Living Room Furniture Trends for This Year

Your living room is where you can unwind after a long day, gather with family and friends, and spend hours of your everyday life, from watching TV to reading and simply relaxing. With so much time spent there, it’s only natural to want it to feel comfortable and in tune with your style, and this can mean updating your living room furniture to create a space that’s more sophisticated and has an extra bit of depth.

Whether you’re making a small change or planning a complete redesign, this year’s trends can give you a lot of inspiration for updating your living room, and with the furniture available at Shackletons, you have a number of options to help you create an interior that feels both stylish and well thought out.

1. Soft Shapes and Curves

This is the year of gentle curves and soft silhouettes when it comes to living room design. Ridged edges and angular lines have been phased out with a preference now being for more inviting shapes that encourage relaxation. This means curved armrests on sofas, rounded coffee tables, amongst other circular items like bean bags and footstools. Smoother edges and corners can help enhance the appearance of a living room by providing a more calming visual flow, especially in smaller spaces where harsh lines can make a setting feel cramped and constricted.

At Shackletons, we’ve tailored our range to include a number of curved furniture items, from sofas to stools, sideboards, and coffee tables, each of which are designed to look exceptionally elegant without sacrificing performance.

2. Neutral Colours with Natural Textures

Neutral tones like grey, beige, and off-white, have always been a classic option for living room furnishings, and they continue to be strong favourites this year, especially when they’re paired with natural textures that add a sense of depth and warmth.

This trend isn’t about bland or boring design, however. It’s about creating visual interest through natural textures, which are then made more noticeable with the colours providing a backdrop rather than a distraction. A great example of what this is the Global Furniture Alliance Andover Riser. This recliner comes in a light, neutral grey, a colour which makes it easy to spot the crisp, organic texture of the linen fabric that coats the entire chair.

3. The Bean Bag Comeback

Once seen as casual, student-style seating, bean bags are now making a comeback. This time however, they’re doing so in a much more refined way, ditching garish colours and flimsy covers for items that are much better constructed and surprisingly versatile.

If you look the bean bags we supply, for example, you’ll see items which are created with premium fur or luxury leather for an extra layer of sophistication. They also come in more muted tones like black, brown, chestnut, and white. They’re great little furnishings for reading corners and doubling up as additional seating for guests.

4. Mixing Is In

Another major shift in how people are furnishing their living rooms is the movement away from fully matched sets. Rather than buying a three-piece set with identical finishes, people are now choosing to mix styles, colours, and shapes to match their personal tastes and create more unique interiors.

For example, you could pair the Tetrad Braemar Midi Sofa with the Spink & Edgar Brigette Stool, or you could combine the Alexander & James Bailey 2 Seater Sofa with the Laura Ashley Montpellier Footstool. By exercising a little more creative freedom, you can create a living room that looks more natural and lived-in and avoids being too uniform.

Whether refreshing your living room means updating single furniture items or replacing everything, tapping into this year’s trends means that you can update your living area to make it feel both modern and more personal. This is especially the case when you shop at Shackletons.

Here, we have an array of trending living room furniture, from stylish stools to premium sofas and much more. Click here to discover our full assortment of living room furniture today. Have any questions? Don’t hesitate to get in touch. You can email us at hello@shackletonsonline.co.uk or you can call 01200 444488. Either way, we’ll be happy to help.