Last week I shared my dining room makeover and , and today I wanted to share my now dark and dramatic living room. I have featured little bits and pieces of it over the past year or so but I never had all the finishing touches done (like trim, and painting out the fireplace tile) until recently. It was finally time to snap some photos and do a little feature on the blog. This is now my favourite room in the house and I am really stoked at the result, even if it will never REALLY be finished because as I mentioned last week, I’m always on the hunt for that “perfect” item. Ok, so here is a before shot:
This photo was taken right after we moved in. Gross taupe walls, even grosser yellow/orange oak floors, mahogany varnished trim and terracotta coloured dirty fireplace tiles.
Everything has been replaced, re-painted or re-stained. The floors, like in the dining room, were stripped and re-stained with Minwax’s Classic Grey. The walls are Farrow & Ball’s with on the ceiling. These 2 colours are incredible and in my top 5 colours of all time. Especially Downpipe – it can look green, yellow, blue, black depending on the amount of light coming in the room.
Sources: The unit next to my desk is vintage Marc Held for Prisunic, manufactured by Flair. Vintage Panton S chair by Vitra. Ikea desk. Artemide Tizio lamp from . Vintage Jieldé wall mount light via eBay. Tall plastic plant stand from by Euro3plast from . Console table legs by . Table top by . Featuring former ferals Bernie and Frankie.
This vase is from a local shop now closed, and used to be a really bad minty green. I spray painted it glossy grey. Funky little dried pineapple flowers from .
Vintage flower frog holding feathers (including an eagle feather from P.E.I.). Original butterfly drawing by . MAD et LEN candle from and candle.
Notebook I think from , Hay Denmark pencil from .
Bug ad from a magazine from , my cat tattoo drawing by , embroidered bat by .
Cheap pots from Rona/Home Depot/Lowe’s, small handmade pot by (le lou ula)
I have 4 of these white plastic pots from Ikea from many years ago and a crazy big aloe.
Lounge chair from . Pillow by Fotofibre. Original painting from a blog reader named Angela from Singapore. Vintage Jieldé purchased from a blog reader. Hanging pot with a fishbone cactus from a shop in Montreal whose name I can’t recall.
Reproduction tulip table from . Ferm Living pot from . Thrifted teal West German vase and Japanese (?) box. Vintage grey vase from a care package sent from Jo. Swirly pot handmade by Jeremy Ford.
Here is a photo of my fireplace taken right after we moved in. Boring. Ugly. Those tiles were so terrible.
When the I had tile work done in the foyer and kitchen I also had the tile guy replace the fireplace tile along the front and I painted the tile inside the fireplace with special heat-resistant spray paint. I even had painters tape on hand that was the size of the grout lines to make the tiles stand out a bit more.
I like this MUCH better 🙂
This tile was pretty costly considering I only needed less than 1 box but I really wanted to do a statement tile and these are really fun (and tile selection in this city sucks and it was pretty much the only thing I even remotely liked for this space). They’re a mix of mirrored and cement and other materials that I found at .
Stay tuned for the other half of the room.
