Any curtain suggestions for our living room?

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New(ish) house.
Needed to buy curtains pretty quickly. Not impressed with the ones we chose in a hurry.

If your living room was these sorts of colours (and I know many won't like them - new sofa isn't on the cards, and grey paint is out) what curtains would you use? The insert is the current ones.

Ideally, ready made high street price, not hundreds of pounds. But that might be a request too far!

Maybe long terracotta or a light green to compliment rug

They are quite expensive (for me) but John Lewis do lovely lined velvet curtains in various colours, one of which I am sure would tie in with your rug. We have had two sets in our lounge diner for a couple of years and have been so happy with them we have just got a set to warm up our bedroom. We have the mustard colour downstairs and the navy upstairs as we were constrained by bed colour up there.

So, you'd both go plain rather than patterned?

Dark red velvet to match the stripes in the rug would be nice. Definitely not patterned when you have a stripey rug already.

What about rich plain chocolate or natural coloured curtains. They would go with your couch, wall colour, rug etc. Would make the room more streamlined and cosy.

Try ikea

Pick a colour from the rug and go with that? Maybe a rich dark red or burnt orange?

Is your rug from John Lewis? Are you happy with it? Am thinking of getting that one so would be good to know!

I second the suggestion of a deep orange or rust colour. Next have some decent and relatively inexpensive stuff.

If you’re planning on keeping the patterned cushions and rug, you definitely need to go for plain curtains.

Definitely plain, and a strong colour. Is the rug negotiable?

I have two pairs of Dunelm curtains, both 90" x 90", one heavier for the lounge and a lighter (still lined) pair for the kitchen. Both are eyelet. Have a look at their site as a wide range and the prices are good imo. More impressed with them than the last pair I got from John Lewis!

Rug is non negioatable.
Cushions came with the sofa, and can be switched to something else.

@nearly55 yes, it's the JL russet rug. It's lovely to walk on. Colours are a bit more muted than the website suggests. It moulted quite a bit when new, but that's settled now.

OK. Off to investigate teracotta/burnt orange/chocolate (which is what we had in old house, and DH said no to....) curtains.

Thanks, that's really helpful especially about the colours being more muted.

Good luck with your curtain search!

I think you need something to brighten things up a bit. Either chartreuse (John Lewis have some velvet ones for a reasonable price), or a light blue, or the light mustard.

Burnt orange velvet to tie in the rug and cushions. John Lewis, West Elm, La Redoute, Anthropologie, H&M and Ikea are all good sources of floor-length curtains. If you can’t find the right colour get white/beige and dye them in the washing machine, though they’ll shrink all round by a couple of inches so make sure you have enough width and length.

Terry’s Fabrics is good for cheap lining fabric to add lining to ready made. Blinds2Go is good for affordable MTM. EBay is BRILLIANT if you want pattern and you’re willing to wait: I have lined, weighted, properly pleated Liberty-print curtains throughout my house, all eBay.

One of the warm colors from the rug,not brown or beige,change cushions to plain ,maybe several different colors also from the rug?

Red to warm it up.

JL and argos both have cord curtains.
Any comments? Think I prefer the JL colour, but am hopeless at these things!

I have a similar colour scheme and got teal heavy curtains off the peg so to speak. They look good (to me anyway!). Have them a few years now and can't remember where I got them. Somewhere like Dunelm I suppose or similar.

The Habitat ones. Much warmer.

For me personally, I don't think that the colour would match. They look quite harsh and not warm/cosy.

Sorry 😞