Living room decoration style cases: 5 popular styles and soft decoration configuration secrets revealed
Want to start decorating but don’t know where to start? So start with the hottest living room decorating styles ! In addition to sorting out 5 popular living room decoration styles in recent years, this article also provides DIY tips and graphic explanations for each style of soft furnishings, allowing you to quickly master the interior space matching skills and easily find your favorite style !
Living room decoration style 1 · Nordic style decoration
The unique nature, brightness, elegance, and simplicity of Nordic style living room decoration create a sense of comfort and healing in the space, making it the first choice for living room decoration style in recent years.
The Nordic style living room decoration style is nothing more than four key points: wood tones, large blank walls, a combination of Morandi and earth tones, and soft light source configuration.
Wood tones are an indispensable element of Nordic style decoration . Wooden elements have fresh and natural qualities and can inject warmth into the space, so they are widely used in Nordic living room decoration styles . In addition to wooden floors and partitions, making good use of furniture and lighting such as wooden side tables, coffee tables, and standing lamps can also create a Nordic style full of wood tones in the space.
▲ Wooden side tables are necessary accessories for Nordic style living room sofas (Picture: Muuto Connect Soft modular sofa / Workshop side table / Relate side table / Post standing lamp / Pebble Rug carpet )
Another common technique in the Nordic living room decoration style is to leave large blank walls - blank walls not only make the interior transparent and bright, but also appropriately highlight furniture and other space furnishings, presenting an overall sense of simplicity and neatness.
Continuing the simple principle of leaving blank space, a Nordic style sofa is indispensable for a living room decorated in Nordic style ! In order to reduce visual shielding, the height of the backrest of European sofas is generally 70 cm, mainly to create more blank space for the space. The effect adds points to the simple texture.
▲ Large blank walls are the main feature of the Nordic style living room decoration design (Picture: Muuto Rest sofa / Airy side table / E27 chandelier )
The decoration style of the Nordic style living room is mainly fresh, and the color elements are also very close to nature. Warm earth tones or pink and gray Morandi colored furniture are also necessary elements of the color matching of the Nordic style living room.
▲ The wooden coffee table, Morandi-colored sofa, and textured chandelier create an extraordinary taste in the Nordic style living room decoration style (Picture: Muuto Outline sofa / Strand chandelier / Around side table )
Denmark, which pursues hygge life, is the country with the largest candle consumption in the world, so its preference for candlelight is natural. Lighting with yellow color temperature is the standard configuration of Nordic style living room lamps.
Different from domestic interior decoration where large-scale construction projects often use spotlights, most European buildings have a long history, and there are many old houses that are more than a hundred years old. The Nordic style living room decoration style mostly retains the original partitions without too many decorations , and indoor lighting will use chandeliers. Plan the lighting configuration with other auxiliary light sources. In addition to avoiding interference between light sources, the aesthetically shaped lighting can also be used as a unique installation art in the space.
▲ Picture: Louis Poulsen PH Artichoke pinecone chandelier / AJ standing lamp
Living room decoration style 2 · Wabi Sabi style / Japandi Nordic Wabi Sabi style
Wabi Sabi style decoration is mainly characterized by Zen style and Japanese humanistic style. Japandi Japanese Nordic style, which combines Japanese Wabi Sabi style with Nordic simplicity, has become a very popular living room decoration style in recent years.
Wabi Sabi or Japandi Japanese Nordic living room decoration style is mainly based on earth tones such as white, beige, gray or camel. It combines earthy elements with Nordic simplicity to create a relaxing and calming tranquil atmosphere.
▲ Muuto Connect modular sofa / Pebble Rug carpet / Workshop side table / Leaf standing lamp
Unmodified cement walls are commonly seen in Wabi Sabi or Japandi Nordic living room decoration styles . Mixing wooden furniture and earth-toned sofas gives the space a natural style while exuding a low-key texture.
Natural plants can inject warmth into the space and are an indispensable element in Wabi Sabi or Japandi Japanese-style Nordic living rooms.
▲ Around side table / Silent flower vessel
Living room decoration style 3 · Minimalist style
The minimalist living room decoration style is good at constructing the three classic colors of black, white and gray, with mud floors and walls being common elements. The design of chandeliers or chandeliers is omitted, and the hidden line lights above the shelves are deliberately simplified to simplify the space vision. At the same time, natural lighting is used to make the living room decoration style pile up the light and shadow levels of the space in the staggered natural light and invisible light sources.
The corner of the TV cabinet uses a semi-circular arc shape to soften the lines, cleverly neutralizing the cold black, white and gray feel of the space.
▲ Case sharing/picture provided｜ Jucheng Design
Reducing shielding to create a sense of space transparency is also one of the features of minimalist living room decoration style . The connected space form of the living room and dining room is quite common in minimalist style decoration. Echoing the style of the living room, the restaurant uses white dining tables and chairs with neat and smooth lines, so that the furniture configurations in different areas have a consistent overall vision. The long table is not only a dining table, but also a composite type of work table, making it a perfect home. Alternative functions of work.
▲ Case sharing / Picture provided | Jucheng Design (dining table and chairs: Kristalia Maki long table , LP single chair )
Italian furniture Kristalia is an iconic brand of minimalist living room decoration style furniture. Behind the simple and neat aesthetic curves, there are high-tech product functions. The dining table uses a variety of high-tech smart table boards and strict quality control. Produce solid product quality.
▲ Case sharing / Picture provided | Jucheng Design (Furniture: Kristalia be-Easy extension table / LP side chair / Tenso sofa / 1085 leather leisure chair / PTB side table )
Living room decoration style 4· Light luxury style decoration
The light luxury style decoration , which is simple and low-key yet luxurious, uses elegance, grandeur and fashion to create an exquisite and tasteful space style. It has become a popular living room decoration style in recent years, and marble, metal, leather, mirror, etc. It is a common element in light luxury style decoration.
Light gray, ivory white or apricot sofas, which give people a calm and elegant texture, are often found in light luxury living room decoration styles . Even though the lines are simple and neat, the sofa decorated in a light luxury style still becomes the protagonist in the visual space as it provides comfortable coverage.
▲ The marble countertop cabinet is paired with a light gray sofa, creating a simple and neat space with a light luxury style (Picture: Tacchini Julep Sofa)
The use of marble stone is very common in light luxury decoration . Whether it is a wall, tabletop or floor, marble stone with natural texture can always show its low-key luxury characteristics. A marble side table with beautiful patterns can bring out the elegant texture of the sofa and space. It is an indispensable item for the light and luxurious living room decoration style .
▲ Picture: Tacchini Joaquim marble side table
Living room decoration style 5 · Japanese Zen style living room
The Japanese Zen style living room and the minimalist living room decoration style also emphasize an open and transparent sense of space. They omit unnecessary partitions and only need to match simple textured furniture to double the living room space.
▲ Picture left: Muuto Reflect storage cabinet / Ridge flower container
Wooden elements are the main feature of the Japanese Zen living room . The ceiling, floor and walls of the living room are covered with solid wood, which can make the whole room exude a warm and quiet Zen style. The natural texture and tonality of solid wood interpret the unique elegance and beauty of wood through ingenious connections, making the living room decoration space exude a stunning elegance.
▲ Picture: Kristalia Holo Console Entrance Side Table
When it comes to matching soft furnishings, you can choose black, brass and other elements that echo the wooden tones of the living room decoration style , or earth-toned furniture. The golden Buddha statue is placed on the Italian-imported entrance side table with a hollow brass base. The two seem to be formed in one piece, and the East and West complement each other, creating a beautiful Buddhist hall that is elegant, solemn, modern and minimalist, and unique in taste.
▲ Picture: Louis Poulsen PH Setpima chandelier / Tacchini Pigreco single chair / seven wooden screen
The decoration style of the living room uses black screens instead of partitions. In addition to dividing the living room and the Buddhist hall in a transparent space, the effect of visual installation art also creates an indoor scene full of design.
Japanese Zen style emphasizes simplicity, which coincides with the simple Nordic style design. Even if the living room decoration style is designed with Japanese Zen style as the main theme, through the designer's ingenious planning, the exquisite and beautiful Nordic glass chandelier and the earth-toned light gray L-shaped Nordic sofa are a perfect match without any violation. .
▲ Picture: Muuto In Situ sofa / Kristalia Holo side table / Louis Poulsen PH Setpima pendant lamp / Louis Poulsen Panthella standing lamp
After reading the case sharing of the above 5 popular living room decoration styles , do you have more specific ideas for DIY soft decoration configuration? In fact, the living room decoration style does not need to stick to a single style. As long as you master the skills of matching soft decoration in various styles, you can definitely You can create more interior space design sparks through creative mix and match!
Further reading:
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- 15 configuration inspirations for sofa colors and sofa side tables in Nordic style living rooms
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