Living Room Décor
Shop living room décor from Mikolia, covering every surface a living room offers: wall art, vases, artificial flowers, artificial plants, figurines, sculptures, ornaments, candle holders and cushion covers.
Sofas, tables and shelving set the structure of a living room, but structure alone reads as a showroom. It is the layer above the furniture, the objects on the coffee table, the piece above the sideboard, the texture on the sofa, that makes a room read as a home rather than an arrangement.
Wall Art
A living room usually has one wall that determines how the whole space reads: above the sofa, above the fireplace, or the wall you see first on entering. Sculpted, textured wall art in a metal frame holds that position better than a flat print, because the raised surface changes with the light through the day.
Browse framed wall art for abstract, botanical and gold accent designs in portrait, square and landscape formats.
Vases and Artificial Flowers
A vase is the most flexible object in a living room, working equally well on a coffee table, a sideboard, a mantelpiece or the floor. Sculptural ceramic flower vases hold a sideboard on their own, handbag vases suit a shelf, and tall floor vases fill the corner beside a sofa, which is the hardest space in any room to style.
Pair any of them with artificial flowers for an arrangement that stays looking right permanently, or use large artificial plants and trees to bring greenery to a corner with no natural light. For a full guide, read how to style planters and floor vases.
Sculptures, Figurines and Ornaments
These are the pieces that finish shelves, consoles and coffee tables. Sculptures in resin, including classical busts and abstract forms, work as focal points on a console or mantelpiece. Figurines in stone-effect resin suit a bookshelf or side table, and glazed ceramic ornaments provide the low, rounded shapes that complete a group.
Two guides cover this in depth: styling ornaments, figurines and decorative objects, and how to style sculptures and statues.
Candle Holders and Cushion Covers
Few things change the feel of a living room as quickly as candlelight. Candle holders in ceramic, glass and metal work grouped at different heights on a coffee table or mantelpiece rather than spaced evenly in a row.
Cushion covers are the fastest way to change a room without replacing anything: layering two or three textures in a tight palette reads as far more considered than a single matching set.
Styling a Living Room Surface by Surface
A coffee table is viewed from above and used constantly, so it needs to work both ways. The reliable formula has three parts: something flat, a stack of large books or a tray; something sculptural on or beside it; and something organic, a small vase of stems or a candle. Keep everything low enough to talk over.
A console or sideboard is seen straight on and needs composition rather than coverage. Concentrate visual weight at one end with a tall piece or a stack, place a lower group at the other, and leave genuine space between them. Something in the arrangement should reach roughly a third of the way up the wall above it, which is where wall art or a tall vase earns its place.
A mantelpiece rewards asymmetry over symmetry. One substantial anchor piece toward one end, then two or three smaller objects stepping down toward the other, with pieces allowed to overlap slightly in depth rather than standing in a row.
On bookshelves, alternate shelves that are mostly books with shelves holding a styled group, use flat book stacks as plinths, and pull objects forward from the back panel so they read as placed rather than stored.
Making a Living Room Look Considered
The instinct when a room feels unfinished is to add more. The better instinct is almost always to add less, but better. One larger sculptural piece outperforms three small ones, because scale and quality read as intentional in a way that quantity never does.
Work in odd numbers, vary the heights, and keep the palette tight while mixing the finishes. Black, gold, cream and stone tones sit together easily across matte resin, glossy ceramic and brushed metal, and it is colour chaos rather than finish chaos that makes a room look busy. Leave at least a third of any styled surface empty.
Repeating one accent across a room, a gold detail on the coffee table, gold in a figurine on the shelf, a gold-toned piece of wall art, ties a living room together far more effectively than matching sets ever do.
Minimalist or Layered
This collection works either way. A minimalist living room built on texture and form rather than colour and pattern stays looking current far longer, since nothing dates as quickly as a strong colour choice. A more layered room takes the same pieces and simply uses more of them, grouped rather than scattered.
If you are deciding between the two approaches, our guide to minimalist and colourful décor styles is a useful starting point.
Living Room Décor as a Gift
Living room pieces make some of the easier gifts to get right, because they ask nothing of the recipient beyond a spare surface or a stretch of wall. A sculpture, a set of candle holders, a vase paired with artificial flowers, or a piece of wall art all work for a housewarming or a milestone occasion.
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