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.

I also have to say I disagree with the PPs who've said the sofas don't work with the floor. They absolutely can with a larger rug and some more colour and interest around the room.

If it was me, I would get rid of the yellow coloured cushions and go for brighter colours (as these are the colours I like) like hot pink, teal, yellow (not your yellow) for cushions and I’d add a new rug with colour/pattern, picture on the wall, a vase. Maybe dark green curtains.

A luscious warm rug would help. We had wooden floor put down and then bought an amazing colourful rug which has added a lot of warmth and interest. I can add a picture to show you.

See that looks lovely and all the colours go, because you've got a cream sofa. If you had a grey sofa it wouldn't go.

With a bigger rug sitting under the sofa feet the sofa would look fine with the floor.

I agree with the PP who said it would look better if the sofa was aligned. It would look better either under the window or centred to the gap in between. I also think if you do decide to change the curtains, I would go for full length and a pattern/print and quite full. I also think table lamps add so much warmth to a room. You can also get sofa seat covers on Amazon to add a bit of colour, I had to get some to cover stains on our brown leather sofa and there was a lot of choice, inexpensive too. It's a really lovely room!

Those are great ideas but for now until I get to change and find a rug which set of cushion combos look best out of the ones I have . I can only put one sofa aligned correctly as they are at right angles to wash other and one has to be off centre. Thx

I don't like the yellow or chequered cushions. A different colour would work better. Something brighter, perhaps multicolour? The sofa would look better if aligned with the window and I would get rid of the rug. I don't necessarily think it has to be bigger, but should definitely be of a different colour/pattern. Lastly and for me most importantly the room is lacking plants. The windowsills are completely empty whereas they could have some lovely pots with plants in them, also a nice big plant or two on the floor.

Would a plum cushion or a burnt orange work better ?

Have I completely lost the plot or do these work better in rusty orange help!!!!!!!

These are the cushions sorry

Latest effort what does anyone think better or not I think it looks warmer than the yellow ?

I like those cushions much better

Thank you for your comments it looks a bit warmer I think . Do you think I need a throw if so what colour would you have ? Xxxx

Too much grey.
I'd get a wooden curtain pole and neutral curtains.
The rug needs to be bigger and the edge should sit under both sofas

Too much grey. The rug really drowns the room and spoils the effect of the new wood. I'd go for a mixed colour rug, Turkish or Moroccan style, or a a very light colour with some warmth in it

I think the sofa looks fine with the flooring it’s the wall colour that’s off as too cool toned

The cushions in the last photo look better than the yellow ones for sure.

Also - if you get new curtains, I'd consider floor length ones.
Short ones look quite dated now into

*imo

Agree with pp about floor length curtains. I’d go for some warmer biscuit-y curtains which are more full.

Get rid of the chequered cushion and add in some cream/neutral cushions to go with the new curtains. Add a neutral throw. Then a much bigger rug, maybe kilim style with some rich oranges. A big houseplant too

The new cushions look much better! They help to tie everything together more somehow.

Thanks for comments I think I will go with these cushions as they do look better and look for some floor length curtains as suggested. I have 3 bay windows in my room and patterned ones are very difficult to Match unless I go made to measure and can’t go to that cost at moment. It will have to be plain ones but I can get a more patterned rug in the future . The throw for now I will look for a neutral one . Xx

Does anyone think maybe a burnt orange plain rug would go ? Similar to the grey one I have but similar colour to the new cushions??

Also if I had made to measure would that grey check look good? Or stick to plain for my 3 bay windows in ready made ?
thx