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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Pip Rich

5 dated living room layouts to always avoid and what designers are doing instead for 2025

Living room .

For years, so many of our living room layouts have focused on one thing – the TV. Everything has been centered on the dominant tech, angled towards the television without thought for whether it's creating the most social or elegant or even comfortable space. But this is such a dated way to approach living room layouts.

For 2025 designers are reimagining what a living room layout should be like, creating new anchors, looking at spacing differently, choosing new shapes to ensure a fresher take on zoning. The result is a more contemporary approach that works for the requirements of modern life, feeding the conflicting desires of ensuring our living rooms work for relaxing and socializing but also work aesthetically.

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