If you're house-hunting or thinking of ways to modernize your current home, odds are there's a lot of focus on the living room. Formal living rooms have offered a pleasant, elegant touch to homes over ...

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 any of ...

"Call us old-fashioned, but we love a formal living room," say Anna Still and Marguerite Johnson of Still Johnson Interiors. "Some people lament having a room that typically is used less often than ...

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Designers show us how to turn what used to be the most formal area of a home into an inviting, multipurpose space. By Tim McKeough The living room used to be considered a formal entertaining space — a ...

Formal living rooms aren’t gone but are evolving into relaxed, multifunctional spaces. Swap formality for cozy layouts, modular furniture, and inviting seating. Update with softer lighting, textured ...