Recently an old college friend contacted me about designing the living room in her Washington DC town home.  She has a great open, airy space and wanted the living room to stay pretty open and clean and also be able to use the space for playing with her young daughter.   She wanted to keep some key pieces like her new sofa and lounge chairs but otherwise had a fairly blank slate.  We have a mutual love of everything Schoolhouse Electric (see my diaper bag post here), so I had a pretty good idea of what she wanted.  Here are some photos of how her space looks currently.

There wasn’t much to alter about the layout but we did add some built-ins in the front for toy storage and display and a cozy window seat for reading. 

Below is the design board I created for the space!  Can’t wait to get this going and show you some after photos!