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Second Living Room Ideas

Some homes have a secondary room set apart for a family room, den, or second living room. In these cases, you can design the room to function like a traditional living room or furnish it to suit your family's unique needs. If you're looking for ideas, you're in luck! Here are our best second living room ideas along with tips and tricks for showcasing different interior design styles.

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Inspired Design

Whether you're decorating a primary living room or a secondary living space, you can find inspiration in the room's architecture. In this case, the arched windows serve as inspiration for the rounded chairs, wall art, lighting fixture, area rug pattern, and even more accents. You can similarly look at your space for unique features to inspire your design.

Bold Personality

In large rooms, a lot of color can be overwhelming. But if you're decorating a smaller second living room, then you can use these bold colors sparingly to create a big impression. Whether you include those colors in a sofa, lighting fixture, pillows, or rug, you can infuse color into the room to showcase your aesthetic.

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Contemporary Tastes

Contemporary interior design is all about artistic expression and unique accents. You can incorporate modern decor through your wall decor and accents, but you can also choose furniture that reinforces that sleek modern style.

Establishing Order

Small and large living rooms can both benefit from symmetry and matching furniture. Both of these aspects can make your room feel more traditional, but it also establishes a neat and tidy look that's ideal for a more formal setting.

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The Centerpiece

Fireplaces are often focal points in living rooms thanks to their beauty, prominence, and unique beauty as an architectural feature. By centering your furniture, area rug, and art around the fireplace, you can create a natural focal point and emphasize the fireplace's natural beauty.

Adjacent Spaces

Typically, a cohesive color scheme fills out the entire house so that the home feels consistently designed. This can apply to secondary living rooms and adjacent spaces, especially if they open to one another. For example, the primary color of this dining room (blue) carries over to the living room as a supporting accent color. This is a very simple yet effective way to tie multiple spaces together.

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Queen Size Runner Rug
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Personality

Every room of your home should be a reflection of you and your personality, but this can be especially true for a second living room where you may just relax on your own or have select friends over. With that in mind, you should express your personal aesthetic as boldly or as subtly as you choose.

Furnishing With Purpose

Area rugs play a key role in a room's design. Not only can they reinforce the room's color scheme, but they can also serve as a physical anchor for your room's furniture. Be sure to study multiple living rooms to see how and where rugs can be placed to help you decide on the best rug size, shape, and position for your living room.

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Similar Shades

Reusing the same color in different shades, finishes, textures, and patterns ia great way to create a well-rounded second living room while keeping the design very focused. Here, grey is a recurring color with the charcoal walls, grey sofa, grey and white rug, and the curtains. You can follow this room's example by reusing neutral tones or play with different shades of bolder colors.

Organic Materials

Worried that your second living room may feel too formal? Try incorporating more natural materials and textures to add levity. Wicker, rattan, wood, and other natural materials can all warm up the room and change the tone to create your ideal balance.

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Queen Size Runner Rug

Keeping Boredom Away

Even when you reuse the same color again and again in the same shades, you can create visual interest by using that color in different materials and textures. Note how many ways cream is presented in this room with the wall decor, sofa, side chair, and area rug. Although the shades are very similar, it's the texture that keeps this room visually interesting and that keeps each piece distinct from the rest.

Warm and Cool

For many years, people were afraid to pair grey with cream, since they convey cool and warm tones respectively. However, that's exactly WHY these colors can work together so well! By using a grey and cream rug, you can balance those tones and create the best balance for your home.

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Open Areas

Just because you have a large living room doesn't mean that you have to fill it with oversized furniture and lots of seating. This room shows how effective it is to leave extra room to walk and just breathe. If you're worried about the space feeling empty, try adding an extra large area rug or carpet to fill the room with comfort, color, and perhaps an interesting pattern.

One Pop of Color

Looking to infuse color into your room? An area rug can help you do just that. Area rugs can reinforce the room's existing color scheme and also add a new color to the mix, which raises the rug's visual impact and influence on the room's grand design.

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Small Spaces

Small sitting areas can be difficult to furnish and decorate. The first step in designing these areas is to decide how you want it to be used. Will it be used as a small space for intimate conversation, or will it be used to highlight unique artwork or architecture? Once you establish how you want the space to function, you can choose the best furniture, decor, and area rugs for that space.


Second living rooms are great areas for additional conversation, reading, and general self expression. With the second living room ideas we've shared, you can start to design your own space to suit your lifestyle and convey your personal aesthetic.

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