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Need help tying my dining & living rooms together

13 years ago
Need help on my art wall (have blk&wht family photos ordered for frames w/white paper). Happy with the middle, but need help on left and right sides. Also, dining is blah! Need new light fixture (and lighting in living room too) Thinking bling?? Silver or mercury glass? LOVE the ottoman stripe fabric, but I was told by Ashley furniture that they don't sell fabric seperately. How can I tie the 2 rooms together if I can't use fabric? Wanted to use stripe to band curtains and slip cover 2 chairs for ends of table. Have any other suggestions?

Comments (7)

  • PRO
    13 years ago
    I totally agree with taking away the right and left pieces from the wall. Keep everything else as is, but all need to be moved up about 6". If you can find a different striped fabric in the same colors, you can use that for a banding on curtains. But also, if you want to slip cover the chairs, you can use another pattern, as long as colors work. Maybe play up the beige color as a background and bring in one of the other colors. A fabric with a diamond pattern or moroccan tile pattern (as in rug above) would work. Good luck!
  • PRO
    13 years ago
    For your dining room draperies, I would find a solid fabric in the predominant color of the ottoman to use as banding on the draperies and also to cover the host chairs. I'd like you to turn your dining room mirror to vertical. It will make your ceiling feel higher.

    For your wall collage, I would end it at the edges of your loveseat, or at least remove the far right mirror and the far left frame. I'm not keen on it going beyond the sconces. You've created a charming room of which you should be proud
    Carolyn Albert-Kincl, ASID
  • 13 years ago
    I think both rooms look great, and will look fab with a bit of tweaking. I love the frame arrangement and would take only the mirror on the right away. Vertical blinds must go. The gray Moroccan rug posted by decoenthusiaste is perfect as are all the chandeliers she picked.

    Do I spy a hint of green in the print on the chairs? Play that up a bit, in a throw pillow or perhaps slipcovers for the host dining chairs. You are well on your way to two gorgeous rooms!
  • 13 years ago
    thank you all for the great ideas! I just removed the mirror and left frame, and it looks good. Love the morroccan rug idea, but I am afraid to add more gray. Will look for that peacock blue/green color to use as an accent for rug and dining chairs. LOVE the chandalier ideas! Those are very similar to what I have been looking for, so that's definitely next on my list! And yes, I hate those verticle blinds. Just need some help getting them down so I haven't gotten to it yet. I do need privacy for the window on the right as it opens up to our front entrance. Would simple white sheers work? I worry they are too frilly, but don't want solid blinds to block my view out either...
  • 11 years ago
    Find out the manufacturer of the striped fabric.
    You can usually call and get the extra fabric from them

    Also the set is beautiful
    I would bring down some of the pictures and mirrors as it tends to draw the eye towards that area and back leaving a more cluttered look

    Accent a couple pieces you love and pull colors from items all ready in the room
  • 11 years ago
    Old post from 2013.