Antiquarian Gray Duron Paint Color
THE CHALLENGE
Christine Randolph wants to amend the 13-by-21-foot ancestors allowance of her Chantilly home with a added adamant architecture and bigger appliance placement. She prefers a French country appearance and is fatigued against air-conditioned colors, such as dejection and greens. The space, which is adjoining to the kitchen and a buried porch, is acclimated primarily for watching television and accidental entertaining.
THE PROPOSED SOLUTION
Designer Barbara Margolis separates the long, angular allowance into two zones, with the sliding bottle doors adding them. She uses at atomic one alpine allotment on anniversary ancillary of the amplitude to actualize balance, and an breadth rug in a stain-resistant bolt to ballast the basement area. She suggests putting the television on a adaptable arm for adjustable viewing.
MARGOLIS’S SUGGESTIONS
Move an absolute mirrored ceramics chiffonier to the bank adverse the TV to antithesis the ample accumulator pieces. Choose a smaller, sleeker recliner for a added avant-garde attending that still provides a adequate abode to relax. Amend the amplitude with balmy gray paint, such as Stonington Gray by Benjamin Moore. Acrylic the central of the ceramics chiffonier (after conference to awning the mirror) Benjamin Moore’s Breath of Fresh Air to tie it to the dejected furniture. An adjustable table and hinge chairs actualize a able abode breadth kids and adults can adore amateur and snacks. Two baby cubes in advanced of the daybed bifold as added basement and storage. A ample accumulator assemblage holds the television, books and dishes while allowance ballast the basement area. Additional lighting would brighten the allowance considerably. Install aerial recessed lighting back the account allows. In the meantime, add ablaze accessories beyond the top of the new bookcases.
Margolis, with Barbara Margolis Interiors (barbaramargolis interiors.com, 301-384-7667), is based in Silver Spring.
SPLURGE OR SAVE
SPLURGE: Westport covering recliner in Urbino ivory ($2,499, roomandboard.com), left. SAVE: Avant-garde wingback glider and recliner in metal gray twill ($1,399, potterybarn.com).
SPLURGE: Andros bristling 8-by-10-foot breadth rug in gray and amethyst ($999, ballarddesigns.com), left. SAVE: Oriental 7.5-by-10.25-foot calm breadth rug in dejected ($205.19, hayneedle.com).
SHOPPING GUIDE
Furniture: Amalfi 85-inch daybed in Amalfi Dejected ($799.99) and River City 34-inch annular dining table ($499.99), both from havertys.com; Liatorp TV accumulator aggregate in white ($1,057, ikea.com); Promenade annular end table ($420, hayneedle.com); Akron high-back board chairs ($237.99 each, wayfair.com).
Accessories: Urshult LED chiffonier lights in white ($24.99 each, ikea.com); 17-inch covering accumulator ottomans in Ocean ($149 each, crateandbarrel.com); indoor-outdoor 18-by-18-inch bandy pillow abstract with a affiliated architecture ($39.99, target.com); Grace affection aboveboard abstract pillow in dejected ($42.99, overstock.com); Inspire 19-inch antique-bronze single-tinted bottle boom chaplet ($126.27, lowes.com).
More from House Calls:
Follow us on Pinterest.
See answers to frequently asked questions about House Calls here
Tell us about your own architecture claiming here
See accomplished allowance makeovers by bounded designers here
