Help with the "details" to pull family room together please!
My family room is open with the kitchen. I bought new couches and they are a similar color to my two chairs in the room. I thought they'd be a deeper navy. I am unsure what to do for throw pillows to pull the room together. Navy blue pillows don't offer enough color (Blue is my favorite) and I love my curtains. I know one option is to do creams and change my curtains to a cream but I'd love to keep the blue and white stripe curtain. My rug is a cream and greige color. The room is north-facing
I'm up for any ideas to update and pull the room together! I like casual and comfortable! Thanks!
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Kendrah
3 months agoSorry for your disappointment. The diamond throw pillow on the chair to the right of the fireplace should be your inspiration for what can tie this room together. The deep navy and cream with a subtle print. The bold prints you are going for don't work here.
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Do you have the option to get another rug? I think the current one is too formal and bringing the room down. I'd go slightly smaller so it doesn't look like wall to wall carpet. I'd get a woven jute or sisal rug so it looks more casual in here.
This one looks a bit orange but you can find one that is more neutral.
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Comments (5)You have a very pretty room with a lot of potential. I really like the color and the natural light. I think the piano could be a beautiful focal point. Will it fit between the windows? If so, move the piano between the two windows and put the collage frame over the piano. Move the sofa in front of the window wall and the large blue chair perpendicular to it with the back facing the edge of the wood floor. Then put the ottoman in front of the sofa and chair as a coffee table. Put the entertainment cabinet on the large wall with the wood chair in the corner near the window and the leather chair about where is currently is. I would also move some of the accessories from the top of the entertainment cabinet to the top of the piano - maybe the red vase and a basket. I think the basket table is too light feeling for the other furniture. If it needs to stay in the room, I would move it to the far side of the sofa so it is not as visible from the room's entry point but it will still be functional as an end table. I would also suggest breaking up the pillows. Keep three on the sofa and put one on each chair. If you can't move the tv, I would still recommend the same arrangement but swap the recommended tv and piano positions. For future furniture purchases, I like the idea of a sofa and two chairs also. It will give you a lot of flexibility to have different arrangements. I really like your windows and blinds. I would suggest putting blinds on the quad window too to cut down on glare as you watch tv and to give the windows a more cohesive look....See MorePlease help put together my family room!
Comments (14)For the rug, I would do two of the same rug in different sizes/shapes. Would stick with grey, teal and orange theme to warm it up. Something like This rug . You could also do a custom bench cushion to go over the cabinet for window seating here . It can be customized any way you want - fabric, color, pattern, style. Just make sure those cabinets can support the weight of full grown adult. For a table- would probably stick with rectangular. If you want something "different", round may work depending on the type. Would do a weathered grey wood table to keep in line with the rest of the colors like This If you were going to do a solid color rug, then I would probably use a tufted ottoman as a coffee table in a brick orange to add some texture and color. But I love the way grey and orange look together....See MorePlease help pull this modern look together, with this art
Comments (13)Casals- yes, we have to hang the pastel on the only free wall we haves and yes the piano is there too.It is indeed the short leg of the sectional. . That particular wall csnt fit the long part of the sectional. . i know it isn’t ideal to have the piano on the wall with any part of the sectional and it’s all jammed together but I inherited the piano from my mother and it fills me with nostalgia. Also, I do love to play piano. We did try to find 2 couches but nothing looked or felt right. Most had backs that were too high. Or they didn’t fit our budget. And my spouse wanted a sectional anyway ...so there was that. Compromise. I can’t find another space for the sectional. in our house.. So I think we’ll just have to work with that reality, as imperfect as it may be. . There is a counter with contemporary revolving bar stools in front of the remaining wall - which i didn’t show. It’s basically there for entertaining. There are built- in shelves on the wall. There is a piece of wall space on the east wall ( the one with the longest part of the sectional) where we could hang the small portrait ( of my mother), The walls are stained but the wood would absorb another stain as it is essentially raw wood with a bit of color . It doesn’t have a finish that would reject a stain. I tested a small , not noticeable , portion with a light stain and it was quickly absorbed. . So should we stain the walls a different color? They do lean more towards beige although there are hints of grey that I couldn’t capture with my camera. The other colors in my photo are accurate....See MorePlease help us pull together living room
Comments (22)What a stunning old house with fantabuous detailing! I thought you must be haunted by a spirit, and the reason the long floor was in the living room was so you could catch it! If not, please remove that mirror. In its place, please put a bar cart, and mover the side table to the other side of the chair. Find a coffee table for in front of the sofa. I would not spend a lot for it. I wouldn't spend a lot for the bar table either. After all, this is a rental, you don't know how long you will be here, where you will end up next and what will suit your next place. Scour garage sales, charity stores, etc. What I would do is find some throw pillows or throw pillow covers (or make them yourself) that marry the lighter color of your sofa and the darker color of your chair. I like the look of a fireplace screen too, but I wouldn't invest the money in it for a rental, either. If you can pick one up for a song second hand, then go for it, otherwise, forget it. Then if you want, you can spray-paint it with heat resistant spray paint....See Moreptreckel
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3 months agoLOVE the your curtains bring--not take that same color and a pattern to the carpet!!
With the ligher walls I think your space could handle it.
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Jilly
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoCan you get these exact photos, but in natural light? The harsh overhead lights are skewing things, I think.
This room needs lamps! :)
Is it open to the kitchen and/or other rooms? It would help to see any adjoining rooms, too.
A rug like this might work (and you could even layer another rug over it), but again, need to see things in better lighting and what’s in adjoining rooms.
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3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoThe curtains belong in a big breezy white room....not here.
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Bold and lovely are stripes, in the right setting. It is very tough for them not go a wee bit sunshine and surf side.
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3 months agoBesides replacing the striped drapery panels, I think you need to take a serious look at the position of your furnishings. Had you purchased different items, the room could have been set up differently. See below. But since you have two sofas, your options are limited.
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last monthThe window treatments and the rug clash. We might suggest choosing one of the items and then coordinating with it to help make the room feel more cohesive. Perhaps look at integrating either the beige in the rug or the black (or navy?) from the curtains into pillows and artwork. Notice, how in our design here, the pattern in the window treaments goes with the artwork and the rug, and the pillows also carry the same colors.
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