Katrina_ellen my lobster trap is very old and looks something like this and the opening is on top vs side like i saw online. After i thought of using it, i had to google it too myself. The glass does look good! Unfortunately i painted it blue years back to use in my herb garden, i will try to take it back to original wood for coffee table, if not, repaint diff color.

You can stain over paint

Forgot to send pic

You think i could stain over paint? Like a gel stain you think?

You stay up late too, huh?

Yeah I stay up late Maybe a gel stain

My attempt at macrame down side of windows. Never drew macrame before, not a great artist, lol. The dots are knots, make a better poet, my feet are long fellas, haha, get it?

I had crochet curtains once and really like them

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That looks good!

I believe i’m going to calm down somewhat on the rug. Quite leery on the boldness with vintage flair medallion choice incase i change things up in the future. And worried with the size i want in living room, yes, the medallion could go wrong. Do you all think this might be the safer way to go and still work for me? This rug is 6x9.

I think it would look Great if you stained all of the wood furniture darker. Use the same color as the wood on your stairs and your flooring. This would make the room look busy And pull it together better. Also a different color of curtain would help. I would also get rid of the white shelf in front of the window to make this room appear less cluttered. I like the color of the iron table you had painted and would work with darker furniture as well.

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I did fill that white shelf with ‘what nots’ colors go but it does look too busy to me too now. You think the last posted rug will be better than the medallion flair? And a dark stain on the lobster coffee table on that rug?

Oh that's seen me way to do the curtains but I would go with them light natural color

My crazy phone that is a unique way to do the curtains to on natural color are it will look too heavy

I don't know about gel stain over paint, I thought stain was just done over a previous wood stain or bare wood? Your color scheme is pretty sedate to me so you could go for more color in a rug, just depends on how colorful you want it. The latest one you posted is nice, but I don't really see that much difference between that one and the one you have. I think the one you have looks good, but sounds like you want a change. I don't know about the macramé panels, they look good in the photo but they are hanging straight down and essentially making a border on either side, but don't know how they would look in real life. Can you take a pic of your lobster trap in front of the sofa so we can see how it looks as is?

Thoughts? still searching...

Down to two, 5x7, ordering today, please all vote, i still stuck on first one

I do like the warmer colors in the first one. I think it would look great.

Me too! Yaaaa! And just getting 5 x 7, thinking 7x10 would overwhelm my area?

7 by 10 would be good

Upthread grover suggested you go one up on he 5 X 7 size to a 6 X 9, If that size isn't available I'd go 7 X 10 - or measure the 7 x 10 out on your floor so you see how it fits, see how the center of the medallion sits in your space in relation to the sofa and centering it off the medallion just to be sure. Better than paying shipping costs to return.

I wish the 6x9 was available but it is not :( would be perfect. The 7x 10 runs into the dining entrance walk through unless i put part of the medallion under the love seat?

Originally wanted the 7x10 for the wow of it all, lol

Yes put the medallion over by the loveseat you don't want it gone into the dining Room

Actually 5’3” x 7’7”

The medallion fits center to love seat on larger (7x10) but the 10 length sits in the pathway of entering the diningroom

I think the 5 x 7 looks undersized, as long as it fits in the room I would do the 7 X 10 and put it partially under the love seat as well, when you put a coffee table in there it will cover part of it as too. I think you can make it work but don't get it if it goes into the dining entrance walk.

You posted while I was writing, I wouldn't do the 7 x 10 then, that won't look right.

Can you change the position of the love seat in the room, or does the 7 x 10 size just not fit at all in the room?

When i get home i’ll do the tape again and take pics if mot too late, we can check it see what you think

This might be a way for you to keep your white shelf but make it less busy. https://www.bhg.com/decorating/storage/projects/how-to-make-bookshelf-shades/

The white shelf is going by steps ; look better. Desk to living room.

Happyleg Oh that white shelf won’t fit over there, i thought it would too!

Partim: i just might try that, see if i can find 12” tensions or somehow put that together.

5’3”x 7’7” (please excuse, art not done yet, just threw back up anywhere to get off floor for now

Doesn’t look centered with sofa but is

7’9” x 10’

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The rug must go under the front legs of couch or chair.

Will that mess up the medallion?

Luckily the window behind the sofa is centered with the dining room entrance which is where i am standing taking the straight on pic or i would just have to run away from home!

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I don't know if it will mess up the medallion But you're making me chuckle that you gonna run away from home

May have to go with a ‘no medallion’ rug bc i agree that the rug needs to go under furniture a bit to look right :(

I like a patteran rug

I do too! I’m shopping again now.

Or if that medallion did not extend to the edge of the carpet, does that make sense?

Maybe i don’t know what you meant by patterned? Now that i think of it