Peer Review: Inspiration for Styling a Living Room

We're coming to the end of Week 3 of Summer School: Home Styling 101! Today I want to share some living room interiors that have stopped my scroll with their use of color, texture, and styling.

This is somewhat beyond the realm of what conventionally falls under styling, but something I've been really looking for when I save other people's living rooms right now is ceilings! Living room ceilings are usually not accentuated too much because we want the room to feel expansive, like there's no top on it.

We have a vaulted living room ceiling now, which we didn't always have, and I'm just not really sure what to do with it. I painted my ceiling and walls all the same color to color drench it, but now I'm wondering what else I might do? Skylights, beams (are people still doing beams?), millwork — show me all of it!

Here are some of the moody, modern, and traditional rooms that have caught my eye on Instagram lately: