Please help settle argument between me and DH! Purple armchair yes or no?!

[PurpleBee39]

Hi everyone,

This is by no means an important issue compared to many on here but I would really appreciate your thoughts!

My husband and I went sofa shopping this afternoon and have decided on a suite we like from DFS (Navonna leather recliner). We have agreed on a 3 seater and armchair. We have also agreed that the 3 seater will be a cream colour (called biscuit). But the issue is with the chair, I really love purple (as per my user name, it’s my favourite colour!) and would like the chair in damson purple. It’s going to be in the corner of the room and not in prominent view or in anyone’s immediate eye-line. I’ve set my heart on it! I know it’s not to everyone’s taste at all. But I can’t see why the sofa and chair have to be the same neutral colour.
My husband says I’m being wacky and should just stick to neutral with both the sofa and chair in the same colour ‘like everyone else does’. He just doesn’t like to be different to the norm with things like this. Although with many other things he will say I don’t care what everyone else says or does!

My view is it would make me happy and when we move house in a year or two’s time we hope to have more space and this chair may end up in a different room anyway, so what does it matter?
Plus I’m paying for the sofa & chair ...... and my husband is going to buy some new french doors for the house.
In the end we didn’t go ahead with placing an order and just can’t agree on this!
Am I being unreasonable to want a purple armchair?!

If it makes any difference everyone who has seen it does a bit of a ohhh at my sitting room.

It's the opposite of bland!

They probably all snigger when they leave but I treated myself to the pink chair and got the bug...

Go for it. I have a tangerine leather recliner chair that everyone fights to sit in.

Shannith that's lovely!

Get a purple chair. But as a compromise to your husband maybe not from the same suite as the sofa?

Get a purple chair and stuff your husband in the old couch and taking him and couch to the dump We went shopping for neutral furniture and chose a pistachio couch and red wingback chair and lime green poufie thingy, sounds awful but everyone seems to like it.

We have charcoal sofas and this armchair in our living room. The blue one’s on the landing. I love colour and the bloke’s learnt not to argue.

The velvet chair a pp linked to is gorgeous.

Well I am getting a mustard armchair 💁🏼‍♀️

There’s always this stripey chair, might have a stripe for all tastes.

None of my furniture matches - that was deliberate. It co-ordinates certainly but I hate the matching 3 piece suites.

Have the purple chair

I think sofas/armchairs need to be colours you can reasonably live with for 10-20 years. A purple chair sounds great, but think it runs the risk of being too dark for the living room - particularly a new living room in a different house, which might not have a convenient corner for it. [And you probably don't want to have "buy new armchair" on the list of stuff you have to buy as you're dealing with all the other costs of moving house]

Cream is, IMO, a risky colour too - any tea/coffee/wine stains would show.

I don't think you're being unreasonable to want a purple chair, but think you'd be better finding a compromise colour you both like enough to live with in your living room for ages.

Please look at how bad their reviews are

uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.dfs.com

Compromise and get the matching set with recliner. Then get a statement purple chair in a beautiful fabric to be the focal point of the room and yours to sit in

Oh get your purple chair. You can give DH a choice for something else. Why should everything shagging match. Bet they will a be fighting for it

If I'm honest it's the style of the sofa I don't like rather than the proposed colours - but each to their own.

Personally I think having complimentary but different furniture can look lovely.

In my snug I have a leather sofa with a lovely coloured velvet chair, but tie them together with soft furnishings (curtains/cushions).

That said in the lounge I have neutral sofa's and chairs and like most people I chose it because it won't date and I can update other aspects of the room without having to refer back to a specific colour that I may fall out of love with or becomes unfashionable.

Push comes to shove I can get my snug chair re-covered without breaking the bank but I'd wince at the cost of doing so for my 2 large sofa's and chair in the lounge.

All in all it's your house, your style but you'll likely live a long time with the choice.

I have 2 sofas and a chaise in the living room. Nine of them are the same colour! And all have a selection of colourful cushions and throws. A cream sofa and purple chair is quite tame!

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Have it as an accent chair then add a few purple things to the room. Cushions or throw or a purple picture frame. Or have a cream cushion on the purple chair to tie it in. Be different if it was the main piece of furniture. At least if you change your mind you can cover with a throw anyway. Go for it! Life's too short to be conventional! I love a purple chair me.

@SashayThatWay - Your chair is lovely, I hope you managed to relax in it this evening!

Update!
Thank you everyone for all the tips and pictures. You have made me rethink the armchair entirely, we don't really need a recliner armchair because we will be mainly sitting on the recliner sofa. So I have discussed with DH about getting a 'statement' armchair (non-recliner). For some reason he is warming to this idea! (Mainly because it will be cheaper I think!).
It will be to add interest to the room and for when visitors come round so a recliner would be wasted. He is even warming to a "wacky" colour! I don't know what's happened over the course of this evening but thanks mumsnet, it's down to all your ideas and thoughts that DH is thinking we need to introduce some colour into our bland house........yippee!!

@Shannith - I love your chairs and decor!

@bellabasset - My favourite colour is purple and I also love fuchsia, your style sounds awesome!

@Take2020 - Thank you for the link to the bad DFS reviews, we will definitely think again about buying from DFS, they sound awful.

@Alsohuman - I like your style!

Just to throw one more idea to you, are you sure you need a recliner sofa? Just thinking it really limits your options. Would a corner sofa and a footstool work instead? Or something that works as stool and footrest?

Purple chair - yes

Purple chair from DFS - maybe not.

Purple chair love it!

Life is far to short to match. Do what makes you smile.

Oh dear.

I've now realised that I need a purple chair.

Husband making non committal noises-well that's not a no, at least!