I’m in the middle of decorating two connecting rooms – here’s how I’m making the two totally different schemes speak to one another

Light blue living room with green fireplace .

I'm finally at the stage of my home renovation where we can start to tackle the front rooms which have, for the best part of the last two years, painfully just been reserved for tools and paint pots up until this point.

Luckily for us, the previous owners created a big and beautiful opening between these front two rooms so we now have bright, open, and adjoining living room and dining room spaces that are crying out for some TLC.