Your living room is the heart of your home, and it deserves a design that reflects both your personality and your lifestyle.

Thinking of sprucing up your living room for the new year? Here are 10 living room design ideas taken from Dezeen's archive of lookbooks, featuring suggestions for colours, furniture and lighting.

"Tell me what freestanding furniture has ever done to wrong you," the interior designer says in a viral clip online.

When Alison Hammatt first saw the 1929 Tudor home her clients had purchased in Rye, N.Y., the living room wasn’t really living. Brooding, deep-brown wood floors and a somber bronze chandelier at ...

Think tall! “Drawing the eye upward can make a room feel taller and more spacious,” Skoloff says. So, she recommends, try ...

Even if wheelchairs and walking frames are not in the picture, a wider doorway will generally make for a more comfortable route in and out of your living room, our experts agree. So if you’re ...

They can make a space look edgy and modern. However, when a living room leans too far into this design style, Smith said, it instead "comes off as cold and impersonal." "A balanced approach using ...