#1 and #4... Jessssssssssssssssus! I'm dying here.

Ankle-deep shag makes me shudder. My goodness.

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I agree - I'm loving #1

very lovley so good!!

I love the disco ball planter in picture 6.

the couch in #7 = LUST

#1 is beautiful, although I agree about the shag rug. But most of these break my 2 seating area rules - all chairs (and both ends of the sofa) must have tables next to them for setting drinks/books/snacks/pencils. A coffee table is a poor second choice for this role, because you have to lunge forward out of your chair to get anything. However, the coffee table must look like it is acceptable to put your feet on it should the occasion arise.

(I suppose it's obvious my entertaining is on the informal side?)

Loulou de la Falaise's living room has always inspired me that way:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1003862/Ooh-La-la-Designer-loulou-la-falaises-parisian-home-oozes-bohemian-style.html
She has chairs around the sofa and armchair that just evoke images of chic parisian men in great pants smoking with their legs crossed and sort of leaning in, talking, talking, talking.....
It's a living room that is totally designed for conversation.

1, 8, and 10 have my votes.

When i was growing up, the TV was in a separate room upstairs and the living room was set up for conversation, and I really prefer it that way. It just seems easier to have a conversation with people when you don't have that flat-screen altar dominating the room.
Unfortunately, the place I'm at now doesn't really have the space for that. The living room *is* the TV room. I've sort of minimized the TV's impact on the room by placing it on low furniture, but it's still definitely there.

I am not a red lover, but it's just the right use in #9.

A pair of couches facing each other (e.g. #3) looks very adversarial to me. The only arrangement that seems to strongly foster conversation is #1.

am i the only one that loves #3? its gorgeous. nice mix of patterns and colours... kind of reminds me of my place.

I like #1 but it's got too much white and not enough other color to offset it, general layout of the corner sectional and chairs is great, the coffee table/ottoman is the right size for the more square shape of the seating arrangement and I can't tell due to the camer anglel, is there a table at the end of the sectional by the arm chair? might be. But they did compensate for not having one at the end of the sectional we do see by the wall mounted arm lamp.

I like how the more smoother textures of the upholstery work well with the Flokati rug to bring variety of textures to the space.

#3, the furniture arrangement is fine, but the wall treatment is just too much of a good thing w/ blocks of different colors and patterns, making the room much too busy, like the room's basic bones however.

#7, love, love, love, first off, the high contrast of dark/light, hard/soft etc and the fact that it has an eclectic element to it and love the modern coffee table and the dark furniture against the Flokati rug which then sits on simple white flooring. Of all the rooms, this one is probably my favorite.

#9 is nice and I like how they used the red on the couch to anchor the room and give it color, I have done that as well with a red leather Klippan I found in the As Is dept at IKEA last fall for cheap.

I'm in love with the couch in #7. After seeing that, everything else is a blur.

I NEED that blue couch in #7! It is so beautiful. *swoons*

I will take anyone of them. They all look so inviting.

I'm feeling some serious love for #9, here. The red sofa with the great toss cushion is just the right touch.

#7: Perfect antique meets modern.