COZY LIVING ROOMS WITH BOLD DESIGN CHOICES

If your living room is cramped, there's still no reason to sacrifice style. With a focus on creativity and well-curated furnishings, you can design a space that truly speaks to your design aesthetic. Curious about how to arrange a high-design small living room? See how designers used everything from brilliant layouts and bold colors to double-duty furniture and stylish accessories to craft small living rooms that are big on style.

SCANDINAVIAN-INSPIRED LIVING ROOM

Luxury hotels and modern Scandinavian style informed the aesthetic of Swedish it-girl Babba C. Rivera's Brooklyn Heights living room. "I love the mid-century era—a lot of my furniture is mid-century modern—which I balance with contemporary touches so it's not too vintage looking," Rivera says.

BROOKLYN LIVING ROOM

A living room in a Brooklyn triplex designed by architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of WORKac proves that you can still show off your style in a small space. Along with bold blue sofas by Caravane, the space includes a custom cocktail table, and an ottoman from the Vernaison flea market in Paris. Speakers by Audio Physic, a rug from ABC Carpet & Home, and a custom blackened-steel fireplace by CF + D complete the look.

LUXE MIAMI LIVING ROOM

 

When supermodel Joan Smalls is not traveling around the world, she's unwinding in her luxe Miami aerie. The living room features a sofa and pillows, Milo Baughman armchair, cocktail table, and rug that are all from RH, Restoration Hardware. Smalls also chose a 1950s Vicke Lindstrand vase from Il Gufo Antiques & Design.

LAKE HOUSE LIVING ROOM

Wicker disks serve as a focal point in designer Sabrina Albanese's living room. In addition to a custom sofa by Robert Allen with cushions in a Schumacher fabric, the rug is Miles Redd for Patterson Flynn Martin.

BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE LIVING ROOM

A Fedele Papagni chandelier from Donzella, which hangs above a custom Vladimir Kagan sofa, completes this living room design by decorator Elizabeth Roberts. Chartreuse-colored curtains in an Elitis’s Poeme fabric, and artworks by Olafur Eliasson and Kehinde Wiley enhance the design scheme.

LAYERED LIVING ROOM

 

In a Marfa, Texas, home, a living room with a layered aesthetic includes a Poul Henningsen light fixture, a Navajo rug, and a cabinet by Robert "Mouseman" Thompson that holds an Ansel Adams photograph. The walls are painted in Benjamin Moore's Cloud White.

COZY LIVING ROOM

 

The love seat in the living room of a cozy Montana guesthouse is by Cisco Home. The cabinet is 19th-century Moorish and the cocktail table is a custom design. Oly footstools, an antique crystal chandelier, and a wallcovering from Sloan Miyasato complete the space. A buffalo-hide rug is layered on top of a Mark Nelson Designs carpet.

ANTIQUE-FILLED LIVING ROOM

Antique pieces from the 20s, 30s, and 50s, including Dorothy Draper chairs, are one of the main highlights of the living room in the Beverly Hills home of Too Faced Founders Jerrod Blandino and Jeremy Johnson. The Slim Aarons photo hanging in the kitchen are juxtaposed against modern touches like Kate Spade sconces along the stairs and a brass-and-marble dining table designed by Jerrod himself.

INVITING LIVING ROOM

 

In a Netherlands living room, off-white sofas pop against a dark background, adding to its cozy, romantic vibe.

NEUTRAL LIVING ROOM

In the living room of Kate and Rem Reynolds’s townhouse in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, the sofa from ABC Carpet & Home is upholstered in a fabric by Soraya Shah for Studio Four NYC, the design showroom Kate Reynolds co-owns. The room is outfitted with a Timothy Oulton chaise, a Danish cocktail table, an Akari pendant light by Noguchi, shades of a Rebecca Atwood fabric, and a vintage Moroccan rug. The walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Huntington White and the trim in Iron Mountain, the photograph is by Claire Nitze, and the cameo portrait is by Doug Meyer.

ROMANTIC PARLOR LIVING ROOM

In the sitting area of a Parisian apartment, the sofa is upholstered in a cotton damask, the armchair is covered in a silk velvet and the slipper chair is based on a Mongiardino design; the desk is Louis XV, the chandelier is Louis XIV and the 19th-century rug is Persian.

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