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Home / I Wish I Had A Living Room, and What It Looks Like

posted on July 30, 2015

There are things you can get used to lacking if you go without them long enough, or have never had them. For me, living rooms are one of them.

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Get the look: engineered wood flooring / moss stitch throw (more throws) / door curtains / diamond brocade cushion / pebble grey sofa / coffee table / shelving unit / abstract painting

I stopped spending time in the living room in my flat — my family’s flat — when I was eighteen. I only held out that long because the only computer I had access to was a desktop and it was there. As soon as I had a laptop I was out of there. There are several reasons, the main two of which can be summed up as “my parents refuse to not smoke in my presence even though it makes me sick” and “my father exists.”

So I lived and now again live in my bedroom. There was a three-month stint at a dorm, which also had nothing comparable to a living room.

Last year, I moved to London. London: where housing is so expensive people turn living rooms into bedrooms so they can get another flatmate in to share the rent! I went through some places with no living room, or where the only room I could work in was the living room, or where I stupidly didn’t make the most of the living room.

And then I was in Crouch End for two weeks. That flat was all kinds of gorgeous, and well-decorated, and the living room had the most comfortable couch in the whole entire world. I missed it the entire time I was in Hampstead Heath, and then I moved to a place where the living room was off limits, though I asked to use it a time or two. Briefly. No blanket permission.

Holy god, I miss having a living room. I miss curling up on the couch and still being upright with my laptop, and I miss the light, and I miss not being in my bedroom all the time. I miss watching mindless TV and I miss the dining table. I kind of miss socializing with people I actually find interesting.

As usual, I dream through Pinterest. According to my interiors board, which is by far the most populated on my account, my dream living room is apparently spacious, bright, with comfortable seating, with gorgeous wood flooring, and painted like a 20s film.

Sometimes a bit of teal or mustard pops up. It’s rare. I tried to do this with my branding and I got bored and I’ve been wanting to rebrand with actual color — multiple colors, even! A color wheel, if you will! — for a year. My room in Belsize Park was super white and felt mightily sterile, like a hospital ward, so I don’t want to go entirely in that direction.

But grays with pops of color are my interior design of choice, and one day I will get something like it, goddammit. I deserve to decorate a whole place. #dreamjob, tbh. Well, maybe #dreamhobby. There’s no room for any more career paths up in my brain.

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  • Megan

    Your living room dreams are absolutely beautiful! I’m a huge fan of greys and whites with pops of color myself. Love!

    xo Megan, Lush to Blush

    • Lix Hewett

      I don’t know what it is about it, but I just find it easier to feel comfortable and focused and clear-headed in spaces like that. Even my laptop has the silver scheme and a gray-tones photograph as a background!

  • German Girl in London

    Well, you know who is going to move in with you when your living room looks like that. x

  • Holly Hollyson

    I spend most of my life in the lounge. It is a bit of a mess though, that said I have plenty of plans for when I am rich for it!

  • Saskia

    If you can make my new flat look like that, you are more than welcome to decorate it! :D

    I’ve been lucky to have only had 1 year of living in London without a living room – more because I am total couch potato and would gladly starve to spend a few more quid on a flat that has one. You poor girl! I feel for ya.

    Saskia / girlinbrogues.com

  • Lucie McMaplebear

    My house is currently a WIP, which is exciting and a royal pain in the ass. We have a living room, which is more or less just the place my furniture went to die. For a designer (of spaces, no less!) my house is nowhere near as “together” as you would expect.

    I love the grey colour scheme. There is no “colour” I hate more than beige/cream. The white and grey palette with occasional appearances of teal & petrol blue is GORGEOUS. I would love to have all the furniture in Photo 4, if only my animals were less moulty! One day…xxx

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