4 Stylish and Masculine Interior Design Living Room Concepts
It’s not really the homeowner’s fault – it has more to do with just how viral styles can impact the marketplace. When something gets popular, it becomes inescapable. No matter how many sites or showrooms you might visit trying to find furniture and decor for your living room, you’re met with variations of the same thing you’ve seen a hundred times before.
It’s particularly frustrating when your personal style is vastly different from what’s popular. The ascendant style of today trends toward neutral, bright, inviting, and soft, which may not always work if the rest of your home decor trends toward a darker or more masculine vibe.
The good news is, there are plenty of more iconoclastic, masculine living room options out there. You’ll just need to approach your interior design with a bit more of a plan to find them. If you’re interested in sprucing up your living room with a more masculine interior design aesthetic, try one of these ideas to help guide your search.
Get geometric
Typically, living rooms tend to be designed to be soft, or even plush to make them feel as comforting and cozy as possible. Gravitating away from this tradition is a great way to give your living room a more masculine, modern, and sleek feel. Plus, if you do it right, you can evoke that same energy without sacrificing comfort!
A good place to start is with angular, geometric patterning. Instead of using your furniture and decor to suggest rounded, soft shapes and lines, you could experiment with complex or sharper patterns. For example, you could incorporate a glass coffee table with square corners, use patterned wallpaper instead of matte paint, or center the room around a patterned rug like the Diamond Wool Sisal Rug or Key Wool Sisal Rug.
Geometric patterns go great with modern furniture and cool or neutral colors like blues and greys. Start by just adding a few geometric patterns into your existing space - you’ll be surprised how quickly they change the vibe.
Embrace the rustic
Giving your living room a rougher, more rustic aesthetic is a classic way to make it feel masculine and homey, and it can be surprisingly easy to pull off. Try incorporating hardwood in coordinated finishes (either light or dark) and then complementing those finishes with patterned furniture and decor.
For example, using flannel patterning on curtains or pillows is a great way to establish the cozy cabin vibe you’re going for. From there, either paint your walls a complementary darker matte color like maroon, sage, or even light charcoal grey, or try a patterned wallpaper.
For your floor, either placing a large central rug like a Tattersdale Wool Rug or layering several different rugs like Mahal Jute rugs would suit the style perfectly. You could even add a runner rug to give the room a sense of width and openness. Coordinate the colors and patterns you choose with your lighting, and you’ll have a cozy, rustic living room you’ll feel right at home in.
Reconnect with nature
One of the biggest design trends of the past few years is “biophilia.” The idea of biophilia design is to evoke the natural world as much as possible within indoor spaces through interior design. Following biophilic design principles in your living room is a great way to assemble a space that feels masculine, welcoming, and refreshing all at once.
Naturally, most biophilic spaces start with plants. Look for unique and exciting potted plants to place around your room. You can also coordinate the size, shape, and patterns of the pots you place them in to further evoke nature.
Even if you’re not interested in caring for plants, there are still ways to incorporate biophilia into your living room. For example, basketweave patterns and natural fiber rugs are both great ways to give your living room that natural, light feeling.
Rugs like the Maya Sisal Rug, the Seagrass Area rug, or the Hemp Grass rug are each perfect for biophilic living rooms because they’re made of natural fibers, they have intricate, handwoven patterning, and they’re easy to coordinate with other natural colors.
Delve into dark colors
It makes sense why so much living room decor tends toward the bright and neutral: that style of room catches and enhances light, making the space feel more open.
But that doesn’t mean light and bright needs to be what your living room is all about. In fact, if you’re willing to explore darker, richer themes, you can create a highly masculine, highly comfortable living space that could suit your home perfectly. And with the right balance of color, texture, and lighting, you won’t have to sacrifice the illusion of space.
A good place to start is with featured furniture pieces, because you can base the rest of your room around this color palette. Consider a deep mahogany leather couch or plush black armchairs, then place rugs like the Cora Wool Jute Blend rug in strategic locations to delineate your space. From there, experiment with darker rug colors or even wall hangings to take the depth and lushness of the room to the next level.
Hopefully these masculine interior design living room concepts have given you an idea of how to start your own living room project. Whatever direction you end up taking, Sisal Rugs Direct would love to help.
As you begin thinking through your design ideas, try using our custom rug menu to design a rug that’s perfect for your living room. This process might even help you come up with your next great idea! And when you’re ready to commit, you can make your dream rug a reality in just a few more clicks. Good luck, and enjoy your new living room!
