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Florals, Stripes, and Unruled Mixing

In some ways our living room design is kind of sparse. The walls are white, the furniture is solid neutral colors, and I try to leave open space wherever possible. In other ways, our living room design is kind of a lot. Double book shelves that are overflowing, lots of black lines and angles between the mirror, tv, and gallery wall. There's always a variety of textiles through fuzzy blankets, bold colored pillows, and whatever stray jacket made its way onto the couch from downstairs. But I think that my favorite part of our living room design, and perhaps the busiest part of our living room design, are the floral curtains juxtapositioned against the striped rug.  The rug lands somewhere in the middle of the minimalist/maximalist Venn diagram and reminds me of brutalist architecture in its rigid lines and gray tones. Like we've inlayed cement into the floor. The alternating cream stripes, though, warm it up a little. The curtains on the other had are warm, busy, organic feeling,

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