Disaster family room - please help!
We desperately need some inspiration for our dark 'family room'. We did a whole house renovation last year and still haven't decided what to do with a room off the kitchen we call the family room. It doesn't have a window, and is currently a bit of a dumping ground for toys and pictures we haven't got round to hanging. We have a two year old so need to have somewhere to store toys and books. We also watch TV in here. We have a smarter separate sitting room which we want to keep child-free.
We intend keep the large blue three seater sofa for now as it's ikea and so pretty resistant to sticky fingers. The walls are painted in Elephant's Breath. The house is Edwardian.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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Carolina
6 years agoYou could cover the short wall at the back in (white) storage. This Eket system from Ikea has the option to add some colours too. I'd do the main part white and add perhaps some orange & pink (referring to the copper in the kitchen) and/or blue open storage boxes.
Also add lights and lots of bright coloured cushions on the sofa.
Ikea also has LED light panels with wireless control, that you can hang on the wall above the sofa. You could hang three in a row for example, or hang 6 or so together to form a fake window.
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Patrina
6 years agoI think the key to dour design is going to be lighting it is a bit unfortunate that it's so close to your well lit kitchen yet it is so dark. I don't know what is above the room but you could possibly explore the idea of introducing a light tube to get some more natural daylight in.
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