You do an amazing job of showing your living room to appear larger. Your ceiling height is the deceiving factor which some people don’t seem to get. Your space is beautiful, and inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
Love that you showed all the multiple examples of sofas being too big. Sometimes I need more than one example to know what you mean exactly. Very helpful!!!
Loved this video you should do a series where viewers send in photos of a room and you could help give advice for whatever it is we are try to go for in our spaces. I love your advice you have helped me so much in designing my home thank you!
Watching this, I immediately moved a chair in the living room and that made a walkway much bigger. Now the vintage midcentury chair in its new place is shown off like the piece of art that it is!
I’m still amazed at how much your style has been refined over the past 3yrs. Every video of your lounge takes my breath away and all I can say is wow. ❤ I have an impossible layout to work with too.
mechanical brush on your gentle facial skin can be harsh and will do more damage than good in the long run, microtear and broken capillary...especially as you get older and skin takes longer to repair.
LOVE THIS VIDEO! Our living room is about the same size as yours. Your videos have been such an inspiration; I always learn something new, sometimes by re-watching. :)
I am interior design obsessed! I watch them all the time, every day and yours are my absolute favorite!! Your house is stunning and your knowledge always inspires me! Thank you so much!
Thanks for doing a video that shows your room / home and not just film you sitting on your sofa talking… seeing your home demonstrating your talking points really makes such a difference in how I can envision what you are saying…application of ideas in a more personal way feels more powerful than just words.
I love love love when you guys do the videos together. There is something about it that I can explain. I told my husband “come and see this couple I love them “ the videos are helpful and awesome I don’t miss not even one !! Keep it going ❤❤❤❤❤
It's past time for me to leave another comment here. Thank you so much for these wonderful videos! I was/am not the least interested in interior design; however, EVERYONE not onIy appreciates beauty, but needs to be surrounded by a pleasing aesthetic space, or we end up feeIing chaotic on the inside (often, without even realizing it). There aren't any other channels I watch on this topic, as Valentina aIways explains the hows & whys of what she's doing, and she splices in photos to SHOW exactly what she means. Due to some poor heaIth and worse choices, my housing may be tenuous, at best, soon. But I still Iove these videos and learning so much I didn't know about a topic I barely knew existed taught by possibly the most up-beat person on TH-cam. The viewers here are great too, adding awesome suggestions and aIways being friendly & kind. Thank You So Much. Many Blessings to You All.
@@baseballmomof8 Thank YOU. WOW, mom of eight: How in the world do you find the time to even sit down, much less watch YT videos? I raised four & barely knew how I did it. My grandsons all play baseball, too. That's so awesome! Thank you for the sweet comment. Many Blessings to You & Yours.
@@jennifersignsoflife1375 well thank you! I have the time now as my youngest is 23 and the oldest is 45 😊. Fourteen grandkids… some of whom also play baseball. I’m not much of a decorator myself, but also enjoy Valentina’s upbeat personality and happy attitude. These days it helps 😊. God bless you and your dear ones.
@@baseballmomof8 OMGosh, I imagine you're almost as busy now as you were when they were IittIe. I've left a few comments like this over the years & the replies are very similar. SO many ppl truly adore Valentina, whether or not they're interested in interior design. She's built such a lovely community here of unashamedly kind ppl. It was GREAT meeting you. Praise Him.
I think short of putting it on graph paper for some people to visualize, people don't understand. BUT when you take away a 36" (3ft) walkway around the whole room, there really isn't that much interior space to be a room left in the center. Visually your room looks huge, but actual available space after a 36" walkway is much smaller. Her main camera angle doesn't show this, but at the 9:25 marker you can definitely see the room scale. I once had a similar floor plan, and had mine the same way. She keeps it uncluttered with less, but larger accessories. You are actually seeing the result of her brilliant advice, visually the room looks larger than the workable 10x14 space.
Thanks so much for this video!!! My living room is almost identical to yours in size, fireplace, and two stories and I struggled as well with the space but this was very helpful and enlightening! ❤️❤️❤️
My living room is like yours. The overall space feels huge, but the actual footprint of viable living room space is tiny. Mine is thanks to an oddly placed staircase and the builder's halfhearted attempt at an open concept dining room.
I’m battling a 20x18 with a fire place center with two sides of the fireplace being 68 inches long on each side. I have an opening dining room next to the living room. And my kitchen behind me living room. I can’t decide. On 3 seat sofa with 4 accents chairs. A seactional with 2 chairs . Or two sofas and two chairs
Painting the lounge/dining/kitchen white has not only transformed them but me too. The rooms are telling me to keep decor/furniture simple and intentional. I smile every time I’m in there even though the floors need updating. It’s a much needed new beginning for me.
Could you do a video on choosing between dark vs light wall colors? I’ve seen so many images on gorgeous dark rooms like yours, but the idea of newly doing it is intimidating & I do like the brightness & lightness of white walls too. Wondering when it’s better vs worse to consider dark cozy wall colors.
@@HouseofValentina Your living room is Beautiful. You’re truly amazing. Once again, like I mentioned in your the Facebook group . People forget to use videos like this one. “AS A GUIDE “ !!!!
I think small is relative to where you live. Maybe in Atlanta thats a small livingroom haha. Ive hardly got room for a sofa and a chair and a little ottoman off to the side (plus small square coffee table) and im lucky I'm actually not just restricted to just a sofa like some people I know! I live in Vancouver BC and there are many big homes for the ultra wealthy but your average person is living in a condo. I live in an 1143 st ft loft and I feel extremely fortunate because I looked at a lot of real estate before choosing this home and yeah, it gets a lot smaller here! Now all that aside - tips are great for all sizes of rooms you want to appear larger. The rug being as large as possible is seriously such a big one!
My condo had a fireplace but my house now does not have one. My family room is a lot bigger than 10' x 14'. Since I don't watch t.v & don't have a fireplace, I use my backyard view/flowers as my focal point, & my couch faces that way. Flowers bloom year round here.
I really liked the marble top coffee tables you had before but I love this new one! So high end looking, warm and quite beautifully subtle amongst the contrasting black & white.
The mirror over the fireplace looks good, but I think my favorite was when you just had like 1 or 2 black items up there--it was so unexpected and interesting!
I'm sorry everyone keeps saying that you're lying! People don't understand the actual living space vs walkways! If that room was closed off with a wall and the walkway was actually a hallway, you wouldn't count it, so I don't understand why people keep saying they have to include the walkway lol I agree, your room is on the "smaller" side but with your high ceiling, lack of walls, and all the design tricks you've utilized, it really makes it look much bigger (which is the point of the video 🤷♀️) I guess the fact that everyone keeps saying it's bigger than what you said means you've done a great job! Anyway, awesome video! I am currently trying to expand my living room also (it's a 9x9 square 😬) We'll see how it goes. Thank you for all the tips and tricks!🤗
No way your living room is 10 x 14 !! I’m planning to paint one of my walls black in my 20x18 living/dining area of my condo hoping it’s a success. I have been watching you for a while and your videos have been so entertaining and helpful.❤ Thank you Valentina
She admitted that the rug is 10x12 so no way her space is only 10x14. I painted my fireplace wall black and absolutely love it. I then painted my powder room black. I think you will really like doing a black accent wall. I used Sherwin Williams Urban Bronze. It’s a warm black.
Appreciated your comments on trends. I live in a Vic cottage. I think pure one single style is boring. I have family heirlooms. I placed an Edwardian dresser in the living room. Using things in unexpected ways is fun. I get what you were saying. Mix it.
I needed to see this so thank you! I have a console table between my wall and sofa. There is a heater vent back there and for a long time the sofa covered it. I have also put a bit of decor with a painting over it. I was afraid it might look too cluttered but seeing yours, (which looks beautiful!) I feel so much better! I use 2 end tables which I wish I didn’t need but I do. Also, My furniture is in an L shape…yes, the cardinal sin of matching furniture but I suck at getting the scale right. 😢. I would like to replace the ottoman with a coffee table but haven’t found one that works yet. The room is open and feels large but the tv and stand are against the same wall as the front door. It is a beautiful piece but the walkway crosses in front of it. Which I don’t mind as it opens up the room. ❤ So in a way, my focal point, would be the living room/sofa/painting above. I hate clutter, but love properly done decor so I get a little stressed if too much is out.
I love your living room! The struggle I have is that my fireplace is not centered on the masonry wall, so my focal point is thrown off. It means the whole wall is the focal point, which includes the TV next to the fireplace. I love symmetry, so it's been a challenge! As always, love you and your video content!
Work with it, the focal point does not have to be in the centre of the wall. The key is to ensure it is done in a way that your eye goes there first. Consider highlighting the fireplace wall more by painting that a more dominant colour so that the TV side falls into the background.
I just measured mine and it's only 11' x 17'... She's got to be measuring wrong or not telling the truth. That view from above compared to the size of her body you can tell it's much larger than what she says
Agreed, plus consoles, a dresser and that gorgeous RH wall unit. My living room is 11.5 feet x 17.5 feet and it is not nearly as large as Valentina's. Something is off here.
She extended her living space into the walkways. I said it somewhere else but that’s the benefit of not being confined by walls. I think most living spaces are.
@@CourtneeCae13 it still doesn't make sense. Mine is 11 x 17 and if I set two sofas up like that with a large coffee table like she has, you wouldn't even be able to walk through. From the ends of the sofa to the fireplace is still pretty roomy. MAYBE her measurement could be accurate if she's measuring from the back of one sofa to the other along with the length only of the sofas, but looking at my 11 x 17 LR doing that still wouldn't have as much space as she does
Agreed. I just measured my living room, which is 13.5’ wide. I can fit two sofas across from each other, but it would be very tight, and there’s no way I could fit even one narrow console table behind one of them and still fit a coffee table.
When we starting building our new home the print said the great room was 18 x 19. I started space planning, measuring furniture and laying it out to scale. I quickly realized the room is closer to 14 x 14 once I left room for foot traffic. It’s open to a hall going to the master suite, open to the foyer and backs up to the kitchen. So in reality furniture could only be placed in that grid of 14 x 14 to keep the flow open. V is fortunate to have the higher ceilings which is open to the stairs and hall above. All this keeps the eye moving, giving one the illusion of a grander space.
I've said it before but you are amazing at weaving your "pitches" into your segments!! So authentic and effervescent! Of course like everything else you talk about you wouldn't do it if it wasn't something you really did love! I know your "sponsers" must absolutely love YOU! They could spend a fortune on ad campaigns and not get the bang for the buck they do with you! Also, two other things...I checked out a book at the library (tons of great design books that help me decide if I want to buy it for my design library) that you would like. Its AT HOME, Evocative And Art Forward Interiors by Brian Paquette. Your palette, modern luxury design, just a very tantalizing tasteful decor tone. Lastly, you guys really dodged a bullet in Morocco! Horrible what happened there. Thankful you two were out of harm's way when it hit!! Thank you Lord! There are some things that are out of our hands, and this was one of them! Loved this video and the one on your son's new digs!! Great tips and tricks!
I love your living room and I love the way you took a small space and made it look larger. I am building a very small little cottage house 780 ft.². But it has a vaulted ceiling of 14 feet high. The one thing that I might do different if I had your living room was the fireplace surround needs to be white marble or some thing. I’m not sure I would paint the whole thing completely black It’s so diminishes the most beautiful part of the living room which is the fireplace surround. But that’s just my opinion otherwise you were living room with the windows the high ceiling are incredibly beautiful
Personally, I do not have a problem with a flat screen, wall hung TV on display. (apart from tv on white walls!). I think has long has you put it on an equally dark wall, say above a well dressed mounted or freestanding well designed media cabinet or sideboard etc, (or, has I have done many times, hang the TV really low ie, at sofa sitting height and then add large art above it). This then gives off the complete opposite message, look and vibe...telling everyone it is not meant to be 'hidden' it becomes part of the room design.
My living room is similar, a huge wall of windows and a fireplace to the side. I consider my window wall the focal point, I guess it’s because it is the first thing you see.
Windows for sure make the room looks larger. I actually have a similar room to yours nearly the same size. Isn’t fun cleaning the ceiling fan? I can’t have a TV in the room either which is fine the sound is c r a z y with the high ceilings.
This video may have stired up more controversy than you intended with your " small room"😂...nevertheless, there was great pointers and tips to take away. My small LR is 10x 14 and I can not even have 1 regular size sofa...( but I have to contend with other restrictive wall layout, wall heater, etc). Thanks for the tips!!
Just started watching your videos and i must say I LOVE your design style! Thank you for all of the great tips. Love the living room Especially the black fireplace wall!!!!! ❤❤ 🥵
Hello Valentina! I grew up in a beautiful huge house in the 60s 70s Your house and living room is huge in heights and those big window help! By the size or your rug and the sofas, i think you forgot your real mesurements! But my dream was nice to have it look like yours!😊 🙋✌️🇨🇦
You are so good and informative and I was just curious if you had ever gone to Interior Design School or did you learn on your own? Thank you Valentina❤
I’m truly grateful for all your knowledge. You have helped me make better choices and decisions when decorating my home. ??question where did you buy the map in your office space from??
Hi Valentina! I bing watch your channel and love it! My style is very similar with a little less black lol but I was wondering if you can talk about things like kitchen shelf liners, garage storage, and how you store the not so pretty things. If you can talk more about wood floors and tile that looks like wood, especially for open concept homes and the worry about wood floors in the kitchen due to water damage. I hope this can be a topic for your content :)
This video is what I need right now as I'm about to redesign and renovate our living room, so thank you so much for the tips! I adore yours, you made such a great job! I love those four huge windows, it was a genius idea to the out the ceiling to achive the height and look. I wish Article would sell in Europe too because I'm in love with those gorgeous sofas with the marble coffee table tables....❤❤❤
My living room isn't that big either. My problem is that the fireplace is double-sided with the other side being a part of the dining area. I love my home, but I question the thought process of putting the fireplace on a half wall where it really can't be the focal point.
I have a long narrow open concept kitchen/dining/living room. I hate it! I had to get rid of my round kitchen table that was too big (but loved) for the dining area in this house. I still have a sectional that’s also too big that I need to replace. Working on building a mood board for my living room and on the hunt for great quality sofas that won’t wear down in a year or two after my child, spills, and the dog have touched it. I’m sick of buying sofas. Lol. Tips per budget range? We have a pottery barn but no crate and barrel or other places you mention. Buying online scares me.
I love all of your videos. They are so informational, and so many great tips that we can all apply to our homes. The struggle that I have personally is lighting, I have pot lights I have accent, lighting and fixed ceiling lights etc. etc. is it possible for you to make a video on what kind of lightbulbs to use in each of these light fixtures and rooms? Would love love love to have some help in this area. ❤❤❤
I am always inspired by your videos. In this video, you show us a shot of your former-styled living room with the large mocha leather chair; however, what I am interested in is the map over the fireplace (and is now in your work area over a buffet-style table) in that clip. Can you tell me where I can get your map or recommend maps similar to yours? Thanks....Anna
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I’m watching from the UK and we would class your size of living room as huge! The houses are much smaller here 😂
Yep, it’s the size of our whole ground floor 😂
@@amandagumbo8104 Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos would consider this a small space.
You do an amazing job of showing your living room to appear larger. Your ceiling height is the deceiving factor which some people don’t seem to get. Your space is beautiful, and inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
The new coffee table is GORGEOUS!
Valentina love your living room clutter-free very elegant 👍👍
Love that you showed all the multiple examples of sofas being too big. Sometimes I need more than one example to know what you mean exactly. Very helpful!!!
Loved this video you should do a series where viewers send in photos of a room and you could help give advice for whatever it is we are try to go for in our spaces. I love your advice you have helped me so much in designing my home thank you!
Can you talk about decor and room set up around an off-center fireplace in a living room?
I’ve never seen your living room look more beautiful! Love the 2 sofas as opposed to the sectional. Love the minimal elegant classic look.
Watching this, I immediately moved a chair in the living room and that made a walkway much bigger. Now the vintage midcentury chair in its new place is shown off like the piece of art that it is!
I love that!!!
I’m still amazed at how much your style has been refined over the past 3yrs. Every video of your lounge takes my breath away and all I can say is wow. ❤ I have an impossible layout to work with too.
I loved your marble tables. I think they were more sophisticated.
mechanical brush on your gentle facial skin can be harsh and will do more damage than good in the long run, microtear and broken capillary...especially as you get older and skin takes longer to repair.
LOVE THIS VIDEO! Our living room is about the same size as yours. Your videos have been such an inspiration; I always learn something new, sometimes by re-watching. :)
I am interior design obsessed! I watch them all the time, every day and yours are my absolute favorite!! Your house is stunning and your knowledge always inspires me! Thank you so much!
I thought your living room was bigger wow. I love your fireplace. I love how you are showing before and after of your living room
Thanks for doing a video that shows your room / home and not just film you sitting on your sofa talking… seeing your home demonstrating your talking points really makes such a difference in how I can envision what you are saying…application of ideas in a more personal way feels more powerful than just words.
I love love love when you guys do the videos together. There is something about it that I can explain. I told my husband “come and see this couple I love them “ the videos are helpful and awesome I don’t miss not even one !! Keep it going ❤❤❤❤❤
It's past time for me to leave another comment here. Thank you so much for these wonderful videos! I was/am not the least interested in interior design; however, EVERYONE not onIy appreciates beauty, but needs to be surrounded by a pleasing aesthetic space, or we end up feeIing chaotic on the inside (often, without even realizing it). There aren't any other channels I watch on this topic, as Valentina aIways explains the hows & whys of what she's doing, and she splices in photos to SHOW exactly what she means. Due to some poor heaIth and worse choices, my housing may be tenuous, at best, soon. But I still Iove these videos and learning so much I didn't know about a topic I barely knew existed taught by possibly the most up-beat person on TH-cam. The viewers here are great too, adding awesome suggestions and aIways being friendly & kind.
Thank You So Much. Many Blessings to You All.
What a lovely comment. Thank you.
@@baseballmomof8 Thank YOU. WOW, mom of eight: How in the world do you find the time to even sit down, much less watch YT videos? I raised four & barely knew how I did it. My grandsons all play baseball, too. That's so awesome!
Thank you for the sweet comment. Many Blessings to You & Yours.
@@jennifersignsoflife1375 well thank you! I have the time now as my youngest is 23 and the oldest is 45 😊. Fourteen grandkids… some of whom also play baseball. I’m not much of a decorator myself, but also enjoy Valentina’s upbeat personality and happy attitude. These days it helps 😊. God bless you and your dear ones.
@@baseballmomof8 OMGosh, I imagine you're almost as busy now as you were when they were IittIe. I've left a few comments like this over the years & the replies are very similar. SO many ppl truly adore Valentina, whether or not they're interested in interior design. She's built such a lovely community here of unashamedly kind ppl.
It was GREAT meeting you. Praise Him.
Love the tip on minimizing the "small stuff". Agreed! Less, but better. 👌🏻
Your windows and the view are amazing! ☺
I think short of putting it on graph paper for some people to visualize, people don't understand. BUT when you take away a 36" (3ft) walkway around the whole room, there really isn't that much interior space to be a room left in the center. Visually your room looks huge, but actual available space after a 36" walkway is much smaller. Her main camera angle doesn't show this, but at the 9:25 marker you can definitely see the room scale. I once had a similar floor plan, and had mine the same way. She keeps it uncluttered with less, but larger accessories. You are actually seeing the result of her brilliant advice, visually the room looks larger than the workable 10x14 space.
Thanks so much for this video!!! My living room is almost identical to yours in size, fireplace, and two stories and I struggled as well with the space but this was very helpful and enlightening! ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful !😊
Your living room looks huge because of those windows you have & the high ceilings!!
And those two large sofas! Most of us are not that fortunate😮
My living room is like yours. The overall space feels huge, but the actual footprint of viable living room space is tiny. Mine is thanks to an oddly placed staircase and the builder's halfhearted attempt at an open concept dining room.
I’m battling a 20x18 with a fire place center with two sides of the fireplace being 68 inches long on each side. I have an opening dining room next to the living room. And my kitchen behind me living room. I can’t decide. On 3 seat sofa with 4 accents chairs. A seactional with 2 chairs . Or two sofas and two chairs
I do and have always loved the 2 sofas idea. Love the low profile. I have one. I have odd shape liv room. Hard to design
Painting the lounge/dining/kitchen white has not only transformed them but me too. The rooms are telling me to keep decor/furniture simple and intentional. I smile every time I’m in there even though the floors need updating. It’s a much needed new beginning for me.
Could you do a video on choosing between dark vs light wall colors? I’ve seen so many images on gorgeous dark rooms like yours, but the idea of newly doing it is intimidating & I do like the brightness & lightness of white walls too. Wondering when it’s better vs worse to consider dark cozy wall colors.
Can’t wait the bench jumping soon, yes now you are 😂🎉 l watch all them either way
I love your living room, it's beautiful!
Thank you so much!!
@@HouseofValentina Your living room is Beautiful. You’re truly amazing. Once again, like I mentioned in your the Facebook group . People forget to use videos like this one. “AS A GUIDE “ !!!!
I think small is relative to where you live. Maybe in Atlanta thats a small livingroom haha. Ive hardly got room for a sofa and a chair and a little ottoman off to the side (plus small square coffee table) and im lucky I'm actually not just restricted to just a sofa like some people I know! I live in Vancouver BC and there are many big homes for the ultra wealthy but your average person is living in a condo. I live in an 1143 st ft loft and I feel extremely fortunate because I looked at a lot of real estate before choosing this home and yeah, it gets a lot smaller here!
Now all that aside - tips are great for all sizes of rooms you want to appear larger. The rug being as large as possible is seriously such a big one!
Your living room looks great, I need to work on my fireplace!
My condo had a fireplace but my house now does not have one. My family room is a lot bigger than 10' x 14'. Since I don't watch t.v & don't have a fireplace, I use my backyard view/flowers as my focal point, & my couch faces that way. Flowers bloom year round here.
Love your advice and ideas!
🏖 I love this channel (that I just stumbled across)! Funny personality and good decor tips! Thxs🌸
I really liked the marble top coffee tables you had before but I love this new one! So high end looking, warm and quite beautifully subtle amongst the contrasting black & white.
The mirror over the fireplace looks good, but I think my favorite was when you just had like 1 or 2 black items up there--it was so unexpected and interesting!
I'm sorry everyone keeps saying that you're lying!
People don't understand the actual living space vs walkways!
If that room was closed off with a wall and the walkway was actually a hallway, you wouldn't count it, so I don't understand why people keep saying they have to include the walkway lol
I agree, your room is on the "smaller" side but with your high ceiling, lack of walls, and all the design tricks you've utilized, it really makes it look much bigger (which is the point of the video 🤷♀️) I guess the fact that everyone keeps saying it's bigger than what you said means you've done a great job!
Anyway, awesome video! I am currently trying to expand my living room also (it's a 9x9 square 😬) We'll see how it goes.
Thank you for all the tips and tricks!🤗
No way your living room is 10 x 14 !! I’m planning to paint one of my walls black in my 20x18 living/dining area of my condo hoping it’s a success. I have been watching you for a while and your videos have been so entertaining and helpful.❤ Thank you Valentina
She extended her space into the walkways so technically the space she is using is larger. Benefit of not being boxed in by walls.
@@CourtneeCae13exactly! It's been extended so it's no longer 10x14.
She admitted that the rug is 10x12 so no way her space is only 10x14.
I painted my fireplace wall black and absolutely love it. I then painted my powder room black. I think you will really like doing a black accent wall. I used Sherwin Williams Urban Bronze. It’s a warm black.
Great tips!!! Can’t wait for the video on your new coffee table
Can you link your ceiling fan? I am redoing our living room & love yours!
I like your videos soo much. Thank you. Very elegant all the time.
Thank you so much!
You have room for two sofas and coffee tables. Pretty big if you ask me.
Great video with lots of wonderful ideas. Much appreciated
Great design tips! Your room looks beautiful!
I have a small cape cod. Small bedroom ideas would be great
Love your new coffee table, but I have to say I love the marble tables. Great tips
I was thinking the same thing! I loved her marble coffee table before, it made the room so pulled together and subtle.
Lived the video thank you! My biggest problem right now is dealing with a off centered window and odd living room layout.
You are a magician because your living room looks huge! It definitely helps having those beautiful high ceilings.
It looks huge because it IS huge!
Will you do a video on how to decorate around a corner fireplace?
Very good video! Gave me some new ways of redoing our living room! Thanks!
I loved this video!!!
Appreciated your comments on trends. I live in a Vic cottage. I think pure one single style is boring. I have family heirlooms. I placed an Edwardian dresser in the living room. Using things in unexpected ways is fun. I get what you were saying. Mix it.
Great ideas for small livingroom.
Some great tips!☺Perfect timing- we are looking to sell in the near future, and theses is gold!
I needed to see this so thank you! I have a console table between my wall and sofa. There is a heater vent back there and for a long time the sofa covered it. I have also put a bit of decor with a painting over it. I was afraid it might look too cluttered but seeing yours, (which looks beautiful!) I feel so much better! I use 2 end tables which I wish I didn’t need but I do. Also, My furniture is in an L shape…yes, the cardinal sin of matching furniture but I suck at getting the scale right. 😢. I would like to replace the ottoman with a coffee table but haven’t found one that works yet. The room is open and feels large but the tv and stand are against the same wall as the front door. It is a beautiful piece but the walkway crosses in front of it. Which I don’t mind as it opens up the room. ❤ So in a way, my focal point, would be the living room/sofa/painting above. I hate clutter, but love properly done decor so I get a little stressed if too much is out.
Love everything about your space. We have the frame t.v. Love it.
I love your living room! The struggle I have is that my fireplace is not centered on the masonry wall, so my focal point is thrown off. It means the whole wall is the focal point, which includes the TV next to the fireplace. I love symmetry, so it's been a challenge!
As always, love you and your video content!
Mine too
Work with it, the focal point does not have to be in the centre of the wall. The key is to ensure it is done in a way that your eye goes there first. Consider highlighting the fireplace wall more by painting that a more dominant colour so that the TV side falls into the background.
Thank you, Valentina🎉
If you have room for two sofa's, your living room is nowhere near small!
I just measured mine and it's only 11' x 17'... She's got to be measuring wrong or not telling the truth. That view from above compared to the size of her body you can tell it's much larger than what she says
Agreed, plus consoles, a dresser and that gorgeous RH wall unit. My living room is 11.5 feet x 17.5 feet and it is not nearly as large as Valentina's. Something is off here.
She extended her living space into the walkways. I said it somewhere else but that’s the benefit of not being confined by walls. I think most living spaces are.
@@CourtneeCae13 it still doesn't make sense. Mine is 11 x 17 and if I set two sofas up like that with a large coffee table like she has, you wouldn't even be able to walk through. From the ends of the sofa to the fireplace is still pretty roomy. MAYBE her measurement could be accurate if she's measuring from the back of one sofa to the other along with the length only of the sofas, but looking at my 11 x 17 LR doing that still wouldn't have as much space as she does
Agreed. I just measured my living room, which is 13.5’ wide. I can fit two sofas across from each other, but it would be very tight, and there’s no way I could fit even one narrow console table behind one of them and still fit a coffee table.
Would love to hear kitchen trends for 2024 and how to use them in smaller kitchens!!
When we starting building our new home the print said the great room was 18 x 19. I started space planning, measuring furniture and laying it out to scale. I quickly realized the room is closer to 14 x 14 once I left room for foot traffic. It’s open to a hall going to the master suite, open to the foyer and backs up to the kitchen. So in reality furniture could only be placed in that grid of 14 x 14 to keep the flow open. V is fortunate to have the higher ceilings which is open to the stairs and hall above. All this keeps the eye moving, giving one the illusion of a grander space.
I've said it before but you are amazing at weaving your "pitches" into your segments!! So authentic and effervescent! Of course like everything else you talk about you wouldn't do it if it wasn't something you really did love! I know your "sponsers" must absolutely love YOU! They could spend a fortune on ad campaigns and not get the bang for the buck they do with you! Also, two other things...I checked out a book at the library (tons of great design books that help me decide if I want to buy it for my design library) that you would like. Its AT HOME, Evocative And Art Forward Interiors by Brian Paquette. Your palette, modern luxury design, just a very tantalizing tasteful decor tone. Lastly, you guys really dodged a bullet in Morocco! Horrible what happened there. Thankful you two were out of harm's way when it hit!! Thank you Lord! There are some things that are out of our hands, and this was one of them! Loved this video and the one on your son's new digs!! Great tips and tricks!
Would love some info on the coffee table, it looks beautiful
I love your living room and I love the way you took a small space and made it look larger. I am building a very small little cottage house 780 ft.². But it has a vaulted ceiling of 14 feet high. The one thing that I might do different if I had your living room was the fireplace surround needs to be white marble or some thing. I’m not sure I would paint the whole thing completely black It’s so diminishes the most beautiful part of the living room which is the fireplace surround. But that’s just my opinion otherwise you were living room with the windows the high ceiling are incredibly beautiful
I do really love those marble coffee tables as well!!!
Personally, I do not have a problem with a flat screen, wall hung TV on display. (apart from tv on white walls!).
I think has long has you put it on an equally dark wall, say above a well dressed mounted or freestanding well designed media cabinet or sideboard etc, (or, has I have done many times, hang the TV really low ie, at sofa sitting height and then add large art above it). This then gives off the complete opposite message, look and vibe...telling everyone it is not meant to be 'hidden' it becomes part of the room design.
Well, I live in Europe and our apartament is big for standard here but it still small campare to American houses including yours😂
My living room is similar, a huge wall of windows and a fireplace to the side. I consider my window wall the focal point, I guess it’s because it is the first thing you see.
Windows for sure make the room looks larger. I actually have a similar room to yours nearly the same size. Isn’t fun cleaning the ceiling fan? I can’t have a TV in the room either which is fine the sound is c r a z y with the high ceilings.
Great tips ❤❤❤
I love the new coffee tables! 😍 can you please link the black candle you have on it? Thanks much! xx
Valentina! There’s an idea for you next video…explain why you measured that way.
She even says her rug is 9x12... Maybe she has shoe size 57 and measured with her feet
This video may have stired up more controversy than you intended with your " small room"😂...nevertheless, there was great pointers and tips to take away. My small LR is 10x 14 and I can not even have 1 regular size sofa...( but I have to contend with other restrictive wall layout, wall heater, etc). Thanks for the tips!!
I honestly cannot believe those measurements! Wonderful job!!!
Valentina how do I know the appropriate size of mirror for my mantle . I love yours
Just started watching your videos and i must say I LOVE your design style! Thank you for all of the great tips. Love the living room Especially the black fireplace wall!!!!! ❤❤ 🥵
Thank you for sharing
Where did you purchase the new coffee table? Love the coastal look tied in with the rest of the room.
Great video!!
Thank you so much!
I prefer your marble coffee tables in your living room. 😀
Hello Valentina!
I grew up in a beautiful huge house in the 60s 70s
Your house and living room is huge in heights and those big window help! By the size or your rug and the sofas, i think you forgot your real mesurements! But my dream was nice to have it look like yours!😊
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Love this episode! How do you make a small entry way that segues-ways into a small living room look big?
You are so good and informative and I was just curious if you had ever gone to Interior Design School or did you learn on your own? Thank you Valentina❤
Love the video!! If you had a TV in your living room, where would you put it? My layout is a bit similar.
Oh, I assumed your living room was double the size of mine. I was wrong. I need to rethink everything Thank you.
I’m truly grateful for all your knowledge. You have helped me make better choices and decisions when decorating my home. ??question where did you buy the map in your office space from??
And… It’s the vaulted ceilings ❤❤
Great tips!
Hi Valentina! I bing watch your channel and love it! My style is very similar with a little less black lol but I was wondering if you can talk about things like kitchen shelf liners, garage storage, and how you store the not so pretty things. If you can talk more about wood floors and tile that looks like wood, especially for open concept homes and the worry about wood floors in the kitchen due to water damage. I hope this can be a topic for your content :)
Your living room is absolutely gorgeous. Love the new coffee table. Where is it from?
Will you tell us how much space is in between the front of the 2 sofas?
She measured the space between the sofas 😂
This video is what I need right now as I'm about to redesign and renovate our living room, so thank you so much for the tips!
I adore yours, you made such a great job! I love those four huge windows, it was a genius idea to the out the ceiling to achive the height and look. I wish Article would sell in Europe too because I'm in love with those gorgeous sofas with the marble coffee table tables....❤❤❤
My living room isn't that big either. My problem is that the fireplace is double-sided with the other side being a part of the dining area. I love my home, but I question the thought process of putting the fireplace on a half wall where it really can't be the focal point.
I have a long narrow open concept kitchen/dining/living room. I hate it! I had to get rid of my round kitchen table that was too big (but loved) for the dining area in this house. I still have a sectional that’s also too big that I need to replace. Working on building a mood board for my living room and on the hunt for great quality sofas that won’t wear down in a year or two after my child, spills, and the dog have touched it. I’m sick of buying sofas. Lol. Tips per budget range? We have a pottery barn but no crate and barrel or other places you mention. Buying online scares me.
I love all of your videos. They are so informational, and so many great tips that we can all apply to our homes. The struggle that I have personally is lighting, I have pot lights I have accent, lighting and fixed ceiling lights etc. etc. is it possible for you to make a video on what kind of lightbulbs to use in each of these light fixtures and rooms? Would love love love to have some help in this area. ❤❤❤
Loved this video - Tx
GREAT ONE!
Where did you get your couches? I love them…
I am always inspired by your videos. In this video, you show us a shot of your former-styled living room with the large mocha leather chair; however, what I am interested in is the map over the fireplace (and is now in your work area over a buffet-style table) in that clip. Can you tell me where I can get your map or recommend maps similar to yours? Thanks....Anna