Show Me Monday- The Living Room Edition

I love going inside other peoples houses. Snooping around to see how they decorate, which kitchen soap they use, and if their towels are monogrammed! HA! Don't you just love to see if people are pack rats? Or if they are neat freaks?

I thought it would be fun to do a little house tour. I'm starting with my living room.

Every Monday I'll show you a different room in my house, what I like, don't like, am working on etc.



Let me start by saying I am going for a Palm Beach Casual decorating style. I love colorful, summery, preppy looks with fun accents. First I painted one wall, by the fireplace in a lime green.




I had a sagey green couch in a chenille fabric I wanted to punch up a little with more color, so I had curtains made at Calico Corners in a fabric called Summerlin, Palm Beach.



In the fabric are wonderful light blues, greens and corals.

Hubby spotted the arm chair at a garage sale (2 for $75!) Luckily although they need to be recovered, the kind of work for now. I inherited my Grandmommies purple velvet couch and some of her artwork as well. The purple kind of throws my color scheme off, but until I can recover it's stayin!

The black lacquered chair is in a gift from my step sister, and decorated with a Pierre Deux chinoiserie fabric.




I am thinking about lacquering the coffee table and two other side tables I found in coral, and getting the purple couch recovered in a coral shade.



Hubby made this large format book case (isn't he so Aiden from Sex and the city!?) But we are going to built in book shelves here (all our greatest books are in the garage! Horrible!) We also want to do built in shelves around the fire place.

The living room is a work in progress! Okay play along with me and show me your living room. Let me know if you do!!! I'm dying to snoop!

xo
The Mrs.