40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature

A light-filled living room is a joy to spend time in as a family and with friends. Add a powerful connection to the outdoors and it’s a place that you may never want to leave. These 40 light-filled living room designs demonstrate how to style bright and airy spaces to be homely and welcoming. This collection also delivers inspiration on how best to arrange fenestration and courtyards to make the most of natural light and landscaping. With a backdrop of natural greenery, it’s helpful to see the effects that the panorama has on the interior palette and how silhouettes can be either emboldened or lost against the lush vista.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Blanca Lleó  

A U-shaped courtyard causes this light-filled living room to be wrapped by nature on three full sides. Black window frames strongly segment the green panorama, making a gallery of vertical vistas.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: FGMF Arquitetos  

Floor-to-ceiling windows completely melt away the boundary between the living room and garden. Here, a stark black fireplace descends from the ceiling line to create a striking silhouette against the lush green backdrop, A thin, metal-framed console unit lightly underlines the starring view.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe  
Photographer: Mike Schwartz  

In this example of minimalist living from the iconic Farnsworth house, furniture is placed sparsely to allow the green landscape to rule the scene.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Studio Periphery  

Facing glass walls envelop a living room with evenly mesmerising views. These walls can be opened up with bifold or sliding glass doors to create a blissful through-breeze in hot climates.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Source: Lawson-Fenning  

With Mother Nature tapping at the window, it’s only polite to invite her indoors. Include a mature indoor plant within the living room to create a tangible connection with the garden.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Source: GAN  

Use natural materials to complement a tree-lined panorama. Think natural timber furniture, rugged stone feature walls, or jute rugs.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: 卖画为生  

Place a round coffee table at the heart of your living room for all other items to orbit. The eye will move outward from the focal piece, layer by layer, falling first upon the surrounding furniture and finally settling on the view.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Denis Chigidin  

An influx of natural sunlight will cause attractive light play upon deep ceiling beams and slatted ceiling treatments.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Lucas Aguilera  

Extend windows all the way to the top of a double height living room to take advantage of every possible drop of incoming light. Whether you’ll close them or not, sheer drapes will lightly frame the view and create visual drama.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: VizLine Studio  

Edge-to-edge bliss. This almost frameless window design effectively breaks open the side of the building to achieve an uninterrupted panorama.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Architect: Mitsuori Architects  

Seamless ceilings. This wood-clad ceiling treatment expands onto an overhang outside of the patio doors to achieve one streamlined aesthetic.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Mud Canopy  

Even corridor courtyards make a stunning change to the feeling of openness and nature connectivity.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Architect: ONG&ONG  

Fashion your own waterfront. If you don’t live by a lake or the coast, you can still have a waterfront home with the addition of a pool that runs right by the living room window.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Hygge Supply  

Ensure furniture doesn’t obstruct the view by choosing low-slung sofas or placing ottoman modules where the glass meets the floor.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Rodolfo Dias  

Wood cladding grounds this window-flanked living room. A unique floor lamp places a striking silhouette against the soothing wood tone background.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Architect: Specht Architects  

Echo the march of the trees outside with vertically slatted or fluted wall treatments, like this eye-catching fireplace design.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Wojciech Stróż  

Encase a tree in a cubed courtyard to create a spectacular room divider.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Fat Tony Studio  

Fully retractable doors make a literal connection with the great outdoors.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Metod Kulčar  

In this large wabi sabi interior, light falls only upon key pieces in the living room to create a moody aesthetic. The beautiful imperfections of the lounge furniture make an ideal companion for a wild forest behind.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Hueb Ferreira architecture  

Allow your living room to flow effortlessly into outdoor living spaces by blurring where the boundaries lie.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Studio Arthur Casas  

Let nature inspire the colour palette of your living room furniture, like this elegant moss green and earthy brown arrangement.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Nour Sabry  

A pebble bed marks the centre of this unique, nature-kissed living room, whilst tree beds are interspersed between modern lounge furniture.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Valentinstudio 3D  

Elegant archways softly embrace snapshots of a divine landscape. See more inspiration for arches in interiors.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Academy M6  

Where garden views wrap only two or three sides of the living room, install an interior courtyard to round out the natural aesthetic.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Leo Romano  
Visualizer: Thais Dias  

Light living room furniture makes no distraction from the outer views, a courtyard, or a colourful piece of wall art.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: DoPixel AoFrame  

With living room furniture kept neutral, there is wiggle room for a more eye-catching living room rug.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Architect: Lorenzo Botero Arquitectos  

A dipped living room or conversation pit allows garden plant beds to be enjoyed at eye level.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Studio Arthur Casas  

Traditional armchairs make a playful juxtaposition against a wild backdrop.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Woods + Dangaran  

A wooden media wall warmly connects two facing views of the outer environment.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Zürcher Arquitectos & Taller KEN  

A thriving banana plant makes a perfect companion for a high-ceilinged, nature-blessed living room.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Architect: Jacobsen Arquitetura  

Accessorise with nature-inspired furniture pieces, like this beautiful timber-framed chair with ottoman and rustic bench design.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Ticiane Lima Arquitetura & Interiors  

Combine the art of nature with the art of man by hanging artwork within a courtyard view.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Designer: Alexander Gorlin Architects  

A heavenly exterior view is right at home with an ethereal white interior.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Mud Canopy  

A pergola-style ceiling creates an indoor-outdoor feel.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Architect: Collage Architecture Studio  

It’s hard to see where the interior planter ends and the outdoors start in this luxurious light-filled living room.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: 4 Pixos  

An outer deck will extend the living area when bifold doors are drawn back.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Myles Montgomery  

A partial room divider separates a living space into different pockets of function without fully severing the view.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: The Craft  

Hang a swing chair in the breeze.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Felipe Hess Arquitetos  

A mezzanine level further exaggerates a feeling of openness and airiness.

40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature
Visualizer: Kaer Architects  

Introduce botanical patterns to honour the outdoors.

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