On this version of Ask A Designer™, Gillian Atkins, senior designer at Lynda Reeves Design Studio (LRDS), shares recommendation for updating a front room structure.
Q: Please assist! We lately purchased an attractive home, inbuilt 2003, that’s displaying its age. We painted the partitions in Benjamin Moore’s Merely White, used a limestone for the fireside and had the flooring sanded. My husband insisted on having the TV on the big wall so, sadly, it should keep. How will we end or tie these three partitions collectively? The wall to the suitable of the fireside has a distinct segment that’s not very deep. We plan on getting new furnishings — options could be appreciated! It must be cozy for watching TV. — P.R., Kelowna, B.C.
A: The work you’ve executed up to now is nice; you simply want a great furnishings plan. Begin with a brand new massive nook sectional and set it reverse the TV and fireside. Place a console behind it so that you aren’t simply staring in the back of the sectional from the kitchen. Put a media cupboard beneath the TV and decrease the TV by a foot or so. (Inform your husband to get a much bigger TV!)
Purchase a big sq. rug — these are exhausting to seek out. Strive a custom-cut broadloom or woven one. Add a sq. espresso desk in entrance of the sectional and a tall plant within the far nook. Place one in every of your black leather-based lounge chairs with an ottoman close to the nook to the suitable of the fireside, with a small cocktail desk to the aspect and your current ground lamp behind. You would possibly wish to contemplate including some desk lamps since there isn’t overhead lighting.
The recessed wall is ideal for artwork! Strive a dramatic vertical summary portray in a blond body: it’s going to assist add visible weight to that aspect of the room.
