Agree.

My go-to holiday colors are various greens and silver with white accents, so I like it-minus the rug (agree on that).

Agree with you in the rug. And the lamp shades kinda hurt my eyes.

My son works where the Thames makes a horseshoe :) At least, I think that's a map of London. We're going back in the spring.

Oh, and that rug reminds me of towels.

OMG how lovely is that! (Minus rug b/c I think rug in eating areas are too labor intensive to keep clean.) Purple not my color but love it as an unexpected element in this room.

I really really like this. I would change the rug because it looks crumpled and generally unattractive/distracting, and too hard to keep un-crumpled. (But I would keep a rug -- chairs moving in and out from the table DO scratch wood, and it is cheaper to replace a rug than the flooring itself...)

PS: I'd hang the side artwork (around that central piece) to start higher -- in line with the top of the central piece, and then down.

But then again, I am tall and hate looking "down" (metaphorically or otherwise) on artwork.

I seem to be the exception that I'm okay with the rug. I did think as I looked at the pic that I don't really care for maps as display items in general. And I really don't like those lampshades in front of this one. But I love the green and gray, and the room generally.

I like the room but not the rug. I'm with you LisaD82, I look at those rugs and always think of them as "seconds" - you know, mistakes that are sold at 90% off.

But, LisaD, at least the stripes in the Ikea rug match up. The one in the original photo looks like a sewing lesson gone wrong. :) And it looks like dish towels, to me, too.

I love the emerald greens, though!

Donna

To me it looks like 4 runners next to each other.

Ben Pentreath! Love the colors, map, and lamps with ikat shades. I'm surprised that the rug doesn't bother me more!

artemis_ma

PS:
I'd hang the side artwork (around that central piece) to start higher
-- in line with the top of the central piece, and then down.
But then again, I am tall and hate looking "down" (metaphorically or otherwise) on artwork

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I think the side art is hung that way is because if you move the chairs, the 6 prints are centered/balaced on the larger piece, .

If you stared higher, to bal, the prints would have a lot of space between them.

I love the room as is! Love the colors, love quirkiness!

Very nice, drop the rug, I see nothing wrong with bare wood either..you want to be simple-then go big lol..these floors are nice as they are

I strongly dislike gray and yellow, which is so trendy and everywhere. This green and gray really is refreshing.

I like the rug with the table. I love the large map.

That rug makes me seasick ... if it were a grey on grey pinstripe I would like it a lot more.

I like Ben Pentreath, but don't think this is his best work. I do like the dark, "bottle" green against the gray, but that rug makes me feel dizzy and is just hideous IMO.

My bedroom is green and grey.

That's our Ben?!?!

Lisa, that's what Becky Sharp said above, and when I did a cursory image search, that photo did turn up on Pinterest, credited to Ben. The rug doesn't strike me as something he'd do, but I have been known to be wrong about things like that.

Yes, here's a link that I found, and when the room is in the context of the rest of the place, it seems more "Ben" to me. That rug's still a real head-scratcher, though.

http://theneotrad.com/2016/01/25/a-london-pied-a-terre-by-ben-pentreath/

Worth noting that it's a project for a client, not one of his own houses,

http://www.benpentreath.com/interiors/projects/drayton-gardens/

It does seem to be a hallmark of English decorating in general and BP's in particular that the decorating and styling is never quite perfect, the way it is for US magazines, books, and designers' portfolios. Looking at English rooms, whether they are in manor houses or flats or somewhere in between, to me it seems you can tell that there's been someone living, eating, reading, arguing to include the odd carpet, etc. in the rooms whereas their North American counterparts seem so pristine and uninhabited.

So that must be an old map of London. I can sort of recognize the area around Salter Road in Southwark. At first I thought it might be Paris or Cincinnati, but it does not match those maps.

I've always liked green and gray together, but then gray has always been one of my favorite colors.