Help with paint colors, furniture ideas and placement.
We recently purchased a double wide mobile home for the winter. I need ideas for paint color and new furniture ideas. The sofa and love seat are new so would like to keep them but everything else can be changed. I like a coastal look ad we are in the tropics.
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PROPatricia Colwell Consulting
6 months agolast modified: 6 months agoMaybe post a pic here of what you think of as coastal. IMO nothing in the space says coastal and for sure not the overstaffed furniture . Nothing really faces the TV dead on so i think I need a to scale floor plan for sure. Use graph paper show every window doorways and where those lead. Then a list of what has to stay . For me the first thing I would do is get one more recliner and get rid of the loveseat or move it to another room. A new rug with some color to start the color scheme for more "coastal" So something like this with some color .Maybe piaint the wood pieces white and then add asome pillows with the blue , white and maybe a pale green Like this then paint the walls areally pale green that is in the pillows . That will all lighten up the space and make it feel much more "coasta"
Lyn Nielson
6 months agoBehr Day Spa is a fresh white with a hint of Blue/Gray looks more blue in low light.
would compliment the existing fllor, rug and furnishings and would freshen up the space.
I would paint the ceiling, walls and trim all the same color for a modern feel and make the space look larger (without contrasting trim accent lines to distract the eye) Leave the waisncotting/chair rail white.
Move the furniture into the room away from the walls and windows. create conversation areas more intimate.
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Comments (4)Going about this backwards! Furniture first! Paint colors are the last item to be chosen for a decorating project. Why? Because they need to work well with the fabric and textiles (upholstery, rugs, pillows, curtains) in a room. Those things are unable to be adjusted, but paint can be custom blended, even changes over the years, to suit them. As for the furniture, most living rooms do well with a 3-seat sofa and two upholstered armchairs as base pieces. Avoid matched sets of seating or casegoods; you need a more curated look if you want the home to have a stylish, hand-selected feeling. The current set up looks to have the dining table encroaching on the TV/FP area. Perhaps your friend can do with a smaller table there. Things to avoid: loveseats, artificial plants/flowers, mirrors that don't reflect/double something worth seeing twice, too much clutter. Hopefully, your friend has been ruthless in clearing out more stuff than she should move into this home....See Morefurniture placement in family room as them paint color
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Comments (9)Thank you, I will do a drawing. I don't thnk there is any other place for the piano, Placing it on the wall opposite the FP would block the path to the door that is on the wall with the windows.Maybe remove the curio and place both chairs and an end table on the wall where the sofa table is and sofa across fron the love seat as you suggested....See Morecat_ky
6 months agoDenise Manly
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6 months agolast modified: 6 months agoI live on Cape Cod. There is nothing worse than choosing a "theme" for coastal living. Starfish, shells, buoys, all that stuff is meant for tourists. Stay with what you have, the love seat, the sofa, and the rug. Go minimalist. Go open and airy.
Is there space to corner the sofa and love seat...making it look like a sectional?
Denise Manly
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PROAnnette Jaffe Interiors
3 months agoThe main thing we might suggest doing here is shifting the layout. It looks like, floating the sofa on the rug facing the TV, and then having the loveseat floating in the room on the rug would work best. The loveseat should be facing the windows and then you can place two chairs in front of the window.
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