Living Room Pictures

Hi Liz,

I LOVE the colors you chose for your living room. We are moving into our new home soon and I need a new couch. I saw in previous post that your sofa came from Ashley, but I went there today with no luck! The salesperson said it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack trying to use a pinterest photo. Any idea of the style or model number? Thanks for any info!

At that point, it's time to consider how to choose your living room furniture, taking into account how you use the space, what kind of sofa you prefer, how many armchairs you can fit in, whether you need a sofa bed, and the importance of a coffee table or ottoman, and of course side tables to put a drink on. The right furniture can make a huge difference to the feeling of a room. Consider the scale of it - you don't want tiny furniture drowning in a huge room, although small living rooms can often benefit from some oversized furniture. In an open plan living room-cum-kitchen, furniture can be essential for breaking up the space; a sofa with its back turned to the dining table is a handy way of differentiating between the living space and the dining space. And consider how you use your furniture before you make the final decision - do you prefer to lounge on a squashy sofa or is this a more formal room where you'd prefer to sit upright?

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The sitting room in the newer part of Blanche Vaughan's house was originally furnished by Robert Kime. Later Hugo's friend Camilla Guinness repainted the walls in Oxblood distemper and added bookshelves, a log store and berber rugs. The sofas, chairs, ottoman and upholstery fabrics are from Robert Kime.

If adding character to a newbuild is a problem you face, take inspiration from Rixo co-founder Orlagh McCloskey's London house. Limewashed walls and an eclectic mix of furniture means that the large, square rooms of the house are filled with personality.

In her house in Provence, Victoria Stainow has moved the fireplace and installed a reproduction chimneypiece, which has turned the darker end of the room into an inviting space. Two 1980s sofas in their original red brocade fabric are teamed with a ceramic side table by Caitriona Manoury, antique chairs from Patrick Pascal in Fontvieille and a mid-century coffee table. A painting by Catharine Warren provides a distinctive focal point.

Artist Natasha Mann has used her south London home as a canvas for her Moroccan-inspired paintings. In the sitting room is a snapshot of a curated collection of tapestries, ceramics, plates, miniatures, and tribal artworks sourced by Natasha during her extensive travels for inspiration.

Having moved from Atlanta to London with her husband during the pandemic, interior designer Sally Wilkinson has created a one-bed flat in Chelsea that is a love letter to the couple's time in Europe. The living room is a lovely mix of vintage and bespoke, drawing from different European styles and design approaches. With a calming colour palette and comfortable furnishings, it is the perfect retreat.

In the living room of this artfully layered London house designed by Salvesen Graham, a pair of matching piped corner sofas adds a pleasing sense of symmetry to this informal living space, which looks onto the garden.

The sitting room of this charming Notting Hill pied--terre designed by The List member Sarah Peake of design firm Studio Peake, with fabrics put together by Sophy Toller of Studio Peake, is where both the client and the studio flexed their love of textiles. The patterned curtain fabric is Samarkand by Peter Dunham from Tissus D'Helene, while the walls are covered in plain linen from Fermoie. On the floor, a bespoke rug from Vanderhurd. The sofas are both bespoke by Studio Peake: the patterned sofa is in Peter Dunham Carmenia Col. Indigo, the green sofa is mohair from Yarn Collective and linen from Rose Tarlow.

Having restored the elegant Victorian features of this airy flat in north London, designer Alice Davies set about creating a calming yet eclectic backdrop in which a creative young couple could harmoniously live and work. The light-filled living space is a comfortable communal space, well-layered and showcasing a perfect mix of more modern and traditional furnishings and styles.

An unusually receptive client made this project a dream for interior designer Kate Guinness, who has applied her signature layers of colour and pattern throughout this formerly minimalist Kensington house. In one of the house's many communal living spaces, a Kendrick Sofa from David Seyfried is covered in Les Ecailles by le Manach. It's an unprecious space, as Kate explains, and the dogs are allowed on the sofa.

With its airy, light-filled extension, lush jungle garden and gently decorated rooms, Tom and Connie Barton's London house feels like the ideal city home. In the comfortable, airy living room, a leather sofa from Muuto provides relaxed seating in the contemporary extension.

For this couple with a young child, it was a priority to live in a house that lent itself to family life as much as to entertaining. With the help of Tiffany Duggan, the small terrace in Chelsea is now a space that thrills as much as it functions. The main sitting room was designed for entertaining, so plenty of seating was brought in. The lime green mohair armchairs are Tiffany's own design.

Designer Nina Litchfield has brought the influences of her Brazilian roots and German upbringing to bear on her house in west London, in which her strong and distinctive look is enlivened with an elegant exuberance. The limestone fireplace from Arbon Interiors in the living room is flanked by chairs bough at Lots Road Auctions. The George smith sofa is covered in Schumacher's Madeleine Velvet.

When Caroline Riddell was called upon to renovate and reimagine a run-down, 17th-century cart shed as guest quarters for a larger house, she turned to traditional techniques and materials to make sure the space would be welcoming and cosy for anyone who happened to cross its threshold. The open-plan living space showcases Caroline's mastery of the brief perfectly. The pendant light is an Aplomb light in Cement from FCI London. The table is a French farmhouse table and the sideboard at the end of the room was found on site in another empty barn.

In the living room of this pared-back Wiltshire farmhouse, a bespoke Thurstan sofa and an African throne chair, sourced by James, are arranged around a coffee table that he had made from an old piece of chestnut. The abstract painting is by Basil Beattie.

In the intimate drawing room of this distinguished Georgian house, the carved chimneypiece is painted to resemble stone, and late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century paintings are hung around it.

In the drawing room of this irresistible Georgian house in a flower-filled valley, designer Sophie Hale has combined antique furniture with pieces found in Istanbul, such as the three Syrian inlaid side tables bought from Iznik Classics. As with the morning room, the carpet, from Farnham Antique Carpets, sets the colour scheme.

In her basement flat in west London, interior designer Thea Speke has created a masterclass in lightening and brightening a potentially gloomy space. In the sitting room, Thea had the orange and rust coloured cushions made up from fabrics that she sourced from Goldhawk Road and Rose Uniacke.

A classic open-plan living space, the warm natural tones and textures of parquet by Oak Artisans and a sisal rug by Tim Page soften the lines of the minimalist kitchen (left) in this London house designed by Kerry Franses.

Serial renovators of historic houses on a grand scale, the dynamic design duo Peter Sheppard and Keith Day took on their greatest challenge yet with exquisite 18th-century Wolterton Hall in north Norfolk, which had lain uninhabited for almost 30 years. Originally for royal visitors staying in the adjoining State Bedroom, this is now the main sitting room. Talk about grand.

In the living room of a novelist's house in London, a striped ottoman by Susan Deliss sits on a rug from Robert Kime, next to the sofa in burnt-orange velvet from Sofa.com, which divides the sitting and dining areas. The blue resin lamp by Marianna Kennedy and vintage lifebuoys from Criterion auction house add colourful touches.

In the living room of Alfred Bransen's Hackney flat with quite a Danish sensibility, a sofa from IKEA mixes with a vintage coffee table and lots of colourful soft furnishings. The cushions are a mix of Hay and The Apartment DK, while the fish that hang above the sofa are Alfred's collaboration with Ohayo, a Danish brand that imports Japanese antiques, ceramics, vintage textiles and curiosities and celebrates the Japanese aesthetic in Scandinavia.

In Nicola Mardas's home in Deal, the long sitting room occupies most of the first floor, looking out over the sea. A rug by Robert Stephenson adds colour, while deep blue curtains in Romo's 'Linara Bilberry' are brightened up with a Samuel & Sons border.

The main living area of Sally Wilkinson's rented flat. Sofa by Sofa Icon covered in a Claremont fabric, lumbar cushion in Rose Tarlow fabric, small cushions by De Le Cuona. Side table is antique and coffee table is vintage from Vinterior. Green lamp by Penny Morrison with lampshade by Robert Kime. Dining table is vintage from Petersham Nurseries, tablecloth custom-made with fabric by Chelsea Textiles. Dining chair slipcovers custom-made from Claremont fabric.

Interior designer Anahita Rigby brings a Regency house in London out of the darkness and into the light with her soft, airy and detail-oriented design. The well-appointed living room features two Agatha armchairs from Arlo and Jacob, Elica folding stools from Giobagnara and a Grisewood lamp from OKA. The travertine table is from Golborne 44, as is the solid elm chair, which was designed by Finnish designer Olavi Hnninen. The chandelier is an antique Murano, sourced from Italy; the globe was found at the Sunbury antiques market in Kempton.

When she had to make her new cottage comfortable and liveable in the period before a full renovation, interior designer Katharine Paravicini made some clever decisions about where to splurge and where to rein in the budget. As in much of the house, the walls in the living room are painted in Farrow & Ball's 'Pointing', which forms a neutral backdrop for Katharine's arrangements of fabrics. The rug was a bespoke commission from India. ff782bc1db