Apartment therapy are currently hosting their annual small cool contest which is all about, as you may have guessed, small apartments that are rather cool! I have been busy and therefore haven't been perusing all of them, but I am fairly certain that I can assume that any of the really popular choices have in common, at least, these few things:
1. their "surfaces" make sense - either because they are clean and nearly empty or perfectly curated; and
2. when you pull out one piece of furniture it is not likely to bang into another!
and just maybe, I think, there might be this thing,
3. where to reach from part of the house to another, it probably doesn't involve walking thru a maze, like this:
as it happens, my own living area is failing these three criteria rather miserably - and I've put a badly clicked picture of my apartment below..
and while it doesn't show how wonderful, I think, my antique oak table is or my wonderful Jarrah sofa is - it does show rather well, how miserable the lighting is, the flow is, and how untidy the surfaces is.
the solution, as it happens, isn't all that difficult - it is simply to move that green sofa upstairs, perhaps to the bedroom or the guest room, and rearrange the main lounge is a more sensible way, but somehow I've not been able to manage it.
So, on my list of things to make my living area actually liv-able, and then maybe even beautiful, I have:
1. move the chair and re-arrange furniture
2. clean surfaces - which really involves finding alternative spaces for things
3. If it makes sense, put a rug in there (or two!)
4. put up my art on the walls
5. improve the lighting - by putting multiple source lightings around the place!
1. their "surfaces" make sense - either because they are clean and nearly empty or perfectly curated; and
2. when you pull out one piece of furniture it is not likely to bang into another!
and just maybe, I think, there might be this thing,
3. where to reach from part of the house to another, it probably doesn't involve walking thru a maze, like this:
and while it doesn't show how wonderful, I think, my antique oak table is or my wonderful Jarrah sofa is - it does show rather well, how miserable the lighting is, the flow is, and how untidy the surfaces is.
the solution, as it happens, isn't all that difficult - it is simply to move that green sofa upstairs, perhaps to the bedroom or the guest room, and rearrange the main lounge is a more sensible way, but somehow I've not been able to manage it.
So, on my list of things to make my living area actually liv-able, and then maybe even beautiful, I have:
1. move the chair and re-arrange furniture
2. clean surfaces - which really involves finding alternative spaces for things
3. If it makes sense, put a rug in there (or two!)
4. put up my art on the walls
5. improve the lighting - by putting multiple source lightings around the place!
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