need advice on painting family room in new house

[PiggyPenguin]

Am moving into new house. The family room needs repainting asap as is currently very dodgy colour. The carpet is pink and it is a quite dark room, so need something light, but have an off-white sofa so not something that will clash or make walls/sofa look dirty.

Any thoughts?

House is 1930s with lots of character details if that makes any difference

What shade of pink is the carpet?
And is it a plain carpet or patterned?

cant go wrong with the classic magnolia! sometime you just need to live there for a while to see how it feels before spending loads of money on paint!

Its a plain carpet, sort of dusky pink.

I'm a bit worried that magnolia will look odd with the sofa. I was thinking of maybe a cafe au lait colour but am worried that the wrong shade will be ugly and too brown.

I can't live in a completely pink room! Besides, the majority of the house are male and they are not happy at having to watch the footy srrounded by pinkness.

I would either try to match the sofa colour or go for a pale neutral. Matching off-whites/creams can be tricky & if you want to go for a different off-white you often have to go a but darker or it looks like you tried to match & got it wrong. So I would either go for pure white or a pale grey.

Or maybe go to Ikea first to get a large cheap rug to hide the carpet & then paint the walls to match that?