35 Stunning Modern Living Room Ideas (Photos)
These modern living room ideas range from stunning minimalists to elegant, more luxurious rooms. Below you’ll find a variety of modern living room designs that offer you a wide range of furniture, colors, and patterns. From formal sitting areas to relaxed entertaining areas, the interior design pictures in this gallery provide plenty of luxurious living room layouts.
Interior Designer Tips For a Stylish Modern Room
Modern living room home décor is considered to be one of the most sought-after home decoration styles in recent times. A modern home is spacious, giving importance to an airy, well-defined space. Modern living rooms are streamlined, unlike traditional homes that are dominated by free-flowing curves and ornate details. Achieving a modern living room is something we all aim for; the secret actually lies in just a few smart ideas and choices. Let’s take a look at ways to come up with alluring modern living room ideas:
Theme: A modern home is seamlessly fused together by a lot of different elements. From an ultra chic modern décor dominated by stone textures and black & white color tones to a warm and minimalist Asian zen décor, there are a lot of varied themes to choose from while planning a modern living room for your home. So firstly, pick the theme of your modern décor and work towards it by putting together all the other elements.
Color Palette And Textures: A modern living room is often defined by its minimalist look. Nothing over the top in terms of colors or textures is seen dominating a modern living room. That said, a modern décor can have a lot of varied looks, each one retaining the underlying modernistic theme in its own unique ways. And a lot of it is contributed by the change in color palettes and textures.
A modern living room uses softer and muted tones in most of its style. A black-and-white home brings in an upscale yet minimal appeal, while warm tones like browns and beige set a neutral background. The specific use of textures like stone, glass, wood, leather, and marble in bits and pieces around the living room instantly adds a mod appeal to a space.
Modern Furniture: Furniture plays a very important role in setting up the look and feel of a place. So if you are trying to achieve a modern living room décor, you can’t go wrong while choosing the furniture for your living room. Furniture belonging to the modern era is one of the most loved ones by design and décor enthusiast.
For a living room that exudes a modern look, you can choose from mid-century modern furniture styles that feature raised legs and clean, straight lines. Scandinavian furniture designs also inherit a similar type of modernistic design. Minimalism lies at the core of modern furniture, and hence, its simple yet ultra-chic look takes center stage in any room where it is placed. You can play around with its combination and even add a touch of classics to your décor.
Contemporary Accessories: A space receives finesse with the right kind of accessories. Show your attention to detailing by opting for modern décor accessories that rightly supports your modern living room. For the walls, abstract and modern paintings, sketches or portrait photographs would add the right bit of modern elegance. Do not forget to place statement-making accessories like metal lamps, ceramic structures, vases, glass chandeliers etc to add the required visual appeal to your living room.
Modern Living Room Ideas
Above is a minimalist modern living room with a black & white color scheme. There is play in different textures in this design – you will see that the fabrics used have prominent and varied textures. On the walls, you will also see a play in textures – walls are matte black while the round columns were painted in a glossy black paint. There is even an electric fireplace in the middle made with stainless steel cladding. The warm colored lights used in the space help soften up the look and make it warmer and more inviting.
This modern tropical living room blends neutral colors with warm browns, creating a relaxing and laid-back ambiance to the space. The floors are engineered cherry wood, paired with light yellow walls and an accent wall painted in a matte light mocha brown color. Because the walls and floors are already dark, the furniture used is in light cream, making it stand out from the wall and floor surfaces. You can also see stone cladding applied on columns to add texture, as well as indoor plants to add a pop of color into the space.
This space is a modern transitional living room, with a bold combination of colors, yet still maintaining a balance and an easy-on-the eyes appeal. The floors are light maple wood paired with white walls and antiqued metallic wallpaper. Furniture pieces is a combination of classic and modern. A large modern L-shape sofa in teal is the main accent piece, paired with a neo-classic style coffee table and modern media console. Accentuating the living area is a rawhide rug and a unique crystal chandelier with etched glass right above it attached on the ceiling, helping reflect back the light onto the floor.
Scandinavian Modern furniture pieces often create a clean and casual look to any living space, and at the same time, makes it look fun and perfectly “instagrammable”. In Scandanivian modern designs, the furniture pieces themselves take center-stage, therefore, the surfaces are kept plain and clean – light beech wood floors & pale cream walls. This is paired with light-colored furniture pieces with light wood finishes and unique organic forms.
Using a very minimalist modern aesthetic, this living room is only furnished with one sectional sofa in a light cream color with plain white walls and wooden floors. The large artwork on the pain white wall adds a pop of color to the space, as well as the built-in fireplace at the corner.
A cozy modern living room with a combination of warm brown tones and white creating a pleasing balance and contrast. The walls are plain white, combined with textured accent wallpaper in a warm mocha color which matches the color and texture of the blinds used. For the furniture pieces, white is the color of choice, combined with glass to add a reflective element to the space and a matching white area rug to frame and soften up the living area.
This modern living room plays around with rough-looking patterns and textures, creating a grungy background. Walls and floors are both in gray, creating a semi-dark, muted background, helping the white sectional leather sofa stand-out. There are also some wood elements seen in this room, and all are in dark wengue finish.
With high ceiling and luxurious materials, this modern living room is not only massive, but also has a grand feel. The walls are all covered in a unique finish of taupe wallpaper and paired with porcelain tiles for the floors. There’s a circular loft area with glass railings overlooking the living area but is covered with sheer curtains. For the living room itself, the size of the space allows 2 living areas with still enough open space in between. Both areas were furnished with chesterfield sofa & armchairs in a light beige leather upholstery, paired with concrete finish coffee table with tempered glass top. The combination of elegant materials and the scaling of the space really gives the place a hotel-like feel.
A formal living space with a very elegant appeal uses classic furniture pieces, creating a modern transitional space. The sofas used are classic scroll-arm sofas upholstered in a light cream linen fabric that matches the armchair. It has a round modern coffee table with a white ceramic top and stainless steel legs, matching other stainless elements in the space like the side table and the chandelier.
This minimalist modern living room is placed in a unique architecture with two sides of the wall with clear glass opening up to a gorgeous view of the sea. This gives an excellent natural illumination into the interiors, and of course, provides the space with a double stunning view. As for the finishes, solid horizontal wood slats were used running on the floors, to the walls and even up to the ceiling. The space is equipped with a modern electric fireplace and furnished with a pair of modern white sofas paired with a black coffee table.
A combination of soft colors create a relaxing and laid-back look to this modern living room. It has a semi-open layout, dividing the living area & the dining with a sliding partition/door panels so you can close or open the two spaces for privacy at your whim. The living area has dark cherry wooden floors, light cream wallpapered walls, white ceiling and some light beech wood accents. The furniture pieces in the space is a large L-shape sofa upholstered in light cream linen, a classic scroll arm armchair in mocha fabric, a modern square stainless steel coffee table and matching stainless steel ceiling and floor lamps.
A combination of modern and industrial style finishes creates a unique look to this living room. It uses polished concrete floors and ceiling paired with clean white walls, creating a more polished industrial feel to the space, with making it too dark or grungy. Furniture pieces are all modern, with sharp, clean silhouettes and clean finishes. The sofa is upholstered in an orange leather fabric, which matches the upholstery of the two large square ottomans. There’s a large square coffee table at the center with black matte top and stainless steel legs, matching the very long black media console by the wall. Overall, the space is not overly furnished, making it look big and spacious, yet still creating a good spatial balance.
This living room features a unique layout and excellent combination of wood elements and greens. A fireplace was placed diagonally in a corner, creating a unique traffic flow. There are large windows and door openings framed with natural teak wood, creating a warm and natural feel to the space as well as providing excellent indoor lighting. As for the furnishings, a modern matching set of sofa, armchair, and ottoman was used, with orange and beige leather upholstery and a wooden coffee table. There are indoor plants to help improve indoor air quality as well as the over-all natural ambiance of the space.
The high sloped ceiling of this modern living room helps make it look extra spacious and refreshing. Adapting a minimalist modern style also helps make it look more spacious as it only contains necessary furniture pieces. The sofa and the ottomans are a matching set with brown and white leather upholstery and a unique curved shape. In the middle of the layout is a round high pile area rug and a modern glass coffee table. To help balance out the scale of the open spaces, various indoor plants with different sizes were used.
A small but lovely modern living room that combines simple furniture pieces with iconic modern furniture. It follows a simple cream, black, and white color scheme, which is easy on the eyes and has a timeless and gender-neutral appeal. The walls are a textured cream color with an accent wall painted in black, paired with light ash floors. The TV is attached on a modular TV console with overhead shelves and cabinets.
The furniture pieces used is are matching white leather sofas, an iconic black Le Corbusier LC4 chaise lounge, and an equally iconic arched stainless steel floor lamp with a marble base. Modern living room ideas with small layouts can appear larger by hanging curtains that help direct the eyes up and create the illusion of a larger space. Furniture pieces such as glass tables or mirrors ca also reflect light and help a smaller layout appear more spacious.
Most modern interiors are more conservative when it comes to color palettes, but this particular living room experiments a bit and uses a sectional sofa upholstered in lavender leather. The TV wall was clad in wash gray-white ceramic tiles with rough texture, giving it a concrete-like finish. It has a built-in ledge in dark wengue and modular cabinets in white and black. Solid teak wood floors help add warmth into the space and the large sliding doors not only gives a nice outdoor view, but also provides excellent natural light.
This is another minimalist modern living room design that adds wood elements to add more warmth and personality to the space. With a large floor area, this apartment can have two living areas. In this picture, you will see the formal living area or the receiving area, and visible at the back is more of the entertainment area. These two living rooms are divided by horizontal wood slats, which helps maintain that open floor plan look, while perfectly separating the two living areas. The formal living area uses an L-shaped white leather upholstered sofa with a wood laminated coffee table, a matching floor lamp, and a high pile area rug.
Most modern spaces opts to use plain white walls for its versatility. In this example you will see that the orange modern sofa and the dark brown leather sofa is balanced out by the bright white walls of the space. It also helps that there are lots of natural light in the space, creating a bright atmosphere.
Contemporary living rooms often adapt color palette similar to this example. The combination of various tones of grays creates a clean monochromatic look, but adds textures on the walls and other materials to make it look more interesting. In this example, you will see that the gray painted wall is not a flat gray finish but has a marbled effect which mimics a concrete finish. The texture of the dark gray fabric used on the sofa is also very prominent and combines with the table surfaces’ reflective finish and the stainless steel legs.
To get a softer look, light warm neutrals could be used as your color palette of choice. Using light oatmeal painted walls combined with light beige modern sofa & accent chair, this living room exudes a perfectly relaxed atmosphere. The large windows and doors also help contribute to this effect, as well as the soft throw pillows used on the sofa. There isn’t much accessories in the space to keep the minimalist look.
Despite the limited floor area, this modern living room looks wide and spacious because of the high ceiling. The light finishes also help make the space look bigger. The media wall cabinets all have a high gloss white laminate, set against sandstone-clad walls. Opposite this is the accent wall panels behind the gray sofa which are made out of horizontal planks of ebony laminates with aluminum channel spacers. This helps bring focus to the living area, and frames the space as well.
This modern living room has a brighter, more cheerful feel to it as it combines various colors and textures. The bright yellow tones of its golden oak floors already give a bright mood to the space, but this is further combined with a bright orange rug with floral patterns, a light brown leather sofa with orange and indigo pillows and an accent wall clad with large river stones in a combination of white, indigo and orange.
This is another Mid-Century modern living room that focuses on soft, muted colors to create a relaxing and cozy atmosphere. Instead o flat whites, off-whites were used on walls and floors, combined with light cream fabrics like that used on the L-shape sofa. A unique wood coffee table cut from an old tree was used for the coffee table, combined with a simple, low white media console. The large wall art helps add a contrast of dark color to the space, balancing the overall look. Modern living room ideas that utilize wall art can help draw the eye upward, which is especially useful in rooms with smaller layouts.
All White Lounge Room Styles
Modern living room ideas that go for an all-white color scheme can create a bright, clean, and crisp-looking space. This room’s walls, furniture, and even built-in shelves are all in white, including lamps and even small items like the plant pot. Indoor plants were added into the space to give it a more natural feel, subtly breaking the monotony of whites. Some accessories are placed in black or dark wengue, helping contrast colors to the all-white living space.
Using an all-white scheme for contemporary interiors is a safe choice, giving you a very bright and clean-looking space which could be a little tasking when it comes to maintenance. All walls, furniture pieces and even accessories are white, except the floors which used light gray tiles. To help add more personality to the space, patterns were applied to some elements, like the horizontal panels on the fireplace wall and the square pattern on the area rug. Furniture pieces are two pieces of modern armchairs with a unique organic shape.
Choosing an all-white color scheme creates a very bright and clean-looking space that also tends to have a more futuristic living room feel, especially when furnished with modern furniture pieces.In this example, you will see that all surfaces – walls, floors, ceiling and even the window treatments- are all white, including all furniture pieces, except for a few accessories and some indoor plants. For modern minimalist-lovers, this living room design is a perfect choice.
Black and White Color Combinations
Modern living spaces often adapt very simple color palettes, and one of the most common choices is a black & white color palette, as it is very flexible and timeless. This living room design is one such example. It combines white walls with a black wallpaper accent wall, and all-white furniture pieces, combined with stainless steel and black tinted glass to complete that modern look. Accessories’ colors are also often limited to black, white, or silver to keep with the color scheme, creating a well-put-together look.
Modern minimalist living rooms often stick to a very simple color scheme, such as this example, which uses a basic black & white color scheme. Wooden floor boards were painted in white to match the white walls and ceiling, while the floor to ceiling doors and windows uses black aluminum framing. The TV wall has an accent strip of black padded fabric on the wall, which also helps improve the acoustics, and for the furniture, a white leather-upholstered sectional sofa and a matching coffee table were used.
Contemporary homes adapting a darker color scheme often have that sleek & sophisticated appeal, such as in this example. This living room is very simple and furnished with only the essentials, yet it achieves a complete and balanced look. Large glass doors/windows with black frames was paired with black accent wall and white floors, creating a neutral ye contrasting background. For the furniture, there is only one L-shape sofa in gray linen upholstery and white organic-shaped coffee table framed with black area rug.
Modern Brown Colors for Sitting Rooms
This modern living space combines modern and rustic elements as it effectively unifies the look of the outdoor and indoor spaces. The living area has an average floor and adopts an open layout. The floors are light gray concrete and walls are plain off-white. There’s an accent panel walls with Teak wood laminates where the TV was mounted, and the furniture pieces used is a pair of arm-less sofas in gray velvet fabric adding a soft texture to the space. The wood element of the accent wall matches the rustic wood sidings used on the patio area, creating unified look for the two spaces.
Dominated by blacks and brown tones this living room has that sophisticated modern feel, creating a very elegant yet simple living room design. Floors are textured ceramic tiles in light gray, and walls are mostly clear glass windows opening into the garden and framed with wooden columns and framing stained in ebony black. There’s only one white wall which is behind the free-standing fireplace, and is surrounded by various indoor plants. Despite the large space, the furnishing has only one black bench in the middle.
Adding a little texture to your walls helps add more depth and personality to your space. In a modern living room especially, it helps add a little more interest to the space without overpowering other elements of the space. In this example, antique bricks were placed on the accent wall behind the black & white sofa to add texture to the plain white walls. The bricks and the Moroccan border tiles on its sides also gives a little tropical/Asian feel to the space without having to change the black & white color scheme.
Red and White Color Combinations
Another 50’s inspired modern living room which uses a combination of white, black, and red for its color scheme. The walls were kept plain white to go along with the cream-colored tiles. The living area has a large white leather l-shape sofa and an iconic red Egg Chair as an accent piece. There’s also a unique white coffee table with a rotating top.
Modern Spaces with Red Accents
This modern living room uses a darker color palette for a cozy feel. The floors are gray polished concrete, paired with walls with mocha brown textured wallpaper. Mirrors were also used on the walls to enhance the space, making it look bigger. For the furniture pieces, a matching set of three sofas were used, all upholstered in red, giving you lots of sitting room. Sitting in the middle of the three sofas is a modern rectangular coffee table in wood laminate finish.
Small Modern Design Ideas
This small has a simple, clean & crisp look to not overwhelm the small space. It uses a simple color scheme of light gray and white, producing a balanced modern look. Due to space limitations, the room is furnished with essential pieces – an l-shape sofa, a pair of low coffee tables in white and gray and an indoor plant helping improve indoor air quality.
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