To ask for inspo re: decorating the front room

[Eliza9917]

Posting for traffic. I want to redecorate the front room. Instagram is just grey, grey, grey. I did want grey & white but it's too over done now.

It's a Victorian house with high ceilings and a chimney breast. We've got an ox blood leather sofa.

Floors can be changed and I want to get some thermal curtains. The windows are 10ft bay.

Complete blank canvas except for the sofa.

If I must have an aibu, it's aibu to destest grey & white now.

What colour/style is your front room?

So agree with you - you’re nobody on Instagram if you don’t have a grey house! (Usually accompanied by mirrored furniture, white silk peonies, acres of revolting silver crushed velvet and framed typeface prints).

I’ve just painted my front room custard yellow with white woodwork. I love it but not sure it would go with oxblood! I love the jewel toned greens and blues in your pics.

Have a look at the farrow and ball feed on Instagram. Loads of great inspiration there especially that would go well with your type of house.
We have recently moved and decorated the living room with Oval Room Blue and Hague Blue. We do have a grey sofa though

Si1ver can you tell me which green paint that is? It looks great!

Thanks @GingerHippo it's a Valspar colour called Deep Green Sea. I love it. I was inspired by an instagramer called thegirlwiththegreen_sofa if you want to look at her feed.

Thank you Si1ver, I think I follow her already, I'm redecorating my whole house thanks to Instagram 😄

Go green. Honestly, there are some gorgeous green shades and unlike duck egg blue/teal, it hasn’t been the grey accent colour of the moment. Little Greene has a whole green paint chart (as well as a grey one, obvs).

I usually pick one thing and take my palette from that, such as a painting, or a rug, curtains or a cushion cover. I would find something I love that includes the oxblood colour, even if only a tiny bit, and take the rest of my palette from that, remembering to include a neutral of some kind. My living room has 3 putty coloured walls ( painted 6 years ago so not part of the current grey trend!) and one vibrant turquoise wall. I have a multi coloured oriental rug in raspberry with orange, blue and turquoise accents and a neutral greige sofa with accent cushions in raspberry, orange and turquoise. As you can guess I love colour, but I use it in discrete areas rather than all over. It means I can just change my accessories and repaint one wall if I want a completely different look. So - I could choose a nice tasteful soft palette of dusky pinks next time, or maybe go funky with yellow ochre and mustard. The World is my oyster!

Do a search on pinterest - 'oxblood sofa decor' should bring up some ideas.

I hate how these trends seem ubiquitous.

I first painted a room grey (with metallic blue radiator/woodwork) in 1998. Horrified all my friends and family at the time. Grey! Depressing, boring, cold...

House hunting recently and every bloody house seemed to have the same decor. Either grey and white, or brown and teal. The same b&q feature wallpaper- teal and brown in the living room, red and green in the dining room, multicolour stripes in a bedroom.

I’ve redecorated recently and although i love white so i can change up the colours easily i wanted different. I thought of yellow, but i just don’t like it. So kind of slipped sideways into metallics- bronze, gold, silver. Will add soft furnishings in metallic blues, purples, reds. Wall colour is a bronzy- brown ish colour.

F&B are v helpful - I sent them photos of my kitchen on Facebook message & asked for help with island colour & they came back with several good suggestions

Send size of room & what direction windows are for light & pic of your sofa & anything else in the room.

I have F&B pavilion grey & white in bedroom & 5 years later still adore it!

It's worth listening to Sophie Robinson's new podcast. She has great ideas. I do hate grey. We do have similar dimensions in our home. Our kitchen is dark blue and our hallway, a gorgeous yellow. Be adventurous. Do what makes you happy but also check paint colours at different times of the day, lights on and off etc.

Our Victorian front room has cream walls and dark/black furniture, plus dark floorboards. Cushions and highlights ended up as bronze or dark gold, with a scattering of plants to give the room life. Wanted to avoid the grey trend, and I think we succeeded though it’s not to everyone’s taste!