Home Tour: How to Create a Living Room you love

If you remember me sharing my stripes inspiration here you'll remember how much I used to loath my living room.......well, not at first when I designed it of course :) When my style started to evolve from dark, warm, mid-2000 colors like dark green, gold and burgundy to light, cooler colors, I felt asphyxiated everytime I walked throught that room!

No one should feel that way when walking through their home........if you do, it's time to change! Now! Rest assured, I didn't have a budget to make over this room......I just tried to sneak in a few things here and there using the current budget we have.

Here are the changes I made little by little:

Paint, paint, paint! We painted over the gold-green walls with a soothing blue-gray.

I bought two staple pieces from Craigslist (both under $200) to anchor the room and painted both of them white.

Read more here about how I transformed my ugly tree basket and here where I got inspiration for my gallery wall!

The green/gold curtains came down and up went my white/brown striped curtains {see before curtain pic above}

I moved the large sofa out! Since it's small room and we don't use it a whole lot I didn't think we needed a huge sofa in there. Instead I kept the green chair and found the white Country Living chair at Savers ($15 people.....in good condition!) It can be done! The bench (also a score from Savers) can be pulled in for more seating if needed.

These changes took me months........it didn't happen overnight. But as the room started to come together I felt like it was becoming more and more ME!

Of course I needed a few new accessories.......

You can read more here about how to create a tattered vintage book stack.

I love this room because it's ME........and the hubs likes it because I like it! Good man :) I brought in colors, furniture and accessories that I love because of the soft, light feeling they create.

So, do you have a room you loath? If so, I hope I've inspired you to start making the change to a space you love!

Make it a beautiful day!

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