You can see from the floor plan that it's long and narrow and closed off from the rest of the house - we'd love to open it up with some wide doorways between the hall and the kitchen one day, and maybe a big square arch between the two sides of the room to define the living and eating areas - but because the walls in our house are solid brick it's going to be a big job that we need to save up for.
I was having a hard time visualizing where I wanted the living/dining room to go, it was such a huge, blank room and we knew that we'd be swapping out our old sofa, foot stool and TV stand (we didn't have a dining area in our old house so we don't have any dining furniture) - we were starting 100% from scratch. But after we ordered our new sectional it became a little easier - just having one definite item really made it so much easier to imagine the different ways the room could look. I pulled together all the things I knew we definitely wanted to use on the sofa side of the room to make a really simple mood board
The little fabric swatch is Svanby grey for the new sofa, the paint chip is a 50/50 mix of Dulux Natural Hessian and Dulux Polished Pebble, the basket weave is a hand-me-down foot stool that my auntie gave us a while back and the two blankets are both old from Homesense.
Here's what I'm imagining:
Lots of texture and lots of cozy (always!), lots of neutrals, whites and wood tones, very slick and masculine but layered with lots of softer, more feminine accents. Growing up all my favourite houses to visit were full of persian rugs so I'd love to incorporate one in here. It's a long way from where the room is right now
Not so slick! But still progress from where we started
We've already removed the carpet, removed the fireplace and picture rail, changed the chandelier style fittings for these and these from Ikea, removed the textured wall paper, temporarily painted the walls with Wickes Nickle (mixed 50/50 with pure brilliant white to take it down to half strength - but you can see that we've already started to prep for new paint), and changed the vertical blinds for these from ebay (I'm planning on layering them like this). One day we'd love to remove the popcorn ceiling, lengthen the window, widen the door way, install dark engineered wood floors and maybe even remove the chimney breasts.
It will be a little while before we can save up for the other big items for this room but we're all prepped for the new wall colour and I want to try and Ana White a thinner TV unit (Anna White can be a verb right?) so fingers crossed I'll have some updates soon!
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