Colour advice lounge

[Holmfirthrita]

I have just changed my lounge grey carpet for a lovely oak floor but something just doesn’t look right . My sofas are mid charcoal leather and silver grey chenille curtains. Any suggestions/ help needed.

Not sure I'd go for more brown in the sofa, but an alternative warm colour would be better. But that's a heck of an expense, so if the curtains and rug could tie the warm and cool tones together you could improve things at a fraction of the cost

The rug should definitely be much larger than the one you have already - the front feet of your sofa(s) should sit on it.

Our living room rug (brought from our considerably larger previous house) is too big really as there's just about 30cm border of floor showing all round. But as it's an antique that we both love - and better too big than too small - it's going nowhere!

I agree that the grey sofas don't go with the warm wood floor but if you can't get new sofas, then bringing in warmer tones in curtains, rug, cushions, throws, art and accessories is the next best thing. Textures (such as your pouffe) help too.

I have the natural.
Pic in case it helps (mine is in need of a clean though 😳)

Ochre is a bit last year, I would look at orange, terracotta or apricot. I tried to post a link but I couldn’t make it work! I will have another go.

changing the sofa is quite an expense, it would be cheaper to paint the walls, surely, unless you are going to change them anyway. I like the grey curtains, I think warmer walls and the rug would be enough to completely change the tone of the room.

I wouldn’t have a throw though. Those bastards always end up on the floor.

Or this

The Dunelm Parker rug will definitely pull together the warm and cool. I bought it for exactly the same reason. Worth having a look at it in person if you can as it really is very nice. I think there are quite a lot of customer photos in the reviews too so that might help you visualise it.

Personally I don’t think they grey sofas are your issue. People may disagree with me but we have grey sofas and oak floor and I don’t think ours looks horrible. I think you are missing a warmth to your room, it’s all a bit sterile, however I get that all peoples tastes are different, I’m personally more of a maximist than minimalist, and have introduced different wood tones and colour to my room. Introduce a warm rug, with a pattern to bring in some other tones, I would suggest a low pile rug too. Add some interesting cushions or houseplants. Maybe paint your walls instead. There’s a lot you could do to make it feel more cohesive. Have you tried seeing what it looks like with no rug at all?

Thanks that sounds a good idea to try . I think maybe I could try a burnt orange to warm it up . I think the answer is to get a patterned rug as suggested in warm and cool colours maybe the natural one from dunelm . Worth a try. Any other suggestions however small would be grateful. I love my wood floor and I do t think the sofas look too bad .

With that set up you definitely have room to add some cool wall art to add colour.

Places I'd recommend

• quirky wall art
• Botanical from Slay
• Or, Desenio has some cool prints: desenio.co.uk/

Where is this octagonal rug from please? It's fabulous and would look great in my lounge! 😊

I have a leather sofa the same colour with oak flooring and I think that they are quite hard to work with together, and that you need something to link them. I love the Dunelm rug linked to above and think that would work and look great.

I think that you could also do with a colour with more depth in the room. Floor length bottle green velvet curtains would look lovely and then patterned cushions containing a similar green - that’s maybe a reflection of my personal taste and not yours though!

To me the rug isn't good. I would go for some warm natural colour and maybe oval shape?

Would you still go for a plain natural or patterned

I don't think the Dunelm rug is the answer - I much prefer the idea of something warmer such as those posted by @Allthegoodnamesarechosen but I'm also a maximalist and love mixing deep colours/pattern which may not be your style @Holmfirthrita I would also add warmer orange tones in the cushions/curtains and accessories/art.

Probably patterned.

I have tried some checked cushions any thoughts yes or no do they look better?

Should have given the ones I have now for comparison

Thoughts please checked as in first picture or just plain with more yellow? I just thought the check might add a bit of variety to break it up ??
thx

I don't think the different cushions add a lot of difference really, both pictures are really similar x

Do the check add a bit more pattern xx

Not really, both pictures look very similar. The check look fine but so do the ones that aren't checked.

Sorry I know this doesn't help at all but the grey suite just doesn't go, it's so cold and adding cushions and rugs won't change that.

I'd be looking at changing your flooring or the sofas, whatever is cheapest / easier.

Grey just doesn't go with brown. The two colours don't go together at all.

I did similar in my living room and had the same feeling. What I found was that furniture like the sofas that go all the way to the floor looked odd sitting right on the hard floor.

If you look at google images a lot of the rooms with hard floors have sofas with legs.

My sofa is similar to yours so as others said, I got quite a big nice thick fluffy rug and put the edges just under the furniture which solved the thing I couldn't put my finger on!

I don't think the check cushions make a great deal of difference. Imho, the cushions in both pics are a bit uninspiring...sorry @Holmfirthrita Even with the yellow ones it's all still a bit grey and one dimensional!

I think you need to find a (large) rug that introduces some warmer colours like those linked by @Allthegoodnamesarechosen uptrend.

If you go onto a site such as Irugs, they have a room visualiser where you can get a fairly good idea of how the rugs will look in your space.

I'm not necessarily suggesting you buy from there as they are shipped from the US and I know some posters haven't been happy with their purchase - although we bought one a couple of years back and were very pleased with it.

*upthread

Cushions aren't going to make much difference (unless you go for all out maximalism and get them in lots of different colours/patterns, which you could do.)