loishapi

loishapi Honestly, the settee represents your hunger for colour and statement. And your confusion about what to do and where to begin. Please find an interior decorator sensitive to your budget and needs who can show you what your room needs to satisfy its current challenges. Throwing ideas up in the air and landing all over the map will waste your money. Think visually - imagine you are painting a landscape. I believe one needs to see in their mind first what they want the end result to be. if you are unable to do so and by reading and observing to date, I would say, yes - your gifts and talents are not interior design, get help from someone who will barter if your cash is tight. It is far better to buy one great piece of a big beautiful vision at a time, than throw random disconnected pieces that in the end have no function or fit in the overall form. I don't know if I am making sense. Think of building a home: would you come home with a brick one day, a beam the next and over time assemble a yard filled with various windows and materials before you have a plan? Unless you are a real artist, not! It may look good somewhere else but not fit your home. You have many great suggestions here, and some not so great. Now is the time to stop asking readers and make a collage photos of rooms you love with a similar sofa - by the way, it's a great piece. Think: eclectic. But variables have to work, like a collage of perfectly proportioned functional parts that make a vision come to life. No vision. No life. Just wasted money and frustration. I would rather spend $500 - $800 on a richly textured, colourful pillow - SERIOUSLY FABULOUS and original than buy 25 small tacky little mismatched items. You must remember SCALE. This room and its furnishings so far have dictated the SCALE. And its SUBSTANTIAL. The decorative pillow I keep envisioning here to simply help you see the SCALE you have already established, is about the size of one of your sofas seat cushions. Again, a good designer/decorator friend will demonstrate what scale means to your room. Maybe time to assemble your photos and post them. I heard a great line the other day from a designer who said he 'looks at his purchases, not as possessions but as companions so he makes sure before buying that these are the right companions for his life and home". Love it!

loishapi Go to Google: FLEXFORM FIT ITALIO - and check out their series of ads for a sense of SCALE with similar looking furniture. You could do a number on your walls - go crazy and plaster them so they look antiquated, historic or paint them high gloss black! Indigo... Or chalkboard black. Buy an expensive rug and some groovy lamps. A coffee table that fits the entire sofa so the kids can lay on it too! lol

frenchdecor @Robbi perhaps you should pay more attention to your dog's behavior. Our puppy sometimes was nipping our hands and we bought "bitter apple" to train him not to do so, and once it occurred to me - he doesn't do it always!? and I asked him "want outside?" and he responded going toward outdoor (he already knew "let's go outside"). As soon as we figured it out he stopped nipping our hands and now he is lifting our hand with his nose if he wants out and we still ask him the question because sometimes it means just "pet me". Ether way he shows he wants your attention to his need. I hear many owners just blab to their dogs instead of teaching them short commands or questions and wonder why their dog is not responding. Dogs don't really understand human language, they respond to certain sounds they are familiar with.

loishapi Herein my companion Jake - 10 year old Maltipoo, survivor of four major surgeries - utilizing his favourite human inventions: window and window seat. This our favourite location - in sunroom, at my shoulder.