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Date nights can be a super fun way to spice up your love life. Here are 10 living room designs that personify the romantic in you!
Living rooms have time and again been a hot topic for homeowners that love to spend time indoors, even more so with how the world around us has changed post-pandemic. A number of individuals, young couples and newlyweds find solace and comfort behind the four walls of their homes. And why not, home is the perfect place to begin a sizzling date night and spend some quality time with your loved one.
Right from having a fun music night or a cosy reading time to extravagant movie marathons and a lovely cooking experience, there’s a tad bit of romance in every moment you share with your partner. So, we have curated 10 stunning living room designs that embrace the concept of date nights for you and your loved one.
TV Unit Design For A Comfortable Living Room
As couples that are on the get-go, multi-functional living rooms are here to stay. Such living rooms make up for all the lost time that you could spend with your loved ones. Ever thought how a lovely sleeper sofa would upgrade your living experience? Living rooms that come with additional space can certainly play with the privilege of open space.
For instance, a sleeper sofa can be perfect for movie nights and camping in your living room, whilst the accent chairs, as seen in the image, are a cute choice for gossip sessions over tea time. And not just that, if you have a busy work schedule, the work unit that extends beside the TV unit can simply help you two spend some time working together without being apart.
A Modern Living Room With Bar Unit
If you loved that multi-functional living room, then you’d definitely love to add a mini bar to the space. Making your evenings extra cosy with a hint of wine is always the perfect choice after a long tiring day at work. Ask your partner “in” on a date with this living room bar. A charcuterie board, your favourite food accompaniments and a vino-de-botella can simply carry the essence for a lazy yet romantic night with your partner.
We love how this living room effortlessly blends in with the mini bar and its open kitchen layout. And what’s so cool about this room is that you need no partitions or sectional walls, the L-sectional sofa simply strikes the right chords to create a balanced space for years to come.
Enjoy The View From Your Cosy Balcony
While multi-functional spaces and wine bars are all cool, we love a warm balcony space that holds the entire living experience together. If you have a balcony, make the most of it by curating a lovely evening of snacks, some candles and a bit of tittle-tattle.
We recommend adding some cosiness with gleaming fairy lights and ambient soft lights on the balcony walls and railings. Bring in two comfortable chairs and a coffee table for the two of you and create a Parisian dream whilst sipping on a glass of rosé.
A Cosy Dining Area For Intimate Dinners
Now that we are done with the outdoors, let’s head to where all the love begins — the kitchen. The most traditional and classic date move has always been a candlelight dinner and what’s better than having one curated in the comfort of your home? Add a touch of soft ambient lighting with chandelier pendant lights to your kitchen’s dining space. You can also go the extra mile with some flowers and pillar candles on the dinner table.
Ladder back wooden chairs with the dining table and backlit open shelves in this kitchen (as shown in the image) is a match made in heaven, just like the two of you. These images are your home for the finest inspirations for designing a date night you’d cherish always.
A Sleeper Sofa And Projector For Movie Dates
The perfect date night does exist and it’s to do with some exciting additions to your living space. You can upgrade your date by a notch with a stunning 108’ projector for the at-home theatre experience your partner has always dreamed of. Order some popcorn, ice creams, and chilled beverages and you are sorted for the rest of the night.
As seen in the image, this living room showcases a lovely terracotta pink sleeper sofa overlooking the projector and some cosy ambient lighting and candles to set the mood for the night, making your movie and TV show marathon dates out-of-the-world and adored by your loved one, time and again.
Reading Corner In Your Living Room For A Bookish Date
By now you’ve taken your better half on several beautiful dates starting from a multi-functional space to a living room with a projector for movie nights. Now it’s on to rejoicing over stories that you read out loud together or simply enjoying your favourite books, while your partner reads theirs.
A bookish date is a dream for any bibliophile out there, and if your partner loves to spend a good amount of time reading their favourite books, then dedicating a reading area in the living room is a great place to start with. You can have a mini bookshelf, like the one seen in the image, or go all out and build your partner a floor-to-ceiling library of their dream, we leave that up to you, wink.
A Creative Crafty Date In Your Living Room With Desk
We see you have an eye for creativity, no wonder you’re checking out this blog on date nights that you can manage at home. And this one’s just the right amount of creativity with a surplus of fun. Creative desks and DIY projects are a pass time we all adore. With that being said, how about spending an evening designing some creative DIY home decor ideas for your home or simply making silly and cute art and crafts together?
This multi-functional wall-mounted desk is perfect for a compact living room that needs some extra legroom time and again. What’s so cool about it is that you can use it for just about any kind of date, from eating meals or drinking your favourite tea/coffee together to creating silly crafts and DIYs for your home — there’s so much you can do together.
An Indoor Game Night With A Gaming Space Or Coffee Table
When you are spending so many hours together, it’s likely that you need to get creative with your date ideas. One such way to spice up your love life is by coming up with activities and games that you can play with your partner at home.
Here’s a glimpse of how you can make the most of your living room for game nights. A fun Scrabble game night can be both entertaining and exciting as a date idea. You don’t truly need to design your home in a specific way to introduce a gaming area. However, that’s always a matter of choice. For instance, you can try bringing in a game of foosball or air hockey or you can keep it location-independent with card and board games as well.
A Living Room With Open Kitchen For A Cook-At-Home Date
When all fails, you can always head back to the kitchen. Wait, wait, we know you took your partner to the kitchen for a candlelight dinner, but there’s more than a candlelight dinner that you can plan in an open kitchen design with a living room.
We are talking about an elaborate baking or cooking date with your loved one. Bring in the essentials, a hint of ambient cosy lights, background music and all your favourite recipes together right at the kitchen counter (as seen in the image) with your partner as you plan a lovely cook-at-home date with them.
An Open Layout Living Room For A Musical Dance Date
On a few occasions, you can definitely let your guard down and be in your element with your partner. Try out some dance moves together, record a few dance reels and just goof around with each other. While any room with ample space works, a living room with a good music system simply wins the game.
For instance, this living room has an open minimalist layout (as seen in the image), allowing you to have enough space to dance the night away with your partner and jazz up your evenings in a rhythmic musical way. If you are tied for an open space in your living room, the best way to make do with it is by shifting your furnishings to the side and then the floor is all yours.
And with that, we come to an end to our date — but wait, we’d love to catch up with you again for a lovely coffee, schedule your next date with us to design the home of your dreams by visiting your nearest DesignCafe Experience Centre.
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