Found: A Living Room Makeover.

I get these urges every once in a while to completely makeover my space. It starts with a bit of restlessness and a general feeling of ennui, and slowly, I become rather obsessed. It’s been going on since my early teens when I’d play sick from school, and my mum would check in on me only to find I’d wholly rearranged my room — furniture included. Don’t ask me how I did it — I imagine myself dragging things around with a bedeviled determination. And I’m still at it. This time, I made some pretty significant changes, so I hired a TaskRabbit to do the heavy lifting, but before they arrived, I had it sketched out on grid paper to scale so they knew exactly where everything was to go. And before any of that happened, I pretty much lay in bed every night imagining what it should look like and creating private Pinterest Boards to make my vision come to life. I love this kind of madness when it comes over me, and find it genuinely inspiring. So today, I thought I’d share what I’ve been up to — the method behind my madness.

A Moodboard: Disco Beach Cottage.

To begin, I started playing with mood boards. I wanted a lighter, monochromatic vibe that I’m calling ‘Disco Beach Cottage’ (don’t ask – it’s just how my brain works, or perhaps it’s just that Murder on the Dancefloor is permanently hovering around in my brain lately). I’m utilizing loads of my beloved white-on-white but adding some seafoam, gray, and natural wood tones, lots of vintage-modern chrome (I’m very into chrome right now, thus the ‘disco’), some funky modern art, and a bit of black for contrast — but not too much. I’d had this feeling for a while that my sizeable black bookcase was kind of looming over me and the room—and I wasn’t really using my dining space as much as one might think. So, I decided to move the bookcase into what was my dining room, along with my sawhorse table, and turn the room back into my home studio space (more on that room soon). That meant my wood sideboard would move out of the dining room and replace the bookcase in my living room — lots of repurposing and shuffling my furniture around! Anyway, it’s a lot to visualize, so no better way to explain the new look than with some photos.