Watch Me Decorate a Moody Living Room | Interior Design — Transcript

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1. 0:00Since beginning the interior design
2. 0:01service about two weeks ago, I've had a
3. 0:04flood of emails, inquiries, and orders
4. 0:07for me to design the rooms within your
5. 0:10guys' homes. One of the very first
6. 0:13orders to come in is the room that
7. 0:16you're going to see today. I'm going to
8. 0:18take a look at my screen and you guys
9. 0:20are going to see what I'm looking at
10. 0:23here.
11. 0:24Rebecca had reached out to me to
12. 0:26redesign her living room. Unfortunately,
13. 0:28they had had a home fire which took a
14. 0:31toll on the majority of their living
15. 0:34room and it made it a candidate for a
16. 0:35full restyling. The before photos I'm
17. 0:38showing you are from the home listing
18. 0:40when Rebecca and her husband bought the
19. 0:41house and that is what we used to model
20. 0:44and recreate this room in a rendering
21. 0:47for them. Rebecca's goal was to create a
22. 0:50moody room in a bit of a whimsically
23. 0:53witty style. Her husband wanted to
24. 0:55create a room that he could relax and
25. 0:57watch TV in. He is also a music lover
26. 1:01and he plays guitar and bass. So, what
27. 1:03we needed to do was bring these two
28. 1:05styles together all while taking into
29. 1:08account that they have three dogs who
30. 1:10also spend a lot of time in this room
31. 1:12and a pet turtle that needs a 75-gallon
32. 1:15aquarium.
33. 1:17The challenges they faced were having a
34. 1:19functional layout, not being able to
35. 1:21decide where to put the TV, despising
36. 1:24the current fireplace and that old cubby
37. 1:26that you see sitting right above it, and
38. 1:29creating a style which could be carried
39. 1:31into the rest of the house. So, that
40. 1:34means we needed a theme which could move
41. 1:37from room to room. So, now we're taking
42. 1:41a look at at what we did here. To bring
43. 1:44the dark portion of the dark and moody
44. 1:46style, we went with black hardwood
45. 1:48floors, a black and glossy front door,
46. 1:51and a black trim while painting the
47. 1:54walls a beige color. You might be
48. 1:56wondering why we didn't do dark walls as
49. 1:59well. This is because the largest wall
50. 2:01of this room actually carries straight
51. 2:04back into the kitchen.
52. 2:07We needed a paint color which could
53. 2:08travel throughout the home and not
54. 2:11confine us to the exact design
55. 2:14in the living room.
56. 2:16Dark walls can make for an incredible
57. 2:18room design, but if the whole house is
58. 2:20done that way, it really takes away from
59. 2:23the impact.
60. 2:24We put a nice comfy sofa as the large
61. 2:26seating piece, which is perfect for
62. 2:28lounging as well as for the dogs. If you
63. 2:31look closely, you'll see a little wooden
64. 2:33crate box on the floor under the TV so
65. 2:36that the dog toys could be placed in
66. 2:38there. We mounted the TV and used decor
67. 2:41to fill the spaces of the blank walls
68. 2:43surrounding it. Rebecca has a a very
69. 2:46tall
70. 2:47raised ceiling in her home on the main
71. 2:50floor here.
72. 2:51These walls were not being used to their
73. 2:54full potential in terms of decor. So,
74. 2:57everything that we did add to decorate
75. 3:00the walls
76. 3:01was chosen with the idea of of balance.
77. 3:04When you're looking at the TV, you don't
78. 3:06want one side of the wall to feel too
79. 3:09heavy with decor as compared to the
80. 3:12other side. At the entry of the home, we
81. 3:15set up a console table
82. 3:17with some art and decor, but what I
83. 3:19really want you to pay attention to is
84. 3:22the mirror that we chose here. The
85. 3:24ceiling of this room rises to a peak at
86. 3:29an angle. So, the height of the ceiling
87. 3:32at the entry is much lower. It's like a
88. 3:35traditional height. Much lower right
89. 3:37above the doorway. Um that is a much
90. 3:41lower portion than the height of the
91. 3:42ceiling at the center of the living
92. 3:45room. Because of this, we have an angled
93. 3:47line where the wall meets the ceiling.
94. 3:50That traveling line that goes all the
95. 3:52way to the top. So, what we did is we
96. 3:55chose a mirror whose top is skewed to
97. 3:57the left, so it would synchronize with
98. 4:00the space.
99. 4:02The center coffee table has three
100. 4:04objectives, really. It brings wood into
101. 4:07the room. It has additional storage if
102. 4:09needed. And number three is that you're
103. 4:11able to see through it. You'll notice a
104. 4:13recurring theme that when we when we
105. 4:15work with small spaces, it's a good idea
106. 4:18to take a look at furniture pieces whose
107. 4:20legs or bodies are are easy to see past
108. 4:23or see through.
109. 4:25The furniture still serves a purpose,
110. 4:27but the eye does not perceive it as
111. 4:30taking up a bunch of space because that
112. 4:33piece is not solid.
113. 4:36Down the wall, you'll see that we have
114. 4:37created a gallery wall as well as a
115. 4:40statement piece in one design. So,
116. 4:43Rebecca's husband will be able to hang
117. 4:45one of his showcase guitars while having
118. 4:48it complemented by a collection of
119. 4:50music-inspired photography of his
120. 4:53choosing.
121. 4:54We switched out the facade of the
122. 4:56fireplace completely. I wanted to go for
123. 4:58a more classic and slightly goth style.
124. 5:01We filled in the cubby above it because
125. 5:03it really wasn't serving any um purpose.
126. 5:07It's possible that in a different type
127. 5:09of home or a different style of home,
128. 5:11you may actually be able to utilize the
129. 5:13the cubby for something. Maybe if we
130. 5:15were going for uh a bit more of a
131. 5:18studious look or if it was within a
132. 5:19study, we could fill it with books. But,
133. 5:22for this living room, it really served
134. 5:24um no purpose. But, now that the cubby
135. 5:27is filled in, Rebecca's husband can once
136. 5:29again be able to display some of his
137. 5:32favorite things. So, of course, we were
138. 5:35able to find a place for the turtle and
139. 5:37his 75-gallon aquarium. You're seeing
140. 5:40fish in it for the purpose of the
141. 5:41rendering, but this will be a turtle in
142. 5:44here. This This sits against a half
143. 5:47wall. In reality, the kitchen is right
144. 5:51behind the aquarium in this picture.
145. 5:54But, because it was not part of our
146. 5:56restyling, it's not included within the
147. 5:593D model. So, it looks like it's just
148. 6:02drywall in the model that I'm showing
149. 6:03you, but there's actually a kitchen
150. 6:06right beyond that.
151. 6:08Not only were the floors black, we
152. 6:10arranged them in a herringbone fashion.
153. 6:13We didn't necessarily need to do this,
154. 6:15but if you're placing your floors
155. 6:18replacing your floors entirely,
156. 6:21adding a pattern to the install can just
157. 6:23make it a bit more interesting. You've
158. 6:25now seen one of the many ways to create
159. 6:28a moody living room. Remember that if
160. 6:30you would like my help in designing one
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