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Improvements for my living room

last year

Hello! This is my living / multi-purpose room. I am overall satisfied with the direction it’s going, but I somehow don’t know how to ”finish” the room and tie it all together. There are empty spaces / gaps and I feel a little lost what to do with the walls. I thought about painting one of the walls or hanging large wall art (which would be a commitment) or putting up shelving. Any feedback on my

current layout and ideas for how to improve the decoration would be very appreciated.








Comments (11)

  • last year

    What nice bright room! if it were me, I might add a narrowish table to the left of the soda and add a lamp there - do you need hooks or a coatrack by the door?


    FWIW Anthropologie has huge paper tapestries that are a total steal, one of those could be fun

    Claudine thanked la_la Girl
  • last year

    I think I would pair the couch and chair together and have the table on one end instead of in the middle of sitting pieces.

    Claudine thanked justcallmepool
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    You have alot of different functions in this room. exercise, dining, office, music and 2 seating areas. first question is do all need to stay here? if so id try and an group like function together. for example pull both seating areas into one and add the piano to the grouping as they could conceivably be related.

    Claudine thanked wsea
  • last year

    Thank you for the helpful feedback! I live alone in this one-bedroom apartment that has a hallway, so I don’t need hooks, but everything else needs to stay, yes, the kitchen is too small for a table and the bedroom is to small for an office corner. I rarely have visitors so I usually use the armchair for reading. I will check on the wallpaper and the table idea!

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  • last year

    I would move all the casual seating closer to the window with the reading chair.

    Sofa where the desk is. Desk to where sofa is and create your office.

    the dining set between the two doors

    Is the cabinet for office use or storage? if office, keep it next to the desk, if it's storage, use if for dining storage on the wall between the doors. Piano between new office and "living room"

    A larger rug to anchor the seating area centered on the front windows.

    Claudine thanked Lyn Nielson
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    The door near the window leads to the kitchen, the door near the couch leads to the hallway.




    @BeverlyFLADeziner

  • last year

    @Lyn Nielson thank you. I tried to make a quick mock-up. I like the idea with the couch! Just a bit concerned I won’t get enough daylight at the desk.



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    Do you have another place to store the items that are shoved under the sofa? If the area under the sofa was covered with fabric to the floor, it would be fine to leave those items if you don't have another spot. However, with the items being visible, it makes your room look a bit cluttered. (when it really isn't compared to many spaces that are posted on here!)


    I also think finding larger art vs. the small pieces that you currently have on the walls would be a big improvement.

    The tapestries at Anthropologie are beautiful (thanks for the idea la_la Girl!):

    Here is an example of one (it has MANY five star reviews):



    Hobby Lobby has 50% off wall art - online and in-store:

    These are canvas:





    There are MANY diy large wall art ideas that have been posted. Here is an example of one:



    Society6 has thousands of choices - the smallest size of this wall tapestry is 51"x60" - she said that she spent around $40 to buy the tapestry and put a wood floating frame around it.

    Here is here her blog: https://angelarosehome.com/diy-large-wall-art-and-floating-fram

    Lone fox has a blog with many diy ideas for your home. Here is one on large art.

    https://lonefox.com/blogs/journal/diy-large-scale-artwork



    Lone Fox has many youTube videos that show exactly how different items have been created.

    I could post many more - but it really depends on what type of art you like. Just do a search for "large diy wall art" - there are so many ideas!

    Claudine thanked dani_m08
  • last year

    @dani_m08 These are great examples, thank you! And I love Lone Fox on YouTube, he is very creative.


    As for under the couch, yeah it’s a bit of a space problem, I don’t like it either and have thought about how to hide the things under there so they are not as visible.