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Hi all,
I'm trying to finish decorating our living room. We have a brown sofa and a brown love seat in there. The brown is a dark chocolate brown (microfiber). Our coffee table and tv console is also a brown of similar color...maybe a little lighter. I'm trying to make the room pop a little with some color. Right now it looks dark and needs something to liven it up. Does anyone suggest a color to use to help brighten the room up? I was thinking some blues, beiges and yellows?
Any advice would be great.
Also the walls are a beige/gray color.
I can't think of any color that doesn't go with brown. Why don't you go crazy with some throw pillows? Go to a store with a good selection, like Home Goods or Pier One, and buy about 6-8 pillows you love, without regard to whether they go with the sofa, or with each other. Just buy them if you like them. Come home and move them around. I bet you will find a color combination or pattern you like, and from there you can build on it. Any that don't work, return to the store.
Buy an area rug you love & go from there for accent colors. A rug grounds a room. And go buy a piece of art, even an inexpensive framed print will add needed dimension.
Brown goes with everything.
Do you like jewel tones?--get an oriental style rug. Mid century modern?--light blue & light green circles geometrics. Country?--a braided rug or rag rug. Beachy coastal?-- a sisal rug.
I would go with a deep moss green and rich claret red.
Put your favorite color in there. I can't think what wouldn't look good with brown, except black or more brown.
Put some great art on the walls. Yes to throw pillows. A bright rug underfoot. A few pieces of bright glass or smooth pottery or bright colored baskets. Find things that you love and add them.
You could also add a different colored chair to the mix.
I have a chocolate brown couch and my pillows are orange, red and tan.
My rug under the couch is beige (needed a cheap replacement ASAP) but the rug under the dining room table, which is almost adjacent to it, has red stripes.
It looks fine but since I don't love red I don't LOVE it.
We have a rug in our living room that has a lot of colors in it. I pull out various colors throughout the year. Right now (fall) I am focusing on orange and deep blue. In the winter I go with brown, winter white, and a moss green. In the spring I go with green and cobalt blue. In the summer I go with cobalt blue and orange and white. I change out the pillows, throws, mantel stuff and the big picture over the sofa (in the late fall and winter through April I have a big painting of a bare tree there).
Last edited by KathrynAragon; 02-07-2020 at 07:16 AM..
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