When your living room is on the smaller side, intentional decorating and smart furniture choices are vital to create stylish surroundings. Get inspired by these tiny-to-small living rooms that pack a lot of punch in a little space.
Take a stylish and chic approach to maximizing your compact space with these tricks of the trade.
• Make peace with loveseats, settees or small sofas. While they might not be the most comfortable choices, they provide seating without filling up the entire space. The smaller the furniture, the more room you have for other pieces.
• Take advantage of floor-to-ceiling decor. Bookshelves that go all the way up or a salon grouping of art that reaches the ceiling gives the illusion of a bigger space.
• Choose small nesting tables instead of a bulky coffee table.
• Go with one piece of larger furniture like a sectional, and then leave the rest of the room open.
• Invest in acrylic furnishings, such as the waterfall table. They tend to blend into a space, creating an open, airy, and modern aesthetic.
• Choose to light the space with stand up lamps. You avoid overloading the room with tables that traditional table-top lamps require, while still getting much needed light.
• Mirrors! They make any space look bigger and better.
FIRST ROW
1. Lonny
2. Pure Home Style
3. The original Domino via Home for the Better
4. Traditional Home
5. Lonny
SECOND ROW
1. House to Home
2. Decor Pad
3. Martha Stewart
4. House Beautiful
5. LoftLife
(Images: As credited above)
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I love them all! But, do you really think the last one considers small?
Heh heh - that's WONDERFUL, that the last one's mirrors make it look so much bigger than it is!
I'm impressed, none of these living rooms have a TV?! Unless they live TV-free, where else does it go in a tiny apartment?
I was just thinking the same thing! These fabulous rooms never have a TV. I dare someone to have a great living room with an old hooptie of a TV in it! That would be awesome.
@pier723, that's exactly what i was thinking.
Personally, I'd go for comfy seating even if it meant leaving out the driftwood.
The pillows on the sofas in #9 are so uninviting.
Most of them don't strike me as small, but they are inspiring anyway. The second one is so refreshing and cool it makes me want to redo my apt in greens.
Yes they are all great, but my dilemma of how to house my tv stylishly in my tiny/small living room remains.
Well, there actually is a TV in the Martha Stewart pic (third to last). The have made a dust cover for it, it is sitting on the small table to the right of the pic, you can only see half of it. Really if you see the full pictures of this room, What they call a stylish solution, really looks just stupid and rather odd!
Why do designers hide the TVs? No, they aren't that attractive, but there are a part of most peoples living rooms!
When I look at these pictures I think it would be hard to mess up these spaces since almost all of them have beautiful windows, natural light and breathtaking architecture. I would love to see some spaces that are beautiful that lack those things since so many of us don't have those bonus' to start with.
1, 2, and 5 have style. 10 is not small.
Really inspiring pics! But how does "Make peace with loveseats, settees or small sofas. [...] The smaller the furniture, the more room you have for other pieces." compute with "Go with one piece of larger furniture like a sectional, and then leave the rest of the room open."?
Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this dilemma? :-)