Here you have a special selection of inspirational armchairs. This post was carefully made thinking about all the needs you may have when it comes to decorate your living room. Reading this you will find 50 inspirational armchairs to your living room design ideas or projects – if you’re an interior designer or decorator. Besides, work days can be hard. And there’s nothing like a confortable chair to rest when we’re home, right?
So, for this and much more, we’ve made a special selection of inspirations for your living area.
LEATHER MODERN CHAIRS
Nowadays, you can chose any color for your leather furniture. Leather chairs, in particular, they can have a contemporary or vintage style. You decide! Get some vintage industrial lighting to stand right beside your leather armchair and you will have a contemporary living room.
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Let’s start with the best! This chair represents the perfect combination of materials: fabric, leather and wood. This is the easy and the right way to get a contemporary living room.
A modern leather armchair should be combined with another mdoern elements, like animal leather rugs (not real preferentially).
A patterned carpet will be good too. Geometric shapes are a trend.
Caetano armchair is inspired in the brazilian ‘bossa nova’. The color is so strong and happy and the round rug, from the same collection, pairs perfectly with it.
But if you prefer a vintage style to your living room, you need to get a vintage chair like this one. And the pink is just for the daring ones…
… And light colors are also an option.
Again, a completely vintage inspirational armchair, mixing two color: white and coral. The wood is the icing on the cake. This is the perfect look for your modern living room. Don’t you think?
Leather is the queen of living rooms. You will always get a luxurious space if you decide to invest into a leather armchair. Put a blanket on it and your living room will be just adorable and super modern.
Jobim armchair, again by DelightFULL, is part of the new Essentials collection. This leathered chair is ideal for hotel hallways or restaurants with a vintage-modern style.
But it would fit perfectly into your modern living room too.
Tey black. If it doesn’t result, try different shapes and sizes.
And don´t forget the blanket for a scandinavian modern living room efect.
Dukonu armchair was named after the Indonesia’s most active volcano. This Brabbu’s product is a classic, with its black leather and golden details. Include it into your modern living room design project. Just do it…
Metals are, without a doubt, a great material to combine with leather. But there are another good options…
And wood is one of those materials!
Louge chairs like this one at the image can be an option for your living room design ideas. They are so modern and cool that any kind of furniture will be perfect beside it.
Just don’t forget to buy some vintage industrial lighting to stand by your modern arm chair.
This chair, for instance, may appear to be only for outdoors, but it isn’t. It looks great into this rustic living room.
Boca do Lobo’s Neopoli golden mirror really is a must have, but the star at this ambiance is the black and white armchair. Once again, wood and leather: the perfect marriage.
You may cry for this brown leathered armchair because it seems the perfect neighbour for your vintage sideboard. And again, a vintage foot lamp beside it.
Drapesse chair by Koket is the proof that love happens. A beautiful and uncommon piece. Complete with lux velvet and metallic cream leather, finished with polished brass fee this is a tribute to Dorothy Draper‘s high style.
SCANDINAVIAN FUR ARMCHAIRS
Scandinavian style is an important part of minimalistic style. Using fur (and mixing it with wood) is the secret to get a modern living room. Mid-century modern lighting and rugs are obligatory items to have in a scandinavian living area, so use and abuse of those elements.
Get your fur blanket right away. Or you’ll never ever achieve a scandinavian style to your living area.
Love how the fur on the chair match with the rug.
The simplicity and cleanliness of Nordic interiors really are perfect for living rooms.
Together with fur, wood is the material in charge. Are you conviced yet?
PATTERNED FABRIC ARMCHAIRS
Everybody loves patterns! Since animal patterns, to dots or flowered fabrics, you will find several options at the market. Do not run away of patterned fabric armchairs. They look great near classic sofas.
Nature patterns in chairs seem to result very well.
As well as dots and other drawings.
If you are a fan of abstract art, you need to get those chair at the image. Unusual, but elegant.
VELVET
Velvet is the queen of all the fabrics. It is not just the softness in person, but the personification of elegance and luxury. In the images we are going to present, tall lamps are a constant presence, as well as big rugs. Take advantage of those elements, because they result very well.
Sexy living rooms need sexy armchairs. Besame’s soft, plump curves will have you lusting for a moment of passion. The perfect pairing for vintage industrial lighting.
Kayapo armchair is an inspiration based on a tribe and its medical plants. His green distressed leather will give the right comfort that will provide a wellbeing sensation and that will give your living room the touch of modernity it may needs. Relax and invite yourself to have seat!
Aged pieces can also be an amazing solution for modern-vintage living rooms.
Western living rooms are a trend! And if you want a western living room, you need to get up and go buy a brown velvet arm chair right away.
Greens are also a solution.
In any kind of shades.
The same happens with blue.
Bleu de france, baby blue, steel blue. They’re all great options, and they all pair up very well with metalic shades.
So get that copper foot lamp that you saw, that golden mirror that you love or that silver center table you’re in love with.
And get a beautiful carpet.
SIMPLE FABRICS
But simple chairs, with a colorful fabric, are also a must. Combine it with a wooded sideboard and a modern center table and your living room will be just perfect!
Ochre yellow is one of the colors of the year. Everybody loves it.
And grey will always be a classic.
Pallets can be great for storage. DIY projects are a trend and this way you’ll have original and unique pieces at your living room.
Pallets are not the only way to have DIY projects: a trunk will do a beautiful sidetable.
As we said before, colors like green and blue are a trend. And not only for leathered chairs.
Find the right carpet or patterned rug to pair with, and voilá, your modern living room will appear with no effort.
You can have a center table in the same material and with the same design of your chair. but you need to be sure that your sofa contrasts with these two elements.
TOTAL WOOD LOOK
Keep it simple but keep it good. Wood is a noble material and it will never be out of style.
Painted wood is a good option.
