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Home Decorating Furniture Design Dilemma

Need furniture/rug suggestions - dining room and living room

9 months ago

e bought a condo in Florida in 2017. We have our last ever renters there now so are ready to replace several pieces of furniture - which may also lead to replacing an area rug.

The best pictures are a couple years old and before we put in new flooring/stair rail/painted. The new floor is Flagstaff Oak - posting a pic as mine all come out darker/more gray.

This is the dining room. The pictures and side piece are staying, although the side piece is more brick red than this shows. The walls are 25% of this color - a very light yellow or very yellow cream.

As you're standing here, the stair is to your left.

This is the dining room table I've picked out. Thinking parsons chairs, maybe in the lime/apple green that's in several other rooms, but hoping for thoughts and other suggestions.

Moving on to the living room (and you can see from the dining room through the kitchen to the living room. Showing a few views. The floor is now the same flagstaff oak that's everywhere else. The valance is gone. The walls are 25% of the lighter color.

The sea grass chairs and table are staying. The couch and chair are going. The rug is up for discussion.

We are getting Sherrill brand furniture - looking for suggestions on fabric as I'm wildly indecisive. Also interested on thoughts about the rug and what you might replace it with.

Please let me know what questions I can help with. Can't wait to see ideas!

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elcieg
9 months ago
last modified: 9 months ago
Photo #1. Put the two pictures over the red buffet and add lamps. Red framed mirror, hang it over the small red console in living room.

Photo #3. Table is great, but use cream and lime for upholstery, black legs on dining chairs

Photo#3 I suggest putting the2 pieces of red art over the sofa. Clock? Kitchen because mirror is replacing it.

Phot #4...wicker chairs all white upholstery. Keep the rug and replace sofa, chair, ottoman with a sectional with right facing chaise. Choose darker green for sectional, but the same green family as striped chairs.
Emily Peltz
Original Author
9 months ago
Love those chairs - although without the nail heads. I hadn’t thought of stripes. Agree on black legs. Where did you find these?
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I moved some things around and I think I like it better. I know the rug is too small and it shouldn't be "floating" but I don't want a new one until we get the other changes done. I moved the dresser into the dining room and hung (probably too high but couldn't convince 6'3" hubby to lower it and he had a point about being out of reach of the tornado. haha) the sign and pictures that had been on the mantle in the dining room. We also took off the ridiculous trim board they had up because we will be replacing the slider soon. So many things in this house like that silliness. I organized most of the books and moved the bookshelf. And grabbed a few canvases (I know they are small but can't remember where we left my big one) I did the flower, my dad painted the one on the right in Vietnam in '68. We need to fix the coffee table my dad built that's in the garage, I'll put it in front of the sofa, it's a little under 6'long, so it might be technically too big but, again, it's what I have. How'd I do?
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Thanks Beverly. My calculus teacher used to say that "you can't tell the riders from the horses without pictures" - in this case scaled drawings. I don't have the room layout drawn to scale, so here's a couple of pictures that may help. Looking into room from behind columns. Room is approximately 21' x 17' (window wall to columns) Tape indicates about where a 12 x 15 rug would land - about 2-1/2' from wall Opposite diagonal corner with tape showing where the 12x15 would end up. It's about 28" from column. While this room is slightly larger (and elegant!), and doesn't need the pathway for the Master BR, the relative positions of the furniture is my goal. Note the sofa table and chair behind the sofa, but not on the rug - I would like to have a table and chair and don't care if they're on the rug or not. My preference is to have all the furniture on the rug. Is that enough info to help determine an appropriate size? I can try to draw out a room layout with walls and dimensions, just ran out of day today.
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elcieg
9 months ago
last modified: 9 months ago
Overstock.

https://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Dining-Chairs/2022/subcat.html?featuredproduct=8682231&featuredoption=12265806&ci_sku=15937049-000-000&cnc=US&cid=310354&type=&targetid=pla-306315525022&track=pspla
elcieg
9 months ago
last modified: 9 months ago
My suggestion is no throw pillows on the sectional. You have enough going on and the fabric is rich enough to stand on its own.

https://www.polyandbark.com/products/napa-velvet-right-sectional-sofa?variant=20160954433609
Emily Peltz
Original Author
9 months ago
Great thanks on both. Realized that the pictures I posted make the pillows, especially the green, look vibrant and mismatched. They are a much softer … subtle lime?
Emily Peltz
Original Author
9 months ago
Just saw your sectional suggestion. Agree that would work - except one of the few things my husband insists on is his own oversized chair!
elcieg
9 months ago
If you change the sofa, as I suggested, go darker with green and still no pillows.
elcieg
9 months ago
last modified: 9 months ago
Just for fun, using your floor, the new dining table and the stair case as inspiration, you also could go in this direction, while keeping the coffee table and the wicker wings, very neutral and rich. Love the t v wall.
Emily Peltz
Original Author
9 months ago
That’s pretty. And funny that we own those coffee tables elsewhere, with a neutral couch!

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