Help Finish Office/Dining Room
Hi - I could use some help finishing my space. It is an office and reading area and once a year we will use it as a dining room. The desk coverts into a table and we store extra chairs and leaves downstairs. We will move the chair and ottoman into another room when we use it as a dining room. I am in need of ideas for drapes, a chandelier, wall art, lamp, end table, and any other advice you may have. The picture above the buffet will be changed to a giclee print and non-glare glass. Do you think the current desk chair would work if I updated the seat cushion? I love botanical prints (leaves, birds) but what color frames? Or maybe a wall gallery with simple frames from crate and barrel? Thank you!
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kellyp123
9 years agoView of reading chair and adjoining foyer. I am not in love with the foyer light fixture but it may stay for a while.
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9 years agoPicture we would like to use. We will hang it up on wall. What do you think? We will be updating print to giclee and maybe change matting to a white instead of linen and take out the blue and gold matts.
ttodd
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9 years agoI love the blue and the mustard/browns in the chair.
I think the white wood trim clashes, so I'd paint them and the ceiling, i.e.: get rid of white in that room. I'd paint the trim a mustard like in the chair and the ceiling either the blue at 50% or the mustard at 50%.
Personally, I'd also add crown moulding (painted the mustard).
Some weighted ivory panels on the window.
ix-nay the oob-light-bay. Put in something like this:
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kellyp123
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9 years agokelly, very odd. I cannot find that chandy now! It's not on the page where I found it!
I'll keep looking, but I'm stumped.
There's also something like this:
Here is a link that might be useful: Mini chandy
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