How To Design A Polished Living And Dining Space | Design Inc | Abode

i'm sarah richardson this is marjorie this is marjorie's living room and dining room and this is what marjorie's living room and dining room look like now thanks to some help from design inc nathaniel loves to push his car me not so much that's why mine's in the shop so i'm cabbing it to meet nathaniel's mom hi hello welcome marjorie deborah and nathaniel have been in this house for six months wow and it's about time to put some furniture in the living room are you going to use this sort of as an everyday room or do you want this to be polished and more for entertaining polished and more for entertaining how many people do you want to have in here i mean our christmas party sometimes we can have 50 people in the space they'd be standing i assume okay i see it now classroom chairs and we're done okay do you have any ideas any concepts of what you like and what's going to make you happy i would like it to be pretty okay color pattern bold subdued i mean there's some really nice wallpapers that [Music] some texture right i just wouldn't know how to pull it into a room okay but that would appeal i'm a gynecologist i don't know about furniture really too much information that was too honest marjorie has a 20 month old son and that's a pretty important consideration when designing a room if your son's running to play outside is he going to be tearing through with the tonka charge through here he might try he's stuck right there little man all right we're making an adult space anything else i should be keeping in mind anything else we need to tackle the only issue is that this connects immediately to the dining room you can actually see the sight line through the dining room to the family room yeah that's a pretty strong connection it's fairly common that when dealing with an open plan has people think they just have to pick one color that they really like and everything has to be that color i don't subscribe to that rule okay so i would say breaking up and using a number of different colors in here would be nice um and it looks to me like the dining room just needs the final push right now it's got the basics and it needs that little it needs some jewelry it needs some pretty in there and i'm gonna start the pretty by putting kate and lindsay in here to think about the room layout why don't we each do a floor plan okay we're looking for something asymmetrical seating for ten ten so i'm curious to see what you can come up with and then i'll do one and then we'll compare notes anything you can do i can do better all right i'm very open to sarah's designs and i think that i will give her carte blanche don't peek at mine lindsay hey hey we're supposed to be a team here two chairs is really the only way to go in front of the bay window right i think so at first glance i think that marjorie's living room has some neat features the fact that it's somewhat open onto the dining room the fact that it gets great light but these are challenges as well because everything ends up being so square it's nice to have some round pieces to offset all of the square hunks of furniture yeah i didn't want everything to be along the perimeter of the walls okay this is a sheds coming out okay the way you read the living room from the dining room is very unusual and you'll be sitting in the dining room and you'd be able to see the underside of any of the furniture that sits in front of that railing bit of a challenge but i'm sure the pieces will fall into place we can fit a lot in here three five six seven eight nine ten seating for ten that was my goal i think what we've got so much happening with that railing already we've got all of those spindles everywhere if we go with a whole ton of furniture with long show wood legs it's going to feel like lake city you've kind of in both of these plans ended up with what i thought five or six chairs one sofa and one chest now what about some fabrics to use on all of this furniture it's very it's very beige right now when you have a house that says open concept as margeries you need flow you need consistency you need balance and honestly that's why she's got a lot of beige but doesn't she have a lot of beige because she needs help and shouldn't we be pointing her in the right direction is this colorful is this color daring is this color different from the first two if you answered yes to all these questions you may have a beige problem no more beige call now i think when you're starting with a blank slate i don't think it's good enough to go beige there needs to be some bold color there has to be something that pushes the boundaries what do you think of this uh i actually kind of like that if you're going to go traditional you're going to have to have some pattern right you can't do traditional and have it all be tone on top it has really interesting colors in it the sort of terra cotta is if she wants it warm the brown and green is if she wants it rich and i would say that something with the creamy background is if she wants the overwhelming feeling to be light and airy margery has given us carte blanche or as the french say carter blanche but we've got to narrow that down so i'm sending kate to see what margery thinks of using these fabrics as a jumping off point you're always thinking sarah richardson okay you ready jumping off points don't don't don't freak out please don't be busy fabric number one and number two fabric number two okay choose better than one so we'll do this and fabric number three [Music] this my friend is holly hobby holly hobby ouch well our client has spoken i was a little surprised by the fabrics that she presented to me today and the cart may not be so blanche after all okay to be continued the good news is that marjorie doesn't have a lot of clutter in her living room wow the bad news it's very beige right now so we're trying to add a little punch to the color this my friend is holly hobby okay that punch may have missed the mark but in the meantime we've got to keep moving okay so i'm looking for some furniture options and for kate okay [Music] i love the sofa i feel like it's a bit shabby chic i think she wants something more tailored with a more graceful line to it okay look at this circle of fun now that's for her whole different kind of entertaining is this the shape that she might like for so far yep this is more like i'm flopping out at the end of the day to watch tv does it have to be a sofa would it be better if it was a sulfate a sulfate i don't think that's in the dictionary i think they've made up a new name for is it kind of like a tuffet no a tough it really exists what's the toughest the thing that little miss muffet sat on did you ever get one of your kids bedtime stories just stuck in your head those are so little miss muffet said on a tuffet this is like totally sexy glamour puss because you know what's really fun about these can i show you oh hi oh hi you're normally here with tommy and he doesn't go in clearance rooms but i'm going to take you to clarence right always i mean go to the clearance room look look there's our chairs on sale see what you can find in clothes yeah but somebody it's been ripped it has some scars you'd have to reupholster them i don't think they would cost too much to repulse your views no i don't want to buy chairs and reupholster them i mean we get new ones made for less that gives me an idea i have this funny room it's very long and skinny so basically in order to not have each piece of furniture stepping on the next piece of furniture's toes i feel like i need to kind of keep everything as slim okay and trim as possible you sort of want it to come rounded like that yeah i would probably say i would want it to be no i would probably say yeah no yeah okay let me rephrase that overall i just want the impression to be that it is kind of streamlined elegant that we're gonna see these curves okay the curves are very important if you're trying to create a feminine space you're thinking something more light and so is the fabric so i've been struggling with what does margery actually really want this room to look like yeah and the best way i can describe it to you yes is like this this little number i think margaery is everything feminine and sexy and she wants curly she wants girly okay so i i feel that now we're on the right track i think the rug should be light i think the furniture should be curvaceous and i think the accents and the accessories all need to have shimmer we're gonna use green as an accent because marjorie liked this fabric and with a hit of wallpaper it's the perfect combo how about that's pretty i think it would make the fireplace wall far more interesting now we still need client approval my feeling with marjorie is she makes decisions quickly i am the more decisive of the two people in this couple it would take her months to decorate a room years she said that she bought her dining room table because she was having a dinner party so what we need to do is we need to put it all in a truck and send it in her front door and i think when she sees it in place she's going to really like it but the first task is to sell margaery on the new fabric samples so sofa two chairs and the sheds as for the drapes i found some great ready-made options number one i like the shiny panel number two i like it not exactly convincing now what about three it's pretty but it's a family von trapp julie andrews drapes to clothes i was singing a different tune when i first saw the drapes ooh i like that gray that's lovely isn't it it's very subtle very sophisticated you're saying all the right things we may have to revisit the curtain question okay so one last thing we need to talk about is the fireplace which i know has been kind of an issue for you i would really want to see a beautiful fantastic fireplace that doesn't look like a doghouse i feel strongly that we can decorate around it so that we're not forced to spend a good deal of the budget on making structural changes to the fireplace okay so what we propose is to give you one wall of wallpaper okay i feel strongly this is the right choice that is not a happy face and it's fear of unknown it's nothing it'll probably look fantastic you know what i think it will except there's one little thing we may have overlooked oh you know what i never showed you my china oh okay yeah we should see that why are you making that face because i hope it goes with green margaery's house is open concept and the living room scheme has to tie into the dining room [Music] we're designing a deluxe living room dining room for marjorie it's glitter glitter glitter glam kate was finalizing the color scheme when marjorie threw us a curve i never showed you my china it never even occurred to me because i always think of margaery's as a living room didn't occur to me to ever check the dining room china and then when she said it i was like stop oh no what do i do um luckily it's fine it works look at that that's quite fabulous that is such a relief and what's more marjorie likes our colors and the layout it's fabulous now we can really get moving this painting is coming in in a couple days uh the wallpaper is being shipped does that mean you ordered it before marjorie said yes maybe i thought i was like okay note to self don't tell natalie any secrets to bring your own lamp party i've got the finishing touch look at that that sort of soft yeah the color's not bad either the walls are looking good but what are we going to do about the floor that's 20 where my foot is there's nothing that we're going to find that's ready to go at 10 by 20 right but the one thing we could do is we could see about getting a piece of wool rod loom and just putting a nice wide linen tape on it okay i like that idea i needed 10 by 20 yes bound okay for monday uh we'll just have to do some overtime then okay as for drapes marjorie's pick goes in the living room but i would do the gray that had the bit of the flower on it for the dining room because i actually find that this drape starts going peachy and the wall looks green it's pretty but it's a family trapp julie andrews to clothes but i like these drapes every time i get one of these i just wanna they'd work his clothes it goes with my sweater huh to me these are two separate rooms yeah and normally we would never do two rooms in the same fabric i say we try the drapes i found and i'm sure marjorie is gonna love them in the end because the other thing is i'm thinking about some really nice wall sconces okay and i seem to remember something that has kind of a branch these are probably the ones she's referring to those are gorgeous which would really tie in the rug the drapery sconce all together it'd be really nice now for my plan to get the furniture approved we need to put it all in a truck and send it in her front door and i think when she sees it in place she's going to really like it look how pretty that is not bad either hey that's my joke every home with a two-year-old needs a white pelvic chair or two yeah nathaniel will be able to look and not sit anywhere hello nope you can't come in buddy well at least marjorie and deb can enjoy the furniture it'll be nice and it's not even finished and i feel like yeah they don't have to come back oh we'll be back because this living room needs the finishing touches that are going to make it sparkle [Music] is that what you do yes of course only you can get away with that you two can get away with it i don't know what happened they didn't ship it what what are you talking about okay i'd better get over there before tommy changes my entire design scheme i've got five six seven eight nine there's easily seating for ten people in here oh yes plus they're very big two foot stools so there's 12. do you like the lamp i've brought in the lamps are really nice they're very they add a very industrial kind of edge but the new chandelier for the dining room is nothing short of spectacular [Music] beautiful mood lighting the chandelier looks great unfortunately the wallpaper outlook is not as bright kate has a bit of an issue you might want to get a tissue the wallpaper arrived and it's the wrong wallpaper is it at least the right color it's the same pattern but it's boring what is it ivory it's cream beige no more beige that was what we wanted yeah that's what we got yeah wanted got the problem is that this is coming from the uk and it is now um 7 p.m in the uk which means that people have been at the pub for a good three hours i think they've been at the pub for three hours before they got the wallpaper order put together oh it's frustrating when it's just the one thing that's out of your hands yeah that gets screwed up oh man what else could possibly go wrong oh i got a cramp oh my god marjorie's living room was a blank slate we had nothing in the room forever so we talked her into one wall of wallpaper but that plan is coming unglued i literally have absolutely everything i need in this house to finish the space except for the wallpaper which is a really really important part of this job if it doesn't arrive all this work is for nothing but this story has a happy ending thank you you just made my day wallpapers here express shipping is a wonderful thing [Music] biggest challenge in organizing the space was the fact that marjorie wanted to be able to use as a room for entertaining so immediately to me that means it has to be a more formal room yet it's in an open concept house it has to have lots of seating yet it's a long narrow space so i knew that we had to come up with a plan that couldn't be symmetrical and that would really kind of have a more refreshing take on how you use a living room i always love working with a client who has opinions because then i know they're always going to get what they want out of it i even like my fireplace and i hate my fireplace at the beginning the fireplace was an issue for marjorie i really didn't see it as an issue and i thought it was fine but what it really needed was it needed to be properly dressed it needed to have the right furnishings surrounding it and then i felt that it would all make sense within the room i at first didn't think that i would like the wallpaper but thank god we waited for the right one because it is beautiful the color palette we ended up with isn't exactly what i thought we would have going into it this my friend is holly hobby holly hobby ouch i realized that what she really wanted was just light and cream and just really girly really soft and elegant i'm taking the grain [Music] really the dining room was about finishing touches and accessories so artwork is always very important your guests need something to look at i love the art on the wall i picked that art okay this appeals to me a little that was my excursion candlelight is key in any dining room for me so that's why we hung the wall sconces and they have a gilded tone that's picking up some of the accents that we used in the living room wow those drapes look great at first i wasn't sure i like these stripes but i'm very fond and they bring out the carpet we had to work with the scale of the chandelier so by choosing something that had a much larger scale that was more proportionate to the size of the table it's made a really big difference and after that it was really just a few accessories and setting the table so it is ready to receive visitors i think a room should say a lot about the person who lives here and that's how i'm telling the story of marjorie it's like sarah walked into my head and i went it is above and beyond anything i could have imagined in my wildest dreams [Music] you

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Length: 21min 3sec (1263 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 18 2021