Auditioning Replacement Furniture & Art
When you are used to seeing a room a certain way and then you change things up, you're not always thrilled with the results. Now there may be nothing wrong with your changes, it just is hard to get used to. I am in the process of auditioning some pieces as possible replacements for things that I want to replace.
If you follow along then you know that I have had a huge mirror in my living room for the last two houses. Now it looked totally different in each house.
This is how it looked in the previous house. This was a rather small room so I loved how the mirror opened the space up and made it look twice as large. In this room the ceilings were 9 ft. tall and the mirror was framed with windows and drapes on each side. This is how it looked in this new home. This room has 2 story ceilings, so the mirror is definitely more of a focal point.
The mirror is gone to a friend for her staging business. Now I need to figure out what is going to take it's place. First thing I notice is how the mirror use to bounce light around the room. It is so much harder to get a good picture now. There is either too much light or not enough.
My daughter had these two paintings that she loaned me to try out in this space.
They are in shades of beige/cream/cocoa. As you can see in the picture, depending on the light they have shades of gold and mint green too. I used two cocoa pillows to kee...
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