decorating apartment kitchens
New apartment, need help decorating?
My fiance and I just moved into a new apartment. It’s a really nice cozy place…it comes fully furnished, problem is…..everything must stay. Unfortunately, we chose a place that is owned by a flamboyant guy who like floral patterns (and not the good kind!). Since we can’t take anything out of the apartment, I am going to redecorate with what I have. I need ideas such as slip covers for the couch, and a pink chair in the bedroom.
Here’s my decorating ideas:
Living Room – african theme (no animal prints)
Kitchen – paris theme (eifffel tower and bistro types)
Bedroom – mediterranean (greece and italy)
The carpet is a longer (almost shag) brown carpet which is in the living room and bedroom. The rest of the apartment has a sand colored ceramic tile. I am not allowed to move anything out of the apt., I can only store what I dont want into the little bit of storage thats available in the apt.
If the appartment is fully furnished can you paint it ? If you have furniture of your own, can the landloard put the existing one away in a storage ?
I will try to help you out keep looking a my answers I will up date from time to time.
Let’s begin in the living room
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Pay attention on the wall colour ,gold and orange , add a lot of glow and gives the African feel.
I found this chair for the living room if you have a window it will look perfect beside the plants.
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I will now look for the Kitchen
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What coulour are the cupboards?
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This is a bedroom in Tuscany , it all depends on your taste you could go country or modern , they have a much modern taste over there now it depends on what you want ,and what sort of bed do you have . The colours of Tuscany are more into the gold ,blue, green ,purple ,and red , http://www.vacation-rentals-tuscany.com/images/arezzo/villa-micaela-03.jpg
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They have beautiful things on here for the whole house .
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