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Bossy color’s living room, part we’ve lost count: Benjamin Moore’s 343 Sunrays and a new art wall

Annie Elliott | October 4, 2010

Gentle Readers, how bossy color has missed you! What with the blog migration (nearly finished), client projects (exciting), a new assistant (fabulous!), and, as you know, personal decorating trials and travails (often frustrating), life has been unusually hectic.

Let’s catch you up on bossy color’s living room. Here is the most recent “Before:”

Art wall / salon grouping over blue sofa

Yellow drapes

Do you notice a new piece of furniture? That’s correct: a small sofa in desperate need of recovering. It’s worth doing, if we can select a fabric…

But I digress. Here is the room now, most decidedly “After:”

bossy color's yellow living room art wall

bossy color's new yellow living room

It’s a little intense in the pictures…oh heck, it’s a little intense in real life. But you know what? WE LOVE IT!!!

(The white shroud, by the way, is so that we can see what a white sofa might look like in that spot. Upholstery is next, for that piece and for “those darn chairs,” aka “the bane of our existence.”)

Chair upholstered in Schumacher's Pearl River

Let me remind you, Gentle Readers, that it was one of your own who left the comment saying that the previous incarnation “wasn’t very bossy.”

The truth hurts. But it must be told. That commenter was absolutely right. The room was acceptable (or it would have been, once those darn chairs were recovered).

But it wasn’t fun. It wasn’t that interesting. And it certainly wasn’t bossy.

Matthew Tischler photograph

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. Look for her in the November 2010 issue of Real Simple!

Category: Color + paint color, Living Room + Family RoomTag: 343 Sunrays, before and after, Benjamin Moore, Living room, yellow, yellow paint

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