FAMILY ROOMS

Comfortable Family Rooms

These casual family rooms illustrate many style options—all designed for relaxing. Browse through our photos to find ideas for decorating your family space!

1.Relaxed feel

Comfy chairs, an upholstered ottoman and a brick fireplace all suggest a relaxing place to read or chat. The warm palette of brown, brick red and gold enhances the coziness of the room.

2.Barn charm

Pegged, mortise-and-tenon joinery connects the interior of this Ohio home to barns of the past.

3.Gorgeous garage

Stone walls, beamed ceilings and slate flooring transformed a former two-car garage into a knockout family room. Four roomy woven wicker chairs create a conversation area. The TV is inside the antique armoire.

4.Old-fashioned ease

This casual, English country-inspired family room achieves a sense of the past with decorative items such as needlepoint pillows, a rug-upholstered ottoman/coffee table, slipcovered seating, vintage art and a Dutch door. All promote the feel of a more relaxed time. Electronics are housed in a cabinet across from the fireplace.

5.Vintage charm

Wisconsin homeowners built vintage charm into their new vacation home by using local building materials. Stones excavated from the property were used to construct the fireplace, and all the timber used—in beams, walls, exposed rafters and interior walls—was harvested within 30 miles of the home.

6.A new angle

An angled furniture grouping anchors this lower-level townhouse family room. The console table against the wall acts as a bar for entertaining, while the large woven coffee table offers plenty of room for serving informal snacks. Side chairs and the ottoman can be turned toward the entertainment center. A large mirror reflects light and visually enlarges the space.

7.All in the family

A large sectional offers seating for the whole family in this TV room (the entertainment center is along the opposite wall). An equally big coffee table accommodates entertaining, games or stacks of magazines. On the walls, sizable nature prints reflect the scale of the furniture.

8.Vivid color

Red walls and a framed-in window brighten this basement family room. Green leaf art, leopard-print pillows and rugs, and a bamboo coffee table add energy to the space.

9.Modern country

Oversize rural antiques, such as the tobacco basket, pitchfork and folded quilt, emphasize the country feel in this family room. Built-in bookcases and a ledge behind the sofa add interesting display and storage space. Leather swivel chairs can face the conversation area or turn to face the TV (the entertainment center is across from the sofa). Ottomans can be used as seating or foot rests.

10.Subdued hues

This garden basement family room benefits from the warm tones of wood, leather and grayish-blue upholstery and paint. Electronics are hidden in the armoire. Deep windowsills show off a collection of old wood wheels and machine parts; shades darken the room for movie watching. Same-style sofas are upholstered in two different fabrics with flip-flopped pillows.