Low-Cost Living Room Redo

Solution: Marvelous Mantel

The stylist tackled the problems of scale, introducing large elements and texture into the mantel design. She took two photographic prints, which had been hanging awkwardly over the television, and placed them on the mantel.

A group of three large carved-wood vases have strong visual impact and bring the warm texture of wood, which is echoed around the room in the water hyacinth trunk, the matchstick blinds, and the wicker baskets.

By Lydia Somerville, Senior Editor
Styled by Rebecca Sowell Hawkins