"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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no surprise, then, that in homes these days, formal living rooms rarely exist, as designer Erin Gates notes in her new book ...

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 ...

It used to be that practically every home had a living room. You could make a fair guess about what it would contain, too, without having seen it — a sofa, a couple of upholstered chairs, a coffee ...

The 1972 American suburban living room contained specific furniture items that defined family social ...

Deep into the process of downsizing my home of 29 years has me accessing how it has evolved. The living room was never used because of the family room. The formal dining room, used maybe twice a year, ...

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 room ...

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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 ...