Hi moc, I went to the website to look at that. To me the price wouldn't be bad if it were comfortable. I'll have to check out some reviews. I bought a daybed frame off of CL which is really cute, its an iron daybed, but it is still in storage and I need to get a mattress for it, but I would be willing to re-think my choice - the daybed only cost me $50.00 so I could probably resell or give it to one of my kids. The thing is, I have a spare bedroom for the grandkids but they don't usually sleep overnight because most of the time I have to work the next day. But that ottoman would be a good option because I would actually like to use that space for dual purposes - a small office for me, and a toy storage and play room for the kiddies. Next week I am having my whole house - attic, walls and crawl space insulated. That will really add to the comfort level. My goal is get my space as comfortable as I can - and to take care of all maintenance issues as priority. My next project for spring will to be grading around the foundation and directing any water off the foundation. Fun huh. This is one of those items I am going to keep in the back of my mind. I also considered just one of those blow up mattress's - a decent one - that inflates and deflates fast. But I have never slept on one so don't know how comfortable they are. Doesn't sound like I want guests to linger too long hah! Thanks for the ideas, I appreciate them!

I don't think I'm conflicting? I do want to add sources of light, I just don't want to waste electricity for the hell of it - I'm a housewife and it's just me most days, so to go from trying to save energy (and my electric bill) to adding in all sorts of lighting and keeping them on all day would be a big change for me b/c I'm used to using the natural light I have during the day - which in MOST rooms is enough, it's the lack of windows/outside views that bothers me most and that feeling of being closed in because of the lack of windows visually. But I DO want to add in some other types of lighting - I said I would be shopping for lamps :) I thought it was a good suggestion and lamps can also serve as accessories. Right now I have a very large mirror above my dining room table reflecting the light from my patios doors. I also have a mirror above my chair and a half upstairs reflecting the light from a window. I also have a mirror in my bedroom. I'm not sure how many mirrors is too many in a home? Also I didn't say that I don't want to add in lighter things - I'm just not going to re-paint or buy new furniture when I just painted and bought my furniture less than a year ago. My foyer, loft/family room and office are painted BM Manchester Tan and I don't think that color is too dark. The darkest color in my home is my living room which is Nantucket Gray - but I think it's cozy. And now that I think of it my master bedroom furniture is white. So I DO have a mix of dark and light colored things in my home. I just tend to lean toward dark when it comes to certain things - light fixtures, door knobs, counters for example. I think maybe I am using the wrong words or maybe I am just being confusing (I can easily be confusing! LOL) My house isn't super dark during the day - but I don't have a lot of windows and to me, just visually, the lack of windows and lots of wall make the house feel closed in. So I am trying to see what tricks there are to make it feel less closed in. I use the word bright but maybe I don't mean bright? Maybe it's just townhouse living and I need to get over it? LOL Skylights are a good suggestion - I have one in my master bath and it lets in a TON of light. Maybe that is something to think about for the second floor and for the upstairs bathroom. Sorry about the confusion I am causing. I think I have managed to confuse myself now!

I think the dining room rug is a little dark but I would make your other changes before replacing it - maybe it'll look okay once you've done everything else. You could also try removing it for a while and see if you like the area lightened up. If you do, you could look for a lighter rug or just leave it out. And I would also center it under the table if you can. I hate to say it but I think the new curtains might be a tiny bit too short but I am no curtain expert and don't have any in my house. I think I like the Accessible Beige or Agreeable Grey mentioned above better than Maison Blanche or Antique White, but that boils down to personal preference. I just sampled Antique White in my own house and it looks more tan/yellow than I prefer and reminds me a little of your current wall color.

Hi Eve- I love, love your room! It has such vintage character with the ceiling tiles and the picture rail and that lovely sage green color. I would leave them all. I am wondering if you have enough light in there to read and write in the evening, if the size of the chandelier is large enough for the size of the room. Guidelines are that the diameter should be in inches the sum of the length plus width in feet of the room dimensions. For example, if the room is 10' x 15', the chandelier should be 25" in diameter. The chandelier's height would be the arithmetic product of your ceiling height x 2.5 - 3. An eight foot ceiling height would have a chandelier height of 20-24." If the room is less than 10 feet high, the chandelier should be less than 27' tall. The chandelier should be hung a good 6.5 feet from the floor. If you have rather tall people in your family or 10 feet ceilings, hang it at 7 feet from the floor.Depending on the size of the room, it might need 200-400 watts. Especially if you'd rather not have to have a lot of of supplementary task lighting. I am wondering how much light that rattan-type pendant would afford you. I think the room will feel more spacious if there is more of an organizational system for your books and papers. That will leaving more visual space between your possessions and giving an overall more restful feel to the room and ultimately to you, which will leave more space and energy for inspiration. You haven't shown us the entire room and what else is in the room. Depending on the space in the rest of the room, you may be able to move your reading chair so it is not squished into the corner in the path of the doorway. You might want to move your desk. Is your desk large enough? Do you have or need a return for a printer, the hard drive, the scanner, etc? Where do you keep your office supplies? Do you have a filing system for bills, manuscripts, other projects? Do you use all those books and do you plan to keep them or do you think you could purge some? If you need to keep them, what about a book shelf system with adjustable height shelves? Rather than painting an entire wall with chalkboard paint, which will leave you with a wall full of disorganized notes similar to notes stuck to magnets on a refrigerator, here's an idea. You can easily mount a piece a pegboard to the wall over the desk. Then you can get several clipboards and paint them different colors (or get different color contact paper at the dollar store) and hang them from the pegboard. Or, you can just use a bulldog clip instead of a clipboard for a smaller piece of paper. Using diffeent type of suspensory hardware you can hang all sorts of things, or you can use cans. There are so many ideas on the web. You can get a dry erase board with marker for a dollar at the dollar store. You might be able to use a 3' x 5' rug as a wall hanging, and a larger rug as a floor covering, as long as it doesn't interfere with your desk chair. Please tack it down in some way so you don't trip on it. There is rug layering, look here, https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/how-to-decorate-with-layered-rugs-and-carpets/all I love your plants in the room. The picture rail makes it easy for you to hang plants, doesn't it? Why not see if you can get cuttings from easy to propagate and grow hanging indoor plants like swedish ivy, or trailing, mounding coleus.