Sitting rooms #14

I suppose you thought that I wasn't going to post any more sitting rooms just because I was too under the weather to post any yesterday. No such luck. I've got dozens more.

Okay, so the first one's got no furniture but I love this room. It reminds me of a hotel that I lived in as a kid. (Yes, we lived in hotels a lot as my dad either owned or managed them for a living.) In the last hotel that we lived in before my dad got too sick to work anymore we had our own manager's cottage and the living room looked just like the first room.

When we bought our first house in San Francisco, one of the biggest pleasures was going to "open houses" on the weekends. It took us nearly a year to find the right house for us and it was a lot of fun looking at other peoples' homes. I especially loved looking at empty houses and imagining how I would furnish the rooms.

But part of the enjoyment is seeing how people furnish their homes. I've been especially surprised at how bold the colors are nowadays. I would never think to paint my rooms so brightly but right now I am planning on repainting my very white bedroom with lots of lovely colors.