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need help with furnishings our living room space

5 years ago

Need help furnishing our new home. This is the living room. Any tips? I like a more modern farmhouse look. The kitchen is all white marvel in the back. a color scheme that can compliment both area. White and lavender is what I am thinking (for the kitchen)

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everdebz
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
If you're keeping the window shades, you might like a similar tone across the room - of chairs? as a balancing symmetry - like this 'wicker color' with pretty purple and green...
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Manon Floreat
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Hi, Lori. One can't go wrong with a sofa and two armchairs. But if you have a family, sectionals are great, too. Modern farmhouse typically incorporates wood, natural texture and a light color palette, such as below:

My recommendation is to decide on your furniture lay out, then buy a rug that will define the seating area. If you would like help with furniture arrangement, we'll need measurements. Photos of all four walls are also helpful.
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Thanks! I'm hoping it will be a cute space!! That doorway opposite the doorway is a little redundant, but it leads into the entryway/front door, so I'm not sure how it would feel walking into the back of a sofa. But maybe I am wrong! The condo is a converted 2-bedroom, where they turned the dining room into a living room, and the living room into a 2nd bedroom, which explains why the space is so awkward! What would anyone think about doing a sofa along the window/in front of radiator, and putting a chair or pouf under the TV (between built-in and bottom doorway)? Or a sofa along the right-side wall (where I have the random door/beach photo leaning) with a comfy accent chair top left next to window? Would something like this work at all or am I crazy?
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Why not put a pair of comfy armchairs flanking the fireplace? Style the shelves with 1/3 books, 1/3 large decor items and 1/3 open space. Are there any outlets there for lighting? Put TV on the long wall where the black chair is. Set it on a credenza 25% wider than the TV. Float a small scale sofa perpendicular to the stair and fireplace with a coffee table in front of it. Put a console or sofa table on the wall behind the sofa with two lamps and art. Leave a 30" traffic path between sofa and table if possible. Art 5" above the mantle no wider than the firebox opening. No need for a ceiling fixture; just upgrade lighting to 4000K LEDs for daylight feeling night or day. Is there lighting in the stairwell? It needs some. Straight leg chairs will be best because splayed legs will block the traffic path and be hazardous. Not sure an egg chair will work there but its fun. Too tall and big I think. Go for a low profile like the green one and you can fit a pair of them in.
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everdebz
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
With high windows and in only 1 area, trying to keep focal wall from looking hodgepodge, so from our R to L the heights 'step down': Windows are the tallest in height, then art over fp [lower], then to left of fp a tv unit like this [that covers it].

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everdebz
5 years ago
Of course you've thought of a combined tv center that suits whichever wall is best -- please show us all the walls [and if there are other windows in living area]
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everdebz
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
I looked at my lavender post above, and then noticed your wall color could be described as Woven Wicker SWilliams. So as to light-ish lavender in kitchen - and Wicker LR: I'd use purple items a bit saturated/ darkened to "match the intensity" of wicker walls...
everdebz
5 years ago
Idk about lavender, sort of specialized.... teal is more "all around typical" and for your rooms, maybe....
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