Help with colors & furniture plcement for mom's light blue living room
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Comments (21)decoenthusiaste, I don't completely disagree with you, but I think you confuse selecting final paint colors with selecting a color palette. If you don't have any idea what colors and what neutral family you want in your home how do you buy furniture. Just go pick something that looks good in the showroom? This is the cause for so many design dilemmas. We don't define a color palette first and we go out and buy something that is completely wrong. Here is an inspiration piece for my sister's home Here is the color pallet we started with This was her core neutral Here are the color inspirations for my home: Here is my color pallet at work with selecting flooring, bath tiles and paint colors My neutral is a taupe with purple undertones. You can see the purple undertones in the flooring and wall tiles. My Taupe would look atrocious in my sister's home. Her Moss would look equally bad in my home. If we define our color pallet and take samples along when we shop the colors we choose to bring home will all work together. We won't have the common dilemmas seen on Houz....See MoreHelp! Temp living room color, lighting, decor
Comments (7)You are welcome. I am not quite sure I understand. You are undertaking a home renovation and "learning as you go"? Or do you have an expert advising you? Design is, in my opinion, more of a science than an art. If you don't have an overall plan, this will be very costly to you in terms of money and frustration in the end. No, I would not add wainscotting. Here is what I see so far: -what appears to be a modern style kitchen (as far as I can tell) -a farmhouse style light fixture in the future dining room I don't know what your overall plan is, but it is critical to have that at the outset. Paint is really the last thing you should be considering, once all other elements are chosen. First thing you need to do when planning any kind of design or renovation: look at inspiration photos and have a vision of what you want the house to look like. There are numerous steps after that, but it seems you have not taken this first step? Or maybe you have, but missed some other ones?...See MoreHelp with furniture layout, design and color of Living Room
Comments (21)Oh to respond, the rug is 9x12. It hits the fireplace, feels big in the small area. But I see what you mean. I do agree with switching out some end tables....See Moreoverwhelmed mom needs new ideas for living room!
Comments (18)Do your children also have toys in their rooms or are the toys mainly kept in this room? It may be helpful to go through all the kids' things and keep only what they're really playing with... I see multiple ride on toys that look to be the same basic size and serve the same basic function... do you need all of them? Perhaps you could keep just two- one for each child for those times they just can't share- and let the rest go. Speaking from experience, it is so easy to get overwhelmed by kids' stuff! For me, the less of it there is overall the less stress it causes all of us, kids included. When kids were younger we only kept two baskets of kids things in our family room- one basket of toys and one basket of books. Everything else was kept in their rooms. Of course they brought things out of their rooms but they also took those things back every night before bed. So perhaps reshuffling where their things are kept could be helpful in making this room more enjoyable for the grownups and less like a daycare center (as you said above)....See Morelbk01
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