Our family room is an enormous 2-story room, with giant towering windows, and an open floor plan that connects directly to our kitchen. It’s also entirely brown. Well, everything in the room is dark brown – brown leather couches, brown coffee table, brown pillows, brown ottoman. I am so ready for a different color.
Now, I don’t plan on buying any new furniture, just re-purposing our old stuff and throwing on some new colors and accessories, to save some $$. I am thinking I’ll use a lot of white and ivory to hopefully brighten up the room and make it look cleaner and more elegant.
Time to look for some inspirational pictures!
Lovely crisp light green, white and dark brown living room color scheme
I found this beautiful, crisp and clean living room design on BHG.com. I love it and I want it! I never would have thought about using this type of subtle yellow-green color on the walls – but it really makes the white fireplace, bookshelves and accessories pop! I will definitely be keeping this in mind as I design my family room. Reminds of me of english spring, fresh and green, with a sophisticated touch of dark ebony wood.
Vintage bottles, Pottery Barn
I’m in love with these huge, old green-blue-clear vintage bottles, that I found at potterybarn.com. I don’t know if I will use these in my family room since there’s a high probability that it will get knocked over or broken (we play a lot of boardgames/wii games). But, I WILL find somewhere for them (maybe as the centerpiece on my round glass kitchen table or on my huge black granite island).
Here are some more inspirational ideas:
Neutral and comfy living room
Fresh modern cottage
Dramatic gold and black family room
Couture House 