Do you have a room in your home that doesn’t get a lot of natural light? These rooms are already “light challenged”, but there are ways you can make these spaces appear lighter and brighter. So, here are my tips to Brighten Up a Dark Room!
paint the walls and trim
The most obvious way to brighten up a room is with paint! Choose a light paint color for your walls! It’s amazing how much brighter your space will look with a lighter shade on the walls and finish it off with bright white trim! Most of the walls in my home are painted with Revere Pewter from Benjamin Moore. It’s a greige shade – looking gray in some lighting and more beige in other lighting. Below is a photo of this same color in my kitchen where it can look a little more beige. I’m not a fan of grays that lean to a blue or green tone, and that’s why I love this neutral shade.
Light Colored Furniture

Keep Accessories Light & Bright

Paint a Piece of Furniture White

Add Flowers and Plants to Brighten a Space

Love your new couch and how it looks in your beautifull living room.
Where did you get the gorgeous sign over your couch?
I love your new sofa and it really does brighten up your room. The new pillows are pretty and perfect! How I wish I'd bought a white sofa when we replaced ours a few years ago. Oh well, I have to live with it forever now. 🙂
Your new sofa changes the whole look of your living room…just lovely! The pillows you made are beautiful…love the linen. You must feel like you have a new room. And don't you just love it when you're right!! :-))
Mary Alice
I have the same couch and I truly love it. I did find that I had to put other pillows under the bottom pillows. Also you are not supposed to put the slipcovers in the dryer so I had to iron them to get the wrinkles out. My kids are grown but I have 2 dogs and 2 cats so I have a white matelasse cover over it. It is easily removed when company comes. I would buy another one in a nanosecond.
Doreen, I have to admit, as much as I liked the color of your old sofa, this sofa does add a lift to your room and allows you more freedom to add some great pillows–which you did!
Linda
Glazed chipotle lime candle . . . hmmm. I think I need to try one of those! Love the sofa!
Everything looks so beautiful… very calming and peaceful :o] I have an Ektorp section that I just love.
Tania
Beautiful room…just love the new sofa!
I love your sofa…white is so in right now…everything looks amazing in your pretty living rooom.
What a beautiful and delightful room. It looks beautiful, and I love your sign over the sofa
It looks so regal there. Also love your pretty botanical prints and really just the whole room.
Lovely……….
I had thought of purchasing one of their sofas too, but I found they had feather pillows and I am allergic to feathers, so was bummed about that………….cause I think it is a very classy looking sofa. So glad it has worked out well for you.
Blessings, Nellie
Love the couch and the linen pillows are just the thing to brighten the space!
where did you get your gray tufted chairs from.