Category: Living Room

Industrial designs has been around for so long, since the Industrial Revolution about 2 centuries ago. But if you want, say, a cool industrial living room, then you don’t have to go that far back in time –as it parts of recent innovations.

The industrial home designs popped up in 60 or 70s, when several artists needed to have the more affordable living spaces. Then they found the defunct old factories suited well for their purposes for living and even for their art projects.

Now industrial home designs is a popular part of contemporary home designs. There’re several reasons for their popularity in urban (our even country) living, just like what’ll you see in the next part of this listicle.

Still looking for lovely industrial living room ideas? Here we picked you some of the freshest around. Let’s check them out.

1. A Black-Themed Industrial Living Room Idea

Initially, industrial designs are not for aesthetic look –they’re for utilitarian purposes, anyway. That’s why now you find the living room in industrial designs always look naked, raw, but terribly efficient for mobile activities.

The essential features are not fade away in the contemporary industrial home designs. They’re still spacious and ever ready to get improved into better living spaces.

This industrial chic living room idea also has the basic flairs. It blends the efficient of a factory floor plan layout and modern comforts. The black theme amplify the contemporary tones.

2. A Comfortable Industrial Rustic Living Room

It its raw and elementary designs, an industrial still can give you the warm and rustic atmosphere of a vintage cottage. This especially true if you happen to have an old unused and wood-dominated factory at hands.

The raw beams, distressed wood floor, and often dilapidated wall plasters, are not the source of beauty –and the reasons of why the industrial designs are so loved. So keep them that way.

For the reasons, don’t overdo the room’s dressing with too much furniture or decor, as they may hide the real raw industrial beauties.

3. A Cozy Gray Living Room, Industrial Style

If you love an open layout flooring and light full of room, then consider to have an industrial style living room. The style also offer ample room to breathe, as it always look roomier than regular rooms.

If you also like the imperfection from the simplicity of a designs, the industrial styles are also full of it. Though they’re probably of superficial imperfections, as industrial designs usually gives you durable structures and materials.

This lovely gray living room offers you its beauties through its naked and cracked (or unplastered) structures here and there. The wood structures also inject warmness into this room.

4. Modern Contemporary Living Room in Industrial Style

The simple look of an industrial design enables you to mix it with other styles almost effortlessly. Mainly if you set this industrial scheme as the background.

In this example, you find a spacious industrial room –complete with faux distressed wood wall– full of modern furniture and decor.

The naked industrial tones of the room and its fluffy couches are balanced each other, making one of the best looking industrial chic living room in this list.

5. Industrial Style Farmhouse Living Room

Do you now that the raw and unfinished characters of Industrial designs came from the insurance institutions? Once, in the early Industrial Revolution, fire hazards were so rampant –and, of course, risky for insurance businesses.

For the reasons, if a factory wants to insure their factories, they have to comply with the insurance institutions’ guidelines.

And that’s why now you find the industrial designs look bare and minimalist, including this industrial farmhouse living room. It’s all for fire safety reasons, at least from its historic stand points.

6. Rustic Concrete Living Room in Industrial Style

The blend of concrete walls dan steel beams in industrial began in the early 20 century, when the technology had enabled people to manufacture those materials in massive ways.

Now all a factory processes are under one big factory building, and this largely thanks to Albert Khan who design the one-roof building systems.

This rustic living room is an example of those early 20 century reminiscent, with the steel beams and concrete.

7. Cozy Living Room with Industrial Touches

After the Khan’s innovation which needing the companies to build far larger factories, they move out of towns or cities for larger lands –leaving the old factories behind.

Over time this down town unused factories attracts people in need of cheap housings. At first, artists stepped in and then the industrial chic designs began.

And you get increasingly lovely inspiration from the chic industrial designs, like this cozy and snug living room.

8. Repurpose Materials for Industrial Living Room Furniture

A basic character you’ll love about industrial design is its airiness. The other charming character is that it always full of light, with its large glass windows.

Having an industrial room means having a blank canvas where you can fill it with almost any interior styles and any furniture.

You even may use repurposed materials for the furniture, just like the example here. You have couch frames out of repurposed metal pipes. It’s rugged but awesome.

9. French Style Living Room, Industrial Style

So far you’ve met several living room styles, from the more modest up to more sophisticated. This time we bring you over to French with one of its warmest living room example.

Along with England, in early 1800s, the country practically ruled the world with her new industrial power. Also in line with it, there also other aspect of industrial Revolution came along: the industrial styles.

This cozy Southern French living room looks awesome with touches of industrial styles on the lamps, shelves, and even coffee table.

10. Style Exposed Bricks as Decor in Industrial Style Living Room

Back to the 70s, the unused factory buildings are already valued as cool living place by some struggling artists. The places offer some benefits, like the strong structures, large windows, and spacious room areas.

They also know that there’s something beauty hidden behind the raw and unfinished look. As they grow in communities, their dwelling places also grow in its styling.

This example shows you how the industrial style enthusiasts love to use the existing ‘unfinished structures’ in industrial designs as room decor. They use exposed brick as point of interest.

11. Country Living Room in Industrial Look

Back to the old days where lighting of a factory depended on the grace of nature. That’s why, as we previously outlined, that almost all the industrial chic of today has large windows.

They allow much sunlight into the rooms and making the already large rooms to look spacious and bright –painted or not.

This country living room also uses large industrial windows to light up the room, otherwise this room will look dark and unimpressive.

12. Classic Iron Pillars as Industrial Room Accents

Remember Dr. Strange’s apartment in the opening of the movie? His black industrial is awesome. The more so, it adored with classic pillars.

If you love the Victorian or the more recent Edwardian styles, you’ll meet slim classic iron pillars as parts of their building structures. Once, they are the support structures.

But now they’re also the point of interest of the building. In this industrial living room, the pillars also serves as your visual point of view.

11. Colorful Living Room with Industrial Touches

So far, almost all the list here are in neutral colors. Industrial style, just like other minimalist architectural designs, often use simple neutral colors.

But you also can dress an industrial room with the more vibrant colors, like the one in this example. If you’re living in an urban areas, this color scheme will live up your apartments.

You still have the industrial elements like the bare brick walls and concrete cool colors. But also have vibrant red color to inject warm atmosphere into it.

12. A Vintage Luxurious Industrial Living Room

The contemporary interior design is very eclectic. It’s a time where you can find any styles from any eras and you call each of the styles a ‘contemporary’ by blending it with one or two contemporary items.

Among the rising stars of contemporary styles is the vintage designs, which will bring you back in time with its comfortable but oldies features.

This living room example flies you back in time, in a cozy ways, into the heyday of Industrial Revolution –complete with antiquated travel trunks and lavish leather couches.

13. Small Industrial Corner Living Room

Having only small space doesn’t mean that you should ditch your plan of having an awesome industrial chic room.

Now you can set a small room into an industrial dream room. It even is easier than you can imagine, as industrial design only wants you to strip down your room into the most basic room.

And only then you may set it up into a room with industrial flair like this example, complete with its exposed beams and minimalist features.

14. Modern Industrial Luxurious Living Room

An industrial design won’t be complete without the extensive use of iron structures in it. Once, the structures are for the support or roofing.

Now they still are, but in industrial chic home designs, they also serve as interior decor. They still support the roofs and muscle up the home’s structures, but they also make your living room masculine and awesome.

Just look at this modern industrials gray living room. To tone down the iron structures, you may use the wood and leather elements. The result is a lovely modern living room.

15. Industrial Modern Minimalist Living Room

If you love minimalist style, for your apartment, an industrial design offer a different kind of minimalism. You may find a touch of brutalism on its bare concrete structure.

You probably also find an efficient room lay outing that remind you of a Nordic interior design. All in all, it offers an eclectic sensation to the room.

This urban apartment living room offers those sensations. You even can also feel the modern tone from its furniture and lamp fixtures.

16. An Industrial Mid-century Living Room

You’ve met farmhouse, modern and contemporary styles along this list. Now it’s time to meet another popular interior style which is also cool with industrial design, the Mid-century style.

This style was so popular in the mid of 20 century (hence the name Mod-century, or the 50s style). It has several iconic features, like tapered chair’s legs or its fluid designs.

Here you have an example of industrial Mid-century living room. The nostalgic Mid-century furniture suit well with naked brick wall and bare concrete structures.

17. Rustic Industrial Scandinavian Living Room

Just we’ve said before, again and again, industrial style is so flexible that you can mix it with almost all other styles.

But, probably, there’s no other styles which could blend so well with the style than the Scandinavian style.

This because the Scandinavian style has most of the design philosophy of the industrial style. The Northern style also loves a truly minimalist style –only in the more refined versions.

So, if you already have an industrial living room, you only need to touch a bit to make it a comfortable Scandinavian living room like this one in the picture.

18. Cozy Industrial Rustic Living Room

Sometimes probably you feel that industrial design is too cold, because its bare and as-it-is room structures – or because of its raw concrete and iron dominated structures.

If it the case, you need to balance the cold characters with the warmer features. You may put wooden furniture in the room.

In this living room, the domination of wood furniture give you cozy and inviting atmosphere. The potted trees add a natural touches in it. Nice.

19. Industrial Simple furniture for Living Room

Having an loving an industrial-styled living room is a bless (in term of budget), as all you need to do is just filling it with the most essential stuff.

You don’t want to overdo everything in this kind of room, as your center piece is its simpleness –its perfect balance of the room itself with the furniture or decor.

Fill it with minimalist furniture for it. The industrial style loves furniture with clean line and frill-free furniture.

20. Warm and Inviting Industrial Modern Living Room

Still on finding the warm atmosphere of an industrial living room, along with wood structures or furniture, you also need to consider the couches, decor, and its carpeting.

You also need to find the right colors for them. Neutral or natural colors are foo-proof color for the purposes.

The following living room scheme is a perfect example. The combination of soft neutral colors of furniture and the room itself are inviting and magnificent.

21. Old Map as Industrial Decor for Living Room

Decor for industrial-styled living room? Unlike any other interior styles, the industrial has no fixed decor.

Almost all stuff is suitable for the industrial decor, as the style is lie a blank canvas which always welcomes any dab of colors on it.

Old world map from any trift shop might do wonder to your industrial wall’s living room. Combine it with leather couches and black iron minimalist lamp fixtures, and you have a cool living room.

22. Homey Living Room in Industrial Style

Whether for modern or for the more traditional country styles, an industrial style is always more than enough to help you standout in minimalist ways.

This because you always can count on industrial style, as its basic designs enable you to fill it with any furniture of any styles.

In this example, you find a country style living room imbued with industrial features. The room looks full, but not hectic, because of its neat room lay outing.

23. A Small Industrial Living Room with Unique a Lighting Fixture

Still want to find an industrial design for a small living room? You need to consider this idea if what you want is a neat and cozy small industrial room.

Just like some examples in this list, you have a combination of concrete walls and metal structures. Along with the materials, you also have wood beams on the ceiling.

The small room doesn’t only serve as a living room, but also as an entertainment room with TV and audio set. The industrial lighting fixture completes its setup.

24. Iconic Industrial features for Living room, Exposed Brick and Big Windows

A reason why an old factory buildings often has no decorations is that sometimes decorations only make problems when there’s fire risk in the building –hence, the naked building structures.

And then you often see old factory buildings with exposed brick walls. The big windows are another industrial design features, just we’ve outlined before.

In having an industrial-styled living room, you don’t need to cover or hide the features, as they’re the essential parts of the industrial styles, just like this living room setup.

25. Japanese Style Living Room in Industrial Style

The last list for these industrial living room ideas will be in Japanese style. Along with the Nordic/Scandinavian style, the Japanese interior design also has massive impact to the minimalist designs.

For its parts, the Japanese style also offer you the peaceful atmosphere with its Zen philosophy, which always stresses on simplicity and harmony.

This example show you how the industrial style hand-in-hand with modern Japanese living room style.

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It’s quite a challenge to find the suitable industrial living room ideas, mainly for the beginner. The choices are just too much: vintage, modern, rustic, country, urban and many more.

You also have various choices of furniture and decor. But we do hope, after reading this listicle, you begin to grasp the essences of what you’re looking for.

Yes, now we’ll offer you something eclectic for your living room, some eclectic living room ideas. But before we dive into the topic, some of you might wonder: just what’s the meaning of ‘eclectic’?

You’re an eclectic if you’re not partial to a style, in this case too partial to a living room style. Some of us love minimalist styles, while the other love classic styles for their living rooms.

But, the eclectic one, love to have a mixed styles. So you may find them, for example, choose Victorian couches for their contemporary minimalist living room or else. And you may still add some colorful bohemian features to spice it up.

Eclecticism, the term used for this school of eclectic style, let you mix several different styles into one cohesive and balanced style. If you find this eclectic style interesting, we’ve picked up some of the coolest eclectic living room ideas to inspire.

1. Modern-Classic Eclectic Living Room

Finding the right furniture for an eclectic styled living room is not so challenging. Mainly if you already have the basic style for the background of other styles.

For an example, here you have a contemporary living room idea, complete with its soft color and its modern wall decor. For the ‘soul’, you use furniture with classic lines.

Then you find the classic French couches and set of dining tables. Along with them is a modern glass coffee table as a cute bridge to the contemporary living room.

2. Texture Mixing for a Cool Eclectic Room

You might want you ask, “How do I start building this eclectic room?” As the general rule, the first step to do is on texture mixing.

You need to combine the available textures, whether they are the smooth, rough textures the in-between. You need to make a point of interest, and the mixing is part of your attempts to make it happen, mainly if you want to play safe with the more simple color tones.

As you can see here, the color play between the tufted couches and pillows is awesome. The white dining table and chairs in the corner add the charming eclectic color schemes.

3. Color Play to Add Point of Interest in the Room

Combination between textures is ok to inject the eclectic atmosphere in the room. But you also need to pay attention not to overuse a texture in your room.

Of course, you may use a texture several times in your eclectic room, but be sure that the texture still in line with the overall look of the room –be sure that it won’t overwhelm the other texture.

Here you find several texture and decor repeat themselves but still maintain a cohesive character, making the room snug and comfortable.

4. A Bohemian-Formal Living Room Style

So you want a casual and colorful living room, a living room comfortable enough to release the daily burden. But you also want it formal enough so that you don’t have trouble inviting your coworkers into the room.

For the purpose, try an eclectic Bohemian-formal living room style. As you’ve all known, the Bohemian style is full of laidback features. It also full of fluffy and flowing materials.

Here, the style is combined with the minimalist modern couches and table. And you can see the result: a snug formal eclectic living room.

5. Cozy Midcentury-Farmhouse Living Room

The other option of having an efficient cozy living room is by blending Midcentury and Farmhouse styles. Both of styles are known of its efficiency –they’re also aesthetically cool.

The Midcentury styles popped into existence around the 50s up to the early 70 brought with it some of the most iconic room designs and furniture.

The Farmhouse, precedes the Midcentury, offer rustic and comfortable living space. A mixing of the two styles resulting this stunning cozy living room.

6. Colorful Modern-Scandinavian Living Room

Images of eclectic room often give you impression that an eclectic room should full of stuff from several styles –resulting a hectic-looking living room.

But, to have room in eclectic style, you don’t have to do your room that way. With a simple mixing scheme, you also can have a charming room.

The key is to find the basic characters to each of the styles you want to mix. Here, the image of minimalist character of a Scandinavian style mix well with the colorful modern curtains.

7. Mid-century Eclectic Living Room

In filling up an eclectic room, you need to pay attention to this unwritten rule: if you have a collection of stuff to display, don’t overdo it. You don’t want the collection all displayed.

Just choose one or two of your favorite stuff to display. If you want the other things to get displayed, then rotate them –so each item has its own opportunity to enjoy your attention.

In this Midcentury living room, for example, you have a wicker basket as decor. In other time you probably want to swap it with other stuff. Just don’t display all your favorite items at once.

8. Industrial-Vintage Living Room

Since its beginning in the 70s, the industrial home designs has garnered lots of admirers. The simplistic and often raw styles is always looked up as cool and timeless for them.

An important benefit of an industrial living room is that it’s like a black canvas, where you can fill it up with any other of your favorite styles and still looks awesome.

This time your industrial living room is full of vintage stuff, from the old travel chest (serving as a working desk), industrial shelves, modern chairs, up to the stylish chic lamp fixture.

9. Eclectic Rustic French Farmhouse Living Room

When you still want something rustic and warm for your eclectic style living room, try to move to Southern French, where you can see some of the most charming French Farmhouse around.

Its beauty lies in the simplicity of its layout and its choices of material for the structures. The naked wood beams, raw wood floor, and shelves, look gorgeous in its natural states.

As the focal point you may add items for decor. This time you find it on the wall, with the rows of blue dishes on it.

10. Vintage Modern Tropical Living Room

Among the adjective often used in any home designs articles is vintage. Along with the term rustic and cottage, this term is one of the most used.

Vintage, in short, is term used to explain the visual and mental sensation you get from seeing something old but still retain its class and has timeless character in them.

As you can see from this modern vintage tropical living room, the vintage furniture and decor is so thick it let out all your sweet long hidden memories.

11. Modern Scandinavia-California Living Room

Now it’s for a Scandinavia-California eclectic living room idea. It’s practically a cold and hot setup. You have it cold with the Scandinavian style, and hot with the Californian touches.

Here you meet the design simplicity of Scandinavian style. But, if the Scandinavian often discharged decor or patterned materials, this living room (being influenced with Californian setup) gives you the opportunity to have some.

That’s the case when you see the pillows and rug. The modern Californian also gives you the iconic sling chairs as your reading chairs and the distressed leather paddings.

12. Green Minimalist-Tropical Living Room

Just like in your industrial living room, you also can fill your minimalist living room with almost any kind of furniture in it. A minimalist style is also versatile as the industrial style.

In arranging or filling the room, you just need to remember that you need to be consistent with your themes. Though you have an eclectic mind, that doesn’t mean that you may fill it as you wish.

Here you need to consider the cohesiveness and balance of all the features. In this example the overall theme is green, so you need to stick to it and you can see the result.

13. Small Eclectic Comfortable Living Room

A small room, to not look too hectic in an eclectic style, should adhere one simple tips: it should have a theme color which would contain all the theme in the room without overpowering them.

The color serves as the balancer for all the different styles in the room, so your room will still look cohesive and balanced.

This eclectic small living room use the natural white color as the main color, and it helps to unify all the different styles in the room.

14. Chic Coastal-Traditional Living Room

The things you want most from a beach house probably the sun, air, and the beach itself. So you, you want it with big windows and comfortable spot to enjoy the day.

This chic coastal house gives you all what those you need. It even gives you an added bonus in the awesome eclectic way the room is set.

The point of interest here is the antic coffee table. Its turquoise color injects the vibrant atmosphere into the living room.

15. A Colorful Eclectic Living Room Idea

Contemporary people love black color for their house. Some, like the Nordic style, use the color to spice up the bright and light room, the other simply paint their wall black all over.

Black, in good proportion, give you a contemporary and even futuristic ambience into the room. The color is often coupled with industrial or minimalist style.

But you also may use the color as background of several colorful furniture and decor, like this eclectic chic living room idea.

16. An Eclectic Modern-Classic Living Room

Another tip to make your eclectic style living room looks stunning is by making all in it balanced. As we’ve said before, an eclectic room need to be balanced and cohesive.

You need to pay attention to the overall balance, both in the symmetry or the scale of the stuff inside the room.

You also need to pay attention to the lines of your furniture and decor. Try to balance them, like the design lines of the chairs with the antique chest behind them

17. Eclectic Industrial Living Room

You don’t want to make a mistake that in an eclectic living room you can put anything on it and still looks impressive.

If you don’t pay attention and fill your room with any interior styles, then instead having a cool eclectic living room, you have a hectic room.

In this example, you find several styles, from the furniture up to the decor, go together. All the stuff look standout and seems to be able to fill each of their own positions in the room.

18. A Small Eclectic Cute Living Room

Whether you have a big or small or big rooms, an eclectic room’s still a better option –mainly if you want to get stuck to only one style (or of you want to have new different visual experience).

To get the best of the style, don’t be afraid to make experiments, including trying new styles. So that you can have the more impressive rooms.

Introducing contrasting colors of couches like the following example is only a fraction of you do with your eclectic living room. And the result is stunning.

19. Cozy Minimalist-Maximalist Living Room

The power of wall decor to transform your living room is awesome. It can turn a drab living room into a vibrant living area.

Yes, this old industrial living room will still be cool in its previous condition with its rugged wood beams and white-washed wall. But you still can make better with a simple trick.

You line the wall with some of your favorite drawings or wall arts. And you can see the room transform into a chic gallery at once.

20. Lovely 50s Vintage Eclectic Living Room

Being eclectic is like having all the favorite items thrown into one pool and still resulting a great show to your eyes.

But, to make it also visually enchanting to other’s eyes, you need to arrange them in more, again, balanced and cohesive ways.

You are not to let yourself limit the amount of the items displayed in the room, but you need to pay attention to the continuity of the overall theme in the room.

So, you need to pay attention to the similar lines or in the scaling of the items. That way, your living room still can retain its beauty, though in eclectic ways.

21. A Midcentury-Industrial-Shabby Chic Living Room

A benefit of having an eclectic mind is that you can relate any of different style items into one integrated theme, looks good, and yet each still can be distinctly seen as individual styles.

Here you have an industrial living room as the background. In it you find at least two styles in play. All of them still retains their characters.

For the couches and book shelves, it remind you to the old conservative style. While for the fluffy swing and string lights, you find the shabby chic touches here. The Midcentury coffee table completes the setup.

22. Green Industrial Modern Living Room

‘A Go green’ theme also is a popular option if you want to redo your living room with eclectic vibes. This living room might worth considering if you want to update your room that way.

The room is used to a minimalist modern living room. With an update, you transform it into a terribly living room in eclectic style.

Now green dominates the room, from the wall, carpeting, plants, up to the wall decor. To inject the modern contemporary atmosphere, are installed industrial lamps and the globe swing chair.

23. Rustic Modern-Victorian Living Room

Now we take a tour to England, where you’ll meet a gorgeous modern Victorian living room. As you’ve already know, the Victorian era offered timeless styles that are still breathtaking today.

This eclectic living room is an example of how you can have a Victorian house in the updated modern version. You still have the majestic air of the 19 century English, but in the more modern version.

The owner achieve the feat by blending the Victorian room (see the wallpaper and wall color) and modern tone of 50s style (the cozy reading chairs) and Nordic stuff (the lamp fixtures and the shelves next to the window).

24. Eclectic Vintage Living Room in Boho Style

The Boho style won’t disappoint you if what you’re looking for now is a comfortable living room to chat with friends.

The style also offer other distinct character, it’s always colorful theme.

This vintage early modern living room looks vibrant with color as it’s imbued with Boho or bohemian features. So, along with the clean lines of modern designs, you also have the vibrant colors of Boho.

On the wall are framed wall arts, under them are different colors of pillows, all are under modern reading lamps. They’re cute in their own ways.

25. Modern Edgy-Traditional Living Room

According to the Oxford online dictionary, informally, edgy means ‘at the forefront of a trend; experimental or avant-garde.’ In short, you have an edgy stuff if it looks too futuristic or to out-of-the normal way.

This living room is a normal modern classic living room in its own right. But you can play it into edgy territory with color schemes.

Set a bright pink coffee table and bright yellow art piece on the, and now you have an edgy living room. To bridge the bright colors, put similar colors on the pillow cases.

26. Rustic Shabby Chic-Contemporary Living Room

The never ending needs of having a leisure living pace making the shabby chic interior styles always in demand.

Shabby chic (or cottage) style won’t disappoint you when it’s time to give you warm and pleasant days.

In this living room scheme, you have a cottage living room coupled with most heart-warming shabby chic features.

The White wall and natural wood floor are just perfect for the fluffy and sweet stuff of the shabby chic furniture.

27. Organic-Modern Eclectic Living Room

For the last one, we go back to the organic living room, where you can enjoy the days comfortably close to the nature.

The small living room here looks inviting and pleasant with the combination of natural wood and white wall color. Along with it, you also find the natural potted indoor plants.

The 50s couch and old style cabinet blend well with the floor, giving nice transition to the wall. They add the cozy atmosphere of the living room

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That’s it, you’ve meet all the carefully chosen eclectic living room ideas here. We hope, after seeing those awesome designs, now you’re ready to decide which best cozy eclectic living room for your homes.

Whether it’ll be rustic or modern, it’s up to your liking, as the designs is the representation of your tastes. Lastly, have a good day.

Japanese living rooms, along with the Nordic living rooms, are two inspirations of the minimalist living room now on fire all around the world. They seem to represent the needs of the contemporary people of their minimalist living modes.

Japanese architecture boast its simple and elegant structure. Even more, it also offer you the indescribable Eastern peaceful atmosphere that might lack in Western architecture, the atmosphere which the modern people often find suitable to sooth their minds.

The introduction of Japanese architecture into the West began in the early 20 century, when Japan opened herself to the outer worlds for the first time. Its cool architecture designs began to influence the western architects including the famous Frank Lloyd Wright with his Prairie style homes.

Now Japanese style homes, including the living rooms, have become one best option if you want to have a living room with a tinge of Eastern peace. If you want to have an awesome Japanese living room, we picked you here some 25+ of the coolest.

1. Simple Traditional-Modern Japanese Living Room Furniture

You probably want the real feels of traditional Japanese living space, but you also want it in modern tones. If so, this one is worth considering.

The traditional Japanese houses knows no chairs in their interior, including the living areas. The occupants or guests then sit cross-legged on the mats.

Here, in this example, you find again the traditional living space complete with its floor-hugging furniture.
Along with the traditional touches, you also find modern look, like the table’s minimalist designs and its seating pads.

2. Living Room with Bonsai

When you think about Japanese culture, the one thing that first to pop-up in your mind probably is bonsai. Yes, the famous art of trees miniaturization is one of its best known icons.

Bonsai gives natural elements which are always in Japanese home designs. It gives you one of opportunities to become one with the nature in elegant Japanese ways.

As an example, this set of living room furniture, Japanese styled, looks well-balanced with the presence of bonsai tree at its corner -just one piece of it makes all the differences.

3. Traditional Living Room in Japanese Style? Don’t Forget with the Tatami

Tatami, just like the bonsai trees, is almost inseparable part of any traditional Japanese home. Though now not all Japanese home has tatami in it, you should consider this feature if you want to have an authentic living room in Japanese style.

Once, tatami was only staple of the japan elites. Then, around 17 centuries, it spread over Japan and the commoners can enjoy it as well.

Traditionally, tatami is made of woven of processed rice straws. But now, for your Japanese style living room, you can have the more modern tatami with modern and durable materials.

4. Contemporary Living Room in Japanese Style

This time you meet again with East-West design approaches for a living room. You can see here that there are several iconic design ideas involved here.

For the main seating area, you find the modernized Japanese living room with its legless chairs and minimalist table. A small tatami spread under them to complete the Japanese atmosphere.

As for the surrounding living room area, you see the eclectic contemporary styles, with its 50s lamp stand and contemporary decor. Overall, it reminds you to now popular Nordic style living room area.

5. Modern Industrial Japanese Style Living Room Area

One of the most seek-after element of a living room in Japanese style is its Zen character. A Zen style strives after elegance for using essential elements, minimalist elements.

From the characters, the Zen style also draws simple beauty which also inspire calming atmosphere. In modern design contexts, you can achieve these flairs as well.

That is by implementing the minimalist designs and arranging the furniture so that it invokes meditative atmosphere, just like this industrial Japanese style living room.

6. Japanese Style Living Room Decor? Try this Tea Table

If you want to have decor in any ordinary terms from a Japanese living room area, then maybe you cannot find any –Because, more often than not, it lacks of decor.

Japanese homes, including the living room area, are designed only for the basic needs, hence they often seen with no decor or any other frills at all.

But, just like the now popular the Scandinavian style, you still can find beauty from any of functional items in the room. For example, you can make a tea table and its tea ceremony utensils as a kind of practical living room decor, just like this picture.

7. A Japanese Living Room Design with Tropical Touches

Previously, you’ve meet the fusions of Japanese style living room with other styles, like contemporary, industrial, or even Nordic styles.

Now you meet a traditional Japanese living area blends nicely with tropical style living room. The whole scheme of the design is to inject the warm atmosphere into the Japanese room.

For the reason, you can see the tropical rattan reading chairs by the large picture windows. They inspire the warm nature of the tropical South.

8. A Bamboo Table for an Awesome Japanese Style Living Room

Talk about Japanese home styles you can always tell that they’re full of natural elements. You may easily find that woods are the most ubiquitous, then you find papers wall, and the straw mats.

Along with it, there’s also element of natural light and open layout interior. The characters also apply for interior designs.

In this example, you find a bamboo table that suits well with this Japanese style living room. It gives characters and warm air to the instead cold living room here.

9. Homey Living Room with Japanese Style Vibes

Along the lists, you’ve often found J-style/Japanese style living room with floor-hugging furniture. In fact, you can have a regular living room but still have the Japanese living room’s vibes.

You do it by applying the basic Japanese style creed, the clutter-free minimalist designs schemes. Furthermore, you also need to go natural by using organic materials.

This particular apartment living room is a good example if you need some inspiration. By seeing the room layout and furniture’s materials and style, you can feel the strong J-style vibes in this modern living room.

10. A Reading Chair as Modern J-style Living Room Furniture

In term of living room furniture, a living room in Japanese home probably won’t have as much furniture as in a Western living room.

But, if you want to blend both styles, it’s ok to put a Western furniture into a J-style living room to get the more contemporary look.

In this case, you put a piece of low reading chair on a corner of Japanese-styled living room, flanked by a shoji (sliding wood-paper partition) and a bare wall. It’s cute and elegant at once.

11. Fresh and Modern Living Room in Japanese Style

When you see the simplistic and open layout designs of the prairie houses or the classic American Craftsman houses, you might wonder on its similarity with the Japanese styles.

The main reason of the similarities is that the proponent, like architect Frank Lloyd Wright, got some of inspiring features from the Japanese house designs.

Some of the designs survived, while the other evolved into a contemporary J-style living room like this set of example: a neat wood-dominated minimalist fresh and modern living room.

12. The Timeless Traditional Japanese Living Room

So far we’ve talked about modern, contemporary, or fusion J-style living rooms. Now it’s time to dig down to the basic, the traditional living room in Japanese style ((和室, washitsu).

Once, only the elite or wealthy have washitu. They used them as study room and only later being used as living rooms.

Every washitu has its basic features, such as tatami/the mat), fusuma/the sliding doors, shoji/opaque sliding door, ranma/transom, tenjo/ceiling, and tokonama/alcove.

13. Cozy Apartment Living Room in Japanese Style

Not only gives you the peaceful atmosphere, a Japanese seating area also offers cozy and snug living room if you combine it with the right modern materials and furniture.

Being minimalist and only offers you the most basic, a J-style living room also works well for small apartment, just like the following idea.

A plush low couch makes the center of interest of the minimalist room, coupled with a bean bag and rustic coffee tables. They make this living room cozy and snug.

14. A Modern-Traditional Blend Living Room, Japanese Style

Along the time, the Japanese home interior styles are not only confined to the traditional one. They also absorbs (or be absorbed) other interior designs.

In this case, you find a fusion between the traditional Japanese living areas with the Western modern living room style. As you can see here, there’re two living room areas.

You may choose the traditional seating area, where you can sit cross-legged Orient ways, or you may put your behind comfortably on the couch just like in your regular Western living room.

15. Japanese Lampions as Living room’s Decoration

When it comes to decor, you find only a handful of items which could be considered as decor. All of the items mostly are functional items.

Previously, you met bonsai trees as living room decoration. In other time you might find statues as simple decoration.

Now you meet this lampion as living room decor. Japanese lampions, traditionally made of bamboos and papers, are elegant and functional decor you can get for a J-style living room.

16. Living Room in Japanese Room for Small Space

Urban living often limits living spaces, mainly for the regular urban people. For the reason, they try to get the most of their living space by making the right room arrangements.

Then come the minimalist designs like of the Nordic/Scandinavian styles or, of course, the Japanese styles. And here’s one of the modern small Japanese living room example.

As you see here, all the furniture are set down to the most basic, with right sizes and neutral choice of colors. The result is a small living room with spacious atmosphere in it.

17. Warm Wood-Dominated Living Room in Japanese Style

If you still in search of the right space-saving living room, we offer another one for you. This time it’ll be suitable for a one-room apartment or small house.

In this example, you double living rooms with one living room in Western style, while the other in Japanese styles, complete with its short table and legless chairs.

For the more casual time with friends, you might want to use the Japanese style living room with its roomier space. Meanwhile, for your me-time, the couched living room will be the best.

18. Colorful Modern Living Room in Japanese Look

Concerning the living room colors, so far you only meet living room in neutral or natural colors. It doesn’t mean that you cannot have other colors than those colors.

Just like this picture, you also can play with the couches colors the more vibrant choices of color pallets.

To complement the already fresh look of the living room, add the final touches by adding a point of interest. This time it’s in the form of bright red classic lamp fixtures.

19. Still Undecided in Picking the Right J-style Living Room Furniture? Here’s the List

If you still cannot decide which furniture to take for the new living room, here we have listed some of the most common furniture featured in a J-style living room.

Along with tatami, there’s a futon. It’s a kind of foldable mattress for sleeping which you could fold and stash during the day.

You also can have zabuton, the seating cushion. A low table is an also iconic furniture. Then you can find the right have byoubu or foldable room partition.

20. A Neat Japanese-Western Fusion Living Room

You’ve met combination of Western and Japanese designs along this list. But all of them are kept separated, with each on its own style next to each other.

But now we offer you the real blend of both styles, where you can find them mix each other in charming ways.

You find here a neat modern couch faces a modern table surrounded by a set of Japanese legless chairs. All are in a peaceful Japanese style room.

21. All-Wood Living Room with Japanese Touches

A traditional Japanese homes are mainly made of woods and other materials, such as clay, papers, and rice straws. The structures joined with ropes, not nails, and revisited/refreshed every 2 decades or so.

Along the time and Western influences, the Japanese homes also changed –both on the design or materials. Modern and the more affordable materials are also in use.

In this Japanese living room, you can see the extensive use of modern materials (plywood), shelving designs, in the window styles, and completed with paper lampions.

22. Japanese’s Warm and Inviting Small Living Room

One of the coolest parts of a J-style living room is its efficient and clutter-free layout. The other being its capacities to gives you the satisfying inner peace you feel in it.

Whether big or small living room like this living room idea, the sensation is always the same. And in this case, the naked wood finishes also give you the inviting and warm feelings.

Though small, the living room looks spacious, thanks to the open layout. It also offers you hidden cache under the table, where you can store seat cushions when unused.

23. A Small Living Area in a Bedroom, Japanese Look

As the land price or house price often unreachable for regular Japanese, they often live in small rooms. Though so, with the Zen philosophy, they still can breathe easily in their rooms.

The philosophy, emphasizes on simplicity and harmony of things, is applied into minimalist but beautiful room layouts.

This modern small room living area is one of the example. It’s neat and cozy, even complement the bedroom. The Japanese style cabinet (and the wall AC) spice up the Japanese look.

24. Brush Paintings for Japanese Living Room’s Wall Decor

Ever heard about Sumi-e? If you find an artistic ink painting in a Japanese home, it’s most probably a sumi-e, a brush painting.

This art of painting comes in black and white, with the white color represents this universe; while the black colors is all the things in it.

It also represent Zen philosophy which always strives toward simplistic elegance. Hang one or two in your living room, let it shines with peace and harmony.

25. A Japanese Industrial Living Room

The industrial styles has similar characters with Japanese minimalism. The one that lack from the industrial styles probably is the elegance you often see in a Japanese home.

But, if you still prefer the industrial design (and yet you still want to keep the J-style), you can balance the raw characters of the style with Japanese home interior features.

In this occasion, the naked concrete structures are balanced by the wood work desk and shelves. Facing them is a plush couch and carpet to even warm the room.

26. Contemporary Table for J-look Living Room

In a traditional J-style living room, the most prominent feature or furniture probably its table. The table practically is the one to standout in the room, with no other competitors to draw your attention.

The traditional tables are usually of boxy short tables, most of them are of minimalist styles –while some with carvings.

The contemporary J-style living room over the more flexible options, where you can pick any other low tables than the boxy one.

27. Rustic Modern Japanese Living Room

You can even enjoy the rustic charm of a country house without having to leave your apartment. All you need to do is finding the right materials to evoke the feelings.

If you want to find materials for the purpose, try woods. So far there’s no other materials which can beat woods in giving rustic look.

A combination of wood materials and modern wall structures make this apartment looks rustic and fresh at the same time.

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That’s your list of Japanese living room ideas. We’ve picked you some of the most gorgeous, from the right furniture, decor, up to me most updated modern living room design.

We do hope you enjoy all the lovely inspiration here. Lastly, enjoy this little article and have a nice day.

Storage spaces can be created everywhere around the house, from the bedroom to the garage and even in the bathroom. Now you can store anything anywhere you want at your residence in any storage systems and styles easily –and affordably.

One of the popular spaces where you usually see a storage space is the living room. Thus, if you’d love to build a storage space at your living room, you need to consider many things so it doesn’t look boring or cluttering.

There’re are ways to organize a storage space. It means that you can be creative when doing it, as some designs are so simple you also can make it yourself at home. Make good use of everything you can find to create your living room storage.

If you’re intending on re-organizing your living room, here are ideas you could try to make your storage space not only effective but also attractive.

1. Numerous Shelves for a Moderate Size Living Room

Just because your living room’s medium-sized doesn’t mean that it needs to limit itself. Don’t be afraid to use lots of storage items in the room!

Here’s an idea you could try. Use a very long desk that has numerous shelves on it. This way, you can store lots of stuffs in your living space.

Well, of course, it doesn’t hurt to also use wall shelves. Opt for very long ones that look good when placed near the very long desk that you use.

2. Glass-front Cabinets Surrounding the TV

Big storage spaces are always nice to have since they help you keep lots of stuffs. In addition, they’ll also help adorn your living room if they look nice.

One of the nicest-looking things you could use in your living room is a massive set of glass-front cabinets that have an empty space in the middle.

You can use this kind of cabinets to surround your TV. It’ll make your living room look well-arranged and beautifully tidy.

3. Beautiful Under-bench Storage

Storage items that effectively help you save space are ones to have. If this kind of storage items interest you, beautiful under-bench storage is probably the stuff you should plan to buy.

If your living space is brightly white, consider a bench with white cushioning and bright wooden under-bench storage.

This storage bench will help make your living space look more cheerful, giving the space a relaxing atmosphere.

4. Hidden Storage Space

What’s better than storage that conceals itself whenever necessary? Many people won’t even know that you have a storage space if you use this kind of storage.

A built-in bench that sticks to the wall and has a hidden storage space with a vertical door is a cool stuff you can try installing if you’re intrigued to have this kind of storage.

Whenever not in use, the storage space can be closed, its door functioning as the surface of the bench. Innovative!

5. Beautiful Shelves with Lighting

 

Your shelves don’t need to look dull! They deserve not only to be given a chance to function as storage spaces but also to adorn your living space.

If you’d love for your shelves to look beautiful, try installing shelves with lighting! This kind of shelves just sit there but they exude beauty all the time.

What’s special about this kind of shelves? They look mesmerizing when you turn off the lights in your living room when the night falls.

6. Perfect In-wall Storage

If you want your storage to perfectly blend in, you should consider marrying it with your wall. Create an in-wall storge space in your living space.

Speaking of in-wall storage, one of the ideas you could try is building in-wall shelves in different sizes.

Then, give a nice touch by giving one of the shelves a door, giving the space a unique spot that makes it look nice.

7. A Storage Space That Contrasts the Background

Some colors that contrast each other look really good when put together and you can use this fact to your benefits.

Incorporate a storage item that contrasts your wall into your living space. For example, if you have a wooden wall, you can place bright white bookshelves in front of it.

Having this kind of combination makes your living space look modern especially if you put dark couches on each side of the bookshelves.

8. An Artistic Storage Space

If you’re fond of art, try placing a storage item that’s incredibly artistic in your living space. What to note when trying to apply this idea?

Make sure your storage item is in stark contrast with your walls. For example, if your walls are white, you can place a brown cupboard with artistic patterns on it.

Why does it have to be in a stark contrast with the walls? It is so that it’s easily visible, making it easy for anyone to enjoy its artistic looks.

9. A Simple but Sleek Storage Space

Just because you try to organize your storage space so your living room looks nice doesn’t mean you have to overdo it.

After all, it’s totally okay if you just use a simple storage item in your living room. Just make sure it’s sleek.

If it’s sleek, it’ll look nice even if it’s simple. If you’d love to create a simple yet sleek storage space, make sure you color it white because white helps things look sleeker pretty easily.

10. Low Storage for a Living Room with a Carpet

If there’s a carpet in your living room, low storage is what you’ve got to consider. You can marry low storage with your carpet.

For example, you can place a living room table with low storage under it. You can use the storage space to store books or other stuffs.

It’ll be better if your low storage and carpet are in contrasting colors. It’ll give your living space a not-too-extravagant but beautiful area.

11. A Calmly Beautiful Storage Space

Again, you don’t necessarily need to overdo it when trying to re-organize your living room to build a storage space in it.

In fact, you can simply place light blue glass-front bookshelves in your living room and it’ll look incredible. What’s the key?

Make sure the bookshelves look clean and you combine them with things that complement their color like, for example, a yellow couch.

12. A Combo of Open and Closed Storage Spaces

Wanting to show the world just how creative you are with organizing your living space? Place a storage item that embodies the idea of creative home-designing in your living room.

Place a combination of cabinets and shelves in your living room. This combo comes in the form of a set of cabinets, with doors, and open shelves.

You can then adorn the shelves with books or artistic items to make this creative storage item appear even more mesmerizing.

13. Storage Spaces That Sandwich a Fireplace

Trying to be innovative? Consider combining your storage space with your fireplace to make your living space look cool.

Install pseudo-in-wall shelves in your living room. Install two sets of this kind of shelves and make sure they sandwich your fireplace.

Doing this enables you to make your living space appear modern. Make sure you decorate the shelves with modern decorations so your living space looks even better.

14. Classy Low Storage

Making a living space look classy is a task you can accomplish in many ways. Using the right type of storage item is one of these ways.

For example, if the furniture in your living space are low, use low storage to complement the furniture pieces.

If all of the furniture pieces in your living space are classy, you could use a clean and shiny white low cabinet. It fits many kinds of rooms and it will likely do your classy living space.

15. Innovative Storage behind the Sofas

If massive things are your favorites, incorporate massive storage in your living space. How do you do that?

Place an L-shaped set of massive shelves behind your sofa. Decorate it by placing a cute, artistic decorative piece on top of it.

Use the long shelves on the massive storage to store books or anything you feel need storing. This kind of storage doesn’t only look good but also unique.

16. Stunning Wall-wide Storage

If you feel you’ve got too many things to store in your living space, you have to get storage that’s capable of storing all of your stuffs.

Consider a wall-wide storage unit. Install a set of cabinets and shelves that’s as wide as your wall. Use the cabinets to store things you don’t want to show and the shelves to store books or place decorative pieces on.

As for the color, white should be a pretty good choice. It fits in any situations with little to no trouble, making it a perfect choice for any living rooms.

17. Elegant Dark Cabinets and Bookshelves

For you who longs for elegance, a smooth-surface cabinet should be a nice option for you. It’ll be better if it’s in a dark color.

What kind of dark cabinet can you use for your living room? You can consider presenting more than one to your living space.

Place a dark glass-front cabinet in front of one wall and a set of dark cabients plus open shelves in front of other walls.

18. Innovatively Beautiful Storage

Things that look innovative are interesting to see and it applies to storag items as well. If an innovative storage item is what you’d love to have, try one that can function as more than a storage space.

Create a sleeping area on your ceiling and then don’t be too conventional when building stairs that lead to that area.

Instead, place a set of cabinets and shelves that can function as stairs that lead you there. It’ll surely make your living space look super cool.

19. Always Consider the X Factor

When doing anything, you should always consider the wild cards that could get in your way. However, sometimes you should also consider wild cards that might help you make sure things go your way.

One of these wild cards can come in the form if this storage unit. An X factor on its own, this set of shelves are connected by a big X in white.

It looks unique! It looks interesting! It looks awesome. And guess what? It’s not something that’s too complicated to install!

20. A Tall Rack That Functions as a Room Divider

In this day and era, it’s good when you have stuffs that have more than one function. This is what you should take notes of when re-organizing your living room.

Speaking of re-organizing a living space by re-organizing the room’s storage space, you can try using a tall rack that’s quite light to achieve the purpose.

Also use the rack as a room divider and not just as a storage unit. It’ll help give your living space a playful character.

21. A Chic Cupboard for Your Cute Living Room

If you love cute living rooms, you might need to turn your living space into one. What do you need to do to reach the target?

Well, placing a chic cupboard in your living space is one of the steps you could take to reach the target. It isn’t hard to find this kind of cupboard.

You could consider, for example, a brown wooden cupboard with black side trims and black drawers. The combo of wood color and black will give your living space a chic element that makes it cute.

22. Glowing Living Room Storage

Glowing skin is considered an aspect of universal beauty now and that might apply to living room storage as well.

If you’d love to add storage to your living space, consider glowing sets of shelves. Get a set of cabinets and shelves that have in-shelf lights built in.

This storage set glows in the night. Well, it can glow in the day as well and it’s just so beautiful that it can make your living space look times better.

23. Very Wide L-shaped Storage

If you think that your living room is just too wide you can leave its wall empty, consider a very wide L-shaped storage set for the space.

Get a set of gray cabinets combined with wood-color shelves that’s L-shaped with each section being almost as wide as your wall.

This storage set will prevent your living space from exuding a lonely atmosphere. Also, it’ll help improve the space’s looks if you know how to effectively decorate it.

24. When White’s the Main Character

If white happens to be the very color that you always prioritize, you should make it the main character of your living space.

Install a very wide floor-to-ceiling storage set in the space. Install one that consists of cabinets and shelves instead of just cabinets or shelves only.

Decorate the shelves with any decorative pieces you’ve got and if there’s a big enough shelf amongst the many on the set, use it to place your TV on. Make your TV part of the greatness the storage set offers.

25. Luxury Storage for Your Artistic Living Room

Do you always fall in love with anything artsy? If so, why don’t you combine a storage unit with artistic items in your living space?

Place a dark wooden low storage item with three drawers in the room. Make sure you pick one whose drawers are in different sizes so it doesn’t look too plain.

Then place artistic lamps and maybe an artistic vas on top of it. Finish by hanging something artistic on the wall behind the thing to make the space even more artistic.
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26. Innovative Couch Drawers

Innovative items come in varying forms and in your living space, it can come as a couch. Not a regular couch, of course.

Let it come in the form of a couch with two levels of drawers under the seating area. If the drawers are only on a certain area and not all over the surface of the area below the cushioning, it’ll be lots better because it’ll look a bit unique.

Make sure you pick a couch whose cushoning and drawers are in contrasting colors. It’ll help the drawers show off its beauty when pulled out, which is an awesome thing.

Shown above are numerous living room storage spaces you could draw inspirations from if re-organizing your living space is what you’ve been planning to do.

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There various storage sets you could choose when trying to re-organize the storage in your living space. From a chic cupboard to a storage bench to very modern cabinets, there are vast choices of furniture pieces to lock your eyes on.

Just believe that no matter what kind of living space you have, there’s always a right storage unit choice that suits it. Finally, good luck finding one for your living room and happy re-organizing!

Some old living room styles never die, they’re only going downhill for a while to move up again in other time. This happens to the sunken living room. Once, during the 60s, this style had its heyday.

Actually, the trend began in the 1920s, in the early modern style America. Then it’s still in the form of conversation pits, with its grandeur atmosphere, and belongs to the luxurious homes. Along the time, the pits faded.

Now sunken living rooms are on the rise again, and even the conversation pits are also has their own fans. Now of course the living room features come with much more updated features to match with the contemporary tastes.

If now you want to find a suitable sunken living room for the new house (or to update the existing one), here we pick some of the best for you. We hope you love them. Let’s check them out.

1. Cozy Wood-dominated sunken living room Ideas

Before Bruce Goff built one for Adah Robinson, his teacher, the ideas of having a sunken living room in the house is naught. After 1927, the year he build the living room, this distinctive living room style got increasing lovers.

If at the time the style was limited to the early modern styles, now you can have a living room in a wide range of styles. If you love rustic wood-dominated living room, this sunken room for cozy chatting is one of the best ideas.

2. Sunken Room for Modern Tropical House

If you love to see vintage interior designs, your chances to meet sunken rooms is bigger when you look for them in houses with Art Deco styles. This style is particularly popular in the early 20 century up to the eve of World War II.

Unlike the often intricate and ‘heavy’ Art Deco style living room, the modern style often offer fresher and more joyful atmosphere. If the Art Deco style often offer conversation pits, the modern counterpart offer this pleasant sunken room –like this tropical sunken room.

3. Sunken Living Room, Industrial Style

We’ve mentioned, briefly, about conversation pits. Before the sunken living room in vogue, you have conversation pits. They’re depressed pit-like parts in the living rooms which then filled with couches (arranged in circle for easy chats) and tables.

Now you have the more contemporary sunken living rooms. The main difference from conversation pits is that they’re only sunken, not pit-like. Now, if you like to remodel or update your living room into an industrial, try this industrial living room idea.

4. Sunken Living Room for a Warm Ranch house

Sunken living rooms cannot be separated from the ranch houses. Because of the typical open floor plans and low ceilings styles, a way of making the rooms look higher is by sinking the floor, making it sunken room areas.

Along to create the visually higher effects, the sunken room also offer spacious atmosphere. You can feel both of the effects in this ranch house living room here. Without the sunken parts, the room will look low and cramped. With it, the room looks expansive and pleasant.

5. Open Modern Living Room with a Sunken Room Feature

A room with a sunken feature often gives you great or even grandeur feelings, mainly if it in a classic house. This probably generated by the room leveling in the room. They give you sense of importance, just like when you step or down a palace stairs.

In this example you also can feel the atmosphere as well. Not only injects those effects, the raise or down of sunken room area also offers gentle and elegant way to split the room with other areas. Like to have one of this style in your home?

6. Sunken Living Room, Vintage Ranch Living Room

To divide a room, you have several alternatives. For the more conventional approaches, you may use walls or room partitions. But if you have an open room layout like a ranch house, you probably should try a sunken room.

This is not on how to raise a floor question, but rather how to dig down the floor. When you have an already low ceiling like this ranch house, you alternative is to go down, to get the higher and spacious air. You can use the height differences as room partition like this picture.

7. Low Sunken Floor for an Elegant Living Room

All the way up to this list, you have seen deep enough sunken floor. But, actually, you don’t have to have sunken floor that deep. For an example, you may take a look at this picture. The depressed area of the living room is shallow –but it’s still counted as a sunken living room.

As we said before, you may divide a room area with the sunken room feature. No matter how shallow the sunken degree of the floor, you always can use it as an area marker. In this example, the shallow sunken area marks the living room area with the kitchen.

8. Simple Sunken Room, Country House Living Room

For a difficult-to-impress friend, you have to consider a sunken room. No matter how simple or ordinary your living space, you always can get the wow factor with the sunken feature. Just dig down a little, and your living room lights up like no

In this example you don’t need railing ideas, all you need a shallow pit inside the living room. Spread the rug and set the table. With all this wood-dominated living room, the other things you need are only big picture windows and a most reliable fireplace.

9. Circular Sunken Living Room for the More Intimate Moments

You’ve met some of the finest sunken room ideas, but all of them are in rectangular forms. Though most of sunken room are with the form factor, you also can have sunken room in almost any other forms, like the one in the circular form here.

Small circular sunken living room offers the more intimate moments. It helps to build closer relationships and warmer conversational ambience. Being small, shallow, and full of fluffy stuff, you also don’t have to worry about its safety.

10. Cozy Modern Lounge, Sunken Style

Some say that the sunken styles are really catching up after The Dick Van Dyke Show aired in the 60s. The trend then spread to all the USA and the world –and died down in the mid-70s just to rise again lately.

Now even the conversation pits are in a comeback as well. This contemporary version of the pit is shown here. You have no chairs like thee conventional designs, as all the parts are lined with thick padding. The color, violet, contrasts nicely with the enveloping large white-black open room.

11. Cozy Seaside Sunken Living Room Ideas

Now we move outside, as sunken rooms are not only for the interior of houses. As you see here, sunken seating areas are also good for outdoor uses. This rustic seaside sunken lounge idea testifies the idea.

Here you have a depressed patio, in rustic raw wood materials, overlooking a sandy beach. The combination of sunken feature, materials, and the red paddings guarantee a warm and pleasant moments to whoever sit on it.

12. Minimalist Modern White and Grey Sunken Seating Area

If your house sits in uneven terrain and, as a result, you have uneven floors, then you should consider to allocate a room for an awesome sunken room. You may use it as a conversation pit or just a regular living room.

In this list, we present you a modern minimalist sunken room. This room combine the recessed floor with neutral colors. The combination of grey, white, and wood colors create a soft warm atmosphere which surely wants to always nice time on it.

13. Eclectic Sunken Room in Contemporary Style

Want to remodel or update the living room? You have several alternative of trending living room designs, including this eclectic sunken living room. Being an eclectic means that you have wide range tastes for styles (any styles, not just in interior designs).

For example, you have this eclectic sunken room. The room is a combination of modern and contemporary styles. The sunken room itself contains some of the iconic modern styles like the reclining seat and stuffy couch. All are warmed with wood accents of the stairs.

14. The Miller House’s Conversation Pit

Talking about sunken room wouldn’t be complete without naming Miller House. In this house Eero Sarrinen designed one of the most iconic sunken room, the conversation pit, as you can see the picture here.

Though the living room has reached over a half century (in existence since 1957), it still feel updated and contemporary. Like the sunken room of the era, the living room floor plan is truly sunken, lined with comfortable couches with rustic stairs on one side.

15. Small Sunken Room in Rustic-Minimalist Style

Some of the floor of the sunken rooms listed here are carpeted, while the other are left bare. Talking about carpeting, the ‘classic’ sunken room (mainly conversation pits) are mostly carpeted.

The contemporary sunken room, in the other hands, are often left naked.

In this rustic minimalist living room, for example, the floor is let to retain its warm wood floor characters. But, that’s not a rigid rule. You can alwasy put carpet or rug on the floor. It’s your floor after all.

16. Luxurious Modern Seaside Sunken Living Room with Picture Window

Again, here you meet a seaside lounging place. But, not like the previous design, you have a regular sunken. Only this time the living room has a big picture window opens to the seaside –so you can enjoy the beach without having to be troubled by flying sands or naughty wind.

This luxurious sunken room promises you all the comfort, from the snug beefy couches up to the warm wooden floor. It also gives you contemporary metal-glass structure which should make your guest impressed.

17. A Simple Small Sunken Living Room Design

Sunken designs are flexible, you can put them on a small or large rooms. The designs, as we outlined before, also give you room for improvisations. Shallow or deep, a sunken room’s is always warm and inviting.

To enter the living room here, you need to go down a few stairs. But that’s no big problem, as the stairs are designed so that they look neatly integrated to the room, and also has complied with the safety measures.

The sunken space itself is not so big, but enough and comfortable as a place to hangout.

18. A Grandeur Circular Conversational Pit

Hoe to make an intimate conversation? Get go to a suitable room, or go into this circular conversation pit. And if the previous pits is too simple for you, this conversation pit idea should satisfy you.

Along with the regular sunken room, the conversation pits also still has fans. The design also available in various forms, they depend on your tastes. A circular pit, in a right place, can be intimate and grandeur at once –like the one in this example.

19. Modern Semi Industrial Living Room in Sunken Style

An open living room often present unexpected drawback, aside of its spacious air it gives. Sometimes the room looks monotone and you want something (or structures) which can spice up the room visually.

To do it, breaking the monotony, try to set a sunken room. This example gives you an illustration. This long and open modern room will be boring and monotone as it is. But, with the sunken room installed, it provides nice break for your visual.

20. Sunken Rustic Living Room in Simple Lines

You don’t have to have deep sunken room to make an impressive living room area. With a few steps down, you also can have a cool and elegant living room, like this one. It full of elegant lines in modern and classic touches.

Though only with several inches raise (or down, depends on your perspective), the height difference is enough to give you the needed feeling: the living room looks bigger with a feeling of spaciousness and an increased height or headroom.

21. Vintage Mid Century Sunken Room Ideas

How to raise a floor for a sunken structure? To have a sunken room, ideally, you need to purchase a home which already has the room feature. If you’re now building a home, if you want a sunken structure, you need to incorporate the structure now.

If you want to add or remodel a sunken room in a home renovation, that would be unwise. Because you don’t want to disturb the existing weight bearing structure. So, if you happen to see a chic vintage Mid style sunken living room on sale, grab it immediately. It’s worth it.

22. Contemporary Cottage Style Sunken Living Room with Vaulted Ceiling

You can combine the sunken feature of a room with vaulted ceiling to achieve the more maximum headroom (and to look fresher). You can use the approach for a long, open, but narrow room, the one you usually see in a modern cottage.

For an example, see the picture. Without the vaulted ceiling, the room looks low and depressing (even with sunken floor plans). The vaulted wood and floor structure are also the main factor in injecting the room with its warm ambience.

23. Sunken Living Room with Pool, Nordic Style

Use sunken living room to create visual interest or breaking the monotony of the interior or exterior layout. In the previous list, you’ve seen how sunken room can distract your eyes (in lovely ways) from monotony on the room.

Now the sunken room also works well for outdoor, making a pool looks fantastic and refreshing.

This happen by building a sunken room protruding onto the pool, making the room partially surrounded by the pool, separated only by glass wall. Like to remodel your pool with this sunken room idea?

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Whether for small chat, intimate date, or just for hanging out, a sunken living room one of your best options so far. It’s private. It also provides a good visual interest and makes, aside of giving the room its spacious atmosphere.

That’s it. We hope you enjoy this listicle and you can get the clues or ideas we offered here. Lastly, have a good day.