This library belongs to clients who bought a new home and inherited a lot of furniture at about the same time.  They really weren’t sure what to put where, so part of my job was to figure out what could go where, before the move.

Be sure to see the before and after-pictures of the sofa.  The before-picture was taken the day my clients took me out to their garage, showed me a sofa they’d inherited, and asked if I thought they could use it in the new house.  “Yes!” I said.  In the after-pictures you can see it wearing the beautiful soft gold chinoiserie damask that it deserves.  (Chinoiserie is French for “in the Chinese manner.”)

As you can see from the before-picture of the room, it was empty when we started, but it did have great trimwork.  The paint colors were selected to emphasize the trimwork.  I don’t often use sheer curtains, but did on this bay window to block the view of, and glare from, the neighbor’s driveway and garage door.  Silk tie-back draperies hang at the outside edges of the window.

The coffee table is the only new piece of furniture.  We reupholstered the sofa and wing chairs, added lamps, a rug, and a round mirror over the sofa.  The wing chairs and sofa actually went directly from the old house, to the re-upholsterer, to the new house.