Ok - your projects are very cute! WOW!!! I have a 3 tier shelf that I curbside shopped and it's proven the test of time. It's has been outside in various seasons and it as durable as ever... time for me to do something nice for it... LOL And I too love your bottle... could that be the next step in totem, cake stand or bottle light creations.... hmmmm????

Hi, another "ignore the rugs" person chiming in. :-) But do as I say, not as I do. Even though theoretically I ignore rugs, I always lend half an eye and try to play along, at least when piling more than one rug into a room. They usually have to be a similar style...tribal + tribal, for example. And I do admit to buying an orange chair to go with an orange stripe in the last house. Call me a hypocrite! I think you should revisit the gray idea. And I think that the way to love gray is not only to find the right one, but to use either full spectrum paint (Ellen Kennon) or maybe Farrow & Ball. Now that you seem to be fully into the paint addiction thing (welcome!) I feel comfortable suggesting that. You talk about "glowy" and that is exactly what you get with one of these more complicated paints. If you could find a warm gray or a greige in a paint that has a lot of life in it, I bet you would really love it. If you don't have it, I suggest sending away for the F&B free color card. There are a couple dozen really interesting neutrals that might be fun to explore. Yes, these boutique paints are not cheap, but if you're willing to spend the $$$ to change the rugs/furniture, fancy paint will feel like a bargain! I worry about using the deeper colors, particularly blue, on a thirty foot wall. That scares me a bit, but I don't know the space. In that regard, my guess is that a mid-tone would be better, but a mid-tone blue? I just don't know. I love the rugs and think the pink sofa is really refreshing. I'd hate to see the wall color take over, IYKWIM. How's that Georgian Green looking today?

I moved the DVD player to the bottom shelf which is really too short to hold anything else. Then I moved the baskets to the center. That should be enough to allow you to hide the cords. Of course, I just spent $115 on the chair and I don't know how much on the monstera, but I suppose it's still cheaper than a new media cabinet. I decided against art on the wall.

I really like them because of how the stone is 3 dimensional, too. Very interesting look. This is what I’d do if it was my project: a pretty framed piece of art, somewhat narrow and tallish on the top middle shelf, leaning. Left shelf, I’d leave what you have in your second picture. I like your vignette. Right shelf, I’d have a couple of pretty candlesticks and low decorative bowl/pottery (candlesticks on left, bowl right of them). But mainly, I think doing a framed print on the top shelf, tall and narrow, and lower things on the sides, would break up the many horizontal shapes (the stones, the shelves). If you’d prefer a simpler look, do less things on the left and right shelves. A colorful piece of pottery and the tall iron thing on the left one, your plant or something else alone on the right one.