Cozy Living Room Lighting Ideas for a Room You'd Sit In for Four Hours
Deep sofa, three lamps minimum, a rug big enough for all the front legs. The lamps do most of the work in a room meant for a long Sunday.

Deep sofa, three lamps minimum, a rug big enough for all the front legs. The lamps do most of the work in a room meant for a long Sunday.

A tray on the bed, a mug, a book, and the window cracked open. Cozy fall bedding in one frame. The bedding is the backdrop: oatmeal, tobacco, cream.

Cozy autumn bedroom decor isn't pumpkins everywhere. Change the bedding to brown, light one candle, open the window a crack. That's fall.

Brown is showing up in kitchens the way it showed up in bedrooms two years ago. These cabinets are painted, not stained, so the color stays even and matte.

A fireplace that doesn't work is still the best spot in the room. Fill the firebox with pillar candles, pile dried branches above, lean an old mirror. It looks lit even though it can't be.

Wood paneling, a wool plaid blanket, a lamp with a pleated shade. The cabin version of a fall bedroom, and nothing in it you'd need to put away.

Fall bedroom decor that's just color. Burgundy and rust bedding, a branch of dried oak leaves, and a lamp on instead of the ceiling light.

A burgundy bedroom goes wrong the moment velvet arrives. Matte walls, cotton bedding and oak, and the red reads as warm instead of theatrical.

One glamour move. Just one. A burgundy and cream damask on the headboard wall, everything else plain cream. The paper can be grand because nothing competes.

Not ready for a whole burgundy room? One wall. The one behind the bed. A quart of paint and an afternoon is the cheapest test there is.