Instant Living Room

Unfortunately for us, Grand Cayman does not have big box furniture stores.  (I guess for the wallet you could say fortunately!)  I am constantly looking at websites of Crate and Barrel, Pottery Barn, West Elm, etc. to see their new arrivals.  It gives me inspiration, as well as showing what the trends are.  Luckily for many of my clients, several of these stores now offer international shipping to the Cayman Islands. 

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While checking out Crate and Barrel's new arrivals, I came across this good looking slipcover chair.  Such a cute print.  This is how you can do a floral, but still have it masculine and sophisticated. With its white background and blue flowers, it remains light and airy at the same time.  

Using the Cortland Chair as my inspiration, here is how you get an instant Living Room: 

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Beside the slipcover chair, I would have this wood carved accent table with the glass jug lamp.  It will instantly create a cozy spot for your coffee and a book.

The rest of the Living Room looks like this:

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The rest of the room is drawing inspiration from the blue and brown in the chair.   For the walls, Benjamin Moore's Mt. Rainer, it is a very soft gray-blue.  

It is important for any home to have a successful balance of feminine and masculine, soft and hard.  The sofa lines could be considered more feminine, but the color is more masculine, as well as, neutral. 

 The rug has a beautiful pattern almost Art Nouveau, but wouldn't be considered busy for the man in your life.  It mixes the browns and blues perfectly, plus creating a soft wool for underneath your feet.  

The coffee table brings in the hardness (and it's on sale at Crate and Barrel!)  It mixes in a bit of modernity to the room to keep it from getting too fussy.

For the side tables flanking the sofa, we have graceful metal base with mirrored tops.  Bringing in the masculinity on top with the amazing Moroccan lamps.  

The plantation chair brings in another element of "nature" and texture, which every room requires.  This chair could either sit beside the sofa or fill a corner.

  Then we have plenty of options for throw pillows.  Mixing and matching solids and pattern for the sofa and the plantation chair.  A solid lumbar pillow could also go in the Cortland chair.  I love the solid pillow from Pottery Barn with its' jute trim and the  pillows handmade from rugs are amazing!  (Feel free to give to me at Christmas.)

Hopefully you enjoyed my instant living room.  Please don't rub in my face the amazing things you have seen lately at West Elm or any other chain furniture store.  

PS When we move back to the States, I am going to be hitting up West Elm and Z Gallerie.  I have never purchased from these stores, but love what I'm seeing online!!