Light Contempory Airy Living Room Ideas

My living room makeover

THE BEGINNING

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie  

I just love that quote! I felt it necessary to speak these words when tackling home design ideas. Decorating a home is intimidating to say the least. We all to often say... I cant, I don't have time, I don't have the money right now and all the other excuses you can muster.

When it comes to picking items to decorate my home space I scour the internet for ideas. The simplest way to do this is Google a search term such as... "tree branch curtains" and select the images link to the right. This is the fun part, search with your eyes through all the images that are until you come to one that is appealing. This part of the Google experience I find innovative & extremely helpful. Why? you ask, well we are searching with our eyes, we are seeing colors, textures, shapes and so forth. They are all lined up right next to one another. And as instinct kicks in we are left with only the ones that call to us! 

This is a powerful tool!

Once I see something I like I save the image to my desk top. A simple right click on the mouse, save image as... you get the idea! Now the idea is ready for thinking over. 

These are some things I found for my living room inspiration... 

I found this idea and like the fact its a DIY or do it your self! Oh yeah! Custom for way below the price of mass produced!

I just love the natural feel, maybe with these curtains...

If I use the branch in my window treatment, I must use a curtain the has tie top tabs, so that I can adjust the tabs to make the curtains hang straight at the bottom...

 My window looks a lot like this one above... It does not go all the way to the floor and is narrow like the above window. By using curtains that go all the to the floor, I will increase the look of the window itself! I will post a picture of my living room, its dark right now in there and I want you to see why I am going for light & airy!

I have high ceilings and a fire place is tucked over to the right, also you can see my stairs poking into the picture on the left. Hate the floor but love the big windows!

 As for the paint on the walls, I have leaned toward a grey. I love the way it looks with white furniture. Its like a soothing storm. I am a bit afraid of the white furniture I will be honest but I am confident with the right fabric choices we can handle it! This is an example of the color and what it would look like with white pieces in the room.

More ideas to come and if you think of it leave me some suggestions and comments about your ideas or projects! I would love to hear about all of them!

LOVE  Mandy!