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Living room Interior Design Ideas Needed

2 years ago

need interior design ideas for this livingroom

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  • PRO
    2 years ago

    What ideas? It's blah. It appears all the furniture jammed to a corner, so possibly not the best furniture arrangement. You don't need two paint colors on the walls. The wall needs art. We have no clue as to the style you are looking for in the space.

    Start with more pictures, all angles, and best is to draw and measure the room, note all the feet and inches of everything. Walls, windows, openings passages, etc.

    You haven"t enough information posted for anyone to be helpful.

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  • 2 years ago

    Hi Jackie, what would you like to do? What furniture would you like to keep? I think going for a different window dressing would make a lot of difference.

  • 2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

    First, I don't care for the beige paint on the walls and would consider painting them a different color to bring more life into the room. I would replace the ceiling fan with a bigger one. I would also look for a different coffee table===possibly glass--- and replace that end table with another table or glass end table. I would also think about arranging the sectional in front of the fireplace rather than to the side of it. I like the floor lamp in the corner and the mirror over the fireplace. I would take most of the small nic-nacs off the mantel...less is more on the mantel. Possibly an area rug with more vivid colors in it. Also find some pillows for the couch with a little more punch.

  • 2 years ago

    Can you post more pictures of the room? I know you didn’t ask but there may be a better option for furniture placement.

  • PRO
    2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

    50 shades of beige and dark room! I would bring some color with wall art above the sofa, accent pillows and curtains. Paint head bulk with the same color as ceiling or the same color as walls at least to bring some lightness and replace dated fan with nice chandelier.






  • PRO
    2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

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  • PRO
    2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

    May be go with warm off-white walls



  • 2 years ago

    This room looks 90% there. It is a calm, comfortable, coordinated space. You could use a larger rug under the sofa, pull it away from the wall a bit. New curtains, wall art. Paint the soffit the same as the walls. Clear the mantle and get a more interesting mirror, unless you love this one.

  • 2 years ago

    Please post more photos. Stand in the middle of the room and take pictures of all the walls.

  • 2 years ago

    Hi all, thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback! To put a little context behind it, we moved into this house about 6 months ago. We haven’t done anything to the living room yet, except for buy furniture. I am typically drawn to more neutral tones with pops of color, but I’m honestly open to any and all suggestions since I’m admittedly and not good at interior design and find that the amount of beige and browns tones are drowning out the space. The decor on the mantle is temporary and only there for thanksgiving, so I’m not committed too it. The entertainment center (picture below) Also came with the original house so I’m trying to work around that. The room is right off the kitchen and the front door and it often used for entertaining. I would like to replace the fans with light fixtures since after having been her a summer we didn’t use them at all and the house holds cool air well. I’m also wanting to do something with the window treatments, perhapsh raise them and add some color there. The sofa is positioned because of where the entertainment center is placed, but an open to moving it in a way that makes sense.

  • 2 years ago

    Here is another photo from them living room/dining room (standing in front of the fireplace) to the kitchen

  • 2 years ago

    I think the entertainment unit is interesting, but doesn't fit with the rest of your main floor. Is there a great place in the basement or bonus space for it?

  • 2 years ago

    I agree! It’s actually built into the wall so no getting around it now. We may take it does, but that’s a project for a few years down the road.

  • 2 years ago

    I would paint the entertainment unit the same color as the wall.


    Then I would see if it would work to reorient the couch toward the fireplace and put the TV over to the left of it on a swing arm with a console beneath. And hang art on the three panels of rhe entertainment center.

  • 2 years ago

    Rotate the Dining Table and move it closer to the Kitchen--so there is room in front of and to the right of the Fireplace for cozy seating to enjoy both the fire and the pretty view outdoors.


  • 2 years ago

    Pull the couch forward (towards the tv) and find a small inexpensive (glass) console to place a lamp on. Put it behind the couch with a lamp. Or two. (Buy colorful ones!)

    I’m a rug person so I am going to suggest a more vibrant rug to make the furniture look less blah. I don’t know what size you have, but you can go bigger.

    I wish your entertainment wall was in a den or basement game room. It’s way too “in your face” for a living room. Would you consider painting it?

    It looks like you have an updated kitchen. That looks great!

    The brown “ceiling stripe” around the room is terribly distracting and makes the area seem shorter. I would paint it the color of the ceiling as Celery suggested.

  • 2 years ago

    If you like turquoise

  • 2 years ago

    Others that would work

  • 2 years ago

    Last two

  • 2 years ago

    I think the furniture placement is all wrong. The tv should be moved to the fireplace wall. Then you can swing the sofa around to face the tv and fireplace.


    I would paint the entertainment unit the same color as the walls. Also paint the stripe by the ceiling the same as the walls.


    Get some new drapes and place them higher and wider than the windows.

  • 2 years ago

    Doesn’t look like the tv wall is wide enough for the sectional.

  • PRO
    2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

    I recommend to replace the table to delicate and luxurious one

    also painting above the sofa will bring more interest while staying in the room.

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