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Kamis, 29 Maret 2012

Design: Room Dividers

Hello all! This is Brooke Jones from Modern Sophisticate talking about room dividers. Interior designers always have a few tricks up their sleeves for typical design dilemmas. One of my favorite solutions for converting awkward areas into fabulous spaces is the use of a folding floor screen.

Do you have unsightly pipes in a corner?

Put a screen in front of it. Have an open concept space you need help defining? Use a screen as a room divider. Not only are screens the master of disguise, they are always a great way to add instant drama and visual interest.

Here are three screens paired with pieces for a home office...

an entryway vignette...

and a Master Bedroom...

How would you use a screen in your home?

Golden Glamour

1. Arteriors Gilded Wood Open-Work Screen

2. Bungalow 5 Jacqui Console/Desk

3. Pieces Hide Slipper Chairs

Clean & Classic

1. Victoria Hagan Carroll Folding Screen

2. High Street Market 1950's Italian Wheat Sheaf Side Table

3. MG+BW Major Chair Satin Brass

Royal Tradition

1. Windsor Smith Anna Sophia Screen

2. Furbish Brass Urchin

3. Circa Lighting Thornton Table Lamp

4. 1st Dibs Dorothy Draper Chest

-Post by brooke herdman

Senin, 16 Januari 2012

Sofa: To Sell or Not to Sell...

Hello everyone! We've been busy packing things & selling stuff around here, my head is spinning! Today I came to a STOP & wondered if I should sell the white provincial sofa I purchased in 2006. Yes, 2006 & it's been wrapped in (plastic) in my garage ever since - have never truly used it.

For those of you who don't remember when I wrote about it on my blog, you can check out that 2006 post here. I begged my guy to pull it out of garage today (with my help) & put it in our living room...I needed to see it in a home setting & not the garage. It looks so cold & lonely down there, not a pretty sight, know what I mean ladies?!? He was sweet enough to help me - it was crazy - but we did it.

Anyways, I'm faced with a dilemma, my guy likes the sofa but doesn't think it's practical to have a white sofa as our 'main' sofa! Perhaps he's right...but I paid for it & have never used it. I feel like I'd be cheating myself. He says we'll have to be covering it up with throws, like you see in the photo below...and again, maybe he's right. He also told me that he wouldn't feel like he could relax on it without me watching over his shoulder...

I'm so confused, I don't want it to get dirty...should I care that much?? Should I get creative & paint a black pattern or spots on the couch with black fabric paint??? I figured the dots would conceal any potential dirt, basically making it harder to spot it.

So, I could just SELL it as new ($880), since I've never used it or haul it to my new place in NYC. PLEASE let me know what you guys think......I'm seriously at a loss. It's so pretty & comfortable...I want it, he doesn't so much...

This is what it looks like in my living room right now....& what it would probably look like in my new place, all covered up in a fur throw. Do you guys think it would look good with my white daybed in the same space?!?