Help me marry my modern gray sofa to my transitional-ish living room
Eleanor Woolsey
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Comments (41)I love your antique furniture and portraits. Your room is very nice, and your dining room looks gorgeous! I think a few very minor changes will accomplish what you want. I have quite a few antique pieces, and what works best for me is mixing them with a few new pieces and keeping a more casual feeling. For your room, I think I'd replace the rug with something less formal, that has a few more colors to work with. I'd also replace either the side chair or the settee with a comfortable upholstered chair & ottoman-- maybe leather. That would make the room more welcoming. I'd paint the walls in a soft color-- maybe beige, pale green or blue--and get a couple new throw pillows. You could hang all your portraits together, on the wall facing the sofa. A few ideas for rugs-- finding a rug you like will lead to a wall color and what to do for pillows. Ideas for your portraits--...See MorePlease help me to find a paint color for my living room! Pics in post
Comments (2)Thank you, I think..... The rug has gone. I don't like white but do like lighter colors. So after spending several hours - many hours - trolling online photos of charcoal gray couches/wall colors, I am understanding your point and see that you are right. Is there a way to use a white-ish paint and still get a cozy feel? I do not like modern or contemporary and that's what white walls reminds me of. Thank you!!...See MoreHelp creating modern living room using Queen Anne couches
Comments (40)When you retell the story of how they came to be yours, it seems that you had more of an option to reject them than you originally related. I suggest that you exercise that option. I had one such sofa for many years that was bequeathed to me via my parents who got it from some antique dealer. It was a real old one with horsehair in the cushions. I even paid to have it reupholstered. I always hated it and finally got rid of it. I tell my kids to just tell me when they don't want something. Actually, I am extremely mindful of passing anything down to them. They have their own stuff. If they want it, they can have it when I am gone. I'll bet that even Queen Ann, herself, would not like these overly ornate and supremely uncomfortable seats. I'll bet that even she would get rid of it and have what she wanted. LOL!! Have the inlaws gone on to a more modern style while leaving their old one for you? That might make some sense if you are just starting off in life, but you seem to indicate that you are not still standing on the starting line. You are not going to get where you want to go via their aesthetics. And, as others have advised, don't build it in....See MorePlease help me with my new living room decoration!!!
Comments (27)Why so GA? I thought I hated fake fireplaces, but if I was going to have one, I would sure want it to serve the function of giving off heat . . . if I needed that. I live in the frozen north country. Otherwise, it is just something to dust to me. I also realized that if you live in a dark grey area of the country (I do), there is nothing wrong with getting artistic pieces that evoke the light and warmth of a fire. So much the better if you can chose sometimes to just have the light. My dad has one of those colored sparkly heaters in his basement, and at first I thought, "How gauche!" but when I changed my perspective and thought of it as a piece of art that not only pleases the eye but serves a function, I changed my mind. I don't much care for the look of a TV over the fireplace, and since I use my fireplace daily, I don't like thinking about how the heat would affect my electronics, but having a TV over the fireplace is pretty much ubiquitous nowdays, particularly in warmer climates. My comment was only to consider that I had a fake fireplace which had a SINGULAR purpose of being a decorative feature, and it took up way too much wall space to be practical for me, it was nothing more than something that was a pain to dust, and made me want the warmth of a real fireplace. It was too high to mount a TV over so mine was on a shelving unit to the side, but my TV was smaller than the huge ones popular today. When I bought the house it was a huge charm feature for me, but that faded very fast. Fast forward, my landlady once loaned me these big square space heaters to help with the heat in my un-insulated apartment. They had one function, to heat the room and were otherwise ugly black blobs. Here's a photo of my fake fireplace. A lovely white elephant. I did not think so when I bought the place. Of course YMMV, just giving you the perspective of someone who lived in a tiny house with a fake fireplace for 12 years....See Moreeverdebz
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