Colour schemes and Accessorizing: Living Room
I’ve mentioned that there isn’t a lot of natural light in the new place. So, it’s small and dark. What are my thoughts on how to solve that problem? What colours am I planning? What do I need to buy?
Brainstorming on the living room:
A hanging lantern from the ceiling and a floor lamp with a silver base and white, papery shade. Lots of wattage.
Walls painted an off-white shade, but with green tones. Bright white trim. A horizontal, wall length mirror across one wall in the living room will reflect some sun light and add a look of more space.
Everything textile-styles will be turquoise, white and lime green. Not that awful 80s electrical lime green, but the truly cool, almost avocado shade. Lots of toss cushions and throws. Storage in the form of a bench or ottoman. Truly minimal, but with a cozy theme.
Plants. For the love of God, I will learn to grow things and they will keep our air clean and add green beauty to our lives. And maybe even some flowers. And even if things will not grow, I will get into the habit of buying us flowers, because we deserve that beauty, sitting on our windowsill.
Window dressings will be billowy and romantic. Like perma-wrinkled cottons with embroidered edges, hanging from a decorative, simple steel rod and tied back with room-coordinating heavy ribbon. The blinds will always be up, just like they are, now, but these curtains will get pulled closed during the appropriate times. Not that there are many, in this household.
I’ll need a rug of some sort - I’m hoping for a fabric one that will dampen the sound of Isobel dancing, jumping and spinning, while being machine washable. If I can figure that one out, I would love a white and turquoise striped extra-wide runner for the entire floor space that is not used by the bed.
The day bed. Sigh. I want it. I don’t know if I can get it, right away. I’m feeling some stress in the ‘future’ of my money department, so think it’s wise if I hold off until at least, I can save some money on delivery by having a friend go with me to the store. Or I could just get something different. But that might defeat the point. I’ll have to ask for opinons on this one.
I’m thinking of buying a couple of inexpensive wooden, covered storage tables. These would go in the space where my kitchen opens to the living room. I’d create covered cushions to go on top of the lids, like a bench. It could do extreme duty: as a serving table, seating, storage and I’d have a great way to block her off from the kitchen!
Photo frames. I love them. Different shapes, sizes, with our without mattes, floating or thick-framed, I love them all. I plan on really working over the next few months to get everything that I want on my walls in non-matching, non symmetrical frames and hanging them in groups - in a collage style. I far prefer hanging frames over table-toppers, so getting out of those ones is the first method of attack.
I love candles. But with an…adventurous two year old (on Friday), they aren’t much of a possibility. Enter shelving. I’d like to be rid of my current bookcase, replacing it with floating shelves. Also! Some of those hangable storage cubes for books, hanging them in a staggered formation, in groups. This would leave the clear shelving, mostly, for flickering candle light and what little knicknacks that I own.
Do you have any other suggestions? Any ways that you can think of to combat a terrorizing toddler, lack of space, light and finances, to give me a cozy, functional, minimalist space?
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