What colour cushions would go with my room.. pic

[Cherrycupcake24]

I've just redecorated and can't afford to replace the sofa sadly but I've really gone off grey!!
What colour cushions can I buy? I'm after warming cosy feel. Please help!!

I would go for mustard or emerald green to warm up the room and possibly get a rug to tie in all the colours

I love that one

Mustard would work well with the blue & bret sofa, and give a warming tone too x

Need to add some blue cushions and a throw to the sofa and a rug that ties in all the colours!

A rich burgundy for cushions. It will add warmth.

I absolutely love that rich colour.

I'd add cushions that had the blue and a hot pink in them.

It just shows how taste differs.

this thread reminds me of the ones on s&b, where awful dresses are posted. 😂

im trying to imagine any interior designer saying I know, cover your sofa in a cheap burgundy sofa cover…or go matchy matchy or put the dreaded mustard in, that always goes with grey.

on saying that, the sofa is bad, sorry op, but I can’t think what possessed you. I’m just not sure covering it in a cheap burgundy cover is the answer, it will look worse, and every time you sit on it, it will slide about. You will be forever tucking it in.

for me, loads of colourful cushions and a nice throw will distract and catch the eye more than the sofa.

I suggested burgundy cushions not sofa cover. It's the colour I love.

In fairness, interior designers often have dreadful, generic taste and despite supposedly responding to clients’ preferences, invariably produce the same bland-looking rooms.

I don’t disagree about the sofa cover, though. Also, burgundy says ‘joyless but sensible school uniform’ to me.

I’d get rid of the blue paint, and try some nicer, warmer, less penetrating blues, if you’re wedded to having a blue. If it’s only the chimney breast, it’s not too much faff. And yes to a throw and lots of cushions once you’ve determined the wall colour. And save for a new sofa.

OP have you looked on FBM or Gumtree for sofas?
I have mostly bought second hand sofas and have found decent makes for under £150, You could sell yours and replace with get something new to you (preloved). I think it would make your room much cosier to have a decent fabric sofa. Nicer than a sofa cover too.

I'd buy a rich coloured throw for the settee. Something like a plum or purple shade.
Unfortunately, the deep blue doesn't shout cosy

Could you get a sofa cover?

Edit: oops - obviously this has been mentioned by others

Plum or purple is unlikely to work well with that blue chimney breast — and a lot of purples and plums are actually quite cool colours with a lot of blue in them. Sorry to harp on, but this is an area where I have some expertise. I was trained as a graphic artist, which requires an understanding of colour theory.

Yes to everything you say. I had to learn colour theory as part of my work, and obviously working with Pantone colours teaches you to be able to distinguish quite finely between cold and warm tones. I guess it's not surprising that people who don't work with colour can't tell a warm blue or green from a cold one, but it's a skill easily learned and it would save an awful lot of decorating failures.

A nice yellow/mustard would go nicely with both the blue and the grey.

Not necessarily... You can have a warmish blue with some red and no black in it. You can have a warm teal shade with plenty of yellow. There's a photo on this thread of a teal sofa with jewel cushions on it. That's quite a warm blue.

The addition of yellow and red to a colour warms it up. The addition of blue and black tends to cool it down.

I have no colour training whatsoever and can distinguish between warm and cool tones easily, but certainly, it feels as if the single most commonly-recurrent decorating problem on here is ‘Help! Why does my living room look so cold and unwelcoming?’ That would be your grey sofa and carpet, blue rug and cushions, and white walls with a cool-toned ‘feature wall’.

Yes it is why I posted earlier on undertones. It surprises me how many people can’t see it or distinguish between warm and cold shades. That burgundy cover, is just another cold flat colour to add to the room. It wouldn’t enhance it in the slightest. Simply compound the issue.

I’m also surprised at the amount of people who just fall to the lazy and ubiquitous panacea of use mustard with grey for the “pop of colour”. However you look at right move and so few people are original and so many get it wrong. And so many threads on here about why does my house look cold as you say.

my husband is the same. He can’t see it until it’s in situ or compared side by side.

i don’t work with colour. But I can see it instinctively and immediately. A cold colour screams. For others I think grey is grey, or blue is blue, or burgandy is burgandy, and that’s it.

I think you’re right, it is easily learned, but do think some folks can’t distinguish naturally, without training. Like some folks have a natural ability to do maths

I’d soften the leather sofa with a throw and use blue/green cushions. I know “blue and green should not be seen” but I think they go beautifully together.
A soft rug would help too.

But they’re just going to make the room look cool, and the OP is after ‘warm and cosy’, despite buying a sofa and painting the chimney breast that don’t work to create that impression.

I'm not sure phone screens give an exact rendition of the colour which makes it quite hard to be sure sometimes. I've suggested terracotta or a warm bright pink but I know if I photo my rooms they often don't really give an accurate feel..

I also am going to defend sofa covers as slipping off less than throws. Obviously you buy a fabric and colour you like!

If you think mustard is bad (I think it's OK in small doses & using it may not just be laziness but due to the dictates of fashion - have you ever tried to buy furnishings that aren't the colour combo of the moment?), what about bright red accessories? I think it's funny when house-browsing online & a vendor has obviously thought they should 'warm up' a nicely neutral room to make it appeal to buyers. So a lounge has brand new, bright red cushions & a matching rug, or a bathroom has screamingly bright red towels. In fact, when I put in a beautiful white & chrome bathroom with subtle, washed-out pastel glass mosaics, a builder suggested warming it up with red accessories!!

But they’re just going to make the room look cool, and the OP is after ‘warm and cosy’, despite buying a sofa and painting the chimney breast that don’t work to create that impression“

Our tv room has navy and deep sage green throws, cushions and rugs with a wooden floor and shelves. It’s really cosy.