Your using this room for inspiration?❤️
Can’t wait to see!!!!

I love chintz, prints, the color green, and much about this toom…but no. It appears to me a room in granny’s lovely retirement quarters.

It's a little tricky since I am starting with an existing sofa (white duck) And don't need much more upholstered stuff in there. So the fabric is only used on one new chair and pillows. I will not do window treatments. The stripe ceiling is reinterpreted as a striped ottoman. A brass embellished table for the gilt one, and a brass tray on the ottoman. Not enough wall space for prints, and the existing cedar shake wall introduces something totally different (but I want to use it anyway). I will have a games table at one end, TBD but prob in a dark wood.

The floor will have jute, but I like this patterned one. It will also be painted (wood). I want to paint the floor and the FPL trim and bookcases in green, a bit lighter then the wood cabinet in the photo above.

Some questions:

1. How much of the bookcase/fpl would you make green, and would you do any of it in a dark stained wood?

2. WDYT of this shade of green?

3. Would you forego the striped element in order to repeat the chintz one the ottoman?

PS the print over the fpl will actually be a TV. Since I won't be hiding it, i will be one of the "art" TVs.

Oops! Some-weird-how, i missed ”i’m borrowing from this look.” Let me re-phrase: There is no one thing I don’t like, there’s just too much of it. Expect that’s the reason for my initial comparison: gran trying to take too many of her lovely things into a much smaller space.

I also am just now catching up on much I’ve missed here of late. Hz kept insisting I sign in to comment … over and over until I gave it up. Just now catching up on your fun new Charleston project….and much else from others.

Love the new plan-- and kudos to you because I much prefer your design to the inspiration. I am ambivalent to the wood tones on the fireplace/shelves so I would forego it (but place some natural elements on that side via wood frames, baskets, wood pieces/sculpture, etc).

My only caution is not to get too set on fabrics until you've matched the colors and scales -- but love them all!

Love it! Can't wait to see the final. (I like the ottoman here better than the other one.)

I didn't much like the inspo pic, but I like YOUR translation!

I am slightly confused. The green paint is for the FP/trim? What color will the floor be painted? Same color?

LOL Sue, Thx. Yes, I was always planning on a wood floor painted green for this room, but looking at the Redd room I notice he had green on the cabs so I thought about doing some/all of the fpl in the same green instead of the white as shown...

place some natural elements on that side via wood frames, baskets, wood pieces/sculpture, etc

Yes, that should do it. Good point, thx

1) Would keep fp white 2) it's a pretty shade of green 3) would incorporate the striped fabric in a pillow or two, maybe just one long lumbar across back of sofa btw chintz and possibly add a 3rd coordinating fabric.

P.S. Agree with SueB, like your room much better than inspiration and forgot to say I LOVE the rug

If your goal is to borrow from this look don't do stripes but do a chintz/floral in a green and use the same green elsewhere. Your inspiration photo may be grannyish or overdone but it feels and looks fresh because of the green, floral and white. Focus on those elements.

BLF, even though the striped ceiling in the orginal is a pretty strong element?

Differing opinion here, Blf. I absolutely love stripes and florals together-- the stripes tone done the chintz and keep it from getting too precious. Or overtaking the walls ;)

I ordered a swatch of the floral and a yard of the stripe (no swatch avail).

I like it all. I think the room needs the stripe for contrast and freshness. Until you see the fabrics IRL, though, it’s hard to know if they work together. Same thing with the paint, but that you can adjust. If you need a green with less blue and more yellow, you can try Whirlybird or Cooking Apple Green.

I like this ottoman a lot.

Since the fp & shelves back up to the cedar shingles I think just white looks good.

I love your shade of green paint, and using it on the floor only has that wonderful offhand, summerhouse charm. Layering on top the natural fiber rug is perfect

I’m so jelly that you can do a painted wood floor. I know that in my house with 8 excitable paws it would be a chippy mess in an instant.

Can you post a reminder photo of your upholstered furniture? I really like stripes and florals together as well. But in this case stripes are a major element being all over the ceiling and then being brought down into the room via the wallpaper border.. Putting it just on an ottoman looses the proportional impact of it.. Perhaps if it were to be put on a bench the impact would be in keeping with your vision.

BLF, its white cotton duck. I might do one armchair in the chintz. The ottoman si 44" sq, so pretty large. I don't know where a bench might go in the room, plus it's be smaller.

Maybe I could use fabric on the games table.

Lisaam, We have a Golden. She doesn't damage the painted floors, but she does cause scratches in my wide plank pine.

Fun, That is Cooking Apple Green! I used it on the beadboard in a PR and can't wait to use it again somewhere.

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Love the mockup, love the green and love the stripes and might even repeat them in pillows.

I can't remember...is the fp existing or being built?

This is a new sunroom addition adjoining the existing LR. The fireplace wall in this sunroom is currently the exterior of the house (hence the cedar shingles). So this fireplace is new, but it does back up to the existing fpl in the LR.

I cant wait to see photos of the wood floor and bookcases painted green. I think this will look amazing with the white sofa and a pattern of some sort thrown in, although I might go bright floral over stripes.

Thanks, Rocky. Where would you stop and start with the green on the FPL wall?

I read down to the numbered questions (so far). Back of bookcases green. Tile around FP box green. Find the tile first and match the paint color? Yes to striped ottoman.

Will be a beautiful room.

I really like the Sanderson and the way the background isn't pure white. Will have to see when the samples come in.

If your wood floor is to be painted green I would not paint any of the bookcase green with the possibe exception of the backs of the shelves OR the shelves themselves. There are many differences between your proposed room and the Miles Redd so you are not copying, you’re interpreting. He has a green wood element and your floor will be your interpretation of that element. I think I would rather see either a pretty fruitwood or a light walnut shelf instead of white for the

bookshelves; your natural material objets d’art (shells, baskets, etc) will look better on wood than on white, IMO.

You could introduce the stripe as striped wallpaper on the inside back of your shelving. Doing that would require a very deft touch and I’d look for a paper with green and brown stripes of varying widths on a creamy white background. It won’t be busy if the right amount of it is covered by books, photos and accessories.

I’m excited about your new color direction, and I like Redd’s work a lot. I have a granite coffee table he designed for BD and I love it it. I can’t move it, but I love it 😎

There are many differences between your proposed room and the Miles Redd so you are not copying, you’re interpreting.

Yes, I think that is it. I like the idea of painting the backs of the bookshelves. I am tempted to use something other than white for the bookcases or for at least part of the fpl wall, as you suggest; white woodwork has become so ubiquitous!

PS Loving green paint on the bookcases, thx Allison and KSWL.

I don’t think you need to repeat the stripe; if the color is fairly close to one of the greens you use elsewhere that’s enough reference IMO. Also, the stripe is lovely and bold and can be the star pattern. Alternatively, you could also use a large scale check, which would be more cottagey / a little less formal and could be repeated in a smaller scale fabric on a lampshade, for example. Or you could keep the stripe and have a flat small fringed throw (sort of like a rug) in a check to drape over the ottoman for a different look and to protect the fabric from shoes and spills.

Since the room will be informal you might also consider a scrubbed pine for the furniture. European scrubbed pine antiques and good reproductions are abundant.

Examples:

console table or chest

Side tables

Ooh, that scrubbed pine is very pretty. I think that would look nice.

Looking at my floor plan for the 14x22 room, not sure I have the space I'd like for a desk/games table. If you look at the top left corner of the room on this floorplan, I only have 6x6 feet. I wanted a desk/table there, pushed against the wall on the left. This spot will have a nice oceanfront view, so I thought it would be a nice place to sit and do laptop work. I envisioned a light desk/table that we could easily move out from the wall if we wanted to do games for 4. Not sure I have the space for it though...

The sofa, at 10' long, is a given. The L part has an extra piece bolted on because the software did not have one our size.

How about an antique flip top card table for your desk. Less expensive than new, sometimes.

Brilliant! Thx

This one has a weird finish on it but it is so inexpensive, you would not feel bad about painting it to suit.

https://www.chairish.com/product/6585520/1950s-vintage-flip-top-game-table

I think I will find a folding game table I like and paint it green, then get two occasional chairs for it and do them in the chintz, too

This is dreamy …. 😍

Dreamy. Xtra dreamy with with a water view.