Help me decorate my living room - Desperate help needed!
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Help me fine tune my living room decor/vignettes (pics)
Comments (24)Thank you everyone for all the suggestions. First off, I had been meaning to post what I ended up doing with my botanicals. I had a set of four and a set of three. The set of three I decided to put in my dining room (also bought a larger mirror and moved the other one to my hallway, hung vertically) and the set of four I decided to put in my bedroom. I felt the set of four had too much lavender/purple for the LR plus I felt they were competing with the mantle picture and there were too many rectangular shapes. Here are the finished botanicals, though: It's interesting to me that the scale looks different IRL than in pics. Has anyone else found that to be the case? Some of my smaller items look lost in the photos, but don't IRL. I am actually finding the walls to be looking quite busy. Here are a couple of closer shots of some of the items in question. The statuary actually is from an old lamp, but the lamp part was removed. The oval pic is a water color which I bought at an antique store. There is something appealing to me about balancing out the rectangular artwork with oval ones. I have two mini oval frames in my entry plus an oval entry mirror and I actually bought two more smaller oval pictures (abouit 6"x9" just for the frames which are quite similar to the watercolor). I have toyed back and forth with swapping the curio and palm. What I did not like about the curio in the right corner is that it does not go flush to the wall due to the base molding so there is about a 1" between the curio back and the wall which is visable, where in the opposite corner I don't see it. The plam tree is also basically my place holder for the Christmas tree as I will take it out of the room, move a chair and put the Christmas tree. I also like the tables diagonally apart from one another. I like the suggestion to group the books together with bookends either on the piano or mantle so I will be on the lookout for some bookends. Mostly, I'm still not sure how to finish off the table vignettes or what to look for. Also, most pressing is what tyle of lampshade for the ginger jar. I don't want to emphasize the pink/rose color overmuch so was thinking of a dark wine color that would match to some of the dark red in my drapes. It seems not many like the little mirror/sconce arrangement so will have to rethink that. I felt the walls to either side needed something to balance out the scale of the mantle painting--at the same time not compete with it....See MorePlease help me find a rug and accent pillows for my living room.
Comments (12)Alex, I found that rug at Plush Rugs and also at Overstock. You might have to do a search to find it in Canada. https://plushrugs.com/safavieh/bristol/btl355m/#blue-multi...See MoreHelp me fix /decorate my my living room into Eclectic and yet cosy.
Comments (34)Don't move the credenza then. Get an area rug, center one group of seating around fireplace and conversation and then maybe get a tea cart or something and put a small chair or two around that near the doors/windows to the outside. You can sit and sip your tea and watch the birdies outside there in the winter! When the weather gets nice you can carry the chairs out to the deck to sit in the sun! Then roll the cart out there with some cocktails later in the day!...See MoreUpdated: "Help me decorate my living room - Desperate help needed!"
Comments (1)I see a few things that aren’t horrible, by any means, but could be changed. Mirror and sideboard, for instance, as mirror is too large for the sideboard and it overwhelms the room, reflecting the t v. Try the art over the sideboard and add a floor lamp where the plant is, as it will do double duty for the sofa and the art. Have you ever thought about adding a floor to ceiling strip of trim to separate the dining area from the living area and painting that wall a color? Something like this with a couple of white shelves on that wall?...See MoreCDR Design, LLC
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