This Living Room Makeover Has the Dreamiest Green Paint Color

"When it comes to creating a gallery wall, she says there's lots of trial and error involved. "I use a lot of Command strips and let things sit for a day or two before I know whether I'm happy." Her other advice? Vary up size and texture. Rosaline loves mixing sculpture with painting and prints. The spacing between objects also matters, she says, and she tried to strike the right balance of artwork in this room by using smaller finds for the gallery wall."

""The living room layout was tricky because of the positioning of the bathroom door, which makes it hard to utilize the whole space the way I'd like to," Rosaline says. She tried about a dozen different iterations (one of which included a full-size dining table). "The diagonal orientation was a fluke 3-in-the-morning idea that solved so many problems, and I think it finally gave the place its character," Rosaline says."

The living room was painted green and a gallery wall was added above the fireplace to create visual interest. Command strips were used and artwork was left for a day or two before final placement to minimize repositioning. Sizes and textures were mixed by combining sculpture with paintings and prints, using smaller finds clustered above the fireplace and one larger painting elsewhere. Inexpensive frames were painted to match walls and varied green tones were introduced to avoid visual chaos. Multiple furniture layouts were tested because of a bathroom door, and a diagonal sofa orientation solved layout problems and added character. Several sofa tables were built as DIY small-space solutions.

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