Posts Tagged ‘living room makeover’
Feathering Your Nest: Do Your Walls Make You Happy?
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Well, do they? I think the things you hang on your wall should make you happy. They should reflect your interests and your tastes. They should put a smile on your face when you walk in the room. |
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Seasonal Styling: Warm Up Your Living Room for Fall
| I admit it. I know the trees look pretty, but I hate this time of year. Shorter, darker days. Dropping temperatures. Heavy, itchy clothes. Summer’s more my thing. What I do like is warming up rooms for fall. Adding color, laying in some pattern, and layering texture can really add warmth as the temperature drops. Today I’m sharing a recent room redo using only the client’s own belongings to turn up the heat in a cold living room. |
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Feathering Your Nest: A Living Room Update
Today I thought I would share some Before and After pictures of a recent living room update. Actually, it’s a living room/dining room combination. My client wanted an update and wasn’t sure where to start. She had nice furniture in neutral colors, so I suggested we change the wall color, rearrange furniture, and add interest with lighting and accessories.
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Here’s the Before from one end of the room: |
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Feathering Your Nest: Creating a Library
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I’m always encouraging clients to make their rooms more functional, more beautiful, and more “them.” This is a great example of taking an underused room and making it highly useful and true to the homeowner’s interests. These homeowners are true bibliophiles (that means they’re readers  ). But all their books and bookcases were stuffed into a guest bedroom. It made perfect sense to bring the books into the place they actually lived – or should I say, now actually live. This room had little function for them before, except to hold hand-me-down furniture that didn’t reflect their own tastes. |
