Help! Colour scheme for smallish living room

6 years ago

Hi,

I really need to decorate a small living room (4.35m x 4.2m). At the minute it has a plum/cream/taupe stripe wallpapered feature wall. Remaining walls are dark cream/taupe colour.

The sofa is an ivory cream corner sofa and furniture is walnut.

It really needs updated but i don't know where to start.

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6 years ago
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