Lyriga Dreams - Living Room Flax on Aubergine
A great tone of strong fabric - with a bit of herringbone pattern - and that over all grayish touch to the egg-plant-purple. A good base textile for the living room I could use it in part for a chair to bring the color into a look of a chosen one - and that way marry the two. The piece of furniture and our living room. I gather this can also make into some large pillows that could even be used to sit on the floor. A child might well like to do that. I am in luck my man likes purple as well - I adore that color.
Good - actually great fabric for the living room. Curtains! The damask pattern on the flax tone is very much the same as the intended aubergine, as in egg-plant-purple of the future window wall. It is the very transitional textile from the 'scary strong' color on the wall to the more settle tones of off flax, off white and a grey which should definitely match too. And as it happens that one of my would be wall paper favorites has that nearly the same tone of flax on the back ground - but some off white damask patterns instead - I could pair this curtain with a voile yet to be found.
The same voile for the living room as for the gamer space - especially if those rooms are connected. I like that old white look. The tone is only a bit more warm than the grey flax of the curtains with the aubergine damask designs. Not a bad pair.
The purpose of this flax wall paper - especially the darker color on the back ground is to bring in a bit brown tone of grey to move closer towards the strong and warm eggplant color on the future window wall - while being also adult-refined. I think to use this kind of wall paper more on the wall of the crossing hall to the living space ( as long as the opening is such large for the feature to be seen) and maybe on one of the side wall - likely opposite to the computer nook wall which will have rather dark feature wallpaper. I would need to find a wallpaper that has similar grain and exact similar tone as on the back ground there too. I think to use the best possible grey paint tone as an accent or a color that will move along from room to room. But I would need maybe also a wall paper to carry a bit of that settle flax texture through out - even if in the living room and any hall visible there might be that bit of interest more to it. The thing is - even though I want the damask design to repeat in each room - I do not want it always presented in the same way.
Option for the need of a wall paper to repeat the use in different rooms where there is already an other feature of some damask design at play. The point is that it should imitate exactly the grain and tone of the background in the flax+damask pattern wallpaper thought for the living room - but allow a bit rest from that kind of design - while that damask leafs will be used in some way, for each room.
Not bad tone of grey for those wall surfaces that need something less impressive than the purple, the damask pattern or that dark feature wallpaper. (There is ever so little warm brown in this tone. That is what it needs, but its left to be seen in reality which actual tone of grey could be used in the living room that will have a bit strong color of purple to deal with - and also some more settle flax-like tones to it.) Generally - this paint could face the settle flax with a damask design on the opposite side of the room - as well as the flax with out damask design from the window wall of the computer nook - in case there was enough space and budget to have that kind of layout. I like paint on window walls because those should hold the radiator and because I have found that a stronger color than white at the back of the room will make it warm and welcoming - allowing both pale and very dark toned objects a nice back ground. I know it is hard to see what I mean just from words. I want rooms with bit color and I like settle tone to tone too - the thing is, I do not want to get bored with repeating colors all over again.
This image represents the whole set of living room furniture - except for the seating. So there is a square coffee table. About two feet (60cm) wide side table as you see in the picture. There also is two separate book shelves. One a simple one, about 3 feet wide and nearly the ceiling height. The second one is larger - but ever bit as high. It is similar to some 3-part book selves with the mid-section designed to carry a TV and stereos. So this piece includes more shelves and drawers - on one side two self-height worth vitrine and on the other side a pair of regular doors in balanced size. I happen to be a bit book crazy - lol - just not found of pale woods. Well I do not want to give this set up, because of certain emotional connections with the person who built it. It is a very well made set too - full wood. How ever - as it happens the person who made it likes pale wood a lot more than I do. I was simply told that when a person is older they will like more pale woods - lol. The reason I do not want to paint is cause I think it would be bit of a crime to cover the flaming surface of the wood grain itself. Yes I see the beauty in that - but I will not give up my love of gre...
Desperate Attempts to find a Piece to marry pale birch with black: Option 1. This option is Swedish Art Deco - I love art deco - but there does exist nicer pieces too. I like the black legs and base - the pale birch wood matches perfectly to some furniture I would drive a few thousand miles just to bring them here. Yes they have emotional importance. They were made for me, but the person who made them loves light wood tones and made them out of 'flaming birch' - not ugly - but still knowing I would like dark more. The pain to mix and match - huh huh. The living room room will simply need a piece of furniture that will combine some tones of wood black, browns and that light birch. In that sense it is very important to find a piece a bit like this. The pale birch of the doors there is also a great sample for matching - as it really looks like the wood on my book case, the extension to that and the small tables. I had someone to compare that with the actual furniture, the tone more than the 'swirling flames'. It took a lot to find online an image resembling that. In addition, the living space will likely have two serious gamer set ups - with a server included (not just for storag...
Desperate Attempts to find a Piece to marry pale birch with black: Option 3. Hmm? To store all the important papers? Maybe bit too much office like.
Option again. The general shape is better. Maybe metal legs would also tie it to some other ideas for the living room - but I still feel to search for a small - or low built option that would have few drawers and could stand beneath a rather high window for example. I like that it is bit less dramatic than pure black on pale birch. I do have to say its hard to find something that could combine black wood to pale birch.
I love this screen just for the item it is - with a bit medieval looking design. Metallic old tone. Great. I do not yet know what my living room will be like - but I know two things. Instead of ever trying to stick a dining table into that area - we will need a place for two fully fledged computer desks. It could be great to have a kind of 'alcove room' aside the living room for this purpose. But which ever way the space layout is - maybe a divider would be a good thing. I really do get bit disturbed if my man's child watches cartoons while I do something on my computer. And that is it - my man and I - we do not really watch TV at all. Which is why the living room will not be filled with a huge sofa and totally unrealistic number of armchairs. I really don't like sofas owning the walls and floors. Yes this kind of a divider is a solution more for the computers than the sofa-side - as the back of a dark sofa is 'broken' with the screen's shapes. By the way this is the only kind of divider I can accept - not even really other designs - but I cant imagine to divide a dining table or kitchen itself from the living space with anything so.. non existent for a wall. Those features a...
Maybe the upholstery for that special chair I would like to have with its ottoman. Besides the pattern fits perfectly that of my favorite screen divider which likely will be placed behind the sofa to separate the computers from the living room. (Yes solution more for the computers than the sofa-side - as the back of a dark sofa is 'broken' with the screen's shapes.)
Here is a rather typical armchair with wooden handles and high back. Some of those come with an ottoman - but I found to like this more with the way the armrests are. No extensively bent wood. The handles are dark and together with the legs they would not take a lot work to turn them black - or black-brown. Then I could imagine to put this fabric around the backrest... http://www.houzz.com/photos/1964404/Lucky-Charm---Orchid-traditional-fabric-other-metro And this fabric on the seat and the neck pillow... http://www.houzz.com/photos/5061754/Textile-Collection-modern-products-los-angeles Does anyone have an image of this chair in egg-plant purple and grey / flax?
This chair almost as it is - except for giving it this fabric for the seat (and bit darker legs).. http://www.houzz.com/photos/5061754/Textile-Collection-modern-products-los-angeles I actually think that it does not matter that each of the two chairs and the sofa are from different sets. The armchairs have something that makes them match even when they look different. The black sofa does not have shiny leather and while the two armchairs will look a bit feminine it will be bit more masculine. So different upholstery.
Crazy cool chair. There is bit of similarity between this and the grey chair. Certainly if there was that money to put one. Maybe with bit of additional cushion to lift the seat. But it has a distant feel of throne from an other world - and we like sometimes bit crazy things. I still think it could have bit more of the same textiles than the room would have though the color is not horrible at all. Nice actually.
This rug is a great visual on some dark wood floor. The living room would need as large as is sensible a rug - the floor would maybe be bit more grey wood - but the point is the aubergine toned damask leaf pattern on some pale grey. Very good to tie the rich and dark color of an intended window wall (with off-white window frames) specifically into the pale grey-flax toned damask patterns. It is the rug's pattern and the back ground of the egg-plant purple which match the white leafs of the intended wall paper for the longest solid wall surface of the living room (opposite to the hoped for gamer room / alcove) and also for any long corridor wall that might be visible into the living room. When it is not possible to do simply tone on tone and if one wants to tie a strong color into a set of more settle tones - then such features that do this are needed. The rug hits that purposeful note very well - and although people seem to have essentially not that many rugs in the area - it does make less need for burning the energy for a hoped for floor heating. Almost any rug with thickness and wool content would. I would hope to find one to meet those specifications, yet not to have to pay for...
The one and only sofa! Oh yes, just this one. I do not want a sofa that will eat the half or the third of the living room. I need a recliner system for my back to rest.. will even try to find an office chair with that for to enjoy more my time on the computer. I want to sit close next to my man if we get that crazy idea to watch a movie or just want to cuddle. By the way, if the computer desks would be dark with weathered corners - those stitches make a bit of similar visual feature - there are some stitches also in my favorite office chair option. It is sturdy looking, but not 'overly fat' and the 'handle' to operate the recliner system is not a huge 'hand brake' attached to the side. Dark sofas may be hard to match with interior, but I think the trick is to not to put too many large dark objects and to use something similar in tones - as well as to break the dark surface with a few more light sofas.
In case my living room or a closed balcony has any extra space - this would rock my style - Oo - how weirdly said. I like the simple older lines and those carvings at the corners of the legs. I like pits and pieces of the modern Gothic - but to make home completely out of dark colored items would make it also very light obserbing. I want to find the ways to mix and match - to make a style of great pieces, not just buy all the furniture in same style for a living room or bedroom.
I love the doors. The thing is that I will not have endless space for furniture no matter the final budget after selling an other measure of property to get the new place. All I know that I cant move with much any of my old things - so I have to find new furniture too and as I am at it - why not get the things I really will like. And the way that metal is cut there does some more than a bit hits the spot. The cutout is amazing and the low cabinet - maybe under that window would not be such a bad idea.
There I will paste the image of the great look of their curtain hardware. There exists a double rack just like that one - and I will need the doubles. But that aside - my eye is drawn to the hammered look of the rod - even the attachment pieces. I hope to have few old industrial look items - so I think to match the curtain rods to their ruggedness. Part of the charm is that it is not solidly just black - it has little bit of tones. Other than that they would need to be dark pewter-silver. Aww yes the ling for the image of the double curtains system - it wont end on my page as it is cause the curtain tones do not work or the idea book - but the look of the system is great... http://www.houzz.com/photos/6316598/Harrison-Hardware-craftsman-curtain-poles-other-metro
I always seem to have wanted lights to all 4 corners of the living room. Not standing ones though. But we all know that there might be left those spaces where something narrow and tall fits. I'd prefer to let the floor free and have chandeliers like this creating the 'falls' in the corners of the room.
I wish that was a short stick or completely ceiling mount without the chain. I like how different it is compared to the Rain Drop lights I like. Something like that over the coffee table. It is bit modern or out of the Earth realm.. if not remotely geometric. I find those features nice. The way my choices of ceiling fixtures match is rather simple really - they stand on their own with each other and I would choose same finish on the metal parts. Silver tone ofcourse.
When I look at that wardrobe I see a musical instrument cabinet. Lets face it - they are cool at hand outside - but the cords and the surfaces collect dust even though they are used some bit. This would be a cool way to store them. Maybe even that amplifier. Then simply open the door and plug in - or have a hole behind to do so.
Aubergine living room. The color that truly makes a challenge. Well actually the window wall of the living room to start with. Sorry for the small image, but I had trouble to find an image of the color - with that kind of rich - think looking sense of tone that apparently comes only when a sample, which is actually painted. As a side note: Aubergine is what it is called the 'eggplant purple' color - but not something that should be named 'lilac'. That said - I do not like the same lilac, and could stomach even less many a pastel tone - and this room is not to have or a light red or what someone would call pink. Here is an example of a wall painted in dark egg-plant-purple, but I dont like those furniture or the the things on the wall... http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/2310551/list/Eggplant-Purple-Makes-Rooms-Rich
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