Anyone feel like decorating my living/dining room?

[y4m]

I have no vision for this stuff...

Here is our new living/dining room from two angles, back when it was staged as the model.  The living room is 19' x 14.5' and the dining room is like 15' x 13'  We think we want to put the TV in the same place it's in in the pictures, and probably need to put some bookshelves somewhere--maybe against the brick opposite the TV?  Everything needs to be repainted, but I don't know what colors would work with the brick and everything else.

(sorry - you missed the pictures)

We know we want to put some vintage travel posters on the brick wall (like this: souther-pacific-san-francisco.jpg).  The curtains and the rugs, as well as this fancy drink cart (you can see it next to the stairs in the photos) all convey, so we can either use them or sell them.



Help!  What would you do here?

[Deleted]

I am not good at this so I won't even try. just wanted to pop in and say I LOVE your floors and brick wall!

[RandZB]

I actually like the colors. Will you be putting a rug in the same place? Same style or different?

[fuddyduddy]

Beautiful space!

I like the look of cooler tones to balance out the redness in the brick. If it were my home, I would decorate with lots of white, slate blue and grey and maybe add in some yellow accents.

ETA: I like this color scheme: 

[y4m]

Feb 2, 2013 20:16:04 GMT -5 fuddyduddy said:

Beautiful space!

I like the look of cooler tones to balance out the redness in the brick. If it were my home, I would decorate with lots of white, slate blue and grey and maybe add in some yellow accents.

I like this idea--this is much more our color scheme than all the taupey-ness they have going on in the model.  I would love to find a way to make gray and brick work

[teflep]

We had a brick wall in our old place (more red, less brown) and did a rich mocha (praline Sandie was the color). Maybe a sage? I love silver sage from restoration hardware too.

www.houzz.com/photos/862720/Bright-Kitchen-traditional-kitchen-birmingham

I love pics on brick, too.

Congrats on the house and I love he vintage pics.

[y4m]

Feb 2, 2013 20:10:16 GMT -5 RandZB said:

I actually like the colors. Will you be putting a rug in the same place? Same style or different?

If we can use the rug, it's MM to do so.  But it's probably not one I'd pick myself.

[Deleted]

I'm not helpful, but I love the room! The drink cart is pretty cool too. I don't understand the bike thing, lol.

Congrats on getting the house! I must have missed that announcement.

[y4m]

The weird bike does not convey. The whole house had like a transporation theme.

[fuddyduddy]

Feb 2, 2013 20:19:49 GMT -5 y4m said:

Feb 2, 2013 20:16:04 GMT -5 fuddyduddy said:

Beautiful space!

I like the look of cooler tones to balance out the redness in the brick. If it were my home, I would decorate with lots of white, slate blue and grey and maybe add in some yellow accents.

I like this idea--this is much more our color scheme than all the taupey-ness they have going on in the model.  I would love to find a way to make gray and brick work

I don't think it would be too difficult to pull off that combination. You can kind of see how the colors play off each other here:



(I also added a picture of the color scheme I had in mind in my earlier post, in case you didn't scroll back up and see it.)

[kateross]

I like these

[ssmjlm]

If the rug conveys, then I would go with the silver sage color recommended above and pull the cooler colors out of the rug. Let the rug, floors and brick be the warmth.

[y4m]

I love that silver sage color.

We're pretty much replacing everything. We do have a few dark wood pieces we might keep.

[Deleted]

I love the silver sage y4m, you can do a lot with that!  I am also a fan of the white, slate blue and grey combination, just sub the silver sage for the white on the walls.  

Oh I like this: www.hgtv.com/designers-portfolio/room/modern/living-rooms/8109/index.html#/id-6013/room-living-rooms/style-modern/color-gray

[mlvmd]

I love exposed brick. I don't know if this is your style but I would use it as an opportunity to go a little loft-like. I would not stick with a general color scheme, instead I would play with texture and contrast. I would get a reclaimed wood table with a bench on one side and soft upholstered chairs on the other side, but square topped so they don't clash too much with a square table or the squareness of the bricks. I would do a sisal rug under the table to add texture without competing in color. I would do a chunky iron light above the table with soft, but unadorned shades. I would do aged studded leather bar stools with aged wood (not espresso, it's too modern) legs.

I would probably paint the walls a warm grey or beige color to not compete with the brick, but the current walls are too yellow and it 's dulling the brick. I might bring in chunky crown molding just to soften the edges while providing a little contrast and painting it white would bring out the lighter tones in the brick. I would do long white curtains and white built in shelves on either side of the TV, again to provide a little structured contrast to the brick and rustic table.

I would also do a velvet couch in grey to soften the space but have round and square pillows to add some interest and probably do light blue and orange just for some pops of color. I would also probably do some oil paintings (not pastels) to add some warmth that the posters don't have because of the texture.

[mlvmd]

Oh, I would also get rid of the drink cart, it's trying too hard.