I don't really have before shots of the big TV room downstairs. When I bought the house, it was obviously the most heavily used room in the house since the walls were dinged, scratched and dirty. When the previous owners removed their furniture, you could see the original carpet color underneath where the couch and chairs sat for years, while the rest was trashed. They must have eaten in front of the television a lot since there were stains all over the carpet. Because it's naturally a darker room due to the short windows (which look out to the side wall), they probably didn't notice day-to-day that they were living in filth. They must never have had the carpets cleaned.
It was the first or second room I painted after I moved in because it looked so shoddy. There was a beige/tan color on the walls which I changed to a muted 'Lichen' color with a sandy (River Rock) texture. After I had hard wood flooring installed downstairs that room was looking ok, so I left it to "re-do" fully at some later time. And since it was low priority, I put my old Florida TV room furniture in it, which was traditional and functional, but it included a 65" large box TV that took up a lot of floor space. I lived with that look for 5 years while I worked on other rooms of the house.
This picture isn't the before, it's the interim... after I fixed it up the first time just to make it liveable.
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In re-doing the room in 2011, I wanted something more modern with cleaner lines. The TV is a 60" LED-LCD Sharp Quattron with Yellow added to the normal Red-Green-Blue pixels. In high def, it really has a remarkable picture quality. The LED backlighting makes the colors pop, and allows the TV to be only about an inch thick. The Bose sound system gives me 'surround sound' with only 2 speakers and a subwoofer. The other TV components (Tivo, Blu-Ray, etc.) were put in the adjoining laundry room hooked up to an infrared remote system so I don't have to look at equipment and wires. The furniture may look modern, but the black leather and steel chairs are actually a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe design made for the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Exposition. The steel and glass Knoll tables are a Warren Platner classic from the 1960's. The white leather sectional is simple and modern from 2011, so regardless of the era, it's not a 'flashback' theme room. It's just clean and simple. I'll be hanging curtains on the back wall; I may have some shelves custom built for media; the lighting still has to be changed; and I'll add some artwork - but that's about all that's left for this room. |
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60" LED-LCD TV & Bose |
A place to chill |
Wide view |
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1929 Barcelona Chairs |
Knoll Platner table |
Knoll Platner table |
