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What would you do here?

8 years ago
Hi all! Just moved into a new-to-us house yesterday, and we’re missing something in our famil room. Do you have any ideas to bring this together pls? I know we need a rug but am kinda lost on everything else.

Ty!

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  • PRO
    8 years ago

    Rug, end tables, a console table behind the sofa, throw pillows, lamps, and art on the walls. I think you could also do with a larger coffee table that will serve both sofas, centered on the FP. Some window treatments would also soften up all the hard edges.

  • 8 years ago

    You just moved in...live there for a month or two before making big ($) decisions. One thing you will need to address is the glare on the TV screen. I have windows like yours and that was a huge issue.

  • 8 years ago

    Some art with warmer tones and color for the mantel.

  • 8 years ago

    Art that's not from the big box stores, a rug 2-4 feet wider than the big sofa, a larger coffee table (centered with the firebox,) something to replace the dated torchiere lamps, a chandelier to replace the ceiling fan, a sofa table behind the loveseat.

  • 8 years ago
    The underlying challenge is the furniture and tv are a little oversized for the size of the room...add to that the height of the room is also too tall for the size of the room.....since these are things that cannot change I would choose a cozier warmer color for the walls...something tonal with the couches and floor would take the emphasis off the out of sync elements.....after this you can get a colorful rug with some golden tones ...maybe some black accents to bring the big black tv presence into the mix....
  • 8 years ago
    (Black accents in the rug)....this may work with your present art as is if you really like it.....so that the room is a little more eclectic that traditional...lastly it doesn’t seem possible to me to make one coffee table work for both .....couches so I would concentrate on really functional corner tables...keeping the small space in the center open to give a more spacious feel to the tight space.....a couple of smallish ottomans that move around easily would be a big plus in the relaxing use of this room as well
  • PRO
    8 years ago

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  • 8 years ago

    Were you experiencing vertigo when you took the photo? Because I'm experiencing it looking at it. That said, you need portrait-format art over the mantel, big art behind the sofa, and from what I can barely see, a longer media console.


    You'll get more help if you give us straight on photos of the room from all four directions.

  • 8 years ago

    It's a new home (to you). I would put an overall plan together with a budget because you are going to need new furniture. What you have now (specifically that couch and love seat) are not going to work. So come up with a plan and get someone with design taste to help you BEFORE you spend any money.

  • 8 years ago

    Get some real floor lamps and send the torchieres to live with a starving student in the dorm.


  • 8 years ago

    I respectfully disagree with cpaul. The furniture may be a tad large, but I see no reason why it won't work. Besides, I like it.

  • PRO
  • 8 years ago
    The sofas are just fine...they are my favorite color (caramel) leather and they look really comfy. Keep them! Add the long drapes like celery suggests (believe it or not, you can get them made that long) and a wonderful rug...oriental with brick red as dominant color and a tad of black. Def a round coffee table or ottoman that will serve both sofas...something in wood. Art that you love on the big wall (landscape orientation) and more art (portrait orientation) above mantle. Yum!!
  • PRO
    8 years ago

    I like furniture color.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Moving the sofa facing the fireplace closer to the other sofa and leaving the walk space in front of the tv might be worthwhile. If you do that ...

    ... and since a room sized rug wouldn't be needed to "define" your living space ... and since a full sized room rug, such as is suggested by celerygirl , is too large and leaves awkward corners exposed, consider a smaller area rug beneath the coffee table the outer edges of which set under just the front legs of the sofas.

    The way the pic is taken makes it less obvious but it appears that the doorway on the left front makes traditional end tables with lamps on both ends of the sofa facing the tv an unworkable idea. Floor lamp(s) or very narrow floor lamp/table combo unit(s) might work.

    https://www.lampsplus.com/sfp/2T841/?cm_mmc=GOO-SH--NA--NA-_-2T841&sourceid=DFGPD2T841&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9oDltp-L2gIVijyBCh0bIAb6EAYYCCABEgK__fD_BwE

  • PRO
    8 years ago

    Get a nice lamps.

  • 8 years ago

    Put the art over couch. Put round mirror over fp & drapes on lower windows.

  • 8 years ago
    Groveraxle, along with your on-target advise , I so enjoy your humor ! You always give me a great chuckle on your many posts . Thank you for that . ( Perhaps , too , because ,as a long-time former basset owner , the smile erupts on my face as soon as I see your picture — even once or twice in someone’s dining room ! ) .
  • 8 years ago
    Celerygirl you are good!
  • 8 years ago
    You guys are awesome - what phenomenal feedback!

    I LOVE my sofas - they are so comfy and lived in, so glad people could see they could work.

    Torcheres... ok, they’re going bye bye.
    Rug - Gottit.
    End tables, yep, will see how they would work
    Coffee tables - yep, will re center
    Art work... yep - on it :)
    Stupidly angled photo... I’ll get some from each corner in the morning - my apologies!! Celery girl, you are magic
  • 8 years ago

    Anyone, celerygirl is good and getting better, but I have to call her out for making the art over the sofa too wide and for the art selection in her first rendering which is one of those dreaded canvases cut into three pieces. Don't do that. Just don't.


    All of us basset hounds await further photos.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Agree with groveraxle about not using "one of those dreaded canvases cut into three pieces" -- but then, though it does nothing to brighten the room, I like your original art better than colorful paint randomly splattered on a canvas called art ... though occasionally the patterns of "modern art", if they have some symmetry or elegant form, can be pleasing enough for even me to see them as art -- but then, I'm certainly not an art expert.

  • 8 years ago

    I have a very similar living room. It's gone thru changes over the years. Here is where it's at now.



    I couldn't afford ceiling to floor curtains so many years ago I made these out of $3.00 bed sheets I got at Walmart. Clipped to rings, they are easy to remove for washing.

    What I think you really need for now (for not a lot of money) would be some large pots with plants to bring some organic life into the room.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    @Fia, love your $3 curtains, but please lower your art to about 5" over the mantel. It looks like it's trying to fly away.

  • 8 years ago

    Haha, thanks groveraxle, but the reason the pic is so high is because the ceiling is soooo high. Lower it just made everything look squished together. If anything, I think I might retire the 2 baby gargoyles. We definitely want to redo the fireplace, but that's a dilemma for another day. :)

  • 8 years ago
    @Fia even though your ceilings are high doesn't make it the right spot for your art. You decorate the lower half of the room only.
  • 8 years ago

    Hmm. I think you would have to see the whole room. On the opposite wall there are stairs that go up to a high catwalk that leads to the bedrooms on either side of the house. There's a wall up there that you see from down below that has art on it as well. The whole area is very open, airy and light-filled. IDK maybe it's just a SoCal thing. One thing I know for sure: I'm no expert, but I know what I like. Sorry anyone4tea, I certainly didn't mean to hi-jack this thread. =)

  • 8 years ago

    Fia, maybe you need bigger art. ;-)

  • 8 years ago

    That's a thought Grover! But alas, this time of year my thoughts turn to my back yard projects.

  • 8 years ago

    I personally love drapes and celerygirl's renderings are great. However, unless you never use the fireplace, I would not hang panels next to it. Major fire hazard.

  • 8 years ago
    Wow, you ladies are amazing!! Here are the pics, as requested, hopefully I’ve avoided vertigo..

    Form these pics, I know I need to change the location of the coffee table and my breakfast table/chairs!!
  • 8 years ago

    Put a tapestry or large art to hide the reception above tv.

  • 8 years ago

    Can the fp get a glass encase?

  • 8 years ago

    Showoff that great wall and fireplace with floor to ceiling stone work and drapes with some tables in front of the windows like these:

  • PRO
    8 years ago

    It looks like you need a rug, drapes, artwork, end tables, lamps, and some pillows.

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