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 ...

Adair Curtis, the design genius behind JSN Studio and star of Netflix’s Styling Hollywood, believes that if the kitchen is the heart of a home, the living room is undoubtedly the soul.

And where better to have a little design fun than in one of the home’s main gathering places: the living room. For inspiration, look to the AD PRO Directory, where experts show how punchy ...

Mark and Ann Shankroff of McLean are struggling to decorate their formal living room. It’s the first area guests see when they enter the house. But with separate family and toy rooms for their ...

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 ...

“It needs a sympathetic design. The fireplace used here belongs in a suburban brick house, not a grand 1850s formal room in St Kilda.” Furniture: “There are too many styles,” she says.

The living room used to be considered a formal entertaining space — a room filled with fine furniture that was largely off-limits until the company arrived. But we’ve come a long way.