When Charlotte and her family moved from New York to Connecticut, they fell in love with this 100 year-old house and its bay window. With so much white everywhere, it was a blank canvas. Check out how she transformed this living room with color:
From Charlotte:
We moved to the Connecticut suburbs from NYC into this sweet 100 year-old house. The previous owner had a love affair with all things off-white (carpet, walls, trim, window treatments). We loved this living room because of the beautiful bay window and the afternoon sun pouring in the many big windows. All it took was some color to brighten up the ol' girl.
The whole room came together around the chair in the window: the green for the walls was pulled from the foliage, the rug was handed down from my parents, the blue velvet sofa was snagged at a consignment store, and the red chairs with chevron fabric were a Craigslist purchase that I painted and reupholstered. Now it's one of our favorite 'grown up' rooms in the house!
For more photos of Charlotte's home, visit Ciburbanity.
Thanks, Charlotte!
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(Images: Charlotte Smith)
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Wow, you made that room SING! Congratulations on such a fun grown-up room!
I was just thinking that this bright (but not too bright) green would be a good color for my living room. I have white trim and pine colored case goods. I think it would be as wonderful as this room! Thanks for the inspiration.
Super cute!
Wow, amazing colors, nicely done!!!
Love the "Now Panic and Freak Out" pillow
I love the colors. I am not usually a big fan of green, but the one on the walls is gorgeous!
Nice choice of colours! :)
Nice and warm.
Wonderful choice. What color did you paint it?
Also love the seating arrangement. So much comfy space for gatherings.
Love, love, LOVE. That shade of green is my favorite - about to paint my bedroom in it (hopefully it will look that good)
The paint color is Folk Art by Benjamin Moore. Felt bright at first, but with everything back in the room, it works much better!
love that green and blue combination
Soooo much better!!! Great job!!
FAN - TAS - TIC! I LOVE the feel of this room! So much heart, somehow!
You nailed it. I would love to sip a cup of coffee in this room and have a chat.
Sorry, but I like the "Before" better...
Lovely.
yeah I normally don't like that color at all but it looks amazing all together and I bet it makes you smile on cold winter days.
I prefer the "before" photo.
Amazing! That room when from Grandma to Gorgeous as if by magic! Well done.
Beautifully done: But where is the bay window?
My living room was painted an almost identical colour (well based on what I see on my monitor) for about 2 years and I loved it (but I like to experiment with colours and I can't stay married to one for long).
Mine was Glorious Gladiolas from Para Paints.
LOVELY!!!!
I love that you have a 'now panic and freak out' pillow.
Really pretty. I love it.
I kind of like the before, it reminds me of a late '80s/early '90s movie set. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle meets Broadcast News.
Beautiful, sophisticated, whimsical, and serene. Lovely work! Enjoy it!
Perfect! I'm smitten!
Great color choices, and I love the blue sofa. Thank gawd the salmon-ey colors are gone! But there's an awful lot of seating for that small space. It looks like the type of seating you'd arrange into a circle for a therapy session. I'd probably remove the green/white highback chairs, and replace with a chaise or comfortable bench.
Well done!
I would love to hang out in that living room!
Just looking at the above pictures it's fine, a very nice change. But, if you click on the link to her site and see the entire room, what D2pad mentioned is obvious, a big circle of seating. It is a living room rather than a family room so no TV watching but still, looks like they will be having a therapy session or an intervention in there. Now, look at the family room pictures on her site and check out those blue Ikat chairs with the backs upholstered with coffee sacks, awesome!!!!
That's a really nice green. The whole room shows how green and blue can form a happy combination if you pick wisely.
boring beige to sublime lime (ok technically not lime) ..this is awesome!...works so nicely with the eclectic furniture mix - that dusty blue is perfect (and who said blue and green should not be seen!)
Love,love,love it! I had to go see her blog after this glimpse,loved it all! But I agree with other posters,WAY too many chairs! Apparently the owner likes chairs!
I so much prefer color to the white on white on grey that everyone is doing these days. It looks great and the back yard (on their site) is amazing! I am getting ready to start shopping for a new house in April and am keeping all of these ideas in mind. Thanks.
Love it! I lived in a rental with similar white walls/pale trim (in our case a very pale pink) and could never understand why they did that! Love the contrast you did.