Thanks for submitting Natasha and Brad! I can't get over how great your Living Room looks! Congratulations!!!

absolutely beautiful paint color!

This us a dream. So beautiful!

Looks awesome.

Right out of a magazine!!!! ( Denise not drnise). ;)

Just a wondering: why are all the book spines turned around?

Is that how you usually store them? Or were their colors displeasing as a part of your palette here?

Thanks everybody, for your votes and support!

Akay, yes, that is how we usually store them. There is a library/playroom off the living room where we keep most of our books, but these don't fit in there. These are mostly mass market paperbacks with brightly colored spines and I find it jarring when they are turned around. They are organized alphabetically and by fiction/non-fiction though, so it's very easy to find what I am looking for! :)

Very weird to see the books with the spine facing in. I would suggest that perhaps you turn the spines back out and organize them along the color spectrum (like this: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3753183158_7bfbbcd04f.jpg). Then the books become attractive in the room and you do not have to hide them !!

Are your inlaws divorced? Why are their pictures not hung together?

Also - I thought the paperbacks were a bizarre collection of phone books. I am going to stick with this story in my head.

I have the same clock! I found it against a dumpster in an alley and fixed it up. Looks great against that color wall!

AMAZING! It looks so comfortable and cozy! I love the use of "treasures" that would otherwise end up in a landfill. The colors are bold and daring yet so...perfect! U have a gift!!!

I think the spines facing in is an awesome styling choice. Please don't color code them! It's been done to death.

Crazy coincidence: I just clicked over to these images of the Hickory Chair showroom at Highpoint Market and they're showing gorgeous spines-in styling! http://www.mimiandmegblog.com/2011/10/high-point-hickory-chair.html

@potpie, I also thought the books were phonebooks at first glance. I have to pass on liking that choice.

You have done a great job. I love it!!!!

OMG love.

Great job Natasha & Brad...it is just beautiful...

LOVE the colour!

Potpie, my in-laws are not divorced, although my father-in-law is deceased. We had the one of my father-in-law first and when we got the one of my mother-in-law I set it on the mantle to keep it from getting broken. We just liked it, so we left it like that.

Retrocatz, thanks. It's a fun clock, isn't it? I paid a few dollars for mine at a thrift store. I thought it was a good deal, though not as good as yours!

Mackenzie, how funny. Thanks for posting that link. I really didn't put much thought into it when I turned them around. I am surprised it was such a controversial thing to do.

Also, I am cracking up. Phone books, really? That would certainly be an odd thing to collect and display! Although who knows, maybe someday they will become rare vintage collectibles that people will proudly display in their living rooms--undoubtedly with the spines out!

Favoriting for two reasons:
1. Beautiful!
2. Defy the storage nazis. Store your books however you want.

Fabulous! ;)

This is just beautiful. Your tastes are so perfectly suited to what I love. Come decorate my house when I finally get one. I mean it.

Pink is balls; well this pink is.
wait I meant walls . . . .

Beautiful room! Great use of light, colors and contrast. Hope you win!

lovely!

This room gives me the warm fuzzies (in a non-creepy way), so pretty and warm!

seriously? The books are an issue? Looks great guys......very cozy!

The book thing is horrible, i won't vote for this room on principle. love pink, but that book thing is just wanky.

wow - is that an emerald green on one chair and lavender on another? And then you put it against the coral wall - oh wow, you are good. And I especially appreciate how many traditional pieces of furniture you used in a really fresh way. Great work!

I wouldn't think this pink could work, but it does! Very cool.

I didn 't even notice the books. Love the couch and flowers.

Also, GR represent! I moved away last year and still miss it. Just had dinner at the Green Well a few weeks ago. :)

So wonderful to see one of Ellen Kennon's Full Spectrum Paints being used!!! Naturally beautiful...

The color looks a bit more mauve than coral to me. The color scheme gives it a dated feel. But overall, I think it's lovely.

Thanks everybody, for the votes and comments! I have really enjoyed reading all of your feedback, both positive and negative--although we're leaving the books as they are. :)

It's funny, but I don't think I would have been brave enough to do a coral room if it wasn't full spectrum paint. It really does go with everything, but it can be tricky to photograph because it changes so much. It has never looked mauve to me, but computers and monitors can vary so much that I bet it looks a little different to everybody. In person, it's a lovely, warm pink, that goes beautifully with the oranges in our house.

Laura, it's great to hear from another Grand Rapidian! I am not originally from here, but I love it.

we love the lamp from grandpa's bar!!!

You need to come to my house.

Great color, great balance!

Beautiful room.

Wow, you are up there and deservingly so! Good luck to you the room is just beautiful!

This is very beautiful! I like the use of space, not too much, not too little and everything isnt absolutely a-symmetrical (nevermind the colours are quite lovely).

Great color! Love the green accessories with the coral walls.

I love this. It's especially great with the wood trim.

Very sweet. Love it.

the coral looks so nice!!

favorite for sure! AT house tour please!!

Love it! I never get enough of coral in an interior and yet it's a gutsy move. It's the most flattering color for skin tones of all shades. Bet your friends and family look marvelous in this room!

lovely room. I noticed the books right away, they really caught my eye, and I wondered if they were some kind of manuals or telephone books. The bright yellow really stands out.