Dress Up Your Design: Accessorize a Boring Living Room

Each month, a lucky reader wins accessories from Etsy.com to complete a room. For December's winner, Michele, designer Vanessa De Vargas selects the accessories and shares why she chose them to update this living room.

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Neutral Living Room with Angled Black Bookshelves

Before: Blah Living Room

With all the right elements and furnishings in place, Michele's living room needs a little added drama in the form of pattern and color. Designer Vanessa De Vargas says, "The trick is finding patterns that are the same size. If you bring in a mixture of patterns in different sizes and too many colors, the room can look overdone and busy."