My floor plan, revised

Hey,

Today's Style Cure assignment was to take out all accessories and distractions out of the room and concentrate on furniture layout. At first, I thought the assignment was boring, but then I read Maxwell's tips, and after thinking things over, taking pics of the improved state of the room, had a lightbulb moment and realized a minor change (daybed with nesting tables switching places with desk/stool/reading lamp) would do a major favor to the room!

Here's my improved floor plan, with more accurate colors:

The floor is unvarnished wooden parquet of a light beige color. with the new layout, the first thing one will see upon opening the medium brown colored door will be the small couh/daybed (it's a greyish navy color) on the opposite wall, with a standing lamp (pictured here as a white circle) on one side and two black-framed glass-topped nesting coffee tables. Behind the couch will be hung a large and colorful artwork (picture here as a bright orange rectangle).

Clockwise from couch, there will be a stack of custom-made (for a previous place) wooden cubes painted in white that are perfect for storing books and whose tops double as side tables or room to display small vignettes. Above the cubes is already hung a medium-sized work of art (my own creation) in hues of dark grey.

Then, right in front of the window, an armchair covered in a patterned fabric, a reading lamp (white dot) and the smallest of the set of three nesting tables. Above it is a (currently bare) lightbulb hanging from the ceiling (slightly bigger white circle).

Further to the right, I need to find and hang another big statement colorful work of art (or create my own).

Then three stone steps of a stairway leading to the upper floors (pictured as three thick light grey lines).

Then the wooden entrance door to the room. Behind it, my ligth grey marble-topped desk and its dark wood stool, as well a desk lamp (another white circle). On the wall, at the right side of desk, I will paste a piece of colorful removable wallpaper (see previous post where I showed the selected wallpaper). The wallpaper is intended to make a bold graphic statement, and the inspiration for it is this image:

 

source : http://www.pinterest.com/pin/129689664242277918/

Behind desk and along the walls, a series of bookcases, either painted white or in different shades of wook, some are closed by glass doors, others are open.

Finally, a corner left bare, for some breathing room - the place is not that big after all. An extra heating device will be put there during winter if needed.

Please note that i'm leaving plenty of breathing room between each piece of fuirniture and the walls - things will not be as pushed against the walls as they appear on my rough sketch!

That's it!

I will publish updated photos of the room later this weekend you'll see what I mean.

-MS

My floor plan

Hey,

A recent Style Cure assignment was about drawing a floor plan, then thinking about the flow in the room.

Here's a rough sketch of my floor plan:

 

In orangey/yellow, three bookcases and one small shallow storage (actually it's a small Deco armoire from the 1930's made with rare and exotic woods) along the wall at the very end of the room, and near the desk.

The desk is salmon pink, with a bright red square, the stool. A biiger salmon rectangle is the bed, withe small red square a a nightstand. 

In black, you have the door, window and three steps leading to the upper floors.

The three small orangey/yellow squares are for custom-made stotage cubes that will hold some more books.

The thin dark green rectangle is an oil painting I hung on the wall.

The light green shapes are for the sitting armchair and its three nesting tables.

That's it!

Main entrance: first round of decluttering and cleaning w/ before/after photos.

Hi,

Unfortunately, I began cleaning the main entrance area right away, so I don't have the real before photos to show you guys. But picture this: the entrance to a house ho has been sutting empty for over a year, cobwebs and  dust everyhere. The main door was cluttered with lots of flower pots, with dead flowers in them. Lots of rocks and knicks-knacks gathering dust on the windowsills. All doors and windows painted in a gloomy, dark gray - as much as I love the color gray, it wasn't siting nicely this house, ho is in bad need of a fresh coat of paint in a happier shade.

So here is how the entrance to the house looked, once the dead flower pots where removed (they were sitting where the broom is on the pic, right in the middle of way):

Detail of small niche/window, at the right side of door (I decluttered it before taking the pic):

Now, this is it all looks after 3 rounds of cleaning/decluttering:

You can see at the bottom left of the pic above, the big piles of rocks I took away from the niche/windosill.

Here's what the niche looks like, after:

 

I planted wildflowers seeds in the small black ceramic planter, they are still to grow and bloom. Here's another vie, a bit blurred, sorry:

Here is a view of the kitchen window, asfter a thorough cleaning session. It's on the right side, at the bottom of the stairs leading to main entrance door.

 

As for a new paint color, I started to experiment with Farrow & Ball's "Ball Green", which a light, slightly yellow, olive green. It looks beautiful - pics coming soon.Here's what Ball Green loks like, from a pic found on the Farrow & Ball's site:

Entryway before/after - setting a landing strip

Before: lots of clutter gathering on the stairway and near the front door, no entryway as such and of course no landing strip.

After: you can see a detail of the landing strip, with a mock japanese ceramic tray to gather keys, a wooden stand for hats, a calendar, a vase and a floor lamp.

AFTER, GENERAL VIEW: