Time for another room update. Yes you can take note of the lovely blinds, carpet, and fireplace tile. Since we moved from a house less than half of size of our current one, we didn’t have anything to fill this room after the major updates were complete. (Just to clarify our house now isn’t huge our other house was just really small.)
We use this as sort of a place holder room. We buy furniture (mainly chairs) that will wind up somewhere else later and/or be refinished and put them in here. So excuse the mismatch within this space. The wall color is Sculptor Clay. (I love Behr Premium Plus Ultra.) I made the curtains. The fabric is super cool and was very reasonable. (You can see the pattern closer here. It’s the one on the far left.) It has a very mid century feel in the pattern. We had the cane chairs reupholstered in a gray linen. (Closer view here and originally looked like this.)
Here are some of those place holder chairs I mentioned earlier. We got the brown chair for $99 (read more about that here). This actually might stay in this room but reupholster it. I love the brown, but we have another chair that needs to be upholstered so if we do them in the same fabric it will bring some symmetry to the room.
We love, love, love the orange chair. We bought it at the same place we bought the dining wing backs. We saw it out of the corner of our eye just sitting in a shipping crate. All lonely and needing us. It is in very good condition. Also $45 so sold. It might be mohair but not sure. Either way it’s awesome and will stay orange (but not in the living room probably in the master). It was crazy that we packed the XC90 with 2 wingbacks, the orange chair, a giant moose head (you’ll see later), and massive amounts of stuff from IKEA.
The couch is from Macy’s. It has tufts that you can’t see in this picture. The rug and coffee table are from Pottery Barn. They were from our first house. We bought the Thomas Paul pillow from Home Goods for $10 on clearance. I saw the fabric and knew what it was immediately. I may or may not have jumped up and down.
Here is where the band Nick & Nona perform while mommy (aka me) sips coffee and watches. I bought the Rhodes for Nick’s 24th birthday, and Ramona got her Schoenhut for Christmas 2010. I got the stool off craigslist for cheap.
Punchlist (and a little bit of wishes too) for the formal living room:
- Paint the trim white
- Style the mantel
- Hang some artwork and other things above the piano
- Rug since the one in there doesn’t match
- Deal with the chair situation – reupholster
- New back door to the patio
- A tv and media center???
- Something for the wall
- A ton of other furniture/style changes that we don’t even know yet to make this room a formal living room not a furniture graveyard.
Those brass deer are dreamy. love the piano stool, too
Ramona calls them reindeer and tries to feed them cheerios. They are solid brass and heavy. We actually bought them at an antique mall (Miss B’s I think) in Weatherford for…(drum roll please)…$35. That’s why I like antiquing in Weatherford!
Love your floors! They open totally open up the room. BEAUTIFUL!
They were defintely the budget breaker in the first phase of our remodel, but we love them. We would probably be much further along if we had gone with something cheaper, but it was totally worth it.
loving it!
I enjoy a bit of mismatch. Really like the orange chair and cannot wait to see the moose head! I love Moose
They say 10% of a room should throw you off, but I think our percentages are off in this room! The orange chair is awesome just clashy with the red. I am not sure what to do with the Moose head yet. It’s sitting neglected in the closet…I have an irrational fear of putting holes in the walls! Of course the moose is huge and requires serious holes, so it’s all that irrational in this case.