If you have a fabric sofa, and it isn't grey...

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...then what colour is it, please?

I've been staring and staring at sofas until my brain is scrambled and I've forgotten what normal living rooms look like.

Don't want leather or grey. Ivory walls and wood floors, a clean slate.

What is a normal sofa, please?

ours is modern, one chair striped, one settee flowered and another flowered.
They have red flowers with a sort of beige background.
The cushions match the settee, but are alternated.
We waited a long time to get it, I think it's the first new one ever

A deep burnt red. It's 4 years old and I still absolutely love it!

Dark red. I have dogs though so didn't think that through properly.

Oatmealy colour but with various threads in it so it isn’t too hideous at showing marks. Back when we bought in (about 2009?) all the choice was “shades of poo”. So glad there’s loads more colour now!

Kind of a petrol blue velvet. Not teal enough to be teal, not blue enough to be blue. I love them to look at and I like them-ish to sit on, but they're not as comfortable as our old was-Cream-when-we-bought-it jumbo cord number from a few years back.

Aubergine. It works with lots of accent colours inc. lime green/chartreuse and red.

anyone else with velvet sofas find that they are total dust magnets?

Bluntness100 About your mink sofa, what colour flooring & curtains do you have?

I am really struggling to make the room look cosy. I love my mink sofa, but I think the walls are too bright. The carpet is a similar mink & I bitterly regret choosing the carpet

I had plain greige curtains but have just changed them again for a pattern.

SuperstarDJ Mine is covered in fingermarks from DD, as in actual finger shapes, not dirt. She must be brushing the pile the other way & really digging them in.

Have you had it dry cleaned? Mine are removable. Do you brush it?

DD has also spilt some drink on the side of it, that I have only just discovered

Red - my DHs idea, who isn’t normally good with colour, but it works really well in a small north facing room, with wooden floors and cream blinds.

We have an air force blue sofa. Off white walls and some solid stone walls.

Hmm lots of teal...interesting!

Plenty to think about :)

I have raspberry red, but if i were to buy one today I'd go for velvet teal.

Until I read this thread i didn't realise it was so popular!

@SuperstarDJ

anyone else with velvet sofas find that they are total dust magnets?

YES

Mocha chenille. 11 years old. Hides a multitude of sins!

Ours are duck egg blue and I love them.

Purple I think the shade is mulberry.

Navy blue here, and old and a bit grim... The next one is likely to be grey, but I would love a lush green colour or teal-it would mean redecorating the whole house

Teal

@happinessischocolate, the sofas came from a company called nabru, reasonably priced and really quick delivery.
First sofa took a few hours to build but second one was done in 30 mins.
I'll try and attach photos for you.

Claret, currently.

DH wants brown leather next but I had my heart set on emerald velvet (until I read the downsides upthread!). I don't like leather so the debate will continue...

Light blue here as well - not the most practical with three cats but I mainly cover it with a throw anyway...

Pink. I bought it 9 years ago when I was pregnant with DC2. It's done us well.

Mink

I’m not at home but I wish I could take a photo of my hideous sofa. It might make you feel better.

It’s deep red. Corduroy. Ripped in places and so lumpy it’s a joke. It was second or third or fourth hand when we acquired it.

I’m buying a new one. My first ever. I am beyond excited. The one i’m pretty sure we’ll buy us a deep bottle green velvety (very short pile, more like moleskin?) thing.

I’d prefer a hole in the ground to my current sofa.