This week I was back at a former client's gorgeous Kalamazoo home to work on the last remaining unfurnished area in her home—the TV lounge!
Below you can see where we started—a lovely blank slate! We decided to utilize the exiting sectional because it's cute, it's not that old, and it's free—no brainer, right? LOL.
My client wanted a show-stopping built-in on the back wall and had debated putting the TV on that wall for the ease of it, but together we decided it would be awkward to have the sofa face away from the fireplace.
BUT! That didn't mean we couldn't still have the built-in.
Furniture wise, she wanted to sit four comfortably for watching TV, and had a vision for two swivels in the bay window for drinking coffee in the morning. I'm ALWAYS down for a coffee nook, so I was totally on board.
I came up with two similar concepts—though there were several more iterations, but for time's sake this morning, I'll just show you the two that made it to the final round.
TV Lounge Concept #1
They are almost identical aside from the accent chair and the ottoman/coffee table situation. My client wanted dark and moody, though remember, you always need to balance out your darker, cooler colors with something warm.
In the first option, the warmth came from the large leather ottoman, and we brought in some negative space with the accent chair using an exposed wooden frame recliner (YES, that adorable chair reclines!).
TV Lounge Concept #2
In concept two, we moved our warm element to a larger, chunkier (ALSO RECLINER) accent chair, and brought in the negative space with the black oak coffee table.
I also felt that it needed a bit more warmth over in the swivels in this option to balance out the location of the leather, so I added two leather pillows over on the swivels.
In both concepts, the layout is exactly the same, just tweaked slightly based on the scale of the pieces.
The Built In Wall
My client had lots of inspo images for her built in wall, but especially loved arches (which are also throughout the house).
We liked the sunken look, where it's build into the drywall, but because of the window situation, we decided to make the built-in about two feet in from the outside wall to leave space for the window and light to pour in. It's a very long wall, so this worked well.
We played around with color placement a bit too...white on the back wall with shelves and cabinets black, everything black including the dry wall, as well as something different, like an olive green to match the chairs. In the end, we landed on this striking black on black in SW Iron Ore with white drywall surrounding, which really made the arches pop.
I think it turned out super cute—but what do you think?
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