This is an example of a large transitional open concept living room in Sussex with a music area, pink walls, light hardwood floors, a wood stove, a stone fireplace surround, beige floor and vaulted.

Design ideas for a mid-sized industrial open concept living room in Paris with white walls, light hardwood floors, no fireplace, brown floor, exposed beam, a library and a concealed tv.

Photo of a midcentury living room in Other.

Inspiration for a midcentury living room in Auckland.

Création d'agencements sur mesure et décoration d'un appartement aux Sables d'Olonne, par Lydie Pineau, Architecte d'Intérieur. Design unique et singulier, avec des touches d'Art Deco. Finition cuivre, marbre, papier-peint

Tamas Toth
Transitional living room in London with a home bar.

This is an example of a modern living room in Lyon.

A cosy seating area for reading or watching the children in the garden or chatting over a cuppa is now one of the favourite spots in the house. We painted the radiator so it effectively disappears in the room. This was a less expensive option than either replacing the radiator or having it covered. Image credit: Georgi Mabee.

We were asked to resolve a problem with the layout of a house in the Whitehall Park Conservation Area in Islington. The house had wonderful high ceilings and well proportioned reception rooms, but the kitchen was very compromised. It was housed in an old side return extension and accessed through a warren of other rooms. It was too small and low, didn’t relate well to the dining room and was cut off from the other rooms in the house, accessed down a small flight of steps. The owners wanted a generous, multifunctional family space where they could enjoy time together. Our solution was to take out the side wall of the rear reception room, reconstruct the side return completely and join the two spaces to create a lateral kitchen dining space. Behind this space the old dining room, with less access to natural light, became a utility room, cloakroom and music room. We flipped the kitchen into the old reception room and lowered the floor to create one seamless room level with the garden. This gave the kitchen a huge ceiling height and meant we could increase the size of the French doors which open out onto the garden, making them very grand and a real focal point of the room. The extension itself has a fully glazed roof to bring the most amount of light into the space, including electrically opening rooflights for ventilation. To avoid the dining room being overlooked by the neighbours upper windows, we designed a series of louvres made of oak to line the underside of the roof. These allow filtered light into the extension whilst maintaining a sense of privacy and enclosure. They are openable to allow the glass to be cleaned and we used them to inform the rest of the interior. The extension contrasts to the more traditional kitchen area with its high ceilings and ornate cornice, using oak panels as a lining around the walls. The opening into the kitchen forms a datum line, above which the oak is clad in battens to create texture and tie into design of the louvres. A bench containing storage runs all the way around the dining room and a large pivot window frames views from the music room into the garden. The window can be fully opened to connect the dining room to the outside. The rear wall of the dining room is finished in natural clay plaster, continuing the warm earthy tones of the oak cladding. Externally we used a traditional yellow stock brick so the extension feels like it belongs to the house, but we used the brick in a sawtooth bond, laying them at 45 degrees to create a triangular pattern which create interesting shadows throughout the day.

Contemporary living room in Berkshire.

Veronica Rodriguez
Inspiration for a traditional living room in London with grey walls, light hardwood floors and a wood stove.

Design ideas for a contemporary formal living room in Other with grey walls.

Peter Landers
Mid-sized transitional living room in London with pink walls, medium hardwood floors, a standard fireplace, a tile fireplace surround, a wall-mounted tv and brown floor.

This is an example of a transitional living room in London.

Curtain pelmet and curtain fabric: Grey Sophia edged with grey pom pom trim. Settee upholstery fabric: Charcoal Stripe. Chair upholstery fabric left and right: Light Natural Plain. Cushion fabrics from left to right, front: Red Josephine, Oyster Christobel, Natural Light Plain Linen, Grey Sophia, Cameo & Ribbons Tuscan Pink.

Adam Butler
Design ideas for a traditional living room in London.

This is an example of a mid-sized scandinavian formal open concept living room in Stockholm with white walls, a standard fireplace, no tv and light hardwood floors.

This best seller is designed so that the fire can be viewed from all sides and provides a luminous focus to any room. This model is installed on a pedestal. 630/850 diameter 11/12kw

Janey Butler Studio Knutsford Barn Project. This project has won multiple international design & architecture awards, national construction awards and is also one of the most featured projects on Houzz UK & Pinterest. A highly complex, cantilevered Sky-Frame system as well as a number of pioneering/eco technologies were used on this ground breaking project.