10 Music Room Ideas Perfect for Channeling Your Inner Artist

Combine Music and Wine

Wine, piano, and socializing—this room has it all. Just imagine the happy hours spent in this enviable space designed by Thomas Guy Interiors. It’s part cellar and part music room, with a gorgeous piano that matches the wood of the wine storage. It’s extravagant, that’s for sure, but something to aspire to if you equally love Bach and a bottle of Burgundy.

Get Funky With It

Don’t think one traditional element, like an elegant baby grand piano, means you have to dress the rest of your living room-turned-music room into a stuffy space. Quite the contrary, as evidenced by this room by Mary Patton Design.

Funky furniture, in various patterns, colors, and textures, add a wink of cheekiness to this room. Whether you’re hosting a dinner party or simply a weekly piano lesson, it’s a vibrant, energizing space to encourage music making. 

Set Up an At-Home Studio

If your love of music goes beyond a casual strum of a guitar or tune on the piano, consider a recording studio-like setup. Take inspiration from this one from Nash Design Group. The key elements to making this room work: an organized desk, plenty of storage, a rich (but not distracting) wall color, and a window seat for guests to take a seat and listen to what you've been working on.

Get Serious About Vinyl Storage

If your record collection deserves its own room, take a look at this nearly wall-to-wall storage unit. The cubbies perfectly fit hundreds of records, which you can organize in sections alphabetically or by genre. By arranging a few records outwards, it creates an art-like moment in a design-forward space you'll want to spend hours (and hours) in.

Frame Your Favorite Albums

For maximum inspiration, keep your favorite musicians’ work close at heart—and within eyeshot too. That’s what this music room and cozy family room combination does. Ashley Canty of Interior Solutions Designs framed a dozen album covers in neat rows of frames. If that's not inspiration enough to grab one of those guitars off the wall, we don't know what is.

Create a Professional Space

Not sure what to do with the space off your entryway? Consider it an ideal music room—a home office of sorts for piano or guitar teachers. This way your students aren’t traipsing through your entire house and you’ll have a dedicated place to practice yourself. In this music room, Momo Wong Design paired an elegant space—with dark paint and plenty of books—with an entryway full of personality.

Coordinate Your Furniture With Your Instruments

Part family room, part music room, and entirely welcoming—that's the feel in this space.

"I love incorporating a client's musical interests into an interior design motif because musical instruments can so often be a design element unto themselves," says interior designer Kathy Kuo, "They add so much personality and heart to a room."

Make Use of Wall Space

Floor space is premium real estate. So, depending on the types of instruments in your music room, consider hanging what you can on the walls. When hung safely, you not only gain back precious floor space, but you ensure your instruments—like a guitar collection—won’t be tripped over or knocked over by overzealous pets.

They make for great makeshift art too. The rest of this music room designed by 22 Interiors provides plenty of spots to sit and jam, with energizing jolts of color in an otherwise zen room.

Add an Unexpected Color

Two words: pink piano. This music nook, a spacious spot adjacent to a living room, suddenly has us insisting on owning a bubblegum-hued piano. The whole design by Burchard Design Co is both pretty and practical, as it’s centrally located for singalong dinner parties yet off to the side as to not distract from the main living space.

Dedicate a Nook to a Record Player

Perhaps you can’t dedicate an entire room to music, and that’s okay. Any living space would benefit from a nook that you can spin records on. This one from The+Record Player is a sleek, goes-with-everything design that would instantly elevate any living room.