Last month, Holly Marder, an interior designer and co-founder of Avenue Design Studio, shared her recently renovated home in Delft with our readers. (Missed the story? Go here.) We loved it so much, we’re revisiting one of our favorite moments from the house tour: the living room.
“The goal in this extended space,” she wrote on her Instagram post, “was to create a luminous, light-filled living area that feels spacious despite its humble size, with plenty of contrast and materiality to counterbalance its pared-back sensibilities.” We think she nailed it.
Photography by Holly Marder.
![the dining room is open to the living space. the couple reconfigured the lower 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/avenue-design-studio-rembrandt-residence-living-room-2-733x489.jpg)
![holly confidently mixes an ikea sofa with vintage finds for an unfussy but poli 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/avenue-design-studio-rembrandt-residence-living-room-4-733x1094.jpg)
![a modular and streamlined storage system, mounted to the wall, is part media co 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/avenue-design-studio-rembrandt-residence-living-room-6-733x1117.jpg)
![the key to achieving holly\2\17;s scandi/mid century look is to not over 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/avenue-design-studio-rembrandt-residence-living-1-733x1099.jpg)
Here’s what you need to recreate the look in your own home:
Furniture
![the era round armchair with cane seat by thonet is \$395 at dwr. 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/era-armchair-thonet-dwr-733x462.jpg)
![a favorite of designers, ikea\2\17;s söderhamn sofa is just \$8\10. 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ikea-soderhamn-sofa-733x442.jpg)
![monolith marble coffee tables are staging a comeback (see the plinth coffee tab 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/oval-italian-design-marble-table-1st-dibs-733x445.jpg)
![an astute reader wrote to let us know holly\2\17;s chair is by stockholm 26](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/industry-west-cane-lounge-chair-733x507.jpg)
Lighting
![hanging over holly\2\17;s dining table is michael anastassiades\2 27](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/michael-anastassiades-ic-lights-s-pendant-733x489.jpg)
![hay rice paper lamp shade](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/hay-rice-paper-lamp-shade-733x489.jpg)
![the parentesi suspension light starts at \$595 at lumens. 29](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/parentesi-suspension-light.jpg)
Textiles
![holly covers her couch with the söderhamn 3 seater sofa cover, in brera li 32](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bemz-brera-lino-733x455.jpg)
![holly\2\17;s rug is part of avenue design\2\17;s studio collectio 35](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bronte-natural-textured-jute-rug-crate-and-barrel-733x427.jpg)
Decor
Paint
![the walls are painted farrow & ball\2\17;s strong white; \$\1\10. ph 38](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/strong-white-farrow-and-ball-remodelista-1-733x475.jpg)
For more neutral palettes, see:
- Soft in the City: Mandy Lee’s Serene Apartment in Hong Kong
- Shift to Neutral: LA Jewelry Designer Kathleen Whitaker’s Radical Transformation
- Elevating the Everyday: At Home with Sanne Hop and Family in the Netherlands
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