new sofa: pillarbox red or mocha brown?

[Spink]

sofa workshop, this style sofa bed
whaddya reckon?

[HystericalMe]

Oooohhh - raspberry red.

[WherecanIhide]

Hard to say cos I don't know what the rest of the room is like. The red is a lovely shade of red...x

[beebuzzer]

mocha brown sounds safer!

[MakemineaGandT]

red

[redhollyberry]

Like the red, it's lovely.....but think I would go for the brown as you can easily change the colour scheme of the room later on.

[Mooos]

Red red red

[Mooos]

(Brown is boring) (everyone has brown)

[dreamingofsun]

brown. red will show the dirt very quickly and it doesn't look easy to clean - but then i live in a house of dirty pigs!

[CeliaFate]

I'd go for brown. You can change rugs and cushions more often for variety. I would tire of red quickly.

[lucykate]

we have red (leather) sofas and love the colour.

[MollysChambers]

Brown. Will hide the dirt better!

[sb6699]

Red - everyone has brown and its a bit safe iykwim.

Red is bold and adventurous but still a warm colour.

[Spink]

right. unanimous
I think we might go for the red.... the room has wood floors and white walls, a cream rug (not sure how that has survived with a 3 and 1 yr old but there you go),and one wall is filled with books. The sofa we have at the moment is aubergine-y velour and the colour is lovely and welcome in a pretty plain room.
I hear the safety of the brown but.. the red makes me smile inside...
... might check if the covers are removable and washable first though. Must be a bit sensible

[Mooos]

Yeah red wins.

[Librashavinganotherbiscuit]

We have that red (but not that model), great colour but does tend to show every snot smear but the material washes well just make sure you go for loose covers.

[soppypreggyloon]

We have one of their sofas in mocha. It has survived spilt milk, leaky nappies and puke. The covers do wash but take an age to dry as I handwashed them.
We had a red sofa before Ds and it faded in the sun. We now have a blue one and it shows all dribbles, snot etc.
I'd be wary of the red for showing all the marks but the brown seems to survive everything! :)

[Gentleness]

I want antique!

[Spink]

Gentleness, our other sofa is really similar to antique... it is great and oddly shows no stains ever. Even red wine and coffee. Magic.

[Spink]

Thanks Liz!
we've got a sofa at the moment with quite wide arms and want to go for a sofa bed with narrow arms so we've got more seat width for the same overall width, iykwim... and the harveys sofa beds are all wide arms or no arms....