Since moving all the red stuff upstairs and all the pink stuff downstairs, I've actually been quite happy with the living room and dining room. I seem to be obsessing over pink lately.
I repainted some of the starburst painting with more pink and blues. I covered over the more jewel-toned reds and oranges.
The pink lamps that were such a failure in the master bedroom go quite nicely with the painting.
I had no idea it would be so hard to find pink pillows and lamps. Of the eleventy-million pillows I have tried, I've kept only this Remi pillow from Pottery Barn.
In a fortuitous turn of events, I found these gray ottomans in a local consignment shop. I donated the peeling brown ottomans.
I moved some of the art around. I also moved the living room furniture around for the bazillionth time. This arrangement doesn't have a tv in front of the window, there is room to walk around the sofa on both sides, the tv is on a wall, and I kinda think maybe this one is not awful? It even has room for another armchair to the left of the tv. I just need to remember that in every house we move to it takes me a year to find a decent furniture arrangement.
The one problem is that there is no overhead lighting in the living room. It would be nice to have a console behind the sofa to put some lamps on, but it just was too much furniture in the foyer area. That one floor lamp in the corner has to light a 15x10 area with vaulted 20 foot ceilings. We mostly sit in the dark and refer to the living room as "Il Grotto."
Et voila, I managed to take a small pink refresh of an out of sight bedroom and turn it into the Pink That Ate Half The Downstairs.
I repainted some of the starburst painting with more pink and blues. I covered over the more jewel-toned reds and oranges.
The pink lamps that were such a failure in the master bedroom go quite nicely with the painting.
I had no idea it would be so hard to find pink pillows and lamps. Of the eleventy-million pillows I have tried, I've kept only this Remi pillow from Pottery Barn.
In a fortuitous turn of events, I found these gray ottomans in a local consignment shop. I donated the peeling brown ottomans.
I moved some of the art around. I also moved the living room furniture around for the bazillionth time. This arrangement doesn't have a tv in front of the window, there is room to walk around the sofa on both sides, the tv is on a wall, and I kinda think maybe this one is not awful? It even has room for another armchair to the left of the tv. I just need to remember that in every house we move to it takes me a year to find a decent furniture arrangement.
The one problem is that there is no overhead lighting in the living room. It would be nice to have a console behind the sofa to put some lamps on, but it just was too much furniture in the foyer area. That one floor lamp in the corner has to light a 15x10 area with vaulted 20 foot ceilings. We mostly sit in the dark and refer to the living room as "Il Grotto."
Et voila, I managed to take a small pink refresh of an out of sight bedroom and turn it into the Pink That Ate Half The Downstairs.
