The Eye Candy Thread

[Anonymous]

Love the pics!
Another dining room request: what, if anything, to do on a long dining room wall with shoulder height (or slightly above) wainscoting. Art hung above feels too high, but I also think the room would benefit from some vertical interest (ceilings are 10ft). Dining room chairs are lower profile (which might end up being a very expensive mistake), and are perhaps undersized for the room (but I love them).

[EyeCandyOP]

Anonymous wrote:A hard wood floor in a living room that has Brazilian marble like knotty light and dark pattern. Please and thank you.

While I'm working on the others, perhaps you can rephrase this request? Is it that your wood floors are an exotic species that has a lot of color variation? I just a little confused about the mention of Brazilian marble. If you can take a picture of it, upload it to imgur.com (anonymous site for photos), and link it here.

[EyeCandyOP]

Anonymous wrote:Love the pics!
Another dining room request: what, if anything, to do on a long dining room wall with shoulder height (or slightly above) wainscoting. Art hung above feels too high, but I also think the room would benefit from some vertical interest (ceilings are 10ft). Dining room chairs are lower profile (which might end up being a very expensive mistake), and are perhaps undersized for the room (but I love them).

NO way...I had a picture of room with this kind of trim work in the last post, but I took it out! I will try to track it down and see if there are some other examples. What is your style, btw? The ones I was seeing were very craftsman-ish.

[Anonymous]

EyeCandyOP wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love the pics!
Another dining room request: what, if anything, to do on a long dining room wall with shoulder height (or slightly above) wainscoting. Art hung above feels too high, but I also think the room would benefit from some vertical interest (ceilings are 10ft). Dining room chairs are lower profile (which might end up being a very expensive mistake), and are perhaps undersized for the room (but I love them).

NO way...I had a picture of room with this kind of trim work in the last post, but I took it out! I will try to track it down and see if there are some other examples. What is your style, btw? The ones I was seeing were very craftsman-ish.

I would say my style is craftsman in the sense that I have dining chairs upholstered with William Morris fabric, but otherwise, style is probably more modern/slightly glam than a modern craftsman vibe. And your previous pics of dining rooms were what inspired me to ask about my own

[EyeCandyOP]

Anonymous wrote:Basements that look nice but don’t have many windows?

I'm going to skip the super designer-y bars and wine rooms, assuming you want family space.











This is from a designer show house in Denver




By the way, there was this guy on HGTV back in the day named Scott McGilvray (he still has a show on HGTV Canada) where he converted basements into apartments so owners could make money off their properties. My take away was that he used light colors, smaller-scale furniture, and a TON of lighting - ceiling, task, lamp, etc.

[EyeCandyOP]

Anonymous wrote:Hi OP, I've loved going through this post, thank you! Could you post pics of non-drape window treatments for a home with dark hardwood and light grey walls? If it helps, we have taupe sofas and colorful accents.

This is a bit bold...

[Anonymous]

We just bought a house that has several wide dormer windows upstairs. I'd like to have window seats built in a couple of them, but can you think of anything else to do with the space besides that? Two are in the MBR and the others are in other bedrooms. Each one is about the width of a chair-and-a-half, and ~5 ft deep, if that helps.

[EyeCandyOP]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I’m really enjoying your sense of style selection for the images pulled. I would love some help with inspiration for a home office from scratch. I’m looking to set it up as both a place I can do research writing and artistic hobbies. I use a desk top, so I was thinking a smaller desk/standing desk against a wall with with shelving and then a larger project table /desk in the middle of the room. My style is on the California/Scandinavian Dwell side of things.

Is color still okay?


This is obviously very grand in scale, but I think there's some inspiration here.






California Closets did this one...


There's a lot happening here, but just an idea about layout if you're adding a crafting table.


Another one more in the crafting world.

[Anonymous]

EyeCandyOP wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A hard wood floor in a living room that has Brazilian marble like knotty light and dark pattern. Please and thank you.

While I'm working on the others, perhaps you can rephrase this request? Is it that your wood floors are an exotic species that has a lot of color variation? I just a little confused about the mention of Brazilian marble. If you can take a picture of it, upload it to imgur.com (anonymous site for photos), and link it here.

Sorry about that. We just redid our living room floors. We have a small upright piano and an antique table. Nothing else yet. I love the rustic, industrial look. We don’t colors or furniture picked out. Here’s a website that has the flooring: https://www.uniquewoodfloor.com/blog/guide-brazilian-hardwoodflooring/

Thanks for all you’re help.

[Anonymous]

OP I dare you to find a house where honeycomb shades look good *ducks*

[Anonymous]

OP - I am the poster who asked for purple living room colors - we have thought about gray - those images were quite helpful and gave me a lot of ideas! Sorry - I was out of town for the weekend and forgot to check back. Thanks for all your efforts on this thread!

[EyeCandyOP]

Anonymous wrote:

EyeCandyOP wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A hard wood floor in a living room that has Brazilian marble like knotty light and dark pattern. Please and thank you.

While I'm working on the others, perhaps you can rephrase this request? Is it that your wood floors are an exotic species that has a lot of color variation? I just a little confused about the mention of Brazilian marble. If you can take a picture of it, upload it to imgur.com (anonymous site for photos), and link it here.

Sorry about that. We just redid our living room floors. We have a small upright piano and an antique table. Nothing else yet. I love the rustic, industrial look. We don’t colors or furniture picked out. Here’s a website that has the flooring: https://www.uniquewoodfloor.com/blog/guide-brazilian-hardwoodflooring/

Thanks for all you’re help.

Could you share your inspiration pictures for putting those floors in? I haven't really seen them in a home before, so I'm not sure how to search for pictures.

[EyeCandyOP]

Anonymous wrote:Love the pics!
Another dining room request: what, if anything, to do on a long dining room wall with shoulder height (or slightly above) wainscoting. Art hung above feels too high, but I also think the room would benefit from some vertical interest (ceilings are 10ft). Dining room chairs are lower profile (which might end up being a very expensive mistake), and are perhaps undersized for the room (but I love them).

I would say my style is craftsman in the sense that I have dining chairs upholstered with William Morris fabric, but otherwise, style is probably more modern/slightly glam than a modern craftsman vibe. And your previous pics of dining rooms were what inspired me to ask about my own

I'm going to assume you've looked at traditional craftsman ideas. I'm going to see if I can find some things that aren't so typical.





I'm not a fan of the colors here, but I thought the wallpaper idea was different.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the office looks, they are generally right on the money of what I’m looking for function wise. Color is more than ok, I just go white because I can’t figure out how to incorporate it well. I love the modern/craftsman dining rooms you’ve posted and keep trying to figure out how I can transform those into my home office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am loving this thread. Looking for ideas to inject more blue into a room with classic beige couches and mahogany furniture. My style swings more classic than is typical, so there’s not a lot of inspiration in magazines. The room you posted earlier with a navy couch facing patterned chairs was stunning, but sadly we already own the khaki couches.

You might really enjoy Mark D. Sikes' rooms. He LOVES blue and traditional decor. He uses a lot of blue-and-white pottery, too.

Those images were amazing. DH loves the first room in particular. I am going to try to find that rug with the diamond pattern. We appreciate the images so much! How do you find these things?