40 Light Filled Living Rooms Connected With Nature

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

Floor-to-ceiling windows completely blend the boundary between the living room and garden. Here, an extreme black fireplace descends from the ceiling line to create a striking silhouette against the lush green background, A thin, metal-framed console unit lightly underscores the protagonist’s view.

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

Opposite glass walls surround a living room with equally fascinating views. These walls can be opened by double or sliding glass doors to create a blissful breeze in warm climates.

With Mother Nature knocking at the window, it’s only polite to invite her indoors. Insert a mature indoor plant in the living room to create a tangible relationship with the garden.

Use natural materials to complete a tree-lined panorama. Think natural wood furniture, rough stone main walls or jute rugs.

Place a round coffee table at the heart of your living room so that all other things orbit. The eye will move out of the focal piece, layer after layer, falling first on the surrounding furniture and finally settling on the sight.

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

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

Edge to edge happiness. This almost frameless window design effectively opens up the side of the building to achieve an uninterrupted panorama.

Seamless ceilings. This wood-paneled ceiling treatment expands on an overhang outside the patio doors to achieve a single streamlined aesthetic.

Even corridor patios make a wonderful change to the feeling of openness and nature connectivity.

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

Make sure furniture does not obstruct the view by choosing low sofas or placing ottoman modules where the glass meets the floor.

Wooden upholstery bases this window-sided living room. A unique floor lamp puts a striking silhouette against the soothing woody background.

Echo the march of the trees outside with vertically latticed or fluted wall treatments, like this striking fireplace.

Hide a tree in a cubic yard to create a spectacular room divider.

Fully retractable doors make a literal connection with the large exterior.

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

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

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

A pebble bed marks the center of this unique, naturally kissed living room, while tree beds are interspersed among modern living room furniture.

Elegant arched gates gently embrace snapshots of a divine landscape. See more inspiration for arches in interiors.

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

Lightweight living room furniture does not distract from the exterior views, patio or colorful artwork.

A soaking living room or chat room allows you to enjoy garden plant beds at eye level.

Traditional armchairs make a playful juxtaposition against a wild background.

A wooden media wall warmly connects two frontal views of the outside environment.

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

Accessorize nature-inspired furniture, such as this beautiful wooden frame chair with an Ottoman and rustic bench design.

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

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

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

It’s hard to see where the inner planter ends and the exterior begins in this luxurious light-filled living room.

An exterior deck will extend the housing when double doors are pulled back.

A partial room divider divides living space into different pockets of function without completely cutting off the view.

Hang a rocking chair in the wind.

Mezzanine level further exaggerates a sense of openness and airiness.

Introduce botanical patterns to honor the outside.