My Best Friend Robyn’s Living Room Reveal – We Added So Much Color, Charm, Coziness (And A Lot Of Heirloom Quality Pieces)

If you like friendship romance stories you’ll like this one. Girl-meets-girl in 6th grade and stays best friends through long-distance high school, reuniting as college roommates, ripped apart to spend decades across the country pursuing careers only be reunited, able to live 7 minutes apart and go on long weekly walk and talks. That’s us and this project has been so fun. Today is Robyn’s living room reveal and to be fair Robs is only one of my three best friends – all of which were huge factors in moving back to Portland, and helping them love their homes more has been one of the joys of this job. While she lives close it still took a year to squeeze in during all our other projects so I hope you agree it was worth the wait.

A quick recap: Robyn and Ryan bought the house last summer and these before shots were when they had just moved in. It’s such a beautiful house, and they were ready to upgrade from their 15-year-old starter furniture but were paralyzed on where to start, and like most people, really didn’t want to get it wrong. The previous owners had stripped the house of color (or maybe just painted it a neutral to sell). So we needed to A. replace almost all the furniture with more high quality “grown-up” furniture (i.e. heirloom quality where possible) and B. add color, coziness, and charm – The three C trifecta that so many people (myself included) want in their home. And a year later, here is how it turned out Read More