Looking for design inspirations for our rustic living room.
We love the features: the open beams, iron gas stove and the shingled wall. We are looking for inspirations for decorating that centers on those features. The living room space is long and awkard, so we divided it with the TV, so we have a the entry/office area and the sitting area. When we watch TV, which is rare - just a movie once in awhile, we either turn the chairs around and sit in them, or we move them out of the way and sit on the couch.
The design of the Living Room space has to somehow include the Kitchen area. I don't like the cabinets. I think they are too light and look cheap and clash with the rustic elements that I love. But they are what they are and I don't think they will be changing anytime soon.
Everything about the furnishings are changeable. Everything in the house is a mixture of our past lives and we are willing to let go of any of it for the sake of starting fresh with 'ours' verse 'his & hers'.
The design of the Living Room space has to somehow include the Kitchen area. I don't like the cabinets. I think they are too light and look cheap and clash with the rustic elements that I love. But they are what they are and I don't think they will be changing anytime soon.
Everything about the furnishings are changeable. Everything in the house is a mixture of our past lives and we are willing to let go of any of it for the sake of starting fresh with 'ours' verse 'his & hers'.
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and the office,can it go anywhere else????outbuilding another room????
We do need the fan, there is no central air conditioning. Just a window unit in the little window between the refrigerator and the slider. But I have seen other fans that would be much less traditional looking and more suitable.
Unfortunately, for right now there is nowhere else for the office. It's a two bedroom house with a carport. My husband plans to convert the carport to a garage. That would have future potential for office space. Also there is a building in the back where my washer and dryer are, but with it being the only place for storage we have right now there is no room for it to include the office.
There is no room for a pantry, we need those cabinets over the counter that could double as a bar.
I'm sure the fireplace is not suitable to most people's liking, I don't mind the washed out old bricks and I love the stove. I love rustic, remember?
The shingles are definetely staying! I love uniqueness, and I have never seen a shingled wall in a house before. That wall, along with the ceiling, are what made my husband and I fall head over heels in love with the house! Not to mention, outside the slider is our porch facing the Sierra Mountains, where, in the summer, we eat dinner watching the sun set over the mountains. The wall out there has the same shingles. With the open ceiling and the sky light and how much natural light there is, the shingled wall in the living it really feels like we are somehow outside, even though we are actually inside. Perfect for three people who feel more at home backpacking then in any house.
The we want the TV where it is, dividing the space. We are planing to get a new cabinate that will have usage and look good on both sides. We think we finally found the right piece at Ikea. We don't want the TV taking any attention away from the sitting area. It might get turned on once or twice a week. It makes a better room divider, then being on my focal wall.
Any ideas about new paneling on the ceiling and how to best coordinate with wood laminate flooring? What shade of finishes, and same or different? Do the panels on floor and ceiling run in same or opposite directions? Also, any ideas about wall color for the rest of the room?
First, I think you should reconsider that shingled wall. It would serve you better if became a wall of built-in book shelves. Put the desk at this end with of the room with it's back to the bookcases. Face a chair or two to the desk. For light, install a small track system on the beam overhead with two lights directed down to the desk surface. Two more of these track lights can be pointed toward the ceiling to accentuate the height. Next, paint the ceiling a shade of light blue-gray.
Paint the walls and the interior back of the bookcases all in a slightly deeper shade of blue-gray (think sky). This is a great color for enhancing the feeling of daylight even at night and it gives wood tones a fresh-air atmosphere. Put down your new flooring with the planks running across the width of the room. Because your Kitchen cabinets are light Oak, look at a medium oak floor in random widths.
Since TV is not important to you it should have the lowest priority when placing it in the space. It looks like you could use more storage so what about building out a closet next to your from door? You could use a large armoire here instead.
It's a little confusing judging the layout from your pictures so if you have a floorplan, you might post it here for a better idea about furniture locations.
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after those floors are out you can really start to make the rooms look good!!
change the wallcolor around the fireplace,to a warmer tone.like the wooden chair,but think you want to update your furniture after all the bigger things are done,like the pict LizaJane put in,and i understand about not wanting the tv to be the focalpoint,but for most people that is where they start,but once you have a more substancial roomdivider that will be solved too.
am looking forward to seeing the changes!!!!