How We Planned It All Out...

Let's start with the living room here. We had our color palette to work with. (See the last #TTPATShomemakeover blog post for details on that!) And within that color scheme, there would lie a design that we BOTH would enjoy.

Patrick had some functional requirements. He wanted to have seating looking at the fireplace. He moved in in December, and the best part of our apartment is the real wood

fireplace! It's fantastic and so cozy. So we wanted to take advantage of that. He also wanted no TV in the living room, but instead to have the guest room dedicated as a TV room. I loved the thought of no TV in the living room, so I was on board! The whole theory was to cut out "passive TV watching." When the TV is out where the action is, it's on, it replaces conversation, it gets watched more- accidentally sort of. Now, we DO enjoy ourselves some well deserved relaxation time with a movie, or (guilty pleasure) The Bachelorette. But when there is a separate TV room, it is much more intentional and more of a fun activity too! Keeping in mind the pieces that we already owned, we decided we needed a sofa, closer and angled in at the fireplace. The angled fireplace wall was the accent wall in green, along with the opposite kitchen and front door walls too.

To sell the whole idea to Patrick, I had to make a mood-board, or visualization board. This showed our sofas with the wall color, the ideas for other seating, artwork, rug, curtains, and kitchen table. The army green and gray, black and white, with the hints of raspberry. Greenery with plants! (That he would have to be in charge of or they wouldn't last long in my hands!) This was the thought for the living room:

And for the master bedroom I wanted the raspberry to be the main color in ombre on the walls, more black and white, rustic wood, mixed metals, and an overall simple boho feel:

The last room was problematic. We originally bought the small white sofa for the TV room

because it was a sleeper and we would still be able to have guests in there. But turns out, I was not ready to part with my bed yet! I loved my bed! Patrick had a queen, so we kept his for our bedroom, but my bed was the MOST comfortable full-size bed in the world! And it could double as a sofa in the TV Room/Guest Room, right? That's what we tried. My old kitchen table doubled as a desk. This room eventually turned into a leftover bonus jack-of-all-trades room that could be a guest room, TV room, dining room, office, art room, man cave, woman cave, AND the dog, Nami's, sleeping quarters. Pretty cramped in there. Our pockets needed a break anyways, so we let this one be for a minute.

Everything was pretty planned out, budgeted out and agreed on. We started making purchases, and had some major DIY action all documented and coming up on the next blog episode of #TTPATShomemakeover for Monday the 27th!!! See you then! :)

Love,
NAFASI