Stylish and Functional Interior Design Ideas to Transform Your Living Room

If you ask people, the majority of them would say that the living room is one of the most important rooms in the house. We at the Swiss Interior share that idea, too. The living room is a centerpiece of every home, the main communication room where all of the residents share space and entertain their guests.

This is why from a design point of view, the living room carries a whole aesthetic aspect of the house and why you should really pay attention while remodeling it.

This is why we would like to give you interesting interior design ideas for Singapore HDB apartments or landed houses can significantly benefit in terms of better living and better aesthetics. For more inspiration on various interior design styles that fit larger homes like landed properties, check out this guide on interior design styles for landed properties.

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Open Floor Concept

In the last two decades, design trend has come that expands the function of living room from the ground up. Combining the main communication rooms of the house, kitchen, and living room we get something called open-floor concept.

These are the primary spaces that are used the most throughout the day and where tenants communicate and hang out together.

So tearing down the walls between these two rooms drastically expands your apartment, and allows streamlined communication between spaces visually as well as allowing easier conversation between tenants in these spaces of the house.

This is an especially smart move to do in smaller HDB apartments since this merge of the spaces will visually expand the home.

Wall Mirrors

Talking about smaller HDB apartments, as well as smaller living rooms in general, there are clever and somewhat cheaper ways how you can visually expand your living room, without tearing down the walls of surrounding spaces.

Why not try installing wall mirrors? This move will expand the room and make it feel wider or taller depending on which way you decide to put it and the kind of effect you need to achieve.

If you want to expand your room upwards then putting a mirror on the ceiling will create an illusion of a higher ceiling and an interesting reflecting effect of the floor. Take notice that this will look better if you have white or at least lighter floors and furniture.

If you decide to put on one of the walls then this will make room feel wider and this also allows you to freely put more furniture or accessories in the room. Because of the said effect, the room will not feel cluttered.

Different Seating Furniture

Even though a large sofa is a symbol and also defines almost every living room, you can still experiment with chairs, armchairs, lazy bags, and ottomans.

This will not only give a unique and authentic, whatever you like to call it, signature style to the living room but will also give every tenant or guest their preferred seating option so they can have maximum comfort while chilling out and conversing with the rest of the people in the space.

Built-in Wall Shelves and Hidden Storage in the Wall

One more tip for smaller living rooms, but it can also be used for larger living rooms if you really don’t like clutter and prefer cleaner, more minimalistic floor space. Wall shelves and the accessories on them can be tricky to incorporate in the room.

There is a fine line between a pretty composition on a shelf and a hanging mess that will suffocate the room, being at the eye level of the person in the room.

This is why you can do a procedure that is invasive but will help you partially hide (built-in wall shelf) or completely hide (hidden storage in the wall) things that would typically be put on the shelves.

If you go for a built-in wall shelf, you can still use it as an ornamental composition on the wall, where books, lamps, and pots will beautify the room on their own or as a part of an accent wall (which we will discuss further down bellow).

Hidden storage in the wall is self-explanatory. All of the things that you want to hide from the plain eye view you can hide behind a cabinet in the wall with doors imitating the rest of the wall, hence not being an eye sore for tenants and guests.

Accent Wall

One more way to visually improve the room is by making an accent wall that will contain all of the accessories and art in the room, containing them all in one space so the rest of the walls in the living room can be free of unnecessary objects.

This is one of the cheapest ways to transform your living room and give it an artistic touch that is unique and uncopyable.

With a few splashes of paint of the dominant color of the room on the selected wall, building a shelf for books and art, and maybe even adding some artistic painting on top to frame the accent wall, you will get a shrine of your taste and character, which will be a beautiful sight for the guest too. Transform your living room by engaging the services of an experienced interior designer like Swiss Interior, which has many living room interior design ideas to share, and realize your dream home.