Interior Design For Square Living Room
In our Layout Guides series, you'll find layout ideas and solutions for rooms of all shapes and sizes. This week we take on the challenge of designing a square living room to work for hanging at home and having friends over.
If you're like us, you probably love hanging out in your living room. It's often the number one space in the house for entertaining and it's usually the go-to spot for kicking back and relaxing after work. Living rooms come in a variety of spaces, but square living rooms are definitely one of the most common shapes! Just because they are common doesn't mean they're simple, however! A square living room has lots of possibilities when it comes to interior design.
How do I set up a square living room layout?
The easiest way to come up with living room ideas (square or not) is to decide what you want to do with it. Do you use your living room just for lounging and watching TV with the fam? Maybe you love having a formal space to entertain guests? Or are you interested in a combo live-work space? You can do any of these things and more—the sky's the limit with square living room layout ideas! All you have to do is pick one that works for you.
To offer a little design inspiration and a few decor ideas for the living room, we designed a square living room with two layouts that make the most of the space. Read on to see our fabulous and functional square living room layout ideas with tips for designing your own!
Layout Idea #1: The Central Seating Square Living Room
This square living room layout is all about creating a welcoming space with multi-purpose central seating. We wanted the floor plan to work as a TV room design, entertaining, watching the kids play while you're kicking back, etc. Living room layout ideas like this are all about flexibility—which is ideal for busy households because the space is easy to navigate. Living rooms should be a stylish spot where everyone can hang out at once without getting crowded.
The main goal of this square living room layout is creating a comfortable space to kick back and relax, whether you're entertaining, watching a movie or just reading, napping and hanging with your family. We wanted to create a central and cozy seating area with a walking zone around groups of furniture pieces. With this floor plan, the living room can serve different functions—use it as is for conversation and leisure time or swivel the chairs around to face the TV for movie night! Plus, there's a kids play area on the floor in the corner.
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The Key Elements:
Long + low profile sofa: We love the gorgeous brown leather sofa in this square living room design. It is long enough to add ample seating for relaxation and you can still see over it to view out the windows and keep an eye on the kids. It's subtle but still properly divides the floor plan and creates a border around the seating area.
Swivel chairs: Swivel chairs are a brilliant choice when it comes to small living room ideas. These chairs add stylish accent seating as part of the conversation circle—and they can easily flip around to face the TV. They also make for cozy reading spots and are near the bookcase if you need to grab a new novel.
Large area rug: A large area rug is key to creating a distinct conversation zone in a small living room. It pulls all of the seating together and anchors the arrangement around the coffee table. It helps create a smart floor plan even though all of the furniture is floating. A great rug can instantly turn a square living room into a cozy, intimate space to chat—and it also leaves room for a separate play area.
Will This Layout Idea Work for You? Yes If You…
- Love multi-purpose living rooms where you can read, relax, entertain friends, or watch TV!
- Need space in your square living room where you can monitor the kids play while you get some leisure time.
- Like cozy, intimate seating circles that make for great conversation.
- Have a busy household and need a floor plan with easy traffic flow (i.e. no sharp edges, coffee table to bump into, etc).
Layout Idea #2: The Conversational Living Room
For this living room layout, we wanted to create a live-work space with multiple functional areas. With so many of us working from home these days, it's nice to have a desk in a comfortable hangout space, so putting an office in the living room was a no-brainer. This square living room checks all the boxes—the sofa provides plenty of seating and the floor plan is great for conversation, relaxing, entertaining friends and getting some work done.
Our goal was to create an open but cozy square living room for relaxing. The huge sectional sofa provides ample seating for you and your guests and there is additional flexible seating as needed. The open living room has multiple uses but there is a cohesive design across the entire space. And we love the contrast of the white sofa and yellow and blue accents against a taupe wall! With a small desk tucked in the corner, you also get to use the space for work without having to feel cooped up in an office.
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The Key Elements:
Sectional sofa: This look starts with a supremely comfortable sectional sofa. We went with a sizable option that makes the room feel warm and welcoming and offers plenty of seats to relax and gather people around. It also sections off the back part of the room, creating a kind of buried den so the desk feels more private.
Conversation nook: The armchairs create their own conversational area. This layout works great for multiple conversational groupings in one open space—you can also pull the chairs in closer to sectional. Plus, you get to utilize the corner of this large space, which might otherwise go empty.
Ladder desk: This ladder desk is one of our fave decor ideas for a square living room because it creates a subtle working space. It's mounted on a wall so the "office space" doesn't take over any of the living room. Plus, the bookcase adds open book storage, which you can use for display items.
Will This Layout Idea Work for You? Yes If You…
- Invite friends over often and need a spacious floor plan for casual hangs.
- Need a home desk / workspace and prefer working in a shared space.
- Love to curl up in a cozy reading chair with a good book!
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