Looking for ideas to help with my blah dining room
M Mush
5 years ago
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Dining room is blah, needs something
Comments (28)Thanks Squirrel, wow those photoshop pics made me gasp with joy! Again the large window with moulding added looks great, I can't believe how good. And I had thought about crown moulding before, it looks so good that I know I want to use it. The large window is 60 in high and 78 in wide, the house has ceilings that are 7.5 ft high. The small side window is 30 in high by 43 in wide, and yes the window behind the couch is same dimensions. You guys are very sharp! In the dining room I am thinking a small table or even a wall hung shelf under the smaller window with some nice decor items. Also thought about hanging a tie back drape on one side only with straight edge towards living room wall. The china cabinet does light and it is back with a mirror, I will get some pics later in another post. Living room also looks lovely with your ideas. I have to say I want to get rid of that ugly floor lamp behind couch. Thinking of getting a nicer matched pair for either side. I thought with the two book cases that wall "balanced" the large window at front of house. And i want to get a nice lamp for black octagonal table with phone on it. Well, thank you again for your compliments, never did I think people would be saying my furniture is beautiful. You are making me blush....See MoreOy Vey - My Dining Room is Looking Like a Patchwork Quilt! Help!
Comments (20)Thank you thank you thank you. Here on New Year's Day, the kids are napping and I just finished painting the lower half of the dining room in Sage Green. It's perfect! It was refreshing to cover up all the golds and reds and purples and tans,etc., and now that the Sage is there I can't imagine it any other way. It's just right. If my hand didn't feel frozen into position I'd start painting the top in Camouflage. The Living Room is going to be Blond Wood, I think. Painting green in there will feel like too much green, and the Blond Wood sample I put up looks really nice and feels very warm. I never would have come up with any of these colors on my own. Thanks so much to everyone for their excellent feedback and guidance!...See MoreMy Living Room is Blah -Please Help
Comments (21)You have plenty of neutrals, so it looks like the rug will provide your color choices....a simple way is to find the dominant color in the rug that is not a neutral and use it in 30 percent of the room, then select the next less dominant color from the rug and add that color to your room.....say curtains, pillows, lamp shades of lamp bases, throws on the chiairs as in a pair over the back of each chair, or one throw on the sofa, accessory pieces in the book shelf area, be it flowers, frames or mats in frames, object d' art, etc. If you want to do curtains, then a solid or geometric print will work nicely. Another thought is to paint the dining room in a variation of your accent color and reupholster your chairs in a fun fabric that works with your paint, add curtains the same as the living area, and then just add pillows and flowers in the main living room as accents with the dining room carrying a completely different color for the whole area.....then the kitchen and the living room would have small areas of color that both relate to the dining room. Finally just add all white to both rooms to lighten it up and keep the colors of black, brown, and charcoal in strong contrast to the white to add drama to the room. neutrals with very slight addition of color in artwork but everything else white grey black charcoal addition of one color in curtains, chairs, pillows, walls......you already have chairs in charcoal, etc., but could add pillows in living room, curtains in dining room in pattern and white in living room, and pale paint in dining room and one wall of kitchen. I think you have a one note room, and it needs some jolts of color in all three areas; easiest to choose one and do all variations of it around the room, or two colors from rug, one dominant and the second one less so. Love your room...See MoreLooking for ideas for window treatments for my dining room
Comments (4)I see no relationship between the blue walls and anything else in the room and if the drapes had blue and cream or beige stripes that might solve the problem. The room is very linear and a large green plant and a round or oval centerpiece would help to correct that....See Moregroveraxle
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