Please help with styling this room.

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This is my sitting room. I've just repaintedand i love how bright it is now.

The wood floor is new, as is the rest of the decor.

I'm not feeling the rug. Do I leave it, change it or take it up?

The footstool thing. Do I leave it, recover it or swap out for a coffee table?

The beige sofa is ridiculously comfy. As of next month I will have my 5yr and 2 yr grandchildren living with me for a year ( and their parents ) so don't want to invest in a new one until after that. I'm not a fan of throws as they just get bundled up. Do you think those sofa covers ever look good? If so, what colour do you think?

Thank you.

Meant to say the sofa covers are on the line right now.

I don’t like the rug. Could you find one that has one of the colours in the wallpaper? Also some yellow cushions that are the same shade of the wallpaper. I like the footstool, but a coffee table may be more practical with more people living in the house.

Agree with previous poster. One comment on getting a coffee table instead of a foot stool...we use our coffee table as a footstool :) Depending on your family, a footstool might just be the thing to keep.

Agree with rug and cushions - you need to tie in the feature wall a bit more and that would do it. Does the sofa have detachable seat cushions? If so maybe recover those in a darker colour - perhaps the green from the wall? Will be better as you can pop them in the wash if sticky little fingers drop things on them. An upholstered ottoman might be useful as it can be both a coffee table (use a tray) and a footstool. Also a good height for children to sit on. I know you don't like throws but a couple of cheap fleece blankets in dark green and or orange will be useful with children. I used to make mine sit on them on the floor if they were having a tv supper (aka an indoor picnic).

Ditch the rug and look for one that matches a colour in the wallpaper. And put some cushions on the sofa. Throws are messy.

Agree that the rug isn’t the right colour or material, but I think you would notice a big improvement if you placed it differently too. Rule of thumb for rugs like this is to place the long edge under the front feet of your sofa, with the sofa in the middle. You should find that that creates a more harmonious central zone and less of a runway effect (pulling it away from the chimney breast). Your footstool is a little small. Again, rule of thumb is ⅔ the length of your sofa for ottomans and coffee tables.

You need a piece of furniture (eg a narrow console table) where the fireplace would have been.
The floor is lovely so I personally wouldn't detract from it.
Not sure having four different paint colours works. I'd probably go darker above the sofa or paint the alcoves in the paler colour

Thank you, I don't have 4 different paint colours just 2, the green and the lighter shade ( little alcove will be lighter shade i ran out ).
I was planning on reintroducing the fireplace come autumn ready for winter and have a Woodburn in there.

Thank you for this, I knew there was a rule I just didn't know what it was.

I'm not sure how busy I can get away with for the rug but I do feel like it needs to be bigger and a thinner fabric.

Dunelm have some nice rugs

Recovering the sofa cushions is a great idea, they are removable yes.

That's my day off trip out sorted then. 😁

I'd also just move the sofa slightly so it wasn't pressed up against the wall. Bizarrely it can make a room look larger as it gives an impression of depth.

Counterintuitively as opposed to "bizarrely"

Ahh that's a good call, I hate it right up next to the wall.

I’m sorry to say I don’t think it’s a cohesive room. None of the colours and styles are tied into the style, it’s all a bit random.

The rug is grey whereas your neutral is cream (sofa, wall) so you need a cream rug (not great with young kids admittedly).

The lampshade is industrial looking, it doesn’t match the wallpaper and the colour isn’t tying in with the room - it needs to be warm, not cool. Id replace with a large cream shade (John Lewis Lisbeth shade would look nice)

You need to tie in the wallpaper/alcove colours. Not in plain cushion covers (that will look cheap) but in hints of the colour in art, candles etc.

The furniture needs to be cohesive in colour and material. The fireplace mantle isn’t right, again it’s the only dark wood I can see in the picture.

Also paint the ceiling rose white to match the woodwork. Being grey/bronze doesn’t look good as it’s again a bit random.

If you’re changing the rug, I’d buy a circular one. Repeating the wallpaper colours in cushions was good advice from PP.

It’s a nice room, though, OP. The flooring is lovely. The wallpaper is cheerful. I love the shape of the sofa. It only needs finishing touches.

This might work - https://www.diy.com/departments/mona-donatus-in-outdoor-modern-burnt-orange-area-rug-200-x-275-cm/0889292305426_BQ.prd

The key thing with rugs is to buy as large as you can and have the sofa at least partially standing on it.

Thank you. It's really hard to see in the picture isn't it?

The rug is brown not grey and the walls are a kind of really light olive green in certain lights or sand coloured at other times of the day or if the lights are on. It's a crown colour that ikea has in one of its room set ups.

There's a dark brown cabinet at the other side of the room too.

My actual favourite bit of the room is the mantlepiece which I had made and stained to order 🤣🤣

That's interesting. How big circular would you go?

Oh that is lovely. Typically I was in b&q yesterday but didn't think to look at outdoor rugs

It's a lovely homely room! I would replace the rug with a larger one that ties more in with the colours of the wallpaper / paint. And make sure it sits underneath the sofa and is more symmetrical in the room. Perhaps a larger coffee table instead of the small footstool, too.

The thing that jumped out at me is the alcove behind the lamp. It looks to be painted white? You've already got two paint colours and the wallpaper, so to me it adds to the feeling of the room not being cohesive. Could you paint it the same colour as the sofa wall? Agree with pps that you need to tie the colours of the room together with accessories etc.