"reminiscent of water without being depressing"

What does this mean? Is water depressing? I think the room is nice enough, I guess. Those lamps make the space which would be drab without them.

No fair! I must know what color the blue paint is! I love it.

Looks drab to me - needs to be livened up w/ a brighter color and some art on the walls.

I love that purplish blue lamp on the bookshelf.

I think some colorful artwork will liven this space up a bit. It's off to a great start though...just looks a bit unfinished.

Why do I instantly feel like this is a basement apartment -- especially when it probably isn't???

I'm not wild about the green lamps against this particular shade of blue...but I'm not a big color mixer. A popping art piece is needed over the couch and maybe getting rid of those lamps all together or replacing them with white/clear ones.

I like it--it probably looks basement-ish because there's just the one little window high up. I'm getting ready to move into a basement apartment myself, and this is about how I'd like it to look!

The line "reminiscent of water without being depressing." is the most odd thing I've heard all day :)

I'm the "owner" of the above photo & living room...well, used to be. We've moved from that apartment 2 months ago. The photo was quite old when posted in May & a shelf with artwork was placed above the sofa, as well as many other changes...although the lamps stayed ;) Much to some posters dismay, I'm sure, haha.

What you obviously don't see in this photo are the many other pops of color in other areas of the room. While blue was a color of focus, there were items of green, orange, purple [the lamp in this shot] & others in areas not shown. It was not a basement apartment by any means, on the third floor, very light & airy...while it was by no means an extremely spacious place with gigantic windows, the window looks much smaller in this shot than it actually is.

Star Princess: The color is Smoke by Benjamin Moore :)