Best of 2025: Living Rooms
In the last week of the year, it is time to look back at the finest interiors and outdoor spaces published on The Nordroom in 2025. Today, I will share the best living rooms of 2025.
This year, The Nordroom has posted a record number of home tours, design news, and home styling articles. In this Best of 2025 series, I will share the finest rooms, gardens, and architecture of the past year.
This year’s living rooms ranged from colorful, eclectic spaces to Scandinavian, serene havens. Whether your style is cluttered and colorful or calm and minimalistic, these rooms will inspire you.
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The living room in a colorful maisonette home designed by Jodie Hazlewood of The House Upstairs is a wonderful space with a large bay window, pine floorboards, a custom bookcase, and colorful textiles.
The Brooklyn home of Lily Allen and David Harbour was much talked about when it first appeared in Architectural Digest. In 2025, they put the house on the market, and we can enjoy the room once more. The living room is cocooned in hand-printed Zuber wallpaper.
The exterior and interior of a turn-of-the-century family home are almost the same as when the house was built over a century ago. Many original details have been preserved, and the original floor plan creates social and flowing interior spaces.
Warm wooden floorboards, bookshelves, a wood burner, cozy textiles in a variety of patterns, and light pink walls create a cozy atmosphere in the charming living room of a 17th-century apartment in Stockholm’s Old Town.
This 19th-century Swedish country house features two beautiful sitting rooms. Both are decorated with wallpaper, and the top floor sitting area also features a nice workspace.
This beautiful living area under the slanted ceilings is the heart of this Stockholm attic apartment. The exposed wooden beams give the room character, and the black fireplace adds a warm glow to the room in the evening.
The living room in a Swedish cottage is charming and colorful, with large windows offering views from the lush garden and surrounding traditional Swedish red wooden cottages.
This Victorian apartment, designed by Martin Brudnizki, features an open-plan living space decorated with green seagrass wallpaper from Altfield, art, and ochre-yellow wool twill curtains from Fox.
The living room in a colorful midcentury apartment is painted in a deep blue shade (Jotun’s ‘Sky Blue’), which is paired with brighter color accents in the art and textiles.
The open-plan living room in a Victorian house is wonderfully bright thanks to large windows in two directions and white-painted floorboards. This is paired with pink plastered walls and soft furnishings.
The best of two colors. This living room in a Stockholm apartment pairs yellow on one side and pink built-in bookshelves on the other. Add in some colorful art, and you have a brightly colored living space.
The walls in the living room of a classy London apartment are painted in Lick’s “Beige 07” shade, which contrasts nicely with the intricate fireplace framed by a relief-adorned stucco and green marble surround.
The light palette with simple wooden floorboards in a Victorian terrace house is paired with the original cornicing, deep bay windows, and restored sash windows.
The living room in a London apartment is centered around a beautiful marble fireplace, and the mixture of patterns, colors, and styles adds a cozy ambiance.
The living room in a Swedish 1940s apartment features the original herringbone parquet floor, and walls painted in a soft beige-yellow shade called “Sans” by Jotun. It’s calm, timeless, and beautiful.
The living room in a Georgian villa apartment is painted in a duck-egg shade and decorated with ruffled blinds made from fabric by Turnell and Gigon, and an armchair upholstered in Pierre Frey fabric.
The blue OMHU Teddy sofa, in the living room of a colorful 1950s apartment, pairs nicely with the light pink walls. On the midcentury coffee tables stands a blue candlestick holder from the latest IKEA Gustaf Westman collection.
This small living room in a Stockholm Art Nouveau apartment beautifully pairs a light neutral with a vibrant and warm color accent in the rug. The semi-open-plan living space is also decorated with plants, and glass doors create a nice indoor/outdoor living experience.
The living room in a modern Swedish apartment is painted in Little Greene’s “Apple Oak”, a muted and neutral cream shade with yellow and green undertones. This shade is paired with bolder pops like ochre, cobalt, and orange.
The living room of a stylish London apartment is framed by a beautiful marble fireplace on one end, flanked by built-in bookshelves and cabinets with rounded edges. The beautiful curved sofa separates the sitting area from the kitchen.
The owner of a Swedish apartment is a lover of art and midcentury design. The entire living room is filled with artworks and a charming gallery wall, featuring floral paintings fitted above the sofa.
The television room in a Victorian home features walls painted in the gentle grey of ‘Lusi,’ a fireplace with a checkered pattern, and an internal picture window that frames views through to the kitchen, allowing light to ripple across the plan.
The living room in a Stockholm apartment is defined by a large bay window with high windows, flooding the room with natural light. A colorful, pastel-toned rug (the Poppykalas Flower Field rug from LAYERED) adds color to the sitting area.
This living room in a turn-of-the-century apartment is typically Scandinavian with wooden floorboards, light gray walls, and light furniture. The fireplace in the corner, decorated with birds and florals, adds historic charm and warmth.
The open-plan living space in a small Stockholm apartment is a charming room with large windows that flood it with soft natural light. The beautiful wooden floors and stucco are a beautiful reminder of the apartment’s turn-of-the-century heritage.
The large living space in a charming 1960s home is a combined sitting room, home library, and home office. The grand room is decorated with green wallpaper, a fireplace, and bookcases around the windows and the sofa.
The two-tone pastel pink living room in a 19th-century apartment is decorated with a large pastel-colored rug that adorns the wooden floorboards, paired with a modern dotted sofa and a striped ottoman.
A renovated early 20th-century apartment in Stockholm features a bright living room with a large bay window and a cozy seating area with a music collection and two IKEA chairs from their Nytillverkad collection.
The living room of an early 20th-century family home pairs gray-blue walls with a green built-in bookcase, a cobalt blue rug, and a zebra-striped sofa. Nothing is too crazy for the owners of this home.
A colorful design-led Georgian house features wonderful living spaces, like a striped television room with a colorful sofa and a green home library with a window seat and built-in bookshelves.
Paint company Dulux is a master in designing colorful spaces, and this colorful living room was created for their Color Trends 2026.
You can’t have missed that we’re in a brown era, and this living room in a Victorian house embraces that color trend completely. The room is divided into two areas: a formal sitting space with a marble fireplace at the front and a television area in the back overlooking the kitchen.
This cozy sitting room in a Victorian home features natural sisal carpeting, a natural color on the walls, and bookshelves fitted in the niches next to the beautiful fireplace.
The living room in a Victorian duplex features walls painted in Farrow & Ball’s Joa’s White, an almost beige hue that adds a lot of warmth to the space, as well as a herringbone floor, a marble fireplace, and a sculptural black coffee table available on Etsy.
The walls in this Stockholm apartment are painted in a warm, powder pink tone called Masquerade by Little Greene. It pairs beautifully with the wooden floors and original elements.
The dining area features a round black table, an antique bench, two chunky 70s Rainer Daumiller chairs, and a Mantis BS2 wall lamp.
This small living room in a Swedish courtyard apartment was popular on my Pinterest. It features the beautiful, original herringbone parquet floor, as well as art and glass doors leading to a balcony.
The beige walls, wooden floorboards, and rustic doors in this Swedish living room are paired with wonderful design pieces, including the polkadot melimeli sofa, a red arched wall lamp by Muller van Severen x Valerie Objects, a multi-colored Rugvista rug, a mirror coffee table, and the stylish Samsung The Serif television.
A luxurious apartment in Stockholm features a stunning, light-filled living room. The paneled walls are painted in a muted beige tone paired with a gray-painted ceiling, making the stucco stand out beautifully. However, the real showstopper is the fabulous blue, tiled fireplace.
A former London art school has been transformed into a magnificent split-level apartment. Original classroom floorboards and tall period windows have been carefully restored, creating an amazing living space that feels connected to the lush garden outside.
The entire Stockholm apartment is drenched in color, and for the living room, the owners opted for a nice green hue, bringing the outdoors in, paired with pink and orange shades.
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