Sara recently moved into her gorgeous home. She contacted me to help bring her living room together. What a fun space to design. She is drawn to the cooler colors and had already chosen very pretty sofas. And her floors are stunning. 
Here is the design for her room. 
The shopping and ordering has already begun and Sara is planning to tackle painting the bookshelves soon. In fact, two of my recent clients will paint the backsides of their shelves. Such a great way to add color and contrast. Megan from Honey We’re Home used a pretty blue for hers and Cassie from Hi Sugarplum recently used a pink graphic fabric. 
And I have backed an Expedit where the children keep some of their go-to items. For this, I simply hung the fabric on the wall behind it with thumb tacks in each corner. Have you painted the back of your shelves . . . or used pretty fabric? Such a pretty and quick update. …………………………………………………. Thank you, Sara! It has been so much fun working with you and I am anxious to see the room pulled together.
This looks like fun! Can't wait to see it all come together.
Such a beautiful living room! Very classic but fresh and modern. Great job.
I LOVE your design! I need to you to help me with our matter…at such a standstill! You always know just what to do!! 🙂
ooh – that would be a BEAUTIFUL room!
Courtney! That is a beautiful design, I love it. I'm crazy about that little accordion side table.
Absolutely gorgeous room design! I love everything about it.
great colors. hope to see it when it's done
Such a great space to design – I love the colors you've chosen.
The color palette is awesome! Great space to work with 🙂
ooh good idea with tacking the fabric in the back. I'm waiting to stumble upon the perfect scrapbook paper to line the back of my daughter's Target cubed shelves
The colors you chose look great! I'm very anxious to see what the final space finally looks like! I hope it turns out as great as I'm envisioning it to be.
L
Every time I visit, I get new great ideas…even though I had seen Cassie's fabric on her bookshelves, I had not even considered doing it with expedit shelving! Brilliant! I've got a set just BEGGING for some color and pattern! LOVE IT!
Beautiful colors and fabrics! It will be a lovely living room, Courtney. Cassie's bookshelves turned out fabulous. That's a fun fabric that she chose.
Love the colors & fabrics you chose!
Love the design plan!! And I have fabric on the back of my shelves. So right…totally updates the space in no time!
gorgeous! No shock there!!! Fab board! xo shel
What a great design! The colours are so restful. It's sure to be an awesome space.
Gorgeous combo. I have similar colors/styles in my home. I, too, have backed shelves with fabric. I wrapped fabric around foam board (cut out to the exact dimensions) and popped it in place. To change, just pop out and recover.
Beautiful work. I always love stopping by here.
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that blank canvas of a room would freak me out! I'd love to see the finished products of your designs 🙂
nice color combination .. great idea .. job well done .. thanks for sharing ..
What a beautiful room! Where are the coffee tables from?
Your board is gorgeous, and her room will be as well! thanks for the shout out!
Such a pretty board. I'm sure your client is thrilled!
I have had my eye on that exact mirror for my upstairs hallway. Where did you find it?
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Thank you so much for your lovely comment on my guest post over at Aubrey's blog 🙂
Love the living room design – great patterns and colours on your inspiration board 🙂 The blank space already looks good – it's going to be fantastic when it's all done!
Painted cabinet & book shelf backs is a great look. We did something similar in our glass-fronted kitchen cabinets. We applied copper sheets to the backs. It's subtle, but adds some colour and depth.
Your design board looks amazing! Love all of the fabrics you picked! So pretty!
I put wallpaper on the back of our living room bookshelves with some double stick tape. It makes such a difference!
I love the calm soothing colors. Great fabric combos. It's going to look great!
Love that pink graphic fabric, and I know its from Jo-Anns! Would look great lining the back of my daughter's armoire!
Your design board is so inspiring! I love that chevron rug.
Gorgeous design Courtney- I love that Z Gallerie throw blanket- I have a similar one that I love to cuddle up with on the couch. And thanks for the shout out on the bookshelves! I agree that Cassie's turned out awesome.
This living room makes me want to unwind, relax and enjoy the peaceful settings. Gorgeous.
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