The living room is a room with a lot of functions. It’s a place where people can host visitors, or lounge and relax after a long day of work. When someone assembles or designs a living room, it always has the same format: couches for sitting, a center table, and some appliances for entertainment. It didn’t always look that way. Apartment Therapy explains the design evolution of arguably the true heart of any home:
“The living room is the central entertaining space of the home,” explains Alessandra Wood, Modsy’s vice president of style and author of “Designed to Sell,” which traces the history of design retail back to the 1930s. “It’s often the most public space of the home as well, so it’s the area where dwellers usually add the most personality and design attention.”
For those above reasons, Wood thinks the living room has often become a backdrop for showcasing new trends. Interestingly enough, as is often the cyclical nature of fads, certain living room decor items and decorating ideas have come in and out—and back into—vogue over the years. With that in mind, I examined just how living rooms have changed since the ’60s.
Perhaps Kate Butler, head of design for Habitat, a British furniture retailer, says it best: “It’s important to see where we have previously been by looking at elements of design and the ever changing interior industry landscape, whilst also still looking to the future of design.”
Ready to take a walk down memory lane? Looking back on living rooms of the past just might give you some insight into what to expect for the rest of 2020—and beyond.
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My mom use to keep me out of the living room. Lol! It was the cleanest, neatest and most beautiful room in the house.
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