"Design With Me" Around...This Rug!

Last week I tried something new over on Instagram Stories - designing a room with y’all by popular vote! The gist was that I chose a rug as a starting point, and then offered two options for everything else in the room: sofa, chairs, ottoman, side tables, lamps, and pillows. You got to vote on your favorite, and the one that “won” was integrated into the final design!

It was a ton of fun to see what you chose. Some of the results ended up being really close - almost 50/50 right until the end. Then I shared the final design the next day along with all the sources to the winning pieces.

Since Stories only stick around for so long and I was getting DMs asking for sources for the pieces that didn’t make the final cut, I figured I’d pull everything together in a blog post so you can always have the design and sources for the furniture at your fingertips.

Here’s the rug and the color palette that we started with for this Modern Traditional Living Room:

I then pulled two options for the major pieces of the room:

SOURCES:

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Here’s the final design with the winning pieces! Turned out pretty lovely if you ask me. 😉

Are these the ones you would have chosen? What would you have swapped in from the choices above?

To really give you a picture of what this room could look like in real life, I also shared a quick design board with everything arranged in more of a lifelike room setting:

And that’s it! I had a blast pulling this together, and the feedback was a definite YES on doing it again in the future. I’m thinking I might make this a monthly thing! Stay tuned for another “Design With Me” session on Stories!