On my last visit to Florida, I made more changes to the family room. When we bought the house it came with furniture that didn?t suit my style, so I sold the sofas and donated the old media towers to start fresh.
The style I was going for was coastal meets mid century modern. I wanted it to be light and bright, filled with cozy furniture, plants, and art from my travels. My goal was to pull a cozy space together on a budget!
 
 

Below are old pictures from the real estate listing, you can see the big leather lounge sofas and dated media center I started with.

I sold the sofas to a local resident for a lounge he had set up for his teenagers. To replace them, I purchased a white leather midcentury style sofa and loveseat from IKEA, sources below.
All the plants are faux since we don?t live in the house full time. I sourced them from Michaels, Target, and Home Goods. When I find a good fake, I buy it!

I was looking everywhere for a long credenza for the TV wall and was undecided for weeks. I contemplated a high end version or IKEA hack but when I came across these woven cane TV stands and I thought I?d just combine two of them to get the look I wanted. The dimensions were perfect, with two they would extend along the entire spans of the wall.
 

 
The only complication was that I didn?t want the two black metal bases next to each other because that would look like? two store bought media stands pushed up next to each other. :)
So I came up with an alterna...