What color couch should i buy

Before selecting a white or light sofa consider how the room is being used now, not how you hope it will be used. If your dog loves to lie on the couch, then you would probably not want to put a white sofa in your living room without some serious retraining. If your sofa will be used by kids and pets, and you still love the idea of a light sofa, then washable slipcovers are a stylish compromise. Once you've considered the light and dark of your new sofa, it's time to think about color.

If you're not working with a showpiece sofa, then a sofa in a neutral color is a popular choice. Neutral sofas are easy to decorate around, and can easily keep up with your style as it changes over the years. Neutral sofa fabric includes beige, gray, taupe, and cream. A matte beige sofa fabric can appear dull around other colors, but a textured beige fabric with flecks of monochromatic color can create interest without adding new colors.

Gray sofas can range from pale to charcoal colors. Considered a style chameleon, gray can be sophisticated, comfortable, cool or crisp. Neutral sofas can quietly complement your other decor, but still be stylish and attractive. A sofa of any color can be beautifully integrated into your space if you treat it as another color from your color scheme.

This means adding accessories or prints in the same color as the sofa, to spread the color around the room. A sofa is a large expanse of fabric, by repeating pops of the same color as an accent, it can balance your room.

When you buy a new sofa, don't feel obligated to purchase a matching love seat. A more flexible style option is choosing a set of upholstered chairs to complement your new sofa.

The chairs don't have to be an exact match for the sofa but can incorporate the sofa's color in a pattern or texture. Using a set of chairs instead of a matching loveseat gives you even more opportunities to add color from your color palette and more options for furniture placement. Don't forget accent pillows and throws as the finishing touches when coordinating your new sofa with your room decor.

These little pops of color give your living room that pulled-together look. Log in here. Thanks, but no thanks. No, thanks I'm already a PureWow fan.

No, thanks I hate pretty things. House makeovers: So fun, right? But, ugh, color decisions are stressful. When it comes to a couch, do you go bold or calming? Girly or rustic? Take our quiz to find out. This Will Be the Amazon Coat of Does Hand Sanitizer Work? We Ask Hamptons Chicago San Francisco.

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Basically, like I said in this post about kitchen cabinetry — brown looks best with creams and beiges while black looks good with white. A gold-beige sofa below looks good with richer tomato reds, burgundy, navy, blues, rust, gray-greens, etc. I would definitely stay away from pairing turquoise, raspberrys, lemon yellows, fresh greens and any of the brighter, cleaner colours with gold-beige.

Gold-beige is usually serious and works well for a more traditional look. English arm sofa above from Williams Sonoma Home. Stick to brighter colours for accents though, reds, mandarin orange, yellow greens, and even lighter purples would look good here. Now for the colour options! A lot of my design consulting has to do with clients asking me which colour sofa to buy, because there is too much choice.

My clients love the idea of incorporating more colour into their decorating but they are worried about pulling it off so it looks good. Click here to email me for my rates and what the process looks like to work with me. Red, of course, looks good with gray-greens but not Christmas green — unless it actually is Christmas golds, gold-beige, yellow-beige as above , purples and blues.

Blues, purples, greens, browns and creams all look great with orange, as does yellow. Jeffrey Bilhuber. I love this Mandarin orange sofa with the purple armchair! This room reminds of a post I wrote the other day on stone fireplaces and how they should relate to something in the room. Next is a yellow sofa. I love green, it would be my second choice for a sofa colour, just like in this loft I decorated for one of my clients. So versatile yet calm and serene. I think blue is a totally timeless colour for a sofa.

It is a majority favourite colour after all! A great choice if this is your favourite colour. It also goes with every colour, just like green! If you love reds, fuscia, golds and Kelly greens, these are great jewel-tone colours to get.

Purple is tricky though because it goes red or blue really fast. See in the above photo how the shag is more red? Unless you are going for that look, shop with your sofa colour swatch!

Greeny-yellow walls would look so great with this colour scheme. Neutral colours die with a purple sofa so you need green-yellow to keep it sophisticated and happy! I hope I have inspired you to consider choosing a colour for your next sofa!

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I loved so many sofas from this post, I ant wait to see you new yellow sofa in place. We have one green velvet sofa, and the other is a comfy tobacco-ish tweedy chenille which is what we refer to as our "comfy" couch.

I saw a beautiful white sofa the other day….. What an informative and interesting post! Right now I have a sofa that I want to recover, it was inherited, and its a print. Maybe after the kitchen. And the new one I am getting for the tv room off the kitchen is dark brown leather sectional, not big and puffy, very tailored.

I had a tuxedo style gold sofa for about 15 years and loved it. It seemed I could put anything with it. Then I had a beige with yellow undertones for the last 8 years. It is now going to the family room, I think it went with almost anything too. I have a new cream colored sofa and I absolutely love it. I really like to change accessories, so any of these sofa colors that let me do that is definitely my favorite. Your post was very informative. Thanks for the help. Hugs, Marty. Great Post.

It really gets me thinking……. I have a white sofa, which I love! I feel like you can't go wrong with white and it goes with everything. My sofa was made with a fitted slip cover and I can get another one made by the manufacturer. Since I have been working on getting more color into my home I love the idea of getting another slip cover in maybe a bright color. Thanks for all the info.

This will help me narrow down the choices. I'm so glad you posted about sofas because I'm ready to change mine. You've just given me some inspirational ideas. I currently have a brown leather sofa, which I've had for a long time.

It's still in pretty good condition. But I've grown tired of the color and the material. I love the green one you have featured in your post. Hmm, you've got me thinking. RED in family room; warm cream in living room. Being the biggest item in both rooms, the rooms are built around the sofa that and the rug, natch!

Yellow will be so bright and cheerful. My sofa is camel colored and pairs with warm reds and teals, rusts too. You nailed it. I love your yellow couch also. The walls are painted a gray called Whiskers from Porter Paints that has a brown undertone to it. As much as I love to decorate our home, sometimes I think I might just rather go run with the bulls… it might be safer, HA…. One is a perfect warm beige linen, the other is navy.

Both work well with all my color changes. Loved reading this post! Thanks for this very informative post Maria! We do not have a sofa right now having just moved across the country and i sold my last sofa. It had a pattern on it that i thought at the time was lovely but when it arrived my son said "Mom it looks like there's dolphins on the sofa!! I hated from that day forward.

My living room sofa is a very small black and pale tan houndstooth check and I'm still searching for the right bold pillows to jazz it up a bit. My den sofa is red leather and I still love it, just wish it were possible to shrink it a bit to fit it's new space. Loved this post. The green sofa has my name on it. Thanks for this great post with such practical information.

You are a great teacher and coach. And I am listening and learning. I loved this post. You gave me so much to think about. We have had a yellow sofa since , and I love it. The only downside is that it has faded over the years.

First I paired it with Great Barington Green on the walls, and then when we moved I switched the walls to Boca Raton Blue both Benjamin Moore and the yellow couch worked well with both. People thought I was crazy when I ordered a yellow couch, but I wouldn't change it. I can't wait to see your finished pictures! Maria, great post. So much to consider but good explanations of the why's and why not's!!

Well…we live pretty casual, so our sofa is blue denim. I love it because it's comfy and casual and is easy to live with. As always, a truly informative post…and I just love the gray sofa….

Thanks for a great, informative post, Maria. It is so well thought out and instructive. I'm working with a client right now on sofa choices, and we've gone back and forth on color. I thought about her as I read this, and I know I'm going to be able to firm up a decision with her. You are a natural teacher, and I appreciate being able to learn from you. Of course, they are usually piled high with large young men sons but the deep red with blue undertones makes for a calm backdrop. Living room sofas….

HI Anonymous, Thanks for the correction in the movie link. I fixed it! I just loved the white, cream, camel, brown and black colours in that movie! Love the post on sofas. I had not had a sofa for 15 years. I used all chairs in my LR. The original owners donated their custom sofa as soon as it shipped because they realized it didn't work for them.

Lucky for me. I love it but there was no forthought about surrounding colors. I'm leaning towards raspberry and turquoise accents. Will let you know how this turns outs. Thanks for such wonderful insights on color. Thank you so much for this really informative post, you spelled it out for us and I like that! I really learned a lot which I will bear in mind for the future. I feel like I want to imagine the sofa away and decorate the room as if I had a different sofa, but what use is that..

I just learned why I am having a hard time decorating around a mocha sofa that I inherited. I'm going to try the blue as you suggested because the other colours I tried didn't work. I will get rid of this sofa in the next year but want the room to look half decent in the meantime. There is some valuable information here. Thanks so much! Right now, I have a warm creamy white sofa in our family room…and 2 club chairs in the same shades, plus one inky blue chair, and one wicker chair with a patterned blue seat cushion.

I add color with cushions, throws, rugs, and my paintings. I am in my "summer" mode…blues and greens, with a little touch of red and orange in some of the paintings. It's a very "coastal" look…just right for my FL coastal home.

I have been looking at a green sofa for my sitting room….