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First Mexico now Spain. Another reader's lovely home. A fun and colourful family home. Fresh and stylish. Spy some IKEA? That's the reason why Carmina and her family made the cover of the Spanish IKEA Family Live. Congratulations Carmina! What a wonderful home! Photos from Carmina's blog Interiors Originals and IKEA Family Live.
We had so many great readers' homes in lately that I just had to share on a Saturday. Vikki recently purchased a piece of paradise in Cabo San Lucas and wanted to share with tease Desire to Inspire readers. What a beautiful holiday spot, the endless blue of the Sea of Cortez and a great renovation by Vikki! Just a taste here but you can see all the befores and afters on her blog My House, My Garden. Casa Cielo is available to stay but would you ever want to leave. I think I'd just laze by that pool forever. Let's take in the view before moving inside after the jump.
Here is the second of today's reader's homes. It's an update of Sandra's home decorating projects. (We featured her chair redo, dining room and den previously). She's completed her biggest task - sorting out the living room. I really admire Sandra's eclectic and global vibe - right up my alley. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Today's first reader's home comes Amparo, who lives in Uruguay. She began decorating her new apartment a couple of months ago and now that it's finally ready she wanted to share it with us and our readers. Love the vintage radio! Thanks Amparo!
Got a problem? Need some help? Just standing there shaking your head? Don't know what to do? You're not alone. Send us a link to photos of your design quandary and let the Desire to Inspire design crew help you .... that's you lot ... the readers! You are coming up with some stellar ideas each week so it's time to do it all over again. This week is just a little different. Instead of room photos Brigida has sent us photos of what she has in the room. Can you make help her pull it all together? She is wrestling with a rug dilemma.
First I want to tell you that I love your blog. I would really appreciate if you could help me with some ideas about how to combine rugs in the dining/living room. I have a rectangular open plan living room/dining room, where I want a more contemporary decoration. Three of the walls are white and one was painted in a greyish chocolate brown. In the middle, separating the living room from the dining room, there's a rectangular column in a almost black grey. The furniture is in dark wood (wenge), the dining table is white (lacquered) and the chairs are camel brown, similar to this one.
The sofa (with chaise long) has a sand colour, something like this, but lighter
and in the living room I have something like this
and a wenge center low table. I also have in the living room a Corbusier chaise long brown/white/black pony like this one.
I wanted to bring some colour to the space, so I bought this gabbeh rug - the colours are more vivid than in the picture to put under the white dining room table.
I want to put a rug in the living room, but I don't know what colour will go better. I thought in a dark grey rug but don't know. Can you please give some suggestions?
Sat, 2 Apr 2011