Incorporate these ideas into your decor for timeless elegance and luxury.

The overall effect is a timeless living room thats inviting without looking stuffy or cluttered.

Achieve the modern traditional look by selecting furniture and decor in a mostlyneutral color palette.

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This will ensure that the items you pick are cohesive, even if theyre from different eras.

Next, look for opportunities to mix modern and traditional.

Modern traditionalists let the curtains star and tone them down with a neutral,clean-lined sofa.

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Blue and green accessories punch up the color scheme in a way thats still easy on the eyes.

All the traditional details provide a soft counterpoint to thecontemporary furniture.

Wood and leather accents warm up the room and add dimension.

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The floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are the main source of decoration.

The simple furniture allows the built-ins to take focus, rather than competing.

This means several types of seating arranged in a close, circular formation.

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Mixing Design Styles

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This small corner is a masterclass in mixing eras.

Every point has a counterpoint, such as the turned wood table and the bold modern chair.

A geometric lamp sits next to organic, handmade vessels.

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A quiet color palette is the throughline, helping everything look cohesive.

Here, a black-painted fireplace allows the whole room to become more contemporary.

Styling Vintage Accessories

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Traditional accessories will often have a hand-made or hand-painted element.

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Pieces inspired by nature or made of organic shapes are also indicative of the style.

Juxtapose yourvintage findsagainst a modern wallpaper for a fresh update.

A modern sofa in a neutral linen upholstery perfectly blends old and new.

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Flower arrangements andlow-maintenance houseplantswill add a sense of life and movement.

Painting the architectural features white minimizes them somewhat and allows for an easy neutral color palette.

Still, the room feels warm and welcoming thanks to cognac leather accents and a cozy furniture arrangement.

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This room features pieces with warm undertones.

In a traditional space where color and accessories are king, special items can get lost.

The romance extends to the delicate sconces, pastel textiles, and French country-inspired coffee table.

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The modern tuxedo-style couch and contemporary accessories ensure this room doesnt look stuck in the past.

Bring arustic interiorinto the modern age with streamlined furnishing in understated fabrics.

Painting the woodwork white also freshens up the space and distances it from the cabin look.

Living room with exposed wood ceilings.

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This living roomfeatures shiplapandboard and batten walltreatments to achieve an old-school farmhouse look.

A grouping of clean-lined, modern furniture provides a counterpoint to the more decorative and traditional architecture.

From swanky brass sconces to a curvaceous chesterfield sofa, everywhere you look has another sumptuous detail.

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Incorporate these elements to achieve a Scandi room of your own.

Gloss finish may also lend a welcomeair of formality, as does restrained hardware.

Bold Nature Prints

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Traditional decor often draws much of its imagery from the natural world.

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Birds, plants, and animal patterns can appear in fabrics, wallpaper, and accents.

This room offers an excellent example of boldly embracing a multitude of representations.

They help soften underfoot surfaces, add pattern, and tie together disparate hues.

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Here, the subduedgeometric designreflects the neutral focus of the creams and grays in this bright space.

Those elements bring solidity and elegance to the room in this space, particularly the coffered ceilings.

That maycome through a washhere, the soft gray of the woodworkor paint that appearsjust slightly distressedbut still finished.

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Even still, they can appear in fearless ways, as in thepurple-black hueof this traditional living room.

The color here carries through on thebuilt-in bookcasesand the wood floor, mostly hidden beneath a room-brightening cream rug.

Here, the dominant color schemean orange-leaning red and alight yellowoffers harmony to no less than five patterns.

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Here, the pieces are assembled in rigorous patterns and finishes.

Fabrics also offer a nubby feel with a pattern grounded in the traditional favorite: aflower/foliage motif.

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cream living room with blue rug and wood mirror

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Contemporary living room

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White living room

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Modern white living room

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blue room with vaulted ceilings and red furniture

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white and beige living room

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gray wood living room

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dark wood living room with green chairs

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light yellow living room with red curtains and red rug

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gray and cream living room with wood fireplace

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cream living room with white chairs

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