Living room design 2024

In living rooms filled with light and air, fashion trends recommend adding the following shades of the palette:

• Sage is green, fresh and calm, it will give harmony and liveliness to a bright living room. 
• Blue, color of the year. Soft, expanding space. Ideal to start a new day. 
• Pink, or more precisely, its updated version containing yellow pigment. It gives tenderness and tranquility, beautifully frames furniture and decorative elements. 
• Cognac is very popular in the decor of 2024, this warm and complex shade is good on walls and in decor.
• Beige and nude are gaining relevance in 2024. Cozy and warming, they pair wonderfully with bright modern or classic decor.

For a dark living room

In living rooms decorated in dark colors, in order to update it is worth adding bright and refreshing shades:

• Yellow in 2024 is chosen as bright and sunny. 
• Gray, natural and able to balance other colors, is recommended to be chosen in a complex shade, with notes of green or blue. 
• Monochrome, which will also play a significant role in 2024, can be easily obtained from one selected color. A single color scheme of different shades will add sophistication and harmony to the living room, and will also allow you to control the volume of the room.

Materials and textures

Accentuation on natural colors, textures and textures will help add a touch of naturalness to the living room.

For finishing walls and floors

In addition to the color scheme, the fashionable wall interior is represented by a variety of textures. In addition to convex plaster, the walls are decorated with fabric canvases with large fibers, textured stone, rattan, bamboo and other natural materials.

Marble is becoming very popular among finishing materials. Especially gray, pinkish, black and blue shades with noticeable veins. Natural wood, mainly oak, walnut, ash and teak, is no less in demand in surface design.

Furniture

The design of the living room in 2024 gives preference to furniture made from natural materials. Fashion is abandoning cheap chipboard and plastic, paying special attention to natural materials. They are more expensive, but their service life is much longer than budget ones. In addition, natural textures look incomparably more elegant and noble. With such furniture, the room acquires comfort and sophistication. The design of the room is interestingly diversified with interior items: pillows, candlesticks, paintings and panels.

Shapes, drawings, patterns

Modern trends strive to create the greatest comfort with unusual shapes of objects. Therefore, all shapes and silhouettes are softened and rounded. They prefer smoothness and curved lines to rectangular furniture, choosing round tables and armchairs, crescent-shaped sets, islands and spherical lamps. The trend is streamlined shapes and textures, combining and complementing each other, unifying the space. 

Large images of flowers and birds are also gaining popularity. Scatterings of stars, clouds and simply bright large strokes fit well into the design of unusual walls.

Current styles

When decorating a living room, it is important to decide on the most fashionable style that suits the room and the taste of the owners. 

Minimalism

Pleasant style, suitable for small spaces, looks especially interesting in studio apartments. Fiberglass wallpaper is often chosen for this living room design in 2024. They can be painted over and over again, so updating the design is quite easy. Transformable furniture is perfect for a living room in a minimalist style; such a set contains multifunctional elements. At the same time, the color scheme of the style implies limitations and will look advantageous in sea green or emerald shades.

Loft

This style is intended for decorating living rooms with a large area. Combines perfectly with surfaces made of unlined bricks. A large-sized sofa, covered with genuine leather or suede, is the main detail of a beautiful design in the loft style.

Scandi

Scandinavian style design is characterized by the use of white and blue colors, giving a northern charm. It is better to choose fabric wallpaper. This style is characterized by elements of minimalism, and the interior is best likened to what was current in the 60s. 

Eco

This interior style is chosen by people who are concerned about the environmental friendliness of the environment, as well as those prone to allergies. An eco-style living room in 2024 should not be overcrowded with furniture and indoor plants. An interesting option would be to decorate the walls with live wallpaper - ivy. It is better to finish free sections of walls with natural stone or wood. 

High tech

A living room of this style will be characterized by attention to light, especially for studio apartments. In such rooms, the bar counter is a special accent of the decor and separate lighting is installed for it, dividing the space into sections. Ceilings can be a metal mesh with many lamps. This ceiling goes well with different wall finishes, from painting to ceramic tiles.

How to organize lighting

In the coming season, in the interior design of the living room, lighting has not only a narrowly practical, but also a decorative meaning. Like any accents, light should be used in doses. For example, general lighting can be represented by ceiling spots or lighting running along the perimeter of the room. And the additional thing is to be provided with beautiful lamps: pendants, sconces, floor lamps. 

Lamps made of glass or with a precious metal finish also look good; they can have simple shapes and stand out with a bright texture. A magnificent chandelier or a stylish lamp above the sofa set can become a decorative element. In this case, the remaining lighting sources are chosen in a relatively restrained design.

Living room layout and furniture in 2024

Dividing space according to the functionality of zones is the main idea of ​​living room layout in 2024. If the area of ​​the room allows, several zones should be distinguished. For example, a resting place and a work area. It is ideal if spaces with different purposes flow into each other, complementing and enhancing the style and color scheme of the living room.

Headsets that include handmade elements are becoming fashionable. Stone countertops, cabinets in all shades of natural wood. Decorative elements made of rattan - sconces or chairs. And indoor plants will add ease and cordiality to the interior. 

Sofas and armchairs

The trend is for spectacular sofas that stand out brightly in the living room interior with their unique design. They can be of an unusual rounded shape; radius models are popular. You can complement the sofa with armchairs and ottomans, making pillows the accent. 

The ultra-fashionable solution in 2024 is the presence of transformable sofas. Such furniture serves not only as a bed, but as a play space. But there are possible options for a living room without a standard sofa at all, then the living room has alternative seating areas: armchairs, couches.

Accent chairs also serve an important role in filling empty space. Their most successful combination is with lamps or small tables. 

Cabinets

The design of living room cabinets implies versatility, the use of natural materials, textures and shades. For example, wood of caramel, straw, and grayish shades is popular. This piece of furniture is convenient for zoning space, creating a place for reading, working or relaxing. The use of mirror surfaces is considered a stylish and appropriate technique, so individual facades of large cabinets can also be mirrored.

Walls, TV stands

Laconic TV stands combine harmoniously with many design styles. They are easy to move, shifting the accents in the room. Dressers and even bulky-looking bedside tables can be transformers, and then conveniently fold into another decorative element.

Coffee tables

Tables in 2024 are suitable for both strict lines, with narrow and smooth panels made of natural wood, and stylish metal ones with thin legs. Many types of metals are popular: chrome, gold, bronze, steel and others. The transformation of tables into large tables is also functional, and the ability to move them makes cleaning easier.

Work zone

It’s quite easy to highlight a work area with the help of fashionable new season partitions made of slats in the color of natural wood, a decorative console or movable screens. Equipment in such an area can be varied in composition, materials and shades, but it is important to maintain balance without overloading the space. Design trends for work areas tend towards minimalism in decorative elements, preferring comfort and simplicity.

Total trends 2024

The living room in 2024 is a room that is assigned the maximum number of functions. It should provide maximum psychological and functional comfort. 

The design is dominated by the freedom to combine a variety of colors, textures and styles. But the traditional solution in a calm color scheme with a single bright accent is also quite relevant.

The design decision is left to the discretion of the owner. The absence of strict standards allows everyone to decorate the living room in the way they like, taking into account the latest fashion trends.

Colors and their combinations

The trend is natural colors with a predominance of light tones and contrasting accents. Natural shades calm the perception of a modern person living and working among powerful information noise. For people who prefer contrasts, trends suggest combining bright colors with neutral ones. For example, shades of white and black, beige and chocolate, soft green and deep blue.

Shapes and designs 

Rounded edges and smooth lines of objects are considered fashionable. This trend can be seen everywhere: in the curves of arches, furniture sets, lighting design, and decorative elements. The drawings suggest enlarged natural images.

Materials and textures

In the design of the living room in 2024, preference is given to natural materials: wood, stone, glass, leather, natural textiles. The texture in fashion is convex and smooth, and the texture should reflect natural motifs. Metal decorative elements, thin and elegant, are also in fashion.

Styles

The stylistic variety of fashion trends in the new season will allow you to arrange a living room to suit every taste, and the most relevant are minimalism, hi-tech, loft, Scandinavian and eco-style.

Lighting

Lighting also has a decorative function. Spherical and asymmetrical shapes, clarity and ease of the main lines are relevant. High-tech lamps are widespread, but in spacious rooms the main role can be given to a large crystal chandelier.