Living room redocoration - what do we think of dark chocolate and teal???

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I will soon be the proud new owner of a new 4 piece suite in dark chocolate leather, along with a solid rectangular oak table (with 2 additional leaves) and 10 high back dark chocolate chairs. Need to redo the rest of the room. We will be adding a wooden floor - thinking wide planks, not sure what wood/shade. Also putting in a "hole in the wall" fireplace (picture frame raised from the floor style). Either side of the chimney breast I want a feature wall paper, that also accents accessories in the room.

What colour would you go for?

Any ideas?

Like teal/turquoise with chocolate - sounds like a big room which would handle a strong colour.

mm sounds yummy

Thanks for the thumbs up so far. Is their any other colour that works in this situation?

Think dark chocolate goes with a lot. Ooh - hang on - I've got Kevin McCloud's Choosing Colours book - I'll have a look.

Thanks Habbibu, I have one chance to get this right (dh won't let me redo it again )

I think it's a bit old-fashioned. It was in a lot of show homes about 5 years ago.

Green was last summer's colour, and may well be in again next spring/summer. It is fresh, and at the moment (for winter) seems to be being accented with purple.

Have a look at this cushion for an idea.

lalalonglegs, what would you put with dark choc brown??????

That cushion does make it look like purple can go with brown and green...its making me think.

I have a chocolate and teal front room, this is on my feature wall.

I wanted either teal or aubagine (sp)

Um - this is difficult to do through the medium of writing. He has a nice palette where he puts a chocolate brown with the following:

1. A sort of delicate blue - designers guild - ocean
2. duck egg blue - fired earth townhouse blue
3. agreeny-cream "old white" colour - little greene 54N02
4. sage green - cole & son - ruban
5. a kind of cross between the duck egg and the sage - paint library - mineral.

You should be able to look up these colours on www.choosing-paint.com/

More subtle variations on teal might get away from the "outdated" look, while keeping the fact that these colours do work well. Duck egg or sage would be lovely, I think. Part of me would also consider something warm like a farrow and ball deep red, or orangey-red.

I am going through a real lime green moment (honestly) but I can see that I could be in a bit of a minority on that one. Or something with lots of grey in as Habbibu suggests - sagey or duck eggy. Very pared down.

Chocolate brown is great as lots of things go with it. You could go mad and have shocking pink!

A light silver/grey paper would look very stylish and striking. Would also mean you didn't have a strong colour statement on the wall so you were free to have colour accents elsewhere such as curtains/cushions/rugs/throws etc

Agree with lala v dated.What about chocolate olive and a stone colour and lose the feature walls

Still undecided. Have found some lovely teal/brown cushions in next, but also some rather nice purpley/aubergine ones too.

Turquoise, aubergine, duck egg blue would make room look like boutique hotel imho

I'd go for grey and/or green (though not lime green).
Feature wall might date, but then you can easily paint over it when it does go out of fashion.

Feature wall(s) is either side of chimney breast which will have a "hole in the wall" fire place. Currently it is papered (by previous occupants) and I think it will be easier to paper rather than stipe and make good for painting. House is a very modern open plan 4 storey town house, with big rooms, sunken halogen spots, modern fixtures and fittings etc.

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I'd echo FeelingLucky...I think too strong a coloured paper on the wall/s would give a boutique hotel feel. Nice for a visit - but not sure it'd be great to live with 24/7.

The cushions are fab but will get lost if the walls are of a similar colour/tone. Are you after a light feel to the room or warm and cosy? With choccy brown furniture you can take it either way.

With the cushions you've seen you could pick a mink/heather shade for the walls for a warm feel. A silver/grey (perhaps in a subtle flock pattern) choice would give you a lighter, more modern look. So many choices! Just really depends on the overall statement you want to make; light, warm, cool or funky?

Our dining room has an oak table, chocolate brown leather chairs and chocolate brown curtains. We've got 2 opposing feature walls painted in an icy blue colour, and I think it looks fab

I think cornflower or ice blue looks really good with dark brown.

We have a metallic gold feature wall and cream accesories with our dark chocolate brown sofa. Haven't a clue whether it's dated but I like it, it's warm and Christmassy but fine in the summer too, sparkles in the sunlight...

We have used a strong raspberry colour with our stone/choc brown/wooden/oat table sitting room.

It looks gorgeous.

That is exactly what I want my living room to look like when we decorate in about the year 2037. It's a brilliant colour combination! I probably prefer it with duck-egg blue but we're having that in the kitchen...