![]() Our expert team is dedicated to getting back to you as quickly as possible, and we are diligently working internally to improve our response times. Your patience and graciousness speaks volumes as we work to respond to every customer service request. As a result, our customer service team is receiving a much higher than usual number of inquiries. I’m not sure it’s the best long term solution, but if I fiddle with it forever then we will never get this posted! Life is a work in progress, my living room can be one as well.Thank you for your continued support and for shopping at Kathy Kuo Home.Īt this time, we are simultaneously experiencing an unprecedented volume of orders while navigating several supply chain and shipping difficulties due to COVID-19 and manufacturing delays. I fiddled with what to do for a week before I decided to order cord covers for the bottom half of the cord, so it doesn’t look quite as imposing. Well… I didn’t realize that the on/off switch would be so visible on the cord, which seriously ruined the vibe of the whole room. I ordered these awesome midcentury sconces that I am obsessed with, in a plugin version, and I went with a black cord because I figured why try to hide it? An intentional cord can be cool if secured nicely. My final issue is lighting, as I really really wanted sconces for this room but I called in an electrician and he said that it would cost upwards of $1k just to rewire that back wall… so I had to change plans. I AM OBSESSED WITH HOW IT CAME OUT and I think everyone needs construction paper in their home to make this happen. All of a sudden I had an abrupt change of ideas – to play off of the colors in my gorgeous bunglo pillows that I am obsessed with, and create a large scale pop art gallery instead. But time just kept ticking on by, and I felt overwhelmed by the idea of buying and painting a gigantic canvas and not messing it up. ![]() ArtĪs you can see in my original mockup, I was planning on a large scale black and white piece, ideally something that I created myself. So I bought the sucker and never looked back. The bright white, the curved edges, the airiness… all what I was trying to achieve. So the hunt started again and as much as I wanted to avoid iconic, obvious pieces (where all I can afford is a replica) I kept coming back to the Saarinen tulip table. If you saw this post around light white coffee tables, you would have thought that I had a ton of options, but all of sudden I hated all of my original options. Unfortunately, the two size options were either too big or too small for my space (the smaller one is 2″ shorter!), so I needed to go in another direction. My initial mockup included the Shroom table from CB2, and I’m actually still obsessed with this piece. I was a little worried that it would look wonky since the window frame borders were all different sizes, but in the end, I think it works! Almost the entire back wall of the room are these shutters, so if it were all white, it would have just looked like a white abyss- this way there is some design detail to provide a frame to the space.įrom there, I created my initial design mockups, which you can read about more in this post.įrom this original design, a few things went awry, mainly the coffee table, the art, and the lighting, which I’ll share about here. So we settled on the just the borders of the windows and shutters, which can be replaced or painted over easily. R off slightly, as he was a little worried the next owners would be pissed that I had basically jeopardized all of the moldings in the house. I knew I wanted to add high contrast in the room, but my original idea was to add crown moulding and paint them and the floorboards black instead. The key risk I took was in painting the border of the window shutters Onyx, by Benjamin Moore. Truthfully, I couldn’t decide which white to go with and time was short between moves, so I picked a white that was not too cool and not too warm, just to act as a clean slate for however I decided to decorate it later on. My first thought was that it needed to be lightened up, so we painted the entire downstairs Decorator’s White by Benjamin Moore. In contrast to the upstairs of this home which has a lot of natural light, the downstairs is much cooler and darker. Let’s start with the original images of the house from when we moved in.Īs you can see when we moved in the walls were a mix of grey and charcoal, which really darkened the dining room. But now, everything is basically complete, so I thought I would formally reveal the transformation! For those of you who followed along with my home renovations, I apologize that this one seemed to take FOREVER to get photographed! We were ‘almost done’ for probably 3 months, but finding the time to finish those last few parts (and really, we still aren’t completely done) with a new baby seriously took forever.
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