Renting limits the things you could change about the home movement-wise, but it is much less restrictive than many renters think. The most prevalent belief is that a rented living room can only be changed superficially: pale walls, plain carpet, little personal touch. This belief drastically gives up a lot of design liberty needlessly. The […]
Art Deco has been slowly making its way back to the interior design scene for some time, but 2026 will be the year of the strongest and most popular Art Deco revival. The timing is deliberate. Following a period of ten years when grey minimalism, clean Scandinavian lines and the controlled restraint of Japandi were
Carpet tiles have a perception problem. In most people’s minds, they belong in offices, classrooms, and commercial spaces — the hard-wearing, slightly dull, uniformly grey flooring of the workplace. The very idea of using carpet tiles in a living room seems like a compromise at best and a downright error at worst. This perception is
The console table is one of the most versatile and most under utilised pieces of furniture in home design. Slim enough to fit against almost any wall without consuming meaningful floor space, tall enough to serve as both a display surface and a functional landing spot, and generous enough in width to support a considered
Minimalism has come a long way and changed a lot since around the 2010s, when it was mostly associated with cold, white, sterile rooms that looked good but were hardly comfortable. What minimalism is currently starting to be is something much more subtle and truly attractive: warm minimalism — or, at the highest level of
Lighting is often the least considered factor when designing a living room, yet it is the one with the greatest impact on a space’s atmosphere. No matter how carefully each piece of the living room is selected, such a space will always come across as flat, cold, and a little clinical if it is only
The television is one of the most common and most persistently awkward furnishing challenges in any living room, and the problem intensifies considerably in a small space. A traditional floor-standing TV unit consumes valuable floor space, often dominates the wall it sits against, and frequently becomes the visual focal point of the room by default
An accent wall is the single highest-impact, lowest-cost intervention available in living room design. A weekend of painting — or in some cases, a few hours of installing peel-and-stick materials — can transform a flat, undefined room into one with genuine architectural interest and a clear sense of design intention. No other change delivers this
Among the furnishing choices for a living room, choosing the right rug size is the top mistake made by many people. Most importantly, it can change the look and the feel of the room drastically. A rug of a wrong size can even ruin the beauty of a well-arranged room. A properly sized rug can
The modern farmhouse aesthetic has been the most consistently popular home decorating style in the United States for over a decade, and in 2026 it shows no signs of declining. If anything, the return of warmth, natural materials, and domestic comfort as dominant interior values — the same values that drove the farmhouse aesthetic in
