Need help styling our buffet/sideboard

12 years ago

I made a photo wall a year or so ago and my husband just hates it so I've been tasked with redesigning our buffet/sideboard area. I love the idea of plenty of photos but I just wasn't happy with the end result so we've decided to start again.

I thought perhaps a mirror in place of the photos and I definitely want some greenery but other than that I'm running around in circles. Please help!!

I've stripped all the vases, candles and photos off ready to start with a blank slate. The whole area is a grey, black and white palate with a number of pieces in that dark timber. There are also splashes of red taken from an artwork on another wall but that's my next project so I'm open to other colours.

The 2nd photo shows my current idea. I have the white vases (they look stunning with lit candles) and photos but everything else is just ideas. I'm happy to buy new pieces so please suggest away :D

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
12 years ago
Love the painting, hate the photo wall and think the black planter is too tall and big for plant so something a little lower and the plant taller, maybe a palm. I like the vases get rid of photos and small bowl, love the mirror move all vases to the left side and a lamp with silver base or crystal with white shade on side where vases are now. I like this lamp but with a white shade..maybe one single stem of red flower in silver vase , gerbera daisy would be nice.
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Manon Floreat
12 years ago
Because of the brass hardware on the console, I'd think about some warmer tones to compliment it. Rather than the planter, consider an interesting occasional chair in the corner. Maybe in red to compliment your painting.

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For greenery, look into table top terrariums.
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JudyG Designs
12 years ago
last modified: 12 years ago
Very Campaign…love it.

Definitely a brass table lamp.

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Heidi Butterfield
Original Author
12 years ago
Thanks soooo much everyone! This is exactly the advice I was looking for! I would really like to keep some sort of greenery inside so I was thinking a happy plant. Would this work in lieu of a palm? And if so, any suggestions on the pot?

I like the occasional chair but I don't think it would work with the rest of the room layout.

I'm going to start shopping around for a lamp and then post the updated concept here :) Thanks again!!
libradesigneye
12 years ago
last modified: 12 years ago
When you do a gallery wall, you might try this for another room. Take the photos you are using now and discard all the posed shots. Crop the others in a unique way and print them all in black and white. Mat 1/2 of them - mostly black and white. take 3 of them and blow them up to the largest scale before they get too grainy so you have 3 elements that are scaled bigger than the others. Add some black and white graphic line art - picasso has some, or look at a graphic you love and print it b/w. Take your favorite and put an oversized mat on it. The main issue is that you need more variety in scale and more unity in image to use it as a focal wall. For a mixed up gallery, check out younghouselove.com and their last hallway gallery . .