Living room decorating problem.

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Where do I start. Moved house.

Living room has light grey carpet, dark black marble fireplace. Its north facing so can be dull and is currently very grey.

Our sofas are purple. Great you'd think grey and purple. Not so simple the room is already very grey and can be dark we need warm, cosy and not too dark.

Could you go plummy rather than purple? Still great with grey. Perhaps some gold added in for warmth?

What sort of purple?
Cadbury chocolate wrapper?
Plum?
Aubergine?

It's like a light blueberry aubergine purple. We're hoping for a fuchsia colour blind. We're looking at putty colours but they all seem so dark and grey. Dulux soft cinnabar and Nordic sale shades.

I had Dulux Soft Cinnabar in my old house. It looked lovely with Gentle Fawn (a soft pinky beige colour). Not sure if that would go with the grey, but worth trying a tester.

What about a soft sagey green?

Very pale pink?

Hate pink but if I didn't it would be an option. We've tried a tester of moss green shade but it's just not quite right. Its a bit too cold.

I have 6 squares of tester paints in front of me and I'm not convinced by any of them

How about dulux soft peach? Not with a fuchsia blind though!
Or a pale terracotta
This will go with the grey /black and the purple if it is the colour I imagine. It will warm the room. My first thought was clover pink.

Personally, I would use an only just off white, with a tiny hint of the sofa colouring. If you find the closest colour match for your sofa fabric with a shade on a Dulux Trade stripe card and then look down the card to the palest possible version, it will be a lovely coordinating match, just with added light reflection.

Having a cozy living room is also about using lots of lighting at different levels to look luxurious and cosseting.

This is getting quite technical, but is found it very helpful to understand dulux's colour palette notation system when choosing paints, link here

www.icipaints.co.uk/colours/duluxtrade/palette/notation.jsp