I thought I'd introduce you, dear reader, to our living room. I've only painted it three different times, and although I can't promise (*cough*) I won't repaint it again at some point in the future, for now, the walls will remain chocolate brown.
I like to have a place to drop keys and sunglasses when I come in, so this tall (yet narrow) dresser provides us with just the prefect spot for that... I sanded it down until you could see the different layers it's seen in its lifetime and rather liked it, so I left it that way.
On this wall, we put up beadboard pretty high up, to emphasize the height of the ceilings, and because as much as I think the cozy color works in this room, I need white. And lots of it, at that.
The vintage coat rack was missing a hook, so I put a glass knob in its place. I took the knob from an old cabinet door a neighbor had discarded after a remodel (The horror! The horror! And on so many levels, too... But I'll abstain from saying anything else about that.) Anyway, I actually really like this detail, and I am glad that at least the knob, if not the door, found a second life in our home. The bird print is by talented Geninne, whom I've mentioned before here.
The windows behind the couch to the right were covered with mirror (mirror?? yes, mirror...more horror) that had been glued to the glass, which made for a very weird and uncomfortable space, not to mention dark...so dark.Needless to say, we got rid of the mirrors, carefully breaking each little pane on the top as well as the big panes on the bottom of both windows. We then put in new glass panes, applied putty around them to hold them in place, and repainted the frames once the putty had hardened... The light in this room is now pretty incredible, as we knew it would be...
...and hopefully it will somehow make up for the many years of bad luck we'll otherwise get because we had to break so many mirrors to free those windows and their lovely, life-loving ability to let in light.