If you're proud of your front room, what have you got it like? Id like to steal some ideas if you don'tmind
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I would be if i could manage to keep it tidy. It has all light beech furniture, huge tv cabinet which has everything on like freeview, video, dvd player, stereo. That is beech and has silver metal detail. I have a huge beech coffee table which is low down with a shelf and a milky glass middle which you cant see anymore as i have a huge fish tank on it. my computer table is beech with a hutch. i have a 2 and 3 seater cream leather sofa. cream curtains, light oak laminate flooring which used to have a huge cream rug in the middle till i got peeved with the german shepherds hair all over it. I have very light wallpaper which isnt much cop with all the pets and kids. But it was what i wanted not what i should have had. I love it so light in colour and it makes it look so big but like i said its not very practical. Everything else is silver like light fittings, picture frames etc.
a white marble fireplace and a living flame gas fire with a brass surround. and a plain biscuit coloured carpet.. velvet curtains would be luxurious. modern light fittings or a chandelier-type fitting. good luck.
solid dark oak floor,heavy curtains in gold cream and dark red. 2 three seat sofas in ox blood.massive cream sheepskin rug dark oak heavy ornate fire surround with real flame fire.massive gold framed mirror on one wall, candle torches like medeaval ones on the wall
soft lighting really works well, an open fireplace and a few well chosen artworks that blend with your furniture and colour scheme
Smooth walls (plastered not papered). Painted in Crown Stepping Stone - like a duck egg blue. Blue ceiling to floor heavy velvet curtains. Large brown leather sofa and one large brown leather chair. A brown matching low footstool to put your feet up!. Some lovely cushions with blue and brown, modern flower look (M&S) for a splash of colour. 1930's fire place, art deco surround in wood and original tiled surround. Buscuit coloured carpet. Keep it simple. I usually go for cream walls but it didn't suit this room - made it look barren.
Try these colours too. Crown antique cream (most of my house is in this), Crown Toasted Almond (bedroom in this). I always like to keep things fairly light and airy and simple. I try to keep things modern with the accessories - they are cheap to replace when you get fed up with them (i.e cushions, pictures etc). You have had a tour of my whole house now!!
I doubt seriously if anyone other than my self or another Disney fan would want my front room. But I love it and it says to visitors who I am. As you enter the door the forward wall shows two drastically different sides of me. On one side of the door way leading to the kitchen is a large grouping of iron crosses. The other side is a shelving unit filled with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and the Princesses from Disney. I also have a print and statue of the Walt Disney's Self Portrait. The walls are taupe and burnished red. The furniture is Brown microfiber that looks like leather until you touch it, and the Side chair is a dark blue chair with very small Mickey, Minnie and other Disney Character heads. Many times people have been in my home more than once before they notice, it looks like a simple design. Describing this it sounds very loud, but it is not. The large window, and multiple door ways open it up and it is not dark at all.
Saltillo Mexican tile with natural canvas couch and chair. Heavy and simple. Mediun oak antique pieces-simple. Bamboo rug, shells in big basket on the coffee table. Black and white photos of my kids in oak frames on the wall. Ceramic vases on book shelf-very simple Pottery barn-ish. Look up Crate and barrel and Pottery Barn. Also HGTV site has a huge referral library.
When setting out your room, place your TV so that the screen faces away from your window, In some rooms this is sometimes impossable. once you have positioned your TV, Then arrange the furniture to corrispond with the viewing of the TV set. Often people put there TV unit in some obscure corner and then find that it is difficalt to view from curtain positions in the room. Try viewing the TV from different chairs so everyone in the room has a good view. If you have a quadrophonic system then position your speakers ether side your sofa/settee and a speaker by each of the two chirs (if you have two and the base speaker in front of the TV. this will give maxium sound quality and maxium viewing angles. once this has been done then fit your other furniture in the room. It should look homly, warmly inviting but not cluttered.
Hope this helps.
leather settees, leather magazine case, laminate flooring, vertical blinds, BIG mirror above fireplace (6ft wide, 5ft long), uplighters on the walls in the alcoves, floor-standing uplighter (chrome)
white walls crystal chandelier gold lamps large mirror over pink marbled effect fire place paintings on the walls in groups of three pale pink leather suite and oak wood furniture dusky pink carpet,
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