Khaki sofa + buff runner = blah? After weeks of looking I found the PERFECT sofa today. But I'm...
After weeks of looking I found the PERFECT sofa today. But I'm afraid it matches my runner too closely. No other colors are available and I really love this sofa.
The sofa is khaki and carpet is fawn. Walls are white and can't be painted and my furniture is dark wood.
Any planning on how to make this work and what colors might work for throw pillows and curtains? As it stands the combination looks remarkably bland to me.
Sorry if this is an easy press. I'm a guy who is not very biddable at this but I want to learn.
Thanks,
Pete
I would make the addition of YOUR favorite bright, for drapes and throw pillows.
Suggestions:
hot pink
bright red
orange
lemon
kelly green
bright blue
turquoise blue
bright purple
Add some artwork that repeats the taupe and the bright colors a bit.
Some live plants, a few candlesticks in brass, chrome, or copper, next to the bright color candles - nice!
put a throw blanket on the sofa ... any pop of color will do
maybe an interesting print (if in attendance are no prints on the sofa or floor. Design usually works in a three stub color ... since you have buff (nuetral) anything goes that you approaching. With the dark wood I'd budge with a pitch-black color perhaps a vast brown or maybe a black and after an accent of green for subtle or conceivably a warm sort of red/brick color. If you own table or shelves ... use the color in objects within too ... a vase or bowl,
book ends ... or a picture .... this pulls the color around the room.
Answers: You could run with a vast red for the accent pillows. Maybe a cut-out in reds, golds, brown and bad white. You could also use a throw on the sofa in that color. For the drapery you could shift with the weighty red with possibly a natural shade below the drapes, like rattan or woven.
For a more natural look you could use a guide pillow in dim greens, tans, browns, and off whites and later a dark green drape next to the natural shades.
Another great color near Khaki is dark blue.
You can tag on a lot of temperature to a light room by only just adding the articulation colors.
If you love the sofa get it. You will not other have the hearth rug and walls that you are describing.
I actually own off white mat, off white walls and my sofas are stale white leather. The accent furniture is ominous wood and to warm the look of the room I hold palm tree pillows that are in shades of the green, sunburn, brown and off white. I own a dark green throw on the one sofa. I also hold pictures on the walls with shades of greens, golds, and browns near a touch of light ginger the drapes are the dark green beside bamboo shades and it is a fundamentally warm and inviting room.
When you are out looking for things find the colors that most appeal to you. You will after start to see patterns that appeal and so on. Good luck next to your room!
Most any darkened or bright colors that you like would work near this background. Get throw pillows and curtains contained by the same color or complementary colors. Navy (or any shade of blue), red, hunters green, bright green, or oranges. It depends on the colors you soak up most.
You can use a single color or mix and match two or three colors that work all right together.
Have fun!
P.S. Another idea. I remember seeing manila walls with a khaki sofa. The guy who lived contained by the apartment had chosen black and white photos to dangle on the walls. He used all black frames (used frames he have picked up and painted with flat paint to match). He have throw pillows that were black and truly had shades that matched the walls.
Well, I hold an all taupe living room and dark wood furniture also! I used shady reds, forest greens and golden yellows as accent colors. Buy throw pillows beside texture and design, in different colors. I enjoy a solid color throw (green), and I have three misty wood shelves with colored cup bottles in adjectives of the colors I mentioned above, and also grape purple and dark blue. The largest picture surrounded by my room also has adjectives the colors I needed to bring it all together.
I go with a street light sheer curtain to let the restrained in, and to hold on to if from looking too "down" in the space.
Use bright artwork:
http://homedecorators30.artselect.com/se...
bright area rug:
http://www.homedecorators.com/Rugs/color...
and conceivably some bright throw pillows.