STOP DOING THIS TO YOUR LIVING ROOM! (PRO TIPS INCLUDED)
STOP DOING THIS TO YOUR LIVING ROOM! (PRO TIPS INCLUDED)
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I agree with most but extremely disagree with the not displaying family photos. This is my house, if you are uncomfortable seeing photos ofmy family who lives here then gtfo
So what is the answer when your living room is super narrow and doesn’t accommodate seating pulled away from the walls? Child-sized furniture? Lol
And, while it may not be stylish to put a TV above the fireplace, I actually enjoyed that in our last house. Spending most of the time with my head down (cooking, reading, gardeing, playing with the little ones and watching Lisa’s videos on my phone), it was good for my neck muscles to have to lift my head just a little to watch TV. Not uncomfortable at all. 💜
My son is a marine and I put his foto on the wall and he loves it . I also have an Extra space for my twins boy and girl there are marines. To fotos and they love it in the living room
I actually love seeing personal photos in people’s homes. It shows what they love. And you can learn more about them and their experiences.
What on earth, no family photos? That’s completely absurd! It’s my home I have to live in it not other people. I’ve literally never heard of anyone being uncomfortable seeing someone else family photos in their own home. Honestly I implore everyone break that rule. If you have family photos that you love put them wherever you want, your family is far more important than a perfectly styled magazine cover home.
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Hi Lisa! I live your advice however I’m struggling with the one about not moving furniture against the walls. I live the setup in all these beautiful big rooms. Our living room is 13×18 feet big and we share it with my work from home husband’s office. I would love to have his desk in the middle of the room and the sectional for our four family members off the wall. Right now I’ve got the room separated by an Ikea Kallax shelf, desk against the wall and sectional in the opposite corner.
If you can offer any better ideas for a space like that I’d love to hear it because I’m getting ready to paint that room and redo the floor.
I love your channel and your tips🥰
Please make a video about bay window how to style with curtains🙏
I wish I watched this video before I installed my TV above the fireplace! I’m convinced I gave myself whiplash! ❤️ Napa, CA.
I was waiting for you to talk about family pics in the living room! That makes me absolutely crazy! I, too, do not like seeing them all stuffed on every table, mantle, or walls filled with people pics everywhere!!!
Hey that knitted cover for the switch is brilliant for that dirty nasty switch.. goes perfect together! LOL I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen anything so horrific before! Hilarious!
4:43 I never would have thought family photos make people uncomfortable. Unless its gore, pornography, provoking political content or something actually disturbing going on I dont think it should make anyone uncomfortable and people have gotten too sensitive if it does.
I also wonder how many visitors do people have to consider the living room a "public space"? And somehow not the toilet even though its very likely some visitors may need to use it.
Mostly agree with your rules otherwise.
The living room is the part of my home Im most proud of, but I dont do everything right on this list, I actually dont even have a TV, carpet or decor plants (unless you count the aquarium, I have one). Is that considered a lack? I do have a lot of decor
Pretty sure my living room is not a public space. No one‘s been through here today for sure…
a video just on throw pillows?
One of my favorite things to see in a home are the family photos. I do like the consensus that you don’t need to go overboard and have them plastered everywhere, but definitely feel a designated wall is the way to go.
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We have a small house so family pictures will have to be in a public space. Although we don’t have a lot. I have 3 framed photos on a side table with a plant. And one on a bedroom side table. I don’t like family photos on the wall. I only put art on the walls. And since I’m a minimalist. I only have a few larger scales framed art pieces scattered around the house. I do like candles, so I have a bunch decorated potted candles scattered around the house too. They substitute for art in a lot of ways.
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The family pictures thing can be done tastefully. My sister and he husband had a photo of the two of them above the fireplace that was enormous and kept up long after the styles changed(check the skinny eyebrows)! Yuk.But. My friend had very stylized oil paintings done of her daughters. Done by a fabulous artist. Museum quality. They will always be stunning!
What?! No knitted outlet covers? What if it is a 70’s mobile? lololol
I would love to see you do a video on how to make a T_I_N_Y DARK condo entry way brighter. I’m in a 1,258 sq. ft condo and people walk into my dark hallway and even I think it is depressing. The 3/4 high board and batten walls are painted white (which is great) and there is a bench for sitting and taking shoes off (another plus). But its issues are its tiny size, and that the laundry room entry door is there immediately across from the entry door. The chocolate brown laminate floor is going within the next few months (a mid tone wood laminate is going down) and that will help to lighten the room a bit. I do have a table lamp in there and I have two "candle lanterns" on the opposite wall that provides a bit of ambiance. No chance for a chandelier as there is no electricity in that room and I have another condo directly above me so no way to add electric. The entry door is a heavy oak door and i am thinking about painting the inside of the door and its frame white which "could" help lighten things up a bit. I cannot change out the door and out in a door with a window (condo rules) so that is not an option for me. Any other ideas or suggestions?
Brass & glass end tables are "invisable" and don’t need coasters under your drinks!!
I agree with "no family photos in public spaces". I’ve always felt weird when people put memories on the walls of the communal/public spaces. It feels sorta uninviting. You want to use the public spaces to create new memories with guests, not reflect on old memories.
Personally I enjoy 1 or 2 small frames on an end table in the living room, but save the family photo moments for hallways and bedrooms.
never understood TV’s above fireplaces
Ok- you say not to put couches against the wall, but then you keep showing pictures of rooms with couches against the wall! I would love to actually see examples of normal sized living rooms where this works, I really want to try it.
The “palm frond” is a “bird of paradise”, not in bloom of course, but more special than a palm!
let em be uncomfortable lol
Retired Interior Designer is laughing and nodding and totally agreeing with EVERY point that you made!
Thank you for stating the obvious in regards to TV over the fireplace.. your ABSOLUTELY right!
This was just sooo helpful to me (and really satisfying to checkist watching it again). I still haven’t nailed the lighting. But I’m getting there. Thank you so very very much.
I agree … put those photos in your bedroom. Very Boring design and clutter bc people can’t stop adding more and more.
Hi Lisa, we just discovered your channel last week and have been binge watching ever since!
We are having our home built in Nova Scotia Canada 🇨🇦. You don’t really talk much about livingroom side tables or sofa tables…I haven’t decided if I’m going to have one or the other or neither, so I’m thinking we’ll need to ask electrician to put outlets on the floor under where the couch would be since the great room is open to kitchen and dining nook there is no wall for an outlet just in case I need lamps. Any thoughts on that?
Your example for a sectional was against the wall
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I’m always so glad that you mention design suggestions for small spaces – thanks for including us!
Never understood having family photos on your bedroom. You begin to be intimate with your husband or wife and you look up to see a pic of your kids, mum or dad, nan or grandpa smiling at you. That’s enough for it to crawl back inside you, never to be intimate again 🤣🤣
I don’t like backless benches that make one ache and slouth, and coffee tables that are so far away from the seat that one hurts the spine each time to get to them. Also, most of the "good" examples you gave comprised furniture placed right along the walls, but that’s contrary to the first point you made. And speaking of the first point in conjuction with the third one, suppose one moved the furniture from the wall and brought it to a more central part of the room, would one should also leave enough space behind it to allow for traffic? Because that’s what the third point meant. But in that case, I guess one would need a really large room for the ideas to work altogether. And even then, the problem of backless benches and distant coffee tables would remain.
My issue with family photos is that they are rarely displayed or arranged in an aesthetically pleasing way in my opinion. At least in most of the experiences I’ve had in other people’s homes.
My mother in law has a photo of her elderly father displayed though of him painting his artwork that was shot by a photographer and I absolutely love it. The photo is art itself.
✴This is the BEST way I’ve found to get a fresh view of my rooms:
Take a medium/large size mirror and walk around the room with it looking at the reflection as you go (don’t trip!). By looking at the room flipped it really shows where the clutter is and if the design is working or not.
My living room is not a public space, it is the heart of my home. I will not relegate family pictures to a hallway. I agree no one is interested in a gallery wall of a kindergarten graduation, but for me a few tasteful pics of my loved ones are the best installations in the world.
I don’t agree .We are a picture family down to my kids , myself and their grandparents ( my parents) I also do photography. Who cares what others think? It’s our home .Not being rude but some of us have limited space .
She talks about "save that space for artwork you love"… 1st of all, photography is an ART form and I didn’t pay all that money to hide them!!! Also! I don’t want to look at someone’s family photo when I’m pooping and vulnerable. Keep it in the livingroom!!! 2nd, there might be "artwork" that makes guests feel uncomfortable… I’m there more than them obviously. It’s my space so I’m gonna do it how I want! And if you don’t like it you don’t have to come over!
Amen about that tv over the fireplace! I never understood the function and never liked that look.
I have a gallery wall of family photos going up my open staircase and into the upstairs hallway. I also have two living rooms on the 1st floor. The family room where we have the television has no family photos. However the sitting room has no TV……a piano instead. Above the piano is a gallery wall of more family photos. People rave about our family photos. Taken professionally in a less posey way… put in black and white…. framed with matting looks like art. I saved the wedding photos for our bedroom and instead opted to keep our wedding album in the sitting room in case folks ask about our wedding photos. I also keep a pretty box of family pictures from years ago for visiting family to delve into when we’re chatting about the old days.
Nope to the painting switch covers. It only minimizes the size a tiny amount and becomes a magnet for nastiness and grime. Everyone knows switches exist. To me, painting them would be like putting a fuzzy cover on a toilet lid.
Looking at this video has slightly changed my perception of displaying family photos in the livin room now, from what I’d planned to do. Any tips where the ‘ancestor wall’ can be in a home?
I don’t agree with the personal photos as long as you don’t over do it.
I’m lucky enough to have hunted, found, and bought back an heirloom antique table that had previously come down in my family. It’s a carved, round parlor table, and the best place I have for it is a corner of my living room. I didn’t plan it, but the family table ended up having a few, and then a group (now 8) black and white family photos, dating from 1890 to 1948. As I am able, I find more interesting, vintage frames for these, and a few family mementoes join the mix, all around a lamp in grandma’s china pattern. I actually don’t care for a lot of family photos on display, but have made this exception, and it suits my old house and me. It’s in a corner out of the traffic pattern, so in nobody’s face. Visitors and family gravitate to it, though, and it serves to start many stories.
I agree these advices are great, but not always possible to implement in real life. I have 3 kids and very small living space. I push all furniture against the walls to make more space for running and playing. And I cannot imagine myself collecting toys, balls and bullets behind the furniture every day. Moreover I have back issues and I cannot drag sofas. Unfortunately practical solutions are winning over beauty.
THANK YOU! I never understood why people are mounting their TVs up near the ceiling! Even if there isn’t a fireplace below it. So happy you addressed this, now I don’t feel crazy ha