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Is sofa wall awkard?
Hello. I would really appreciate any advice to complete/update this room. I have 3 questions, but please feel free to offer comments on anything else you see. Thank you so much.
1. Should I turn the prints behind sofa horizontally?
2. Suggestions for color for paint and drapery panels? I'm thinking blue/grey on walls and have no idea for drapes. Btw, there is an adjoining foyer and dining room, which also need paint.
3. Should I paint gold coffee table a darker color, perhaps bronze?
Btw, please ignore dining room, which has turned into a storage area. Next project. :)
Thanks so much!!
1. Should I turn the prints behind sofa horizontally?
2. Suggestions for color for paint and drapery panels? I'm thinking blue/grey on walls and have no idea for drapes. Btw, there is an adjoining foyer and dining room, which also need paint.
3. Should I paint gold coffee table a darker color, perhaps bronze?
Btw, please ignore dining room, which has turned into a storage area. Next project. :)
Thanks so much!!
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Very pretty room, although a bit too staged or formal. But that will resolve with time as you use the room and determine what you need. I'm guessing that a beautiful wood end table at one end of sofa would be useful. I love the windows bare, although that may not be practical.
Like that plant by itself
So in utilizing this philosophy, you will want your plant to be a little taller than your table lamp which is currently on the left. So you will also have achieved the waterfall effect and will have anchored either side with some bulk and have utilized a combination of shapes and materials.
I very much enjoy your arrangements on the coffee table. Very nice.
Keep moving things around and experimenting with what you have until such time you are feeling it. No purchases until you get to that point. Houzzers will critique as you go along. Good luck! :)
Candlesticks of course would look nice on the ceffee table, as in the inspiration picture. I could see the mirror completely off to the side and the pictures rearranged to balance over the sofa as another option, perhaps with a medium-sized (about 4 of the littles maybe) piece of art added to the mix on the other side to balance. It could be something like an unframed oil.
I see a nice white armchair and maybe a animal sculpture in the dining room. The chair might look nice by the piano, and the animal might look nice peeping out by a plant base. What other cool things do you have in there that can be used in the living room?
I put one of your shots to compare side-by-side.
My first impulse, when I saw the great fabric on the sofa, was some duponi silk drapes I think I saw in JCP catalogue...about the color of your stripes, consider ceiling to floor length with metal rods. Soft, classic, a little shine and that gives something else in that color range in the room. Works with the darker pieces and the wall color, and will accent the "cubic" feet of your space!
Personally, I think you need a larger rug, so the rug is not simply "floating" with the seating pieces hanging on the edges. Should make the room look larger for spacing the furniture. I like the two chairs together with a center table (would like to see the square metal-and-glass version there!), and angled toward each other, like in one of your pictures. They will feel more like they belong there once you have drapes up.
If you are leaning toward experimenting without the mirror behind the sofa, the mirror might work, horizonally, on the wall above the piano opposite the sofa and draw the eye around the room past the piano... perhaps provide interest to connect the piano with the rest of the room. The prints may have an accent color with the matting that we can't see...that could be pumped up to a "gold" or black to make the prints more substantial. Odd numbers are easier to work with in collections, and the grouping shouldn't be wider than the sofa. Altho perhaps a 1-2-2-1 configuration might work. I feel that you need something to anchor the sofa on the wall. I thought the lamps were OK in theory, but spray paint the metal black, antique black, or bronze, and the coffee table metal, too. Look for lamp shades in a darker, textured fabric. Try a ficus in the corner if you feel the need for a plant. (I love real plants!) Dried arrangements work too and don't need watering!
Another chair or soft ottoman (like in the inspiration) would be great below the stair rail where the other chair was. I like the chair we can see in the next room! In my non-professional plan, you would only need to purchase another different chair or ottoman by the stairs, a larger rug, and two small "entry" sized tables to flank your sofa, with new table lamps, or vases, arrangements, or art to hang low or set on the tables that would flank the prints at about eye level.
Several people have mentioned the white chair in the dining room. I have a pair, but they are rather small. I bought them on Craigslist and didn't realize how small they were until I placed them next to my other furniture. I am attaching pictures of one of these chairs.
I am also attaching a picture from Emily A. Clark's blog showing the prints that I have used about my sofa. If I remove mirror, should I add more prints behind sofa in the same layout (3-3-3) or perhaps a grouping of 4(2-2) on each side of sofa.
Also, If anyone has any affordable rug suggestions, I would love to hear them.
Thanks, again. Getting closer!