A New Apartment Calls for an Inspiration Board! (Part 4: Living Room Design)

Gosh! Mid-August into the beginning of September has been pretty busy! I've been slacking on my apartment updates!

Anyhow, without further adieu, here's the fourth installment of inspiration boards and design for the new apartment: the living room!

Here's what we're working with:

We've sort of gotten to the point where we are in a little bit of a holding pattern with actually FINISHING the apartment - we still need to purchase 2 pieces of furniture, acquire 2 awesome chairs for the living room (which are kindly being donated by sweet hubs' great aunt), and get some organizational tools for the closets. We can't finish hanging things until we get one of the two pieces of furniture and we've just gotten a little lazy since we've both been incredibly busy.

Regardless, here is our inspiration board for the living room. We've got a great space to work with - it's a sunken living room with an adorable wrought iron railing and steps off of a very generously sized foyer, which really lives up to the whole 1960's mid-century modern style that the building has going for it. I love it.

We figured that since the living room is such a large space (I believe its approximately 20ft x 10ft), we could go a little bit darker on the walls - not too dark though.

(Clockwise: Behr "Marina Isle" - 2 qt. of paint, West Elm Sunburst Wire Wall Art, Ikea Barometer
Floor Lamp, Corduroy Rug in a Bag, Ikea Expedit Bookshelf, vintage lounge chairs (photo from a
similar chair on Ebay), West Elm Modern Media Console (no longer sold), Room and Board
Lenox sofa (no longer sold).