Living Room

When we first installed open shelving in our living room, I filled every single shelf almost immediately, books, framed photos, souvenirs, random decorative objects I’d been storing in a closet

For years, my sofa had two pillows that came free with it, the exact same fabric as the sofa itself, sitting there purely because I’d never thought to consider them

For the first year after buying our console table, it functioned purely as a landing spot for mail, keys, random loose change, and whatever else got dropped there on the

Our living room is an oddly shaped L, with a narrow extension jutting off one side that never seemed to know what it wanted to be, too small for a

I picked my first living room paint color entirely from a tiny swatch held under the bright fluorescent lights of the hardware store, and by the time it dried on

My first solo rental had a living room so small that my couch, a secondhand loveseat really, touched three walls at once, and I spent the first few months assuming

After reading that texture was the secret to a genuinely cozy, layered living room, I went a little overboard, a chunky knit throw, a shaggy rug, a velvet pillow, a

Our living room has an odd, angled wall on one side, a fireplace jutting out on another, and a doorway positioned almost dead center along the third, and when we

A few years back, I painted our living room a trendy deep teal I’d seen all over design blogs at the time, loved it for about a year, and then

I bought my first set of living room curtains based purely on the color and pattern, grabbed the standard length off the shelf without really thinking about it, and hung