division: Redrow Eastern House type(s): Leamington Room: Living room, lounge Photographer: Peter Corcoran Date: November 2017

Renovation of an apartment located in the infamous Lutyens buildings in Pimlico, Central London. This small apartment was in need of a complete overhaul and modernisation to each and every room. Blessed with natural light and regular layout we designed and developed a modern, practical and stylish bathroom and kitchen, maximising the use of space. Further we designed and developed a beautiful minimalist living room and bedroom, enhanced by stunning lighting. New dark wooden floors are complimented perfectly by the use of grey, black and white walls, materials and fixtures to create a modern stylish apartment.

Arkadiusz Lipigorski
Mid-sized modern formal enclosed living room in London with grey walls, light hardwood floors, a two-sided fireplace, a plaster fireplace surround and a built-in media wall.

Inspiration for a mid-sized modern formal enclosed living room in Edinburgh with beige walls, carpet and a freestanding tv.

Alison Hammond
Photo of a mid-sized transitional formal enclosed living room in Surrey with a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround, no tv, grey floor, grey walls and carpet.

Henrik Svanberg
Mid-sized scandinavian formal living room in Stockholm with white walls, no fireplace, no tv and dark hardwood floors.

The living room entry was changed to make this a contained room with wood burner, large family sofa and additional seating as well as a kids play area at the front. French doors allow you to access to the garden - with great views. The floor is herringbone bamboo and the walls are two shades of green.

Graphic print with Blue El Neon, In a beautiful gold guilt frame Our local lad come good, we pay homage to Captain James Cook, discoverer of exotic lands. His memorial lists him as a man of nautical knowledge, Inferior to none. In zeal prudence and energy, superior to most. We think he would just love his new headphones.

This family sitting room sits at the heart of their stunning rural period home. My client already has a great eye for colour and design, so the big challenge was centred around the issue of layout, as the room has three doors so lots of traffic pathways, plus in terms of function it needed to provide the family with comfortable seating to relax in as well as a dining area. The room needed to flow and feel cocooning, but also to be refined, vibrant and have eclectic edge. The characterful brick fireplace had a wood burner installed and we agreed on a layout that zoned top third of the kitchen end of the room as dining space, with an elegant banquette bench, upholstered in Lewis & Wood Bukhara, a print inspired by an ikat coat in the V&A and loaded with scatter cushions from Oka. I felt strongly that the room would really benefit from a darker wood antique table, so I sourced a 19th century oak refectory table which adds great character and weight to the room. Colourwise we went for a new dado, original skirting and radiators in Farrow & Ball Pigeon, then lighter above the dado to ceiling in Blue Gray. These tones were echoed in the celadon of the reupholstered fabric of the large sofa that divides the room, along with the glass and brass console behind it from Neptune. The stunning Atticus tribal print gathered lampshades from Vaughan create a real focal point for the room and really support the vibe we were looking to create. In terms of the rest of the upholstery the pair of French Louis chairs were sourced from eBay and upholstered in Rapture & Wright’s Serendip, where the generous ottoman was in Nina Campbell Dumas, lending a traditional yet energetic centrepoint. Always keen to repurpose existing pieces we also recovered the client’s pouffe in the small print of Sanderson’s Truffle and piped it in velvet from Samuel & Sons. Last but not least the smaller console, supporting Pooky’s rechargeable lamps with golden marbled shades, was resprayed in Little Greene Adventurer, a timeless plum that works so well with the claret of the existing Tori Murphy blinds.

Open-plan Living Space, London
Photo of a large eclectic open concept living room in London with a home bar, white walls, light hardwood floors, a built-in media wall and beige floor.