Our family room has Spanish and Old World influences, with furniture and artwork Mike and I collected together over the years. We chose pieces gradually rather than furnishing the room all at once.
A room built around collected pieces
Many of the things in the room have a story behind them. Mike and I enjoyed looking for pieces together, and he chose much of the artwork and many of the old pictures.
Custom window treatments with sale fabric
The high ceilings made it a challenge to give the room a cozy feeling. I bought fabric on sale, had a seamstress sew the window treatments, and hired someone to install the hardware and hang them.
They cost around $1,500 at the time. Other estimates we had received were well above $5,000, so using sale fabric and arranging the work separately made a substantial difference for us.
Making the room our own
Mike is not an interior designer, although I often joked that he could be. His choices helped shape the room alongside the pieces we found together.
The entertainment-center update shows how we changed details while keeping a wood finish. The country-French kitchen tour shares more of the house’s collected and handmade decor.
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