FI and I have decided to resign our lease and are working on re-doing our apartment. We've finished the the dining room and are now working on the living room. I wanted to change the colors in the living to different blues. We bought the octopus print I posted in the weekend thread and a painting on canvas that is dark blues and teals. We also bought some blue throw pillows. Our couch is brown. We are wanting to paint the living room and add curtains to the sliding door and small window above our built-in bookshelf but I have no idea what to do.
Our living room is painted a light beige/sand color right now and has white trimming. We have a fire place that sticks out a little and a built in bookshelf on one side and the sliding door that goes out to our balcony on the other. My first thought was to paint the wall with the fireplace and then add blue curtains that matched. Or should I do white curtains with blue wall? Or should I not paint anything and add blue curtains for color? Or should I paint the entire side of that apartment blue, not just the fire place? I CLEARLY NEED HELP.
ETA: I deleted the Christmas picture of the living room because FI sent me a better one on his lunch break. Posted below.
This was my original idea:
