Contemporary
HomeGlow's Interior Design tool gave this living room a Contemporary finish: sculptural, current-day materials, a palette of one confident accent color and clean neutrals, and clean-lined, sculptural forms, leaving the room's own walls, windows, and camera angle exactly as photographed.
- Style
- Contemporary
- Room
- Living room
- Tool
- Interior Design
- Published
- 2026-10-28
About a Contemporary living room
Redesigning a living room in Contemporary starts with the palette: one confident accent color and clean neutrals, carried across a sofa, a coffee table, an area rug and a media console. HomeGlow rebuilds their finish in sculptural, current-day materials, favoring clean-lined, sculptural forms over anything busier. A floor lamp and layered ambient light sets the mood once the sun goes down, while the seating layout and the sightline to the main window stay untouched — the living room you photographed is still the one you get back.
How to get the look
- Rely on a floor lamp and layered ambient light for the evenings in place of one central overhead fixture.
- Keep the seating layout and the sightline to the main window as the living room's focal lines — the style changes finishes, not the layout.
- Build the palette around one confident accent color and clean neutrals instead of a single bright accent wall.
- Choose sculptural, current-day materials for what the living room already needs: a sofa, a coffee table, an area rug and a media console.
- Look for clean-lined, sculptural forms rather than anything boxy or ornate.
- Stop short of hidden storage cabinetry and unbroken wall surfaces — that reads as minimal, a related but different look.