Brown Leather Sofa's - HELP

[sickbucket]

We've just brought brown leather sofa's for our new house - having majour colour diliema for wall's / curtains / (def not white cream or blue) please help what colours do other people have any ideas apreciated.

Shades of chocolate/coffee. Burnt oranges and other earthy natural colours. Natural colours in general (greens with cream/pale coffee maybe golds/ochre yellows). Probably not harsh bright colours other than in accents/accessories.

white, white, white.

crimson? dark green? need a big room for that though.

I agree with Sofia! We've got dark brown leather sofas & off-white walls, but they're so subtlely off-white they just look white. And nice bright Turkish rugs on the floor for some colour. Looks great (though I'm biased)...

of white is definitely it
fushia for a few accessories - cushion or two
also for cushion - varied textures look good - knitted, suede-look etc - beiges, creams etc
am so jealous
wish i had brown leather sofas

we had bright pink suede cushion initially, which looked great to begin with, but i have no idea how to clean them so they've been relegated do ds's room now. have now got brown ikea velvet ones which are exactly the same colour. and machine washable, more importantly.

hoxtonchick

what colour curtains or windows dressing have you got??????????

cream curtains. we've got them because my mum made them for our old flat, they fit the window & i thought it was a bit ungrateful to get rid of them.... they look ok though.

what do you think you're going to go for?

still not sure dh likes the idea of white / cream walls but can't decide on the curtains - want something warm as it's quite a big room.

Was ,B4 DD, a furniture buyer for big dept store and often worked as consulatnt for photo shoots on roomsets. I reccommend coffee/mocha for walls,Dulux do an amazing one called dark stone from their heriatge collection, off white woodwork works very well with this and looks v crisp.The accent colour of the moment is burnt orange,or muted shades of lilac and u can then get cushions/ frames/rugS and glass vases in the chosen colour to bring room together.These colours look amazing with chocolate brown. It will give Dh the masculine feel he probably wishes for plus mixing feminine touches. The rest of the furniture can then be similar shades to the sofa; medium to dark wood tones. I have chocolate coloured curtains to tie in with the wood & leather & to create a striking contrast with walls.

go for what melsy says - sounds amazing!
when i move house (soon i hope) i will have to re-read this thread!!

by the way melsy - how are things going?

oooh not so good today, but going to bed soon , just like to wind down with a chat on here 1st.Did we chat on my other thread this evening??

i think i said something!!
its all a bit of a blur
dh has been out since 1pm - thikns he's still a student (but thats another thread!!!) and have had a lovely bu tiring afternoon with ds
trying to do work (got loads to do) and checking mumsnet the whole time!!!
i hate work

feel bad hogging this thread!!!! wot do u do , or would u rather not say??

melsy

that sounds pretty fab to me like the idea of the chocolate coloured curtains - were did you get thoose from???

thanks for everyone help

1 down 8 rooms to go

sorry sickbucket for hijaking thread !!!

am a teacher

I had to have them specially made, as window is a wierd box bay. I think the fabric was by Romo??

national curriculum or do u specialise popsycal ?

normal bog-standard teacher!
primary age but bigger ones

cool - we'll at least it's one idea - this move is becoming more of a pain than the pleasure i hoped.

Here to help if u want any more ideas!!

Here to help if u want any more ideas!!

Here to help if u want any more ideas!!