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So, what’s a transitional living room? Just like the name implied, a transitional style wants to bridge the old styles with the new contemporary styles.

The old styles here are any of pre modern styles, like the Victorian, Neo Romantic, Edwardian, Baroque, even down to Gothic styles. But, you should go down that far. As regular transitional are only blend those of 18-19 century with contemporary styles.

In transitional style, you update those styles with contemporary characters. So, in transitional, you probably still feel the old traits but also with the more contemporary characters, mainly in the color pallets.

Transitional styles are also best known for the use of contemporary patterning schemes top add depth and dynamics to the (often) calming and subdued air of traditional styles.

Now if you need some awesome transitional living room idea, we offer you here some of the most impressive.

Color Ideas for transitional living room

So, how to pick the right transitional colors for your living room? As you’re not supposed to use old world colors (though look elegant) or too vibrant colors of the contemporary world.

So, you have the alternative to use the blending of both of worlds’ colors. You need something soothing (like traditional colors) yet with certain vibrant look on them.

Take a look on this living room, for an example. You put starker colors in deep brown chairs, throw pillows, wall decor, and chandelier on a traditional white color of the background.

Soft gray living room in transitional setting

Your living room will be only big and soulless without any furniture and decor in it. The case is the same with your transitional-style living room.

With the right furniture, you have the right living room of your taste, the transitional one –be sure to find the right colors.

In this example you find a paneled living room, which remind you of traditional style, enclosing an eclectic setup of dark-gray modern-contemporary furniture setup.

Cute tufted sofa for your transitional-themed living room

Talking about transitional furniture, you have various options –as the traditional eras span for so several centuries.

Here’ you have one of the most iconic traditional furniture which, now, also often being used as transitional stuff, the tufted sofas (or couches).

Unlike the subdued and neutral-colored of the traditional sofas, the transitional sofa present themselves in the more vibrant covering materials, like this one in the example.

Traditional rug for transitional style living room

Blending the traditional and contemporary characters is a main trait of transitional themes. To have the right blend, you need to have the right balance of both main characters.

When you don’t want to have your living room too modern, with all their simplistic lines and textures play, then you need to balance it with the calmer traditional touches.

This contemporary Nordic living room is cute in itself, but with the classic-traditional rug, it transforms into a cute and balanced transitional room.

Old and new features in transitional rooms

Transitional living room almost always has woody elements. This because the traditional interior designs use wood element in all their furniture.

For the reason, you may need to put wood elements in any transitional room. It might be in the furniture, floor, or decor.

Only then you may out some other contemporary features as you live. This living room offer you a glimpse of the example.

Bay window living room in transitional style

A combination of classic living room area with contemporary furniture also is worth considering, if you’re into a transitional style.

In this idea, you have heritage of English Renaissance home’s feature, the bay window. Here you use the bay window area for your contemporary living room with all the old-new furniture blend of lounge chairs and sofa –and the rustic furniture.

The result is this chic and light living room, where you can enjoy the seamless theme transitions enfold before your eyes.

A Transitional modern living room

If I remind you of modern living room, you might remember of plush chairs with tapered legs and simple plywood-cladded living room and simple decor.

You probably also remember of open layout living rooms which inspire of spacious and free atmosphere.

If you have a transitional mind, you probably will add something traditional without having to sacrifice its modern tones, perhaps by putting a traditional dresser like this example.

Transitional living room with glass table

Bridging the traditional and modern themes are, at least, two themes. You have the Art Nouveau and Art Deco themes.

Both of the themes are vowed to get rid of Neoclassic and Romantic themes so ubiquitous in the early 20 centuries where the themes was born.

This example is transitional room with element of Nouveau decor on the reading lamp (on a traditional dresser) and mirror, facing modern glass table in the center of the room.

Transitional modern living room

Traditional country house has so many features that should be awesome to be incorporated to your transitional living room.

It probably the naked and massive wooden roofing structures, its raw open shelves, benches, or else.

In this modern living room, you have some transitional elements in the form of rafters, wooden benches, shelves, and cabinets. Even you have here the big early Industrial windows.

Neo Gothic lighting for living room

Before the Romantic and Neo Classic, long way down into the time line, we can see the Baroque architecture styles, complete with their interior stuff.

To our today’s standard, they look heavy and dark. But, after all, there’re grandeur in them –perhaps from their massive and elaborate structures.

One of their features which we still cherish up to these days is their lighting features. A neo Gothic chandelier is a chic exotic partner of contemporary interior designs, making a cute transitional theme out of it.

Old and new in this transitional traditional living room

So far we redo our contemporary or modern rooms into transitional living room by adding traditional elements on them.

This time we do the opposite by complementing the traditional elements with modern touch.

This living room is traditional with all the heavy fabric patterns but, at the same time, looks young with simple modern lines on the furniture’ legs, light curtain, glass table, a set of side tables.

Color themes for transitional rooms

A transitional theme wants you to feel comfortable without being too absorbed by the darker tones of the traditional or by the vibrant colors of the contemporary themes.

They want you to enjoy your time in a calming and clean atmosphere with all the subtle and soft background colors like tans, white, or grays.

The darker traditional colors (like soft green, shades of blue or brown) are for the depth. They also serve as accent colors, so the living room won’t look bland. See the picture for an example.

Transitional rustic living room

A combination of traditional country styles and contemporary themes are also worth trying, mainly if you want to an elegant transitional style living room.

Now an open layout living room is popular among the urban folks, coupled with country touches it offers you a cottage-like comfort much enjoyable in evening sit or others.

Open rafter, old fireplace blend nicely with the industrial minimalist metal glass doors and contemporary curtains –making them a cool living room in rustic style.

Vibrant and elegant transitional style living room

Large or small, a transitional room always brings the balanced atmosphere. You can enjoy the time in without being too distracted by the contemporary colors and also won’t be too deep in your thought by the lure of slumbering traditional living room settings.

In a transitional, you may enjoy the vibrant colors which won’t present in any traditional living room schemes.

Here you have an example of it. A subdued traditional living room area full of fluffy and colorful throw pillows. It’s elegant and vibrant at the same time.

Blue sofa for a vibrant transitional style living room

A key aspect of transitional style is the use of comfortable stuff and its love of soft lines. It loves traditional lines, but without any ‘heaviness’ or the fuss of the themes.

In term of the color schemes, transitional likes to use the contemporary color themes, though not overly using them.

If you need an idea of how to use transitional color schemes, here’s an example to inspire: a classic living room with deep blue couch as its center of interest.

Gray transitional living room

Transitional is style for one who loves to the timeless features of traditional and contemporary styles, and blend them into an elegant and eclectic transitional style.

And, don’t forget, they should look fresh and updated. That’s why we need the timeless aspects of both of the styles.

In this example, you meet the simple and softened version both of the styles. The classic sofas, flowing rustic curtains, are all in one with the modern themes of the other furniture, decor, and color themes.

Furniture for transitional living room

How to find the right furniture for your transitional room? That depends on your personal preference. But, the transitional lovers mostly use classic traditional furniture to furnish their living rooms.

But with exceptions. They like furniture with the simpler and, as said before, has the timeless characters.

To complete the setup, they also use modern fabric patterns but, as also we said before, with not-too-loud color themes.

Material often found in Transitional rooms

Still with the transitional fabrics, you might find some particular textiles are more often being of being used than the others.

You might find that textiles like suede, cotton, chenille, or corduroy are often seen in transitional style living room. And don’t forget leather.

They inspire the cozy feeling to the hosts. Of the rugs, you might find that the materials are more various, from the natural up to the industrial materials.

Now what sofa designs suitable for Transitional style?

Almost any traditional sofa can sit well in a transitional room. But, then you may say these four types of them are the most common: the Lawson sofa, camelback, tuxedo, and English Roll Arm.

But, that’s not a rigid rule. You can always fill your transitional room with any furnishings you like, even with daybed like this one in the example.

You also may put some classic Ottoman with the daybed. Up overhead, put something chic from romantic era for the lighting.

Chairs for the transitional room?

Along with sofas, are the chairs and table –and sometimes Ottoman table. If previously we want to find out the right sofas for the transitional room, now it’s time to find out the right chairs.

In fact, almost any traditional types of chairs are suitable for transitional. So you don’t have to worry on putting, for examples, Wingback, Occasional, Lawson, Slipper, Tub, or other chair types for your transitional rooms.

This example fives you a pair of wingback chairs in an eclectic transitional style living room.

Mirrors for transitional decor

Mirrors are easily most often used functional decor for transitional room. You may use it as mirrors as they are, or just as decor elements, that’s up to your likings.

Along with mirrors, glasses are also known to be used for transitional decor. Metallic furnishings are also ubiquitous in transitional rooms.

As for mirrors, you may put them on the wall or just prop it on the wall like some of what the contemporary interior designers love to do.

Transitional living room with sectional

Again, in a transitional, you play with contemporary texture without overly doing so, as you need to consider the soft aspects of traditional styles embedded on the styles.

In this transitional living room the wood play on the wall and ceiling play important roles in injecting the traditional air into the room.

The contemporary coffee table is a good companion for the sectional sofa and the Lawson chair in the room.

Modern traditional transitional room

Nothing too complex in a transitional room. All are set in simple layout, both of the room’s layout or the furnishings’ lines.

Though so, there’s one characters that won’t ever be excluded from the transitional style, the wow factor.
You need the wow factor to turn your already charming transitional room into the more impressive one.

Simple sisal blue rug for impressive transitional-themed living room

Another way to add a wow factor to your transitional style living room is by giving it the right rug. You might use the traditional rugs to balance contemporary furnishings on it.

On the other hands, you probably want to use contemporary rug themes for your retro furniture.

You also may use alternative rug, with the more natural and exotic rugs, like this blue sisal rug for transitional style living room.

Coffee table sets for transitional style living room

Finding suitable table sets for the transitional room might present challenge for some of us. Here we have general rules for you to pick the right table for your transitional themes.

If you already have contemporary sets of furniture, then you might need to find some retro or traditional table –see the picture for examples.

You’ll do the opposite when you have traditional sofas or chairs. You might need to find tables with contemporary traits.

Light and airy transitional living room with a pair of Club chairs

Translational rooms, any translational rooms, like to combine furniture of different eras and still look charming and elegant.

This airy living room has two different tables, but still looks gorgeous. The elegant coffee table on the picture works well with the round table flanked by the pair of Club chairs.

You also see that in transitional theme, you wooden floor also a good option. Here, a clear-finished floor also serves as balancing color for the overall whitish living room.

Cozy living room in transitional style

Along with the wow factors, you need to make sure that your transitional room are always cozy for your daily activities.

For this, the traditional and contemporary fluffy couch or chairs should enough to comfort you. To add the cozy atmosphere, find one with the right fabrics or leathers.

This image show you a simple yet cozy transitional room, which would help you through harsh winter in comfort.

Large rustic transitional style living room

Still like an airy living room? This large open living room is worth your consideration. It’s spacious and won’t make you feel depressed.

This country style living room has the arsenal of a comfortable living room with the plush sectional and open layout room.

Rustic old grandpa clock, dresser, and floor reading lamp, turn the white-washed living room feels transitional and charming.

Wingback chair with metal coffee table for transitional elegant living room

A transitional style living room always offer a balanced masculine and feminine atmosphere. You won’t find it too feminine or, otherwise, too masculine.

All the traditional (often masculine) living room styles are all subdued and then spiced up with fresh color pallets of contemporary styles.

So, you may often meet a traditional wingback chair blends nicely with metal and glass coffee table of the contemporary style, like this one in the example.

Bold decor for transitional living room

When updating the living room into a transitional theme, don’t forget to inject it with pops of color. It’ll be your point of interest, as well as be the fresh factors for the living room.

Along with that, you also need to consider the patterning of the room. This will help you to put depth and updated characters to the living room.

In this example the designer use floral colorful wallpaper as the living rooms’ color statement. It’s bold, but won’t overwhelm the existing furnishings.

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All the transitional living room ideas aside, now you might probably agree that the style has certain characters which should easily blend the old traditional styles with the contemporary styles –and making them look modern, elegant and timeless.

That’s it. We hope this not-to-long listicles can spark your love of transitional styles even further. Keep healthy and stay safe.

A brown living room? Why not? Some of us might think the color too drab for a living area like living room. But if you want natural color versatile enough to blend with other colors, brown is yours.

After all, all you need to have from a living room is its comforting and calming atmosphere. You might also need its warm and cozy ambience –all the stuff you easily can get from brown color.

And you know what? Brown is not a passé color anymore, it comes back in all it shades and charms. So don’t hesitate to look back at those burlap, taupe, bronze or other brown’s shades.

Here are some awesome example of brown living rooms, in case you want to update them –or even if you want to find suitable living rooms for your new homes or apartments. Read on.

An elegant blue and brown living room

Want to have a luxurious living room color schemes? Then try this blue, brown, and wood colors’ setup.
If you like classic touch, use the colors for your classic interior designs preference, like this one.

Here you find an elegant and spacious Georgian living room draped in blue and brown shades, enclosed by wood-themed living room. The partially covered blue walls have its elegant counterpart in the form of velvet blue couch. The brown rug complete the setup.

Brown Branch and foliage wallpaper for rustic living rooms

Need a simple and affordable way to update the living room? Hang wallpaper. With all its almost limitless supply of colors and patterns, you’ll never run out of ideas.

Along with classic wallpaper, now you even have the decals. These recent developments in wall covering are even more practical, as you have it in peel and stick mode –they’re also easy to peel when you get bored.

This wallpaper offer you a country style for an already rustic living room. The wood colors and taupe armchairs are only a fraction of eclectic beauty in this simple Nordic living room.

Modern brown earthy living room ideas

Modern minimalist living room is a good choice, mainly if you want to keep your stuff simple and mess-free.

The 50s offered you some of the most charming modern minimalist living room you’ve ever seen. Some of them even so charmingly timeless in their designs.

You can see some of the timeless features in this example, like the charming arm chairs and the plush cough in this brown earthy living room.

Teal and brown living room

For the uninformed, if you want to make a teal color, you need to mix green and blue color pigments in a white color as the base. ‘Teal’ itself derived from stripes of color on certain freshwater duck’s heads.

In a living room, teal inspire freshness and modern vibes. You may use the color as background colors, accent colors, or any of your furniture colors.

In this brown living room, the teal and the neutral brown go together nicely –with teal-colored furniture fill the foreground of the soft brown background.

Tropical décor for a greener living room

Some of us want to have a greener atmosphere in the house, even in the living room. For this purposes, there’re some suitable indoor plants you may choose for your living room.

Like a tropical touch in the living room? You probably need to consider this living room schemes. All you need is just adding a right lush green plant into your living room.

Here the designer choose a small banana tree to live up the brown dark living room. It soothes the room’s atmosphere and even make a cool decor for the room.

Dark honey brown furniture with elegant brown-white living room

Once your soft brown living room set, the next step is setting the furniture inside. For this stage, it depends on your rooms’ overall schemes.

For examples, if you have a minimalist overall living room setup, it’ll be better to put some minimalist furniture in it. In the other hands, if you have a traditional-conventional room, you need to put some classic to regular furniture.

And so with this example, an elegant room with modern Midcentury furniture. The dark honey brown Eames lounge chairs in the foreground inject the classy elegant atmosphere.

Orange and a splash of brown for your living room

Dark brown might feel too dark for a small room; while lighter shades of brown feel too boring sometimes.

To avoid the feelings, and to add a vibrant kick into it, you may need to put a splash of color into the living room. As brown is a prat of neutral colors, you should not worry of picking the wrong additional colors –they just go well with brown.

Or, you may reverse the scheme, with the brown as the accent colors and the vibrant colors as the background colors, just like this example. You have a fresh orange and brown living room.

Beige and brown living room

Just like teal color, beige as a term of color is of only recently coined. The first mention of beige is in 1887. Now you might also know it as khaki, though khaki only refers to a sandy beige color.

History aside, beige now is one of popular colors where you can find it almost anywhere, from your outdoor outfits up to your living rooms’ color.

Beige as an interior color also inspires cozy and warm feelings. Pair beige and brown –and you have an elegant comfortable living room.

Burlap shades for rustic living room

Now it’s time to experiment with a brown color’ shades. This time you play with a rustic shade of the color, the burlap.

As you’ve known, burlap color remind you of coarse canvas bag which usually is used as bagging stuff like grains or sugar.

It has warm and rustic brown color, so now it often being used as an additional color touch to a living room. Here the home owners use burlap as accent color of a big pillow cover on the couch –though you also may use them as chair or armchair pads.

Red and brown for a spacious living room

Darker wall means warmer and cozier atmosphere –for some, and probably for you with ample rooms. As, without proper planning, using darker colors only makes a room looks depressing.

But, if all well planned, you don’t need to worry about those risks. This time we offer you a combination of red and brown for a spacious living room.

This time dark red color is only splashed on a wall, as a fresh point of view. Brown and white colors of the wall and furniture present to offset the dominating color.

Chic and comfortable velvet moss green Furniture

Sometime you need an awesome transition area for your living room, it could be anything in the room –from a cabinet, paintings, or your favorite couches.

For an inspiration, this example offer you a seamless transition from a color scheme into another by using a couch.

This moss green velvet is what you need when you want to make a transition from brown on the carpeting and furniture into the green floral decor on the wall.

Brown color schemes in a Scandinavian living room

If you want something minimalist but also comfortable, you need to consider a Scandinavian living room style for your home.

The style always has a neat and easy-to-setup layout. It also has simple but heart-warming color schemes, mainly of natural colors and a splash of vibrant color (optional).

This brown living room is an example of Scandinavian living room. It full of natural colors, including brown with all its shades.

Brown sofa set for a masculine Industrial living room

Another simple and utilitarian approach to update your living room is by redoing it in Industrial style, mainly if you want to inject a masculine touch into it.

Industrial style is known for its bare and rugged themes In short, if you love rugged and raw beauty of things, this Industrial theme is yours.

Soften the tough-looking style with a set of plush couches, where you can hang out comfortably without having to feel the cold ambience often seen in an industrial licing room.

Brown curtains, a functional decor for your living room

You might often see lots of contemporary living room have large windows installed. For some, those features may not present problems at all.

But, some other, might feel awkward with all the open transparent features and need some additional features to further add their privacy.

For the purposes, curtains are often being used to maintain their privacy. In this example, a brown curtains even help to cover the large main door leading to an open living room in this country home.

Blue and brown living room

Again, here’s an example of adding color tones into a brown neutral living room –and turns it into a flamboyant one. This time you add green touches on the features in it.

With all the brown and white color scheme, this living room might look ordinary. But, with a small dabs of color it turns into a fresh tropical living room.

You only need to add plush blue throw pillows on the couches, bring in the potted indoor plants and that’s it, you have this refreshing social meeting point.

Brown wood planks for a warm cabin style living room

All the way down here, of all the living room shown here has their walls painted in brown. But that’s not always the case.

If you happen to have a log cabin or a log homes, you always can use the wood’s natural colors and patterns as the main theme color of your living room.

Here, the clear-finished wood walls also serves as a color theme of the living room. You can see here that the natural brown wood color is so warm and cozy. Coupled with the snug couch, metal fireplace and antique rocking chairs, it’ll be your coziest living room.

Brown Art Deco living room ideas

Art Deco themes were popular in the 1920s up to the beginning of WW II. Just like The Midcentury themes after the war, this early modern themes are also offer you some of the finest interior features.

As a kind of transition point of between earlier classic themes and the modern themes afterward, this Art Deco styles you sweet blends of elegant classic touches and minimalist-functional modern themes.

Here you see one of the art decor features employed to make a fusion modern-art Deco living room theme. On the wall are three big iconic bulbous art deco wall decor to charm this living room –completing the furniture (of the same themes) setup.

Wood-themed living room in natural brown

Plywood panels are staples in retro Midcentury theme living rooms. As they have natural colors, the setups ease the interior designers in filling or setting up the interior stuff.

As you see here, the plywood offers warm background for the furniture and features in the living room.

You can even see that a combination of teal and natural wood color resulting superb results in this brown living room.

Brown shabby chic living room

Country styles, cottage themes, or shabby chic themes are often overlapping. Some even consider those themes as just different names for a one some theme.

Debate aside, if you want to have a most comfortable and relaxing living room, shabby chic themes won’t disappoint you.

It’s full of rustic and soft-toned decor and neutral-colored furniture. Here’s an example if you like to update your living room into a shabby-chic theme one.

Dark brown masculine living room with dark green wall accent

Need another masculine living room to impress some of friends? Here’s an example of it. It still is dark and elegant.

But now you have it with green touch on the paneled wood wall. It also in heavier shade of green.

The light brown floor make a perfect ground for the darker brown leather couches, which also serves as a superb transition between the ground and its wall.

Homey orange and brown-green living room

You don’t have to have a luxurious living room to enjoy a homey and comfortable time with family or friends. It’s all about planning and setting the right living room for your needs –not everyone needs.

When you have all you need in your living room, you have your most comfy living room –luxurious or not.

The philosophy also applies to this living room setup. The owner keeps things (furniture and decor) simple, including its color schemes. The result is this cozy living room.

A Rustic beige living room

Here you have a beige and brown living room again. Only this time you have it in the most rustic living room setup.

Here the sandy beige couch is set as the point of interest, surrounded, on natural rug and surrounded by woody atmosphere.

With their variety of brown shades, the wood paneling inject the warmth and rustic atmosphere at the same time.

Modern country living room with a deep brown couch

With only a brown color at hands, you can make your living room live and look impressive. This because brown has so many shades and tints, from the lightest brown up to the darkest one.

But, sometimes you only need one of its shades or tints to make your living room look dynamic and impressive, just like the following example.

A combination of deep brown couch and checkered chairs makes this almost all-white living room an awesome place to sit with family and friends.

Red and brown barn style living room

Now it’s time to redo your barn style living room into the more elegant one. Barn style, along with contemporary and country homes, also is a popular choice among the contemporary folk.

It offer open layout which inspire freedom of movements and offer lots of room to experiment with room lay outing.

This red and brown (natural brown) living room is only an example, if you’d like to update your living room into a warm barn style living room.

Antique armchair, a functional decor for a small brown-colored living room

Don’t throw your antiquated stuff away. You still can repurpose and turn them into a functional decor the living room.
For an example, you may repurpose old armchairs to complete your eclectic living room setup.

Set in a dark brown living room are some gorgeous features, like the distressed cabinets and its contemporary partners, the audio systems. Enjoy your time sitting on the chair, prop your legs on the Ottoman, and let the world goes by.

The softest color schemes for your brown living room

Love soft color schemes for the living room? Then use natural colors as your background and use lots lighter shades to fill the foreground.

The color schemes are also suitable for small living room. They won’t make your living room looks depressed either.

In this living room the center piece is a light brown couch with various shades of brown throw pillows on it. They make a superb composition with all the surrounding natural colors.

Colorful furniture in woody-brown living room

Brown and olive green go well in this living room setup. Actually, as we’ve previously said (again and again), brown is flexible enough to blend in with almost any colors.

In this living room color schemes, you meet a honey brown color of the wood walls is set as background for olive-themed furniture.

To highlight the setup, a white sheet is set to serve as the transition point between the furniture and wood walls.

Light brown curtains as decor and to soften the light

A benefit of installing window dressing like curtains is an added privacy. Along with it, you also a much softer light streaming through them –making the living room much more subdued and comfortable.

Get confused in picking the right curtain colors? The general rule is that you can always pick a lighter shades of the overall wall color.

In this example, the designer use lighter shade of brown for the curtains, giving an elegant color gradations along the wall.

Contemporary brown living room in retro style

We keep going back to the retro theme in this list. And now we bring you again with more colors and contemporary look.

This spacious living room offers comfortable place to chat with its dark subdued brown of the walls and white ceiling.

To fill the subdued living room, some colorful features are brought in, with the white couch as its center of interest, which blend in well with all the furniture in the living room.

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So, that’s all the 27+ brown-themed living room ideas to inspire –in case want to update your living room with new themes, furniture, decor, or their color schemes.

We hope this listicle brown living room inspiration could give you clues as to how to redo or planning your living rooms. Have a good day.

Need to update the living room with fireplace? There’s nothing better than enjoying the time in front of a fireplace during long cold days (or nights). Watching the flames and hearing the cracking of the fire is probably our most pleasant moments in this earth.

That’s why we, perhaps, are so obsessed with fireplaces. They remind us of beautiful and peaceful moments long gone by. All that sensations of traditional wood-burning fireplaces.

But unfortunately, not all can afford that experiences. Due to budgets or spaces, we cannot afford those traditional and romantic fireplaces.

We prefer the more practical and affordable types, like electric or gas fireplaces. Though so, fortunately, you can always replicate the pleasant experiences of traditional fireplace with those new types of fireplaces. They even offers advantages not existed with the traditional one.

Now if you want living room with fireplaces ideas, here are some of the most awesome to inspire –from the traditional, transitional, modern, up to contemporary fireplaces.

Beautiful Small living room with fireplace

Based on the fuels, today you have several fireplace options to choose, like wood-burning fireplace, electric, gas, gel, and ethanol-burning fireplace.

All are having their own benefits and downsides. How to find one that works well for your living room? In term of its designs, it depends on your preferences. You also need to consider the most available fuel in your areas.

Here you have a small room with transitional metal fireplace. It suits well for this cozy shabby chic living room.

Outdoor living room with glass fireplace

All types of fireplace work well for your outdoor living rooms. To get rid of the cold evening, you might use one of the said fireplace types.

But if you want it match with your living rooms’ themes, you need to consider your fireplace styles as well.

For examples, you might need open stone or brick fireplace for your rustic or traditional living rooms. On the other hand, your contemporary outdoor living room might need a more updated fireplace styles. This glass outdoor fireplace is one of the examples.

Modern fireplace idea with bookshelves

Modern fireplaces enable us to have them in, practically, anywhere in the house. Electric or gas fireplaces are among the types.

Though rare, you might still have risk of gas leak with gas fireplaces. Ash and smokes haunt wood-burning fireplace –if not taken care properly.

This living room use modern glass covered fireplace that won’t make you worry of any health risk. It’s clean a neat and you even can install a pair of bookshelves on its sides, making the living room looks symmetrical and balanced –and awesome.

Cozy retro living room with Malm fireplace

Of certain reasons, we love to fly back in time. That’s a reason now retro styles are so popular, with the modern Midcentury among as one of the most inspiring retro theme of all.

This living room with fireplace takes you back in time, in an awesome way. You have some the 50s iconic features in the room, including the retro Malm fireplace.

With the floating cabinets and vintage lounge chairs around, the iconic fireplaces inject further cozy retro ambience into the room.

Transitional outdoor living room with fireplace and TV

Talk about living room’s decor, fireplace structures also often offer generous space for you to put any decor -and TV, perhaps.

Fireplace often serves as visual point of interest in any living rooms. They’re where you center your activities. That’s why we love to put shelves for books or even tea or coffee ware on it for easy reach.

TVs often hung above the fireplaces, as while enjoy the warmth fire during chilly night you also can enjoy favorite TV programs as well, as you’ve aligned the TVs and the fireplaces in one spots.

Copper fireplace for a gorgeous living room

Once you’ve chosen the right fuel for your fireplace, you need to decide the right mounting types. There are freestanding fireplace, insert fireplace, traditional, hanging fireplace, two-sided, and tabletop fireplaces.

Pick the mounting designs which work well for your living rooms. Small room might need to use freestanding or wall mounted fireplaces. Larger living rooms need traditional mountings, and so on.

If you want to update a traditional fireplace, you might need to consider insert fireplace. Where you just insert the fireplace with the new modern fireplaces. To an awesomer setup, you may layer the outer structures with copper sheets.

Living room with fireplace and TV on different walls

A wood-burning fireplace has unmatchable capacities in bringing you the warmth romantic and rustic feeling into your living room. But you should take care if it carefully –and diligently.

If you want the more practical uses of the existing fireplaces structure, mainly your traditional wood-burning fireplace mounting, you can turn it into the more affordable and relatively maintenance-free gas-fueled fireplace.

Your living room will be neater, cleaner, and smoke-free. And it still retain its rustic beauty with its existing traditional fireplace mounting.

Rectangle gas fireplace for an apartment

The choices of the right fireplace fuels lead to a most impressive fireplace, just like this cute rectangle electric fireplace.

If you want a most flexible fireplace to install in a house or apartment, gas fireplaces is the answers. You won’t have to build massive mounting structure, as don’t have to build big a chimney.

If you miss the crackling and flames of traditional fireplace, you can have it in various display. Even more, you can control your fireplace in an on/off button.

Decorating ideas for living room’s fireplace

Need decorating ideas for the living room? First, you need to turn on your fireplace, as this spot is already a focal point.

All you have to do next is to complement the already impactful visual interest. You might need to redo the mantle or repaint the mounting.

Once finished, you probably need to give it more liveries like rows of chandeliers or bamboo baskets on it. The possibility to add awesomeness onto the structure is so wide.

Stone fireplace for rustic modern living room

When we talk about fireplace, the one most likely fireplace type to pop up in our mind is probably a traditional fireplace, complete with the crackling fire and smoke coming out of the chimney.

That’s because this type of fireplace is the first to ever use at our homes. And that’s probably that we can’t get rid of the romantic feel of cracking fire and faint smoke smell in the room.

Unfortunately this fireplace is only available for big enough living room. For narrow or smaller rooms you might need to switch to other fireplace types, like gas, electric, or even ethanol.

Long narrow living room with fireplace at one end

Still with traditional fireplace, just like what we’ve said before, if you feel the wood-burning types too burdensome (from the budget or maintenance stand points), you can always switch the fireplace into the gas one.

If previously you have one with log-lighter, it’s even easier. Switching to gas fireplace is only an option. You also may switch to electric fireplace.

Consider insert types of fireplaces to fill the firebox with insert type fireplaces for a more modern touch, like this fireplace for this lovely long living room here.

Small modern small living room with standalone fireplace

Small living room needs smaller but effective heating systems. You won’t use traditional fireplace, but something smaller but also more reliable.

You might need to choose electric or gas fireplace, the wall-mounted or standalone types are preferred –to save space.

If you happen to a fans of Nordic style, this standalone wood-burning fireplace also is a great choice. Its dark metal and unique body guarantee you of a cozy and stylish living room.

Decoration for Small living room

Need another decorating idea for the living room? Along with decorating the mantle or it legs, you also may explore the firebox rim.

In this example, the designer provides accents by lining the rim with bricks, forming an elegant firebox entrance point.

The additional brick structure also gives you good contrasting color to the white-washed living room’s wall.

Rugged portable fireplace for outdoor living room

For comfortable evening complete your deck with this portable outdoor fireplace. It’s small and easy to maintain.

You also can be sure of the quality-built. The tugged metal structure could withstand any harsh outdoor conditions.

You don’t have to worry about running out gas or power outage. Just put logs on it and start the fire, and you have a cozy time. For the reasons, this metal fireplace is handy for your cabins or cottages.

Chic gel fireplace for living rooms

If you want to have temporary heating system for your living room, you need to try gel fireplace. Just like the name implied, this fireplace uses gel as the fuel.

In general, the idea is that you light special gel in a can and get the fire that the warm you in nice flames. The can has specially designed docks, so you can put them on the tables or floors.

Compared to the regular fireplace (gas, electric, or woods), gel fireplaces are less intense in heating their surroundings. So, most often these gel fireplaces are only for temporal occasions, not for regular heating systems.

Cozy industrial living room with Scandinavian fireplace

If you love naked beauty, your chance of loving an industrial living room is big. This style provides you with no-frill style.

So you might often see a living room in this style let the piping and structural building as they are, naked and can be seen in their raw conditions.

To soften the rough look, designers often use fluffy and comfortable furnishings and cool Scandinavian fireplace like this following example.

Small wall-mounted fireplace and TV

Having a big-screen TV in the living room is so satisfying, it’s great for favorite TV shows and gaming sessions with all the family.

To ensure your comfort, place a reliable fireplace. You don’t have to install the regular big fireplace, choose one which works well for your living room.

This contemporary wall-mount small fireplace is a good choice when you want a rustic living room with fireplace. It injects modern atmosphere into the room –plus the warmth air.

Double-sided fireplace for living room

If you want to divide a long narrow room into different interior areas, you need to try this partitioning approach.
Here you make a partitioning wall with double-sided fireplace inserted into it. See the picture for details.

You won’t feel cramped or enclosed, as the fireplace’s glass-enclosed opening helps to make the partition feels lighter and open. It also gives you warmth on each of the partitioned rooms.

Country modern living room with glass fireplace

Blending a country living room with modern convenience always resulting a cozy environment for living –if you blend it right, of course.

In this example, you have a right example of it. Here a comfortable country living room full of modern convenience and warm with the modern gas glass-enclosed fireplace.

The woody and leathery atmosphere make this living room all the more elegant. The fireplace and the TV on different walls, further complement the setup.

Ethanol fireplace for romantic living room table

Sometimes you just don’t want your heating systems as it is, as your basic comfort need. Sometimes you want it to build your romantic mood.

If so, you need an ethanol fireplace. It’s like a gel fireplace, only this one use ethanol as the fuel.

For a living room with fireplace (the regular one), this ethanol is an additional fireplace to charm the coffee table –for temporary purposes, just like the gel one. But unlike the gel, you can trim its heat intensities.

Round mirror for retro modern fireplace decor

A traditional fireplace gives you wider room to experiment with the decor. The big structure offer enough surface your purposes.

Want decorating ideas for your traditional fireplace? Paint the mantle and legs subtle contemporary neutral colors and Hang around mirror above it.

Now you have an elegant transitional fireplace which should impress all you family and friends, as it looks modern and traditional at once –charming.

Black and white theme for a narrow living room

Light colors make a narrow room looks bigger. The lighter the colors, the bigger. The colors also helps the hosts to always feel comfortable. If you blend the colors, mainly white, with natural color, you’ll have the warm atmosphere as well –like this example.

If you also want to paint the furnace white, you need to consider the paints’ types, for the safety reasons.

For the outer structure, you’re advised to use acrylic latex paint with heat rate up to 200oF. For bricks structures like the example, use brick paints –just be sure to check the heat rating.

Swedish fireplace for a cozy cottage living room

From the Northern hemisphere, up north, we bring you a simple but handsome fireplace, a Swedish fireplace.

Unlike any of traditional fireplace shown here, this Swedish fireplaces has unique and practical designs. It has cylindrical and slim shape, the characteristics which would make it suitable for small living room.

It’s also flexible enough to blend in with any styles, from the traditional, transitional, up to the modern styles.

Modern living room with open shelves and wall mount fireplace

Still talking about fireplace for small living room, after picking the right fireplace, you be sure to pay attention to the other detailing, mainly the shelving systems.

Cabinets or dressers maybe too much for a small room. For alternative, you may choose open shelving systems for the storage places.

In this example, efficient open shelves lined up both sides of the fireplace structures, giving warm complement to the leather couches facing them.

Small living room with plastered fireplace

There are several materials to consider when you want to build a fireplace in living room. The most common material are stones, like granite, limestone, ledgestone or fieldstone.

You also has other popular alternative materials like tiles, woods, and bricks. For modern materials, you may use concrete and plaster.

All the material correlate with the style of fireplace you’d like to build. For an example, this living room with fireplace use plastered fireplace to match the overall living room’s theme.

Slate stone fireplace for an elegant outdoor living room

Stones are materials you should consider when building an outdoor fireplace –like we’ve said previously with the examples.

The outdoors uncertain conditions needing you the more robust materials, and that’s where stones come into play.

They’re rugged, resistant to harsh elements, durable, and affordable. With good planning, stone a fireplace can be very impressive as well.

Contemporary ethanol fireplace for modern living room

Want something fancy to get rid the cold? Go back to ethanol fireplace ideas and install a cool firebox on your wall.

The practical approach of ethanol fuel enable you to install fireplace practically anywhere in the house, all you need is the container and its firebox.

In this example you have a contemporary firebox installed on the wall, enough to heat small area –and make it prettier as well.

Cozy brick fireplace in a rustic living room

You have several good reasons to use bricks as the fireplace structures. First, like stones, they’re cheap and environmentally safe.

Secondly, you can always depend on bricks for the fireplace as the materials are heat resistant and long lasting.

Lastly, if you want a rustic cozy look like this living room, brick fireplace is irreplaceable. They’re warm and, that’s, rustic in themselves.

Wooden fireplace for living room with transitional-rustic look

This time we’ll take a little closer to the fireplace mantle and legs, all the outer features of a traditional fireplace.

For traditional fireplaces, you might often the features are carved elegantly. But now you often see them bare and raw, mainly for minimalist style lovers.

In this living room, you have fireplaces with the minimalist wood features. With concrete firebox, the wood structure inject the transitional living room with rustic atmosphere.

Barn style living room with fireplace

If you love open and airy living room, a barn style interior layout should be yours. It has simple open layout, and it depends on you on how to make it cool and comfortable.

You might want to divide it seamlessly into different space area by placing certain furniture strategically. You might want to put kitchen at the far end of the room. The possibilities are endless.

If you love light and fresh approach, a Nordic living room is a good choice, like this one. It looks neat and warm with wood-burning fireplace on the wall.

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That’s all our living room with fireplace ideas, big or small –narrow or wide. Some have TVs above it some have decor and TV on different walls. You also are offered with outdoor living room with several tips of how to keep the good and running –and gorgeous.

We hope you enjoy this listicle. Stay safe. Keep healthy.