A small living room can come to life with the right styling approach. By following a few smart tips and tricks, you can turn your compact dimensions into a beautiful, functional haven. In this article, 1825 Interiors shares 8 proven styling hacks to maximise your space and bring your family’s character to life. Keep reading to discover.
How to Decorate a Small Living Room
Follow these top tips to create the living room of your dreams.
1. Invest in the Right Furniture
To find the perfect furniture for your small living room, it is key to focus on function, scale, and style. A multi-functional piece like the New Angelique Storage Ottoman will deliver big on convenience, whilst adding a stunning touch to your living room. Another excellent option is a modular sofa, which gives you a series of amazing benefits, including ongoing flexibility, versatility and unmatched comfort. With a sectional set, you can effortlessly switch and change your seating so that it fits your needs and your dimensions long-term. Arrange your sofa set into an L or U-shape formation, or switch it out for individual seating options that are perfect for hosting.
2. Look Up
Never forget the power of vertical spaces in your small living room! Your walls hold so much potential for storage, decor and space-maximising switches that open up limited floor space and add a powerful punch of character to your room. Bring your room to life with the Macquarie Leaning Shelf, a sleek and minimal silhouette that makes displaying books, decor, and art effortless. The bright wash and streamlined frame perfectly align with the proportions of a smaller living space, while the timeless finish seamlessly flows with every home decor aesthetic.
3. Get Smart with Storage
Embrace clever storage solutions to make your small living room work for you and your family. Investing in furniture with integrated storage, like benches with hidden compartments, TV units packed with plenty of shelves or display cabinets with extra drawers, will instantly transform your lounge. Our Byron TV Unit comes stocked with organisational shelves and neat cupboards for an easy way to stash everyday essentials, tech, TV remotes, magazines, and books. Crafted from reclaimed materials and finished with a classic neutral wash, this is the ultimate storage-savvy investment to bring a special touch to your smaller living room.
4. Make it Minimal
Nothing cramps a small space like clutter, so it is always important to stay mindful and avoid overloading your limited dimensions with too many accessories or bulky furniture pieces. Opt for simple and chic pieces that feature clean lines and light colour profiles for the perfect addition to your small living room.
5. Get Reflective
Adding a mirror is a highly effective strategy for making your living room feel bigger than it is. This piece will increase the sense of space and openness in the room, helping to create elongated lines of sight and encouraging the light to bounce around different areas of your floor plan. These trick the eye into understanding the dimensions to be bigger than they really are! Place your mirrors in landscape and portrait positions and watch your living room expand before your eyes!
6. Set the Stage
The right rug can completely transform any smaller space in your home. Choose an elegant neutral tone or a naturally hued woven jute rug with a subtle yet signature texture to bring the room to life. The secret here is to select a rug that is big enough to sprawl across the floor in a plush, inviting fashion, but doesn’t touch the walls. This means that you are taking advantage of the surrounding negative space – using it to frame the room and suggest a more sizeable, open environment.
7. Get Creative with Extra Seating
There are so many, space-saving ways to introduce extra function into your family living room. Invest in an upholstered ottoman as a clever way to add more seating when visitors come to call, or choose a nest of tables for a convenient, customisable solution to homework hours, reading posts or even seating should the need arise!
8. Let there be Light
When you are curating your colour palette, be sure to keep your direction light, neutral and timeless. Brighter tones encourage more light reflection around the space, giving the impression of a more open, generous room. Plus, this palette is absolutely timeless, and the perfect canvas for small pops of pattern or seasonal accent tones.
With these helpful family-focused living room styling ideas on your side, your smaller dimensions are set to deliver big. From soft and luxurious sofa sets to woven rugs, elegant decor accent pieces and glossy mirrors, explore the curation of space-saving and environment-enhancing essentials online and in store with 1825 Interiors.