Our Favorite Cozy Living Rooms with Bold Design Choices (2024)

Luxury hotels and modern Scandinavian style informed the aesthetic of Swedish it-girl Babba C. Rivera's Brooklyn Heights living room. "I love the mid-century era—a lot of my furniture is mid-century modern—which I balance with contemporary touches so it's not too vintage looking," Rivera says.

A living room in a Brooklyn triplex designed by architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of WORKac proves that you can still show off your style in a small space. Along with bold blue sofas by Caravane, the space includes a custom co*cktail table, and an ottoman from the Vernaison flea market in Paris. Speakers by Audio Physic, a rug from ABC Carpet & Home, and a custom blackened-steel fireplace by CF + D complete the look.

When supermodel Joan Smalls is not traveling around the world, she's unwinding in her luxe Miami aerie. The living room features a sofa and pillows, Milo Baughman armchair, co*cktail table, and rug that are all from RH, Restoration Hardware. Smalls also chose a 1950s Vicke Lindstrand vase from Il Gufo Antiques & Design.

Wicker disks serve as a focal point in designer Sabrina Albanese's living room. In addition to a custom sofa by Robert Allen with cushions in a Schumacher fabric, the rug is Miles Redd for Patterson Flynn Martin.

A Fedele Papagni chandelier from Donzella, which hangs above a custom Vladimir Kagan sofa, completes this living room design by decorator Elizabeth Roberts. Chartreuse-colored curtains in an Elitis’s Poeme fabric, and artworks by Olafur Eliasson and Kehinde Wiley enhance the design scheme.

In a Marfa, Texas, home, a living room with a layered aesthetic includes a Poul Henningsen light fixture, a Navajo rug, and a cabinet by Robert "Mouseman" Thompson that holds an Ansel Adams photograph. The walls are painted in Benjamin Moore's Cloud White.

The love seat in the living room of a cozy Montana guesthouse is by Cisco Home. The cabinet is 19th-century Moorish and the co*cktail table is a custom design. Oly footstools, an antique crystal chandelier, and a wallcovering from Sloan Miyasato complete the space. A buffalo-hide rug is layered on top of a Mark Nelson Designs carpet.

Antique pieces from the 20s, 30s, and 50s, including Dorothy Draper chairs, are one of the main highlights of the living room in the Beverly Hills home of Too Faced Founders Jerrod Blandino and Jeremy Johnson. The Slim Aarons photo hanging in the kitchen are juxtaposed against modern touches like Kate Spade sconces along the stairs and a brass-and-marble dining table designed by Jerrod himself.

In a Netherlands living room, off-white sofas pop against a dark background, adding to its cozy, romantic vibe.

In the living room of Kate and Rem Reynolds’s townhouse in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, the sofa from ABC Carpet & Home is upholstered in a fabric by Soraya Shah for Studio Four NYC, the design showroom Kate Reynolds co-owns. The room is outfitted with a Timothy Oulton chaise, a Danish co*cktail table, an Akari pendant light by Noguchi, shades of a Rebecca Atwood fabric, and a vintage Moroccan rug. The walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Huntington White and the trim in Iron Mountain, the photograph is by Claire Nitze, and the cameo portrait is by Doug Meyer.

In the sitting area of a Parisian apartment, the sofa is upholstered in a cotton damask, the armchair is covered in a silk velvet and the slipper chair is based on a Mongiardino design; the desk is Louis XV, the chandelier is Louis XIV and the 19th-century rug is Persian.

At the top of the tower of a Florence manor, with 360-degree views of the Apennine Mountains, a living room contains a vintage sofa and custom daybeds covered in fabrics by C&C Milano. The motorized shades are bamboo, and the co*cktail and side tables are Miani designs.

In designer Paul Mathieu's Udaipur townhouse, the sitting room's settee and side table are both by the designer; the shutters are rosewood.

In the smaller living area of a São Paulo home, the sofa was found at a local auction, the Jean Prouvé chair is by Vitra, the hexagonal table and Berber rug are Moroccan, and the walls are painted in a custom color.

In the living room of Michael Carey's home in Claverack, New York, a George Smith sofa and a corner chair purchased in London are upholstered in an Osborne & Little linen, the Georgian leather library chair and English mahogany coaching table are from Lee Stanton Antiques, the Craftsman armoire is a family heirloom, and the light fixture is by Restoration Hardware. The kilim is from West Elm, and the French faux-bois table and vintage subway signs were found in nearby Hudson.

In a vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, the family room's sectional sofa by Restoration Hardware is upholstered in a Perennials fabric, the leather oval chair is by Garza Marfa, the Harry Bertoia chairs are by Knoll, and the co*cktail table by Pinch is from the Future Perfect; the lamp is by Artemide, the rug is an antique Beni Ourain, the carved giraffe is by New Mexican folk artist Felipe Benito Archuleta, and the framed sea urchin artwork is from Natural Curiosities

In the living room of Jeffrey Kalinsky's West Village townhouse, which was designed by DD Allen of Pierce Allen, the leather sofas are by Annabelle Selldorf, and the 1959 Helge Vestergaard Jensen chairs from Wyeth are upholstered in a Missoni fabric; the cabinetry is custom, the circa-1970 floor lamp is by Stilnovo, and the rug is cashmere.