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Help decorate my living room please!!

5 years ago

Hi,

i’m trying to decorate my house and i’m stuck. I would love to get idead and suggestions. Any decorations, pillows or any items. Please also tell me where to get the item in case i liked it.

thanks a buch

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torreykm

5 years ago

Can you give us more pics of the room? Assume you're keeping the furniture?

The couches are too close together. Can you move the couch down? If you're keeping both pieces, I'd put 1 lumbar pillow on each seat of the recliner piece. Use 2 squares and a rectangle on the couch. You could also drape a throw over it as well. There are millions of pillows out there.

Remove the current window treatments. If it's in your budget, Get drapes that are close in color to your walls.

A large tray on your table, few coffee table books and one plant (real if possible). Don't go overboard with lots of store-bought tchotchkes.

You'll want art over your couch, but what do you like?

I think pale blue would work with the brown.

https://www.potterybarn.com/products/suzani-embroidered-euro-shams-warm/?isx=0.0.13669&strategy=swaprr

https://www.potterybarn.com/products/palna-pillow-cover/?pkey=cdecorative-throws-pillows%7Cembroidered-patterned-pillows&isx=0.1.18491&strategy=swaprr

Lumbar size

https://www.etsy.com/listing/494816543/hmong-batik-indigo-lumbar-pillow-cover?gpla=1&gao=1&utm_campaign=shopping_us_Tshaj_sfc_osa&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_custom1=0&utm_content=7815883&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7_ewtsiX3AIVBY1-Ch2m-A2VEAkYCyABEgI_HfD_BwE

Solids...

https://www.grandinroad.com/stella-velvet-pillow-collection/indoor-decor/pillows-throws/1090475

https://www.ballarddesigns.com/classic-herringbone-throw/decor-more/blankets-throws/350528

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natesg
5 years ago
I would suggest a large piece of artwork that you love for over the sofa. Then use some of the colors in the artwork to pick pillows. You need end tables with lamps. Not sure of your style. Can the sofa by the window move over to the left?
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torreykm
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K R
5 years ago
Consider changing the window treatment to something a little more modern and put an area rug under your couches and table for some color and pizazz!
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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
5 years ago
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havingfun
5 years ago
if you go on Etsy or Saatchiart. there often paintings that are large and reasonable.
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if they are still too much, many of the artists allow you to do this. nope not original, but if you keep your original documents, it cant be too far off from the signed print. even more importantly it is far more unique than big box store print and the money goes to the artist. you put your money into making it the size you want it.
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havingfun
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J Williams
5 years ago
Your furniture looks really dated, leaves very little space, is smushed together and is very brown, it's very hard to read a personal style there. I agree the curtains aren't very nice, the valance thing appears completely unrelated to anything (colour and style) and does not seem to have any function (it looks like you have three layers of curtain which seems like overkill, but maybe there are privacy or light issues?). The TV cabinet looks to be a completely different and more ornate style than anything else in the room plus it's massive and dark. For my taste I'd want to get rid of the beige carpet (which I realize is something you wouldn't likely do) and paint the walls a colour that is not beige or brown, also I'd get rid of the Tv cabinet as it is practically eating up the whole room scale wise and dwarves the fireplace. Some kind of picture or pictures, some kind of something that has some personality, you must know the sorts of things you enjoy looking at? For me, this room would have plants, books, reading lamps etc. as well.
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havingfun
5 years ago
funny someone else just asked about the curtains suzi. I just got them a few weeks ago, was thinking of getting them myself and they are nowhere to be found.

the 2 art places i gave you etsy and saatchiarts are both world wide.
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havingfun
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I can give a wide choice of pillows, but there is not much direction in colors. do you like birds or kitties, puppies, patterns?
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J Williams
5 years ago
You need to figure out your personal style, get a whole bunch of house decor mags/pics and pick the ones you like best, then figure out what makes that style, maybe you can even start with stuff like what clothes do you always buy (colours, patterns, styles), what places make you happy etc.
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https://www.bhg.com/rooms/living-room/ways-to-decorate-with-a-brown-sofa/

https://www.makinghomebase.com/decorating-brown-sofa/

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I just googled brown couch blue accents, lots of examples.
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Olychick
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I didn't read all the responses, but I don't see how moving the couch that's in front of the window over to the left so it's centered on the window would block the path to your kitchen. It will only block the path to walking straight into the window! Try moving it and show us how it blocks the kitchen, please.
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erinsean
5 years ago
Doesn't having your couches so close together in the corner prevent you from reclining the couch on the window? How about pushing your wall couch a little farther to the right, since you do not want to move the window one? Though it is entirely up to you. I think you need art, take down the valance and get a nice leafy plant. A pillow or two would be fine but just a throw would be good also. It will give you some color.
J Williams
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You can go to a poster shop, museum store, art fair, student level gallery showing, local art gallery, thrift store, etsy online or order your own pics in enlarged sizes (in person or online) or just go to an arts supply store and let your kids/you go to town. Either this stuff interests you or it doesn't I wouldn't force it. Do you know any creative people? Maybe support them. You can also get fabric swatches/wallpaper samples and frame them or stretch material over a frame.

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