Gray and White Living Room Redo – Before and After Photos

It may be overwhelming adorning your first house — particularly when you don’t have a ton of stuff to start out with. That’s the place hand-me-downs are available clutch: Getting freebies from family and friends makes the method approach simpler and cheaper. But it surely doesn’t at all times come collectively to create the area of your goals.

Take this condominium’s lounge, redone by designer Rebecca Mendez (The Bam Home) for a shopper. “The earlier than was very ‘first house’,” Rebecca says of the area. “There have been tons of hand me downs and furnishings that was ‘adequate’ for the second.”

And whereas it was practical, the whole area was simply completely different shades of brown and beige, and missing any type course in regard to type. “It additionally felt very chilly since there was no artwork on the partitions and the sectional couch was shoved right into a nook of the room,” Rebecca says. In reality, all of the partitions in the lounge have been utterly naked, anticipate for a tiny little shelf tucked off into the nook.

This lounge redo was actually about making the area really feel a bit of extra cohesive, relatively than thrown collectively — to not point out cozy and a bit of extra private. The home-owner felt completely uninspired by her area and didn’t suppose that it mirrored her as a younger skilled. “My shopper is a profitable lawyer, so she wished her house to really feel as much as par to the place she was in her life,” says Rebecca. From a design standpoint, this meant ditching the off-white partitions and going with a brisker, brighter gentle grey tone (Benjamin Moore’s Shoreline).

Since there was nothing improper with the sofa, Rebecca recommended that they maintain it and construct off of it. For a bit of extra seating, she added an opulent accent chair; underfoot, she changed the previous darkish grey rug with a lighter one which brightens the area relatively than dragging it down.

Two accent tables — a wooden espresso desk in entrance of the couch and a white one on the aspect — add a bit of heat to the area. The identical goes for the brand new wall-mounted bookshelf, which provides the home-owner floor-to-ceiling storage for books and decor.

The ultimate touches? Flowy white curtains, a tripod lamp, and a wall of gorgeous baskets that function paintings. Whereas the mission wasn’t low cost, re-using the sectional helped minimize down on prices significantly. And now, with its new environment, the sectional appears to be like approach higher, too.

Rebecca’s shopper was completely “blown away” by the outcomes and wouldn’t change a factor. “Listening to my shopper gush about how a lot she beloved it was my favourite a part of the mission,” Rebecca says. “I’m very pleased with how we stored the area younger {and professional} on the identical time.”