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Kshe, I should know better than to forget all the details ... the first sofa is available in the 3 colors shown in the photos PLUS gray (almost wish I had another room to make formal so I could get the gray -- I really like it but it wouldn't go with anything else I have except maybe some red/burgundy items!). The second sofa is available in lots of different fabrics -- I would probably go with a green chenille, either light green with a diamond pattern OR a darker green (I already have the darker green in a sleeper chair -- I think I like the light green a bit better, at least from the fabric swatches!). Alternatively, if I go with that 2nd sofa I might get it in a camel chenille -- I have that in a sleeper chair too (lots of sleeper furniture at my house, lol!) and I like it a lot -- it seems to me to be a bit more "neutral." But OTOH I will likely paint the walls a pale sage, very similar to what I have in my current house, so darker green sofas would probably look very very nice. ALTHOUGH -- I was just looking at photos of the new house's living room and there's a chair rail running all around -- was thinking, hmmm, what if I add bead board paneling on the bottom and paint the bottom a bit darker green than the pale sage on top? (But that should be a whole new thread, and I want to live in the house first before making such changes, I am getting carried away!)
Summering, yes, the 2 sofas would be perpendicular to a lovely fireplace (see floor plan diagram in post #4 of this thread, although the room will NOT have that much furniture!).
Kshe, I should know better than to forget all the details ... the first sofa is available in the 3 colors shown in the photos PLUS gray (almost wish I had another room to make formal so I could get the gray -- I really like it but it wouldn't go with anything else I have except maybe some red/burgundy items!). The second sofa is available in lots of different fabrics -- I would probably go with a green chenille, either light green with a diamond pattern OR a darker green (I already have the darker green in a sleeper chair -- I think I like the light green a bit better, at least from the fabric swatches!). Alternatively, if I go with that 2nd sofa I might get it in a camel chenille -- I have that in a sleeper chair too (lots of sleeper furniture at my house, lol!) and I like it a lot -- it seems to me to be a bit more "neutral." But OTOH I will likely paint the walls a pale sage, very similar to what I have in my current house, so darker green sofas would probably look very very nice. ALTHOUGH -- I was just looking at photos of the new house's living room and there's a chair rail running all around -- was thinking, hmmm, what if I add bead board paneling on the bottom and paint the bottom a bit darker green than the pale sage on top? (But that should be a whole new thread, and I want to live in the house first before making such changes, I am getting carried away!)
Summering, yes, the 2 sofas would be perpendicular to a lovely fireplace (see floor plan diagram in post #4 of this thread, although the room will NOT have that much furniture!).
If you are going to do the walls in sage, do NOT go with a green sofa.
Trust me on that.
Too monochromatic, you know?
I would go with the camel, and then play up interest with window treatments, pillows, rugs and accessories.
You can always clear that out and repaint and get a whole new room.
I always advise my clients to put high $ items in a neutral, which isnt necessarily beige or camel.
I consider green a neutral, and use it a lot in my work, its just that layering up greens isnt going to have the look you think it will.
You are probably right about the monochrome effect, although if you saw the "pale sage" at my current house, you might (might) change your mind ... it is so pale that it looks more like a cream color unless the light hits it a certain way. That's why I thought green sofas might work.
I do like using lots of other colors around the room.
I wish I could move tomorrow! Thanks for all the replies, I will rep you all (except those like kshe whom I have probably already rep'd too recently!).
You are probably right about the monochrome effect, although if you saw the "pale sage" at my current house, you might (might) change your mind ... it is so pale that it looks more like a cream color unless the light hits it a certain way. That's why I thought green sofas might work.
I do like using lots of other colors around the room.
I wish I could move tomorrow! Thanks for all the replies, I will rep you all (except those like kshe whom I have probably already rep'd too recently!).
I'm sure it looks fabulous in the current house, but the lighting, etc wont be the same.
It never is.
If you are going to do the walls in sage, do NOT go with a green sofa.
Trust me on that.
Too monochromatic, you know?
I would go with the camel, and then play up interest with window treatments, pillows, rugs and accessories.
You can always clear that out and repaint and get a whole new room.
I always advise my clients to put high $ items in a neutral, which isnt necessarily beige or camel.
I consider green a neutral, and use it a lot in my work, its just that layering up greens isnt going to have the look you think it will.
That is really the right answer. If the walls are going to be a green, camel in a couch would be beautiful. Green on green not good she is right, too monochromatic.
Camel with the green....Ah....I can picture it now. Fantastic.
I wouldn't do a sage green on top and darker green on the bottom...
Neutral is always good, and yes green is quite neutral.
I neutraled myself to death for awhile, so now I have a bit more color.
Not on the walls however. Yellow and tan is the main color of my rooms.
In shades that vary.
I think "green" these days is as impossible to match as red is. Used to be green was pretty straight forward. Now the greens have a lot of different shades, tints and color. I "discovered" this when I was buying a shower curtain and "knew" for 100%, absolutely, positively, without a doubt, the green would go well with the green accented wallpaper. I had switched pocketbooks and left the wallpaper swatch in the other bag. When I got it home I could not have been more wrong. I would have bet the ranch that this was perfect, and as soon as I got home from the store I could not believe my eyes. It was so off that I swear I must have been slipped something in the water I was drinking.
Oh so funny...I had a huge laugh on that nuts2.
True, ever so true. Greens vary so much. You'd just never guess how many are out there.
How did we ever go from one green in the crayon box to this?!
Always bring your swatch, or you will have that what was in the water feeling. LOL.
Oh so funny...I had a huge laugh on that nuts2.
True, ever so true. Greens vary so much. You'd just never guess how many are out there.
How did we ever go from one green in the crayon box to this?!
Always bring your swatch, or you will have that what was in the water feeling. LOL.
Even then, the swatch and the lighting in the room whatever it is that you are matching may tell a different story.
I've seen it a thousand times, and it still surprises me how things that you think will match in the store fight a duel to the death in the home.
Its all about the lighting.
I'll comment on the coffee tables. Square coffee table won't work with the furniture layout in your diagram. You need a rectangle coffee table. The white coffee table is too flimsy/airy/light for the sofas you are considering. That leaves the wicker basket coffee table simply via process of elimination but it's not really a "country" coffee table---more like a modern Pottery Barn style. This is a long way of saying that I recommend you continue the search for the perfect coffee table because you haven't found it yet.
Doesn't seem like coffee tables should be that hard to find, but I'm finding few that I like.
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