Home Tour - Living room reveal

If  you follow me on Instagram, you may have already seen little sneak peaks of our living room décor project and although all the painting, decorating and purchasing of the “big items of furniture” are done, there are a few smaller pieces that I'm yet to fall in love with and purchase.

Let's start with the wallpaper. It's from the Next Geo range and although I fell in love with the pattern from the moment I saw it for the first time, the quality of the paper itself leaves a lot to be desired. Several rolls had what looked like dirty marks that resulted in a lot of wastage. It was pure luck that I ordered more rolls than I needed otherwise we would have found ourselves not able to finished the job until new rolls where ordered and delivered! Crazy right?

For the walls, we used Valspar paint for the first time (I'm a hardcore fan of Dulux Endurance as they clean up really well) but I found Valspar to be equally good. They are sold in B&Q  but I'm not sure whether you can also find them somewhere else.

Colour-wise, we went for a light grey with a warm undertone to complement the vast amount of dark walnut furniture we have - I'm hoping to change this for lighter furniture... one day... maybe-.

The sofa and armchairs are also from Next and contrary to our experience with the wallpaper; I'm more than happy with them. When our girlie was a baby we had one of those feared sicky accidents on the sofa - the ones that seems to happen in slow motion but you can't quite prevent. We ended up taking the cover off one of the bottom cushions of the main sofa and washed it in the washing machine. No shrinking and no change in the colour/ texture of the fabric. A sofa that survives that sort of test, gets a 10 from me!

This part of the living room is screaming for some wall art, don't you think? I have two big black frames from Ikea that would be just perfection above the sofa but I'm yet to find prints that would fit them and that we love. Any suggestions?

For that corner of the room where the temporary banana fibre rocking chair is, I'd like to have a small desk or even a ladder (also called leaning) desk where we can keep our laptop and do all the house admin stuff.  I don't know about you but I find the job of finding the right decor pieces very time consuming. By the way, have you heard about LionsHome? They are an on-line portal for furniture and home accessories. It sounds exactly like what I need right now! :)

I'm also in the search for a new table and floor lamp for that corner opposite to the door you can see in the photo below. Something that will match the style of the current ceiling light. My shopping list is getting bigger and bigger as I write this post and take a closer and  more analytical look at the photographs.

And to finish off on a high note, I'll leave you with a picture of my little cheeky monkey who particularly enjoys running around mummy while she takes pictures for the blog.

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