LAYERING LIVING ROOMS: HOW RUGS, ACCENT TABLES, AND ART CREATE DEPTH
Layering, one of the leading trends in living room décor, creates a sense of abundance without overcrowding. Whether you’re looking for small living room ideas or want to make a spacious room feel more intimate, layering with rugs, accent tables, and art will help you style a space that feels cosy and considered.
Layering: The next big thing in living room design
If you’ve filled your living room with furniture that brings you joy and painted your walls in the latest Pantone, yet the space still feels flat, then layering is your living room design ally.
Rugs, accent tables, and art, in combination, provide the perfect blend of visual layers. They introduce different textures and scales, they can bring movement, and when mindfully selected, will communicate with each other tonally and stylistically. Including all these elements will add depth and interest, making your living room feel warm, inviting, and lived in.
Why rugs reign supreme
If you don’t have a living room carpet, you’ve probably placed an area rug beneath your seating to anchor the furniture. Or if you have an open-concept space, you may have used rugs to zone the living area. By doing so, you instantly softened the clean lines in your living room and added another layer of texture – but you can go one step further.
Layering large rugs for the living room with a slightly smaller rug on top remains one of the leading interior design trends. It allows you to personalise your space, playing with fabric materials, prints, and colour palettes, and it adds a wonderfully rich and cosy ambience. CB2’s best-selling living room rugs offer plenty of inspiration, and we’d suggest selecting two rugs that provide pleasing contrast, such as a neutral base rug with a patterned design on top.
Add depth and definition with accent tables
An artisanal accent table for the living room brings visual and textural interest. They offer a practical spot to place your morning latté or bowl of popcorn on movie night, but can also be styled with table lamps, books, and decorative accents to introduce pleasing height variation.
Why not use an accent table to add a new and contrasting texture to the living room, such as marble, resin, cement, or glass? By choosing an accent table with a high design aesthetic, you’ll bring maximum impact.
Accentuate with art
Wall décor for the living room adds layers without bringing more furniture or accessories to the space. You can hang large wall art in a living room as the main focal point, create gallery walls with prints and photographs of varying sizes, or hang treasured pieces that add meaning to your home.
Wall art for the living room can help make sense of different style concepts, picking out the colours of your upholstery or reflecting the era of your furniture. Or, if you have created a neutral, pared-back living space, it can serve as your source of colour and dynamism.
If our living room decor ideas have filled you with motivation, you can layer like an interior designer with CB2’s modern and stylish accent tables, rugs, and wall paintings for the living room.