Editor's Advice: How To Style Your Living Room Like A Designer

Great tips, but I'm always put off by all the decorative bits and pieces that have no purpose other than to gather dust and look pretty in juuuuust the right arrangement. I would love to see a video where you take the actual useful objects that most people have in their homes and arrange those in a stylish way. Things like how to make a bookcase (containing mostly actual books rather than vases and sculptures and who knows what else) look styled while still being functional, for instance.
I know this channel, and the magazine, are 99% about product placement and selling your advertisers' products, but one or two videos with more practical tips wouldn't hurt ;)

I honestly hate when books are placed as decorative pieces 😑

my favorite part of the room was the dog!!

Forgive me, but a lovely plant would be perfect for that fireplace....this treatment has too much white~~~~*

ok sooo are we decorating for a photoshoot or a real home? please please get real with this stuff. its getting stale, predictable, snooty and quite frankly boring. your magazine is not called "window displays and magazine covers." its called "house and home" is it not? ...like, come on now. get serious.

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putting white art in the fireplace was a wasted opportunity for something more colorful, maybe if you painted one a hazel brown, another a kind of red color like the coffee table, then one a kind of blue like that bookcase type item in the corner I think it would look far better, too much white on white for my taste, and if you didn't want to take away from the mantel you could do muted colors, really any colors you want

The guy is just saying things that don't have much substance behind them...

I would have painted the back wall inside the fireplace a dark charcoal grey which would have added depth to the fireplace and also a nice contrast to the white pots. Overall I thought the room still looked a little sterile.

My problem with white walls is that, to me, every added object of color looks too present because it really pops out at you and then when you add multiple items, of multiple colors, it just ends up looking cluttered and your gaze darts from one little thing to the other and the assortment seems totally random to me. This is why I never understood what people find "peaceful" and "neutral" about white walls, unless you pair it with really subdued, neutral toned furniture and accessories, but then the entire room ends up looking bland. I might be the only person in the world that doesn't know "what to do" with white walls.

so we have this white painted fireplace... it will highlight those also white vases perfectly..... uhmmm no?

Fine for staging but really, it's all a bit contrived and obvious. It looks unwelcoming. I'm imagining a sign outside the
entrance to the room that bossily states: _Books and Soft furnishings are not to be touched as they are there to
enhance the overall æsthetic. Please, remain standing at all times_
Best piece has to be that chair and next, the monkey lamp though not necessarily for that space.
Worst? Those undoubtedly overpriced bits of tat that decorated the dead fireplace.

Purple chair, green rug with red glass coffee table ?!

I don't know why designers always have to place an Hermes blanket over the arm of a sofa in the living room. It's become so cliche, in addition to being more than $3500.

I dislike overly decorated rooms. That lavender velvet chair was over the top. The monkey lamp was perfect. That bare wall could have used a mirror to visually expand the space.

am I the only person who thinks two "coffee" tables in between the seating was not good? If they are the experts, what would the place looked like with novice designers? The blue table on the fire place wall and the round coffee table look totally out of harmony In my opinion and I didn't care for the additions to the mantel. The fireplace was an interesting concept with the all white.

I thought I'd scream if they said really one more time. Really, really. really....

I think they said "really" like a million times

Should have put many led candles 🕯 in the fireplace

I'm always put off by the self-important designer that feels the need to veto every decision the 2nd designer on the preject has.
His decisions made this the most boring, sterile and 'lifestyle' predictable room.
Ugh. Get a new idea.