Today’s redesign was based off of this lovely new set of dishes from, believe it or not, Walmart! It’s their new Citrus Blossom Collection. I love the colors! Bright and Cheerful!
1. Citrus Blossom Dish Set from Walmart
2. Chelsea rug from Plushrugs.com
3. Cecelia Napkins from Crate and Barrel
4. Spire Vases from Home Decorators Collection
5. Nottingham Pedestal Dining Table from Target.
6. Jasper Dining Chairs from Target.
Tags: dining room, spring
Today I wanted something that was calming yet playful and fun! This is what I came up with! I want to move right in!
1. Riverside Metro Dining Table -This table has a hidden leaf that folds out for company!
2. Tufted Button Chair from Walmart (Yep…Walmart is stepping up the furniture offerings online and there’s some good finds to be had there!)
3. Glass Ball Chandelier from Anthropologie. (Or try to make one yourself…it’s not too hard!)
4. Amy Butler’s Coventry Rug from Modern Rugs. Swoon! That rug makes my heart sing!
5. Paint Color from Benjamin Moore: 416 Tasty Apple Such a happy bright color to dine with!
6. Walter Starburst Wall art from Design Public.
Tags: dining area, dining room
Today I wanted a clean dining room design. I also wanted it to feel casual, yet elegant at the same time.
1. I chose the Contessa Chandelier-Amber from Kravet because it has a clean but elegant feel to it, and brings in the accent amber color that I’m working with in the space.
2. The Montego Pedestal Table from Pottery Barn was chosen because of it’s clean lines. The dark wood tone really makes the amber color pop too!
3. Nail Head Chair from Pottery Barn. I love the nail head detailing! Once again, chosen for it’s clean lines.
4. Safavieh Rug from Rugs-Direct. The pattern in the rug mimics the gentle curves of the chandelier and brings out the lovely amber color as well.
5. Top off your table with a table top terrarium and you’ve got a simple, elegant, clean dining room design!
Tags: dining room
Wendy’s main goal with her space was to make sure everything was in the best place possible. She wanted to ensure that all their space was being utilized properly. I’ve made some minor changes and updated a few things while adding more flexible seating to update her space without spending lots of money. Many times, in homes of this size there are a limited number of ways that furniture can be laid out. There’s lots of space needed for circulation and maybe only one wall that has cable limiting where the TV is placed. The key in these spaces is to make sure that furniture, if possible, serves a dual purpose.
1. Remove the doors from this cabinet. Make simple fabric panels to cover the bottom. By doing this you’ll be able to utalize more space in this corner because it’s not needed for opening the doors to access the bottom of the built-ins. Use Amy Butler Fabric August Fields Graceful Vines Orange. Paint the inside of the upper cabinets a coordinating orange, SW 6889 Stirring Orange. Add a circular rug to help define the space. This round 6′ rug from Rugs Direct would work well.
2. Use the same Amy Butler Fabric Graceful Vines, to make some drapery panels for these windows. This will bring in some of the accent orange as well.
3. Let’s paint this TV stand. The furniture that you have thus far work well together as they are all a similar style and finish, except for the TV stand. By darkening this piece (Use Sherwin Williams Color SW 6070 Turkish Coffee) you will tie this in as well. I think you’ll find that you won’t feel like your furniture is a modge podge anymore!
4. Replace this coffee table with 3 of these ottomans from Overstock.com and use as a base to make your own covers with the Amy Butler Fabric-Lotus Wall Flower Green. (Yes the colors don’t match at all on the originals, but for $24 a piece you can’t go wrong! If you build these from scratch they would be more expensive.) Don’t forget to use Scotchguard on these and they’ll last for quite a while and stand up to your children using them! These will provide flexible seating for you. They can be used as a coffee table for now, then when more seating is needed, just pull them out for seating! Instead of a large area rug here, buy 3 carpet tiles from FLOR and use these to place the ottomans on. You’re essentially making a small runner for the ottomans. I’d go with All Square-Orange. (When you’re using the ottomans as seating, just slide the carpet under the sofa!)
5. Many designers will tell you to hang all artwork at eye level but there are times (many times in fact!) that this is not always the case. Right now it seems like they are floating above the rest of the items in the room, if you move them down about 12″ they will then be seen as part of the furniture arrangement that includes the ottomans and sofa! This will provide more continuity in the space, which is needed in a smaller space.
Here is the design board with the items from above:
Color Palette
1. New Wall Color: Sherwin Williams SW 6711 Parakeet
2. New TV Stand Color: Sherwin Williams SW 6070 Turkish Coffee
3. Accessory Color (You already have this covered!)
4. Cabinet Color for inside the built in cabinets in your dining space: Sherwin Williams SW 6889 Stirring Orange
I love your guitar arrangement! Thanks so much Wendy for letting us help you with your space!!
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Tags: Amy Butler, dining room, living room, redesign
Monday we’re assisting Wendy with her Living Room and Dining Room space. Here is her current design:
Here are Wendy’s goals with the space above:
What are your favorite design store/home décor stores? They can be brick and mortar stores or online stores. The answers to this question help us determine your budget by seeing which places you like to shop. These also tell us a little bit about your style. I am a huge fan of Anthropology and Crate and Barrel for ideas. Then I utilize flea market/garage sale finds to try to replicate some of the items. I like furniture redos (painting, simple upholstery, change knobs, etc.). I have inherited many of the pieces in this room. The sofa is the only furniture piece that I bought new. Sometimes, this makes my rooms too hodgepodge/college aesthetic. I am not married to any of the accessories in this room. My favorite one is the flower painting because I think it is so fun. I also sew and can make pillows or window treatments. I LOVE Amy Butler’s fabrics and would love to use them somehow. The interview that you did with her was great. I am a huge fan! Her new rugs are so amazing.
What 3 words would you use to describe yourself and the feeling of the space you’d like? Warm, happy and colorful.
What is the most important thing you ’d like done with the space? I think the space layout needs attention. Also, we like to have people over but there is never enough comfortable seating for all of them. I have 2 kids who are 3 and 6 so although they are old enough to not pull things down, they still spill plenty of things on the floor/sofa so this is important to know. Because the space is small everything must be very functional and flexible.
What are two of your favorite and least favorite colors? (Keep this particular space in mind, as we know favorite colors vary from space to space) I love bold colors. We have lived with the dark green on the walls for 6 years now. I still really like it but would be up for an update. Also Red! I love red and variations of it. (This is probably why I like the green because anything red looks great with it.) Not a huge fan of pastels.
What are the overall dimensions, including ceiling height (if applicable) of your space? This room is an L- Shaped room with many doorways. See attached drawing. The ceilings are 9’.
Is there anything else you’d like us to include or consider in designing your space? We live in 1,000 SF so this is a very important room to all of us. We eat, watch TV, hobby, play, entertain, relax, and just plain live here a lot. I think there are some great opportunities for utilizing the space that we haven’t thought of. My husband is an avid guitar player. Our solution to having guitar stands everywhere was to hang them on the wall. I like this but would be open to changing the location or splitting them up if you thought we should for the layout to work.
Check back Monday for the redesign!
Tags: dining room, living room, redesign
