Living Room Inspiration

Here are my inspiration photos for now.  I'm so excited about this project!

 Mom's current room is beige accented in red like the one above.  I love this and will definitely keep the warm colors. One thing I'd love to see go, however, is the brick.  Here's a photo from YHL where they painted over brick, and painted the ceiling rafters white.  I love this look, but with pops of red for mom's warm room.

As for the bay window, we have a few options.  The biggest issue is that the window looks out onto an ugly plastic garage, so there's no real view.  In light of this, my current thought is to do some roman shades like these:

I'd love to work in a window seat, but seeing as we're on a budget I'm not sure that's going to happen yet.

 In the meantime, I'm thinking about re-arranging the room so that the couch is actually in front of the window. I think this combined with some bold accessories on the window sill, roman shades, and a bay window curtain rod with panels will help make the shed disappear.  The couch will become the focus, and some bright pillows will help draw the eye there instead of outside.

We have another window to work with, and I think that since this one has a wonderful view of the tree in Mom's front yard we're going to try and play it up. I'll be back with more inspiration and ideas later!