As an occasional use room with a more formal feel than other living spaces, classic and elegant pieces work well here. Pieces like upright sofas, wingback chairs and plush ottomans are a few examples.

Living Room The living room perfectly combines elegance and comfort. Complete with Venetian plaster walls, the room’s main siting area features two off-white mircrofiber sofas that flank a majestic ...

It used to be that practically every home had a living room. You could make a fair guess about what it would contain, too, without having seen it — a sofa, a couple of upholstered chairs, a ...

At first glance, living room design can be rather straightforward: Bring in a sofa, a few armchairs, a side table or two, maybe an ottoman or coffee table, and you're good to go. But if you ask ...

For a client who plays mahjong, designer Emory McKim turned a living room into a dedicated game parlor. The space is wrapped in Sherwin-Williams' Framboise in a high-gloss finish.(Michael Hunter ...

Ellen and Ralph Johnson want to refresh the dated 13-by-17-foot living room in their Annandale home. They plan to add a big-screen television to shift the function of the space from formal living ...

Kathy Renzetti is trying to carve out space in her 1962 split-level home in Vienna for a formal dining room. She recently added a sunroom, so she no longer needs the living room portion of her 14 ...

Tired of your hands-off formal family room? Designer Tara Fingold gives us her take on a chic and sophisticated family room that you'll want to use every single day. Sources: wall colour, Para ...

What living rooms and family rooms have to do with a home’s value. When it comes to your home’s value, having a second living space (in other words, both a living room and family room/den) can ...