Purple Living Rooms Decorating Ideas

Best Purple Rooms

Douglas Friedman

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Pink and Purple Harmony

In Alina Cho's Central Park South apartment, a living room is powerfully feminine and flooded with light. A tufted purple bench pairs with millennial pink walls; zebra patterned chairs tie together the glamorous space.

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Ricardo Labougle

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Moody Purple Dining

In a Spanish-inspired London townhouse, the dining room's Victorian table sits atop a custom Patricia Sanchiz rug. The antique space's moody green walls are offset by the two-toned, rich purple rug and watery blue curtains.

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Simon Upton

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A Deep, Cool Purple Den

In decorator Alisa Bloom's sultry 1920s penthouse, a color punched style comes to life in the den. The vintage Edward Wormley sofa is in a Scalamandré velvet, and the rug is by the Rug Company.

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William Waldron

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Complementary Shades

In cosmetics star Jeanine Lobell and actor Anthony Edwards' eclectic family home, the master bedroom is invigorated through a thoughtful use of purples. A deep-toned custom bed, sheer pink-purple curtains, and walls painted in Grappa come together in harmony.

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Richard Powers

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Texture Play

In an eggplant purple dining room, J. Robert Scott chairs are upholstered in a Fortuny cotton, the walls are covered in a JAB wool and Houlès nailheads, and the curtains are of a Donghia cotton.

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Simon Upton

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Mediterranean Influence

The guest bedroom of an eclectic Adriatic home features a punchy purple accent wall, which backs a woven screen from Burundi that serves as the headboard. The bedcover is of West African kente cloth, and the floor mat is Indonesian.

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Richard Powers

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Dramatic Purple Couch

In designer Alex Papachristidis' bold NYC apartment, a seating area feels royal thanks to antique chairs and a decadent velvet couch, all of which are backed by a graphic vintage wallpaper.

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Mikkel Vang

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Mikkel Vang

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Francesco Lagnese

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Soft Purple Walls

In the master bedroom of Vanity Fair style chronicler and social fixture Amy Fine Collins, the soft purple walls in the master bedroom serve as a sweet backdrop for drawings by Tony Viramontes. The circa-1915 bed is dressed in linens designed by Robert Hoven, who also created the wall treatment. The swing-arm lamps by Hinson sport custom-made shades.

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William Waldron

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Simon Upton

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Muted Purple Veranda

In their Jaipur, India apartment, fashion designer Liza Bruce and her husband Nicholas Alvis Gega appointed a vibrant shade of purple to the veranda walls. The carved-wood table and bench blend with white-painted polyhedrons and mercury-glass balls.

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Dominique Vorillon

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Roger Davies

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Purple Covered Living Room

In model Jessica Stam's New York apartment, the living room is characterized by purple walls, purple drapes and a purple custom-made rug by Stark. Armchairs upholstered in a Donghia cotton are circa the 1950s, as is the floor lamp, and the vintage sofa was found on eBay.

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Björn Wallander

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Feminine Purple Master

In a Manhattan townhouse, the master bedroom's purple custom-color wallpaper is by Gracie. The cast-metal bed is also a custom design, the headboard and bed skirt are of a fabric by Lelievre and the canopy curtains are of a silk by Dedar that was embroidered by Penn & Fletcher and lined with a fabric by Stark.

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Mikkel Vang

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Earthy Purple Accent

In the living room of an 1870s carriage house in Bedford, New York, the purple dhurrie is 19th century. The custom sofa is covered in a Kravet cotton and the cocktail table is by Martin Szekely. The Egyptian light fixture is from Liza Sherman.

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Richard Powers

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Glossy Purple Floors

The living room of this São Paulo house showcases tones of purple throughout. The built-in concrete banquette is fitted with velvet cushions and the rug is Chinese. Concrete tiles colored with iron oxide line the floor.

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Simon Upton

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Purple Minimalism

In a Mexico City home that blends minimalism with folk art tradition, the living room purple chairs, cocktail table and purple sofa are all by Casamidy. The artwork over the sofa is a reproduction of a 1936 telegram from R. Buckminster Fuller to Isamu Noguchi explaining Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, and is by Jose Dávila. The 19th-century mirror is Mexican.

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Simon Upton

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Simon Upton

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Victorian-Inspired Purples

In this English manor house, the library sofas are by George Smith, and the armchairs, which are reproductions of Victorian originals from Somerleyton, are upholstered in fabric by Bernard Thorp; the mahogany Pembroke side table dates to 1790, the Axminster rug is a copy of a 17th-century design, the 1920s oak bookcases are by Wilcox of Warwick, and the walls are painted in Teal by Paint & Paper Library.

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Jean-Francois Jassaud

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Subdued Grayish Purples

Christian Astuguevieille designed the Afribaton chair, marble-topped table, hemp pedestal, Mira mirror, and sconce prototypes in the meeting room of his French duplex; the crystal chandelier is from the early 20th century, and three of his 1992 glass sculptures in ultramarine blue fabric and bulrushes sit atop the 19th-century marble fireplace.

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Eric Piasecki

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Eric Piasecki

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William Waldron

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Joshua McHugh

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Rosy Purple Walls

In the master bedroom of an Upper West Side apartment, a Hästens bed is dressed in linens by Sferra and Olatz, the circa-1970 side tables are by Milo Baughman, and the lamp is by Taylor; the walls are painted in Farrow & Ball's Cinder Rose, and the photographs are by Marsha Lebedev Bernstein.