Some look edgy and modern, while others seem coordinated and traditional. Whatever your design style, the family room is a place to gather together with those you love. Get more ideas and tour a designer's colorful family room.

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The earthy tone of the kitchen is continued through the breakfast room into the family room — uniting them as one large space," designer Barbara Barry says of this space in Corona del Mar, California, house. "It's more embracing, and you just don't want to leave. This core of the house works like a shadow box that opens onto a vast horizontal green garden." An enormous custom leather ottoman doubles as seating or a table for informal meals.

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In a Los Angeles, California, house decorated by Schuyler Samperton, the family room's sofas and a wing chair, all from Rooms & Gardens, are upholstered in Jasper's Melaya and Kathryn M. Ireland's Woven, respectively. Ballard Designs ottoman in a Bolivian textile from L'Aviva Home. Bookcase, HD Buttercup.

Palm Beach Style

Mac Fabrics' Hip print on the family room sofas "hides a multitude of sins," Liza Pulitzer Calhoun says of her Palm Beach house. The coffee table is vintage, and the lamps are repurposed baskets.