Oh my goodness, what a week! It was seriously down to the wire getting everything ready and I could really go for a nap right about now, but I am so excited to share with you the final result! If you’re new here, welcome! You can catch up on the weekly progress posts and get the full story with these links: Week 1  // Week 2 // Week 3 // Week 4 // Week 5 Are you ready for the reveal? A little reminder of what I started with: Here’s what my living-dining room looks like now: I brought in purples and blues with pillows, art, and other accessories. The fact that all the big pieces are neutral in color, makes the space versatile and will allow us to very easily switch out the colors whenever the mood strikes. We also added a black vintage-inspired ceiling light fixture which was custom made by a fellow small business. Gallery wall around the TV finally finished! The dining space probably went through the biggest transformation. It’s now welcoming and ready for guests.

The old Ikea shelving unit that we had, got a little makeover with the addition of legs, doors, and greek key panels. I also added bins to keep it organized inside. What do you think? I hope you love the space as much as I do. Thank you so much for following along and cheering me on throughout these past six weeks! Big thank you to Linda, the creator and organizer behind the One Room Challenge, for including me this season. I enjoyed the journey and I am delighted with the result.cheap homemade christmas gift ideas boyfriend Big thank you also to my husband who helped me on weekends and evenings with most of the assembling, installing, hanging, etc.home decor dollar store Shout out to all my sponsors, who generously contributed product to help my vision come to life: Karastan Carpet – Apt2B – Bellacor – Sarah Swanson – Minted – Lowes – Lucent Lighting – Urban Home – O’verlays – Bassett Mirror Company – Mark & Graham – NDI – Parima Studiopre decorated christmas tree delivery

Be sure to check out the reveals of the other 19 talented ladies who did this challenge with me and worked hard to beautifully transform their rooms. So much eye candy!: Apartment 34 / Because it’s Awesome / Coco+Kelley / Design Darling / Design Indulgence / Design Manifest / Christine Dovey / The English Room / Vanessa Francis / Hi Sugarplum / Honey We’re Home / Jojotastic / The Pink Clutch / The Pink Pagoda / Simplified Bee / Style Your Senses / A Thoughtful Place  / Kimberly Whitman  / The Zhush Living Area – sponsored sources:: rug | watercolor paintings in three white frames | gallery wall art – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 | small clear lamp | black vintage inspired ceiling light fixture (custom) ||  other sources:: blue velvet pillows | navy zig zag pillows | gold round mirrored tray | blue lacquered box |  Dining Area – sponsored sources:: dining chairs | custom abstract art | custom greek key pattern for ikea expedit hack | 

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Check out the article for tips and examples.Morepin 1.9kheart 165PinOur daily scrolls through Pinterest are filled with herringbone floors, exposed brick, shiplap, wood-beamed ceilings and charming firepla...pin 587heart 95speech 1PinSafavieh Evoke Navy/ Gold Rug (8' x 10')Morepin 11heart 2PinWhite Beadboard Console Table in Kitchen | Kirkland'sMorepin 106.7kheart 12.5kspeech 24here’s what my living room looked like the day i moved all the stuff in. nothing looked right. isn’t it wild how you get a new space and it feels like so much of the old furniture just doesn’t work anymore? (maybe i was buying the wrong things?) our loft was so industrial. tall ceilings, dark colors…i knew we had a big job ahead of us and i didn’t even know where to start. i wanted to do a post about my last 5 living rooms in los angeles (to show the hilarious progression and style shifts) but the past photos are so terrible i don’t know if i can bring myself to do it (who knows, maybe i can be swayed.)

so this is the place where i hang out on the couch for hours now. my friend emily and i struck up a trade…she helps me design my living & dining room (because i know what i like, it’s just hard for me to decide where everything goes. and i felt overwhelmed with the task. and she’s also the vintage furniture queen. i knew she could make my place much better than if i did it myself!) she needed a new blog design so i helped her out with that on my end. we created pinboards for each other’s projects and went to town. i finally had to accept that investing in furniture is…hard. we found affordable vintage pieces but also splurged on items we loved.laure’s awesome photos of our house were featured in the LA times last weekend – check out the interview with us here. when i first walked into this place before we rented it i was sold immediately on all of the light streaming in the windows. it was something i really missed when i was living in my loft (there was only one big window there.) and the PLANTS!

that is definitely my favorite part of the space. they add so much life and calmness to the room. you may remember that couch from my loft tour last year. it used to be brown tweed and it was ready for a makeover. emily convinced us (which wasn’t difficult) to turn it into a bright color. i chose this teal color and we love it. it makes the space feel more open and airy. when we moved here we had a ton of really dark furniture and a lot of it felt very industrial. it just wasn’t working in our new house. see, this photo was taken shortly after we moved in. yikes. she also decided to reupholster a few vintage chairs and ottomans (the pink stool and that black and white tribal print chair above) it turns out covering your chairs in new fabric is what all the cool kids are doing, glad i finally got the memo. it was affordable and made the room special. something i can say makes me very happy is that this space feels finished. in the past it always seemed like i would get 75% there and just stop.

i joke that it feels like a grown up house, there is a place for everything. and check OUT this credenza. my boyfriend insists on keeping this ginormous television in our living room…which is offensive to my eyeballs, but i will admit, it’s nice on movie nights. we needed a credenza that fit the tv and the space (it’s a very long room) and we kept coming up on dead ends or credenzas that cost more than an automobile. those things get expensive quick. so emily decided to have this one custom built for us. it’s white lacquer and wood and i’m in love with it. somehow the tv doesn’t bother me so much anymore and the extra room on the sides allows room for decorative items. AND i can close the drawers to hide all the ugly cable boxes and cords. he’s stoked about the new jbl speakers and i’m stoked that they look good. arian says his favorite thing in the room is our new jonathan adler floor lamp in the corner from lamps plus. it’s funny the things boys choose, huh?

it’s definitely one of my favorite lamps i’ve owned too, so i can’t really blame him. so let’s talk about that planter, eh? emily found that at the LA flower mart and painted it white. it’s pretty perfect and adds so much personality to the room. i am really into the subtle graphic pattern on our new moroccan style rug from rugs usa. it doesn’t shed like crazy and makes the area very cozy. one thing i was a little scolded about was the amount of gold. ok ok, so i love the stuff. and so does emily. we had to pull it back to a happy medium for my dude. i would be like “babe, but look at this bowl!” and he’s all “i thought we talked about this.”it makes the room a little more legit. it’s the toro chair + ottoman from blu dot and it’s rocking the striped pillow from proud mary. the prints above the chair are from my bestie jen gotch. they make that corner really come together. a few months ago i was in danish modern LA admiring this table and my mom convinced me it would be a table i could keep for 10 years and i needed to just invest in it.

i cringed at the price, but took the plunge. luckily months later i still adore it. i wanted the rugs underneath to be unique and colorful (turns out i am very picky about rugs and art) we stopped in the store lake in silver lake and bought two of these striped rugs and layered them. love at first sight. that chandelier – made by the incredibly talented brendan ravenhill – makes me unbelievably happy. he is such a true artist and craftsman. check out his light fixtures here! the massive beach print is by my pal max wanger. i have always wanted a giant piece of art in my home. we sit here for breakfast and it seriosuly feels like we are on vacation in tulum. it’s the first thing i see when i walk in the house…it makes it hard to be stressed out when you look at it. we used dana at hotel deville for the frame and she did such a quality job (seriously, nice job dana. it’s exactly what we wanted!) the bar cart is from crate and barrel. it’s brass plated with glass shelves.

and it makes you want to throw a party. and lastly, the entryway. i wanted a very simple, thin white console and blu dot had just that. (we also bought the white coffee table to sit the plants on.) like i said, i really wanted to keep the room very airy so it was important to me to have some of the furniture just stylishly disappear. those blue lamps from mod pieces on the other hand stand out quite a bit and i like it. we are really pleased with the outcome…hope you all enjoyed a little look inside our place! thanks for making it look exactly how we envisioned (but couldn’t execute ourselves) photos by: laure joliet space designed by: emily henderson makeup by: danielle walsh feature in the LA Times here a lot of what you see in the room is vintage but here are some shopping credits… birdcage on the dining room, gold cage light, dipped candle holder, yellow candle holders from A + R  |  gold martini side table c/o west elm  |