Designing a room around Dark Furniture: Part I
One of my good friends and her husband just bought the most AMAZING dining room table from Restoration Hardware. It's actually this one (or very very similar to this one), and it's absolutely stunning. Now that it's been delivered, they are in the process of making room for it in their apartment, and have very cleverly decided to split their huge living room, so that half is for the dining area, and half is for the living room. The old floor-plan looked something like this: I only know the general details of how the room is being split up, but I imagine the new floor-plan will look similar to this: Genius, right? By flip-flopping the room, you now walk into the "dining room" from the hallway, and in general have a good flow for entertaining. What else is changing from the old layout? Well the ottoman is going to be way too big to transfer over to the other side of the room, so that needs to be replaced. By replacing it with a smaller coffee table, and eventual...