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Tamara Kelly

36 cosy living room ideas to turn your lounge into a warming and cocooning refuge from the cold winter months

A dark-painted living room with a fireplace, lit candles and a beige velvet sofa.

The long and cold evenings of the winter months are the ideal time and the perfect excuse to turn your lounge into a cosy, relaxing cocoon of a space. But to help you with how to go about creating a serene and warming refuge from the cold and darkness, we’ve asked the experts to share their top cosy living room ideas.

And so they did! From the best living room colour schemes for a cosy look to more unexpected ways of creating a soft and cocooning feel in your living space, the pros have covered all the bases.

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