Elegant Modern House Architectural Design: Living rooms

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Luxury Interior Design living room with modern sofa

A living room, also known as sitting room, lounge room or lounge (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is aroom for entertaining adult guests, reading, or other activities. The term front room can also be used to describe a living room, because in many homes the living room is at the very front.

In modern homes and apartments, the living room has replaced the old-fashioned front parlour.^[1] In the 19th century, the front parlour was the room in the house used for formal social events, including where the recently deceased were laid out before their funeral. The term marks the twentieth-century effort of architects and builders to strip the parlour of its burial and mourning associations. This room was relabeled with the more affirmative term "living room" in the 20th century.

Interior design Living room

Interior design can cater its service across the whole interior space including bathrooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, kitchens, living rooms, office rooms, stairs and much more. You can have easy access to interior decorating ideas from professional interior decorators or designers. They will provide you brochures or catalogues or just watch out for the promotional advertisements from these experts.

They study every nook and corner of your house and will use the maximum space available for their wonderful decoration work. Above all, internet can provide you with different styles and decorating ideas and also answers many a doubts of yours.

Interior design Living room

Typically, living room interior decorating ideas largely depends on the space available at your living room. A spacious room can be segregated into different functional areas. Neutral colors like white or beige, when used for painting will leave you with more options while buying furnishings or furniture for the living room. Paste shades will also work well for this purpose. This definitely adds for creating the character of the room. Throw pillows without any doubts are an add-on to any living rooms; so far it provides warmth and comfort. Further, layered lighting is one of the best among living room decorating ideas.

Luxury Living room furnitures BoConcept from Danish

it is Living room furniture sets from Danish furniture maker BoConcept are not just cool looking but are extremely functional and comfortable. Whether you’re looking for a casual and laid back look, sleek and stylish, or modern and luxury, BoConcept offers a wide variety of urban living room furniture to suit your taste. The colours black, white and brown dominate throughout. Take a look.Luxury Living room furnitures from Danish image.

Gwen Driscoll: Break-Out Design Star

I've been a fan of Gwen Driscoll and her blog, Ragland Hill Social, since coming across it last December. It was always a treat when she showed snippets of her home and work for clients - often leaving me wanting more!

Well, Gwen just launched her website and to say her work is incredible is not descriptive enough. Warm, elegant, layered and unique, I think her work is harbinger of an increased emphasis on homes that personally reflect the homeowner and the artistic side of interior design. As she mentions on her site, "Spaces are lived in but become living spaces." In addition to the website launch, Gwen's work with Jane Scott Hodges, founder of Leontine Linens, is in the November issue of Elle Decor, which Teresa of Splendid Sass recently blogged about here. It's so exciting to see Gwen get the national attention her work deserves. Brava!

all images via Gwen Driscoll Designs.

Swoon-worthy Eye Candy

While making my dream list of new design books to purchase, I came across Scandinavian Design by Lars Bolander with Heather Smith MacIsaac. This is one of the most stunning book covers I've ever seen. Love the:

- vibrant green wall color

- juxtaposition of modern paintings and antique portraits

- the shared blue of the foot stool and lamp

- and of course, the furniture and the striped rug.

For more beautiful interiors, you can visit the designer's website here. (book photography by Ake Eson Lindman, Staffan Johanson, Lars Ranek)

Hope you had a great weekend. Back with a longer post tomorrow.

Mary Douglas Drysdale at the Richmond Symphony Designer House

An opportunity to experience a room by Mary Douglas Drysdale is not to be missed. Last Friday I had the chance to do just that at the Richmond Symphony Designer Showhouse. Mary designed the living room with a nod to America's past and an eye to the future. It is an unparalled combination of bold pieces and subtle, meaningful details. The result is an elegant, seamless room that is both welcoming and stunning.

A Great Dane sculpture by Mark Perry is the focal point above the fireplace - unexpected and enjoyable all at once.

A curved settee is paired with a monochromatic graphic pillow. The seating in the room was enveloped in Sandra Jordan's alpaca and curved and straight lines were balanced throughout the space. Artwork subtly referenced our nation's past and its future direction.

Here's Mary with the uber talented Tobi Fairley who created a stunning Stair Hall with traditional furniture treated with modern painted finishes and fabrics. I loved the color palette too - light blues with accents of red. Go here to see a rendering of the space.

My dear friend Anne with Mary - who was the epitome of graciousness. You may have noticed the bare feet. Depending on the shoes you had, the protective foot coverings could be a bit slippery. But this brings me to another element of Mary's design - pattern. The gorgeous patterned cognac floor with light and dark accents (hard to see in my photos) and the pattern on the curtains were designed by Mary. Tom Hickey of Rising Tide Inc. is the decorative artist that beautifully executed the floor design.

Is this all the photos?

Yes, I'm to say. When I attended the Gala, it was unclear if any photos could be used so I limited myself to photos of the designers (although as you see here I couldn't resist taking a few photos of Mary's room.) For bloggers attending Press Day, the only room allowed to be photographed was Mary's. Be sure to visit Jeanette's A Passion for Home in the next few days as she will likely have more images of the room to share.

Is it worth the drive if you live in DC?

Yes, many of the designers in this showhouse created fabulous, creative and inspiring spaces! Set on 8 acres on the James River, the gardens and landscaping are a treat unto themselves. The Designer House remains open through Oct. 11 - details here.

22 Years Later - An Interior I Couldn't Forget

22 years ago I fell in love with this apartment interior - it was on the cover of Conran's Living in Small Spaces. Very apropos at the time as my husband and I lived in a one bedroom 1930's 4th floor apartment in Cambridge, MA and Conran's had just opened up a US store down the street on Mass Ave. The store was short lived but I've held on to this book ever since.

Just this past weekend I was google searching Bruce Budd, a designer featured in April's The World of Interiors, and came across pictures of the apartment via a post by The Blue Remembered Hills. It was a thrilling find as the post included the rest of the apartment - images I had never seen!

I learned that this was the Greenwich apartment of architect Lee Mindel of Shelton, Mindel & Associates, and was featured in The World of Interiors, July/Aug 1987, among other magazines. It was considered "fresh and new at the time." 22 years later it still is.

Thank you to the blogger, The Blue Remembered Hills - your post felt like finding a little present. Now I'm off to track down a copy of the July/Aug 1987 World of Interiors...
Do you have any interiors you still think about after many years?
(photography by Dan Cornish)

22 Years Later - An Interior I Couldn't Forget

Room(s) Envy

Love everything about this living room. My snapshot doesn't quite represent the pretty, bleached palette of this room. (Original photography by Lisa Romerein, designer not known)

More room envy. A reproduction dining table was refinished to look much older. One of my favorite parts of this open dining area is the large urn in front of the window, off to the right. (Original photography by Simon Upton, designer not known)

The pics above are from House Beautiful 500 Makeovers - a book that I really enjoy referring back to often. The only thing is that the designers aren't listed; not sure why that is.

You probably already know this, but just in case, Katie Denham of KatieDid is posting wonderful pictures from her visit to the very impressive San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2010. This dining room was created by Suzanne Tucker of Tucker and Marks Design. Go here to see more -so far it's a five part series!

Room(s) Envy

Love everything about this living room. My snapshot doesn't quite represent the pretty, bleached palette of this room. (Original photography by Lisa Romerein, designer not known)

The pics above are from House Beautiful 500 Makeovers - a book that I really enjoy referring back to often. The only thing is that the designers aren't listed; not sure why that is.

Living Rooms Design

This site is created to help you in searching ideas about designed, comfortable and modern home. Are you decorating home or apartment, updating an older home or just looking for some home decorating ideas? You've come to the right place! The Gallery features hundreds of beautiful photos of living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms and many many more, in many many colors. Browse through the images, pick your favorite home decorating ideas and save them to your personal idea file. You have lot`s of choices here and next step it`s up to you.

Living rooms and wall units

Living room is the place where we spend the most of our time when we are at home and is the most frequented room of the home. That is why it is important to have nice and comfortable living room furniture. Set furniture can bring you necessary assurance and calm feelings in our life. Living room furniture set should it have sofa, armchairs, coffee table, dining table, chairs, wall units, entertainment center or TV cabinets, bookcase, buffets and so on. Living room is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV or other activities.

Kitchens

Why do you need to think about kitchen if you already have one? First, you made search on the internet and you definitely look for kitchen. Second, you`re here probably because you are a person who loves to cook. Kitchen is like a place you work at. If you like that place, the productivity and quality will be much better. A new modern kitchen will inspire you to make something special. Even if you like your old kitchen, the new and modern is something that can make you to think about. Find the kitchen that will not only meet all your needs, but will also be stylish and match to your house perfectly.

Dining rooms

If you want to enjoy a meal every time you have it, if you want to feel special at your home by having nice dinner with whole family, friends etc, it`s important to have dining room furniture. Dining room furniture is something that can make the atmosphere enchanting and will help you to have an illusion of complete nice home. When you are ready for dining room furniture you will have a decision to make. One of them is the color that will match to your house, another one is design and last but not least decision that you have to make is the material that your dining furniture will be made.

Bedrooms

Bedroom is very personal thing. Its should help you to get rested and you should be comfortable enough to see the best dreams. Bedroom furniture is the very important element in your dream process. The more you would like your bedroom, the better dreams you might have. You can imagine modern bedroom furniture or your own unique.

Sofas, Ottomans