lisa_oak's Profile

Looks great, but the placemats are so wrinkled. Either iron them, or roll them up right out of the dryer to keep them as wrinkle as possible.

Not only is this a silly product, I can't believe nobody else has commented on the guy in the picture. That beard! The hair in the eyes!

It was the rug (we had a shag rug in the 70's), the sofas (our friends has almost the exact same thing in their rumpus room), and for final confirmation, the turquoise ASHTRAY that tipped off the 70's to me.

Terra cotta pots dry out very quickly in the sun. I can't imagine the watering requirements you'd need to keep plants alive in this system. Definitely not a good option for a drought prone area.

Love your furniture! But I think it needs to be rearranged.

First, you've got three potential focal points in your living room - the fireplace, the window, and the TV. You've chosen the TV as your focal point (plus a chunk of blank wall), and broken up the room so that the window area seems kind of remote & unappealing. If I were you I'd divide the room differently, with the sofa/TV area by the window, and a home office area around the fireplace. Move the sofa to face the window, put the TV where the bookcase is, find a desk to put behind the sofa, then fill in with chair, end table, bench & stools.

Add some colorful accessories. In the dining room, put that vase on the table, on top of a colorful square napkin or something, and add some tall flowers or greenery. Those rugs in every room are nice, but dull. Can you stencil them around the edges with a repeating pattern? Arrange books in the bookcase according to color, so they make more of an impact. Find some bold lampshades. Add colored mats to the picture frames. Get more pillows and a couple of throws. And find some medium scale knickknacks that make you happy, and place them on the coffee table, end table, TV table, and fireplace mantle singly or in groups of three. Raise the pictures higher over the mantle, so you have room for something below them. You probably need to rehang your pictures in different places - those four pictures next to the TV and the menus are hung in places that make no sense - they don't frame or emphasize anything, and you're not likely to even look at them.

Seems you'd get a much better view from the bed if you put it on the opposite wall. Add a headboard, side tables, lamps with bold shades, and matching bolster and throw.

I also wish I could just spend a day rearranging what you've got, and bringing out the beauty of it all.

I love the floorplans more than anything on this Small Cool contest. This floor plan is pretty cryptic, since I don't know what language is used here... But it looks like there's a lot of wasted space, due to what looks like a long double hallway. Seems like a great renovation opportunity would be to get rid of a wall or two, if possible. But I do love the colors and style.