Stone fireplace and tan sofa - help me choose the rest please!
We are buying a house and aside from the fireplace which we won’t be removing, and our settees, I have free rein on how to decorate. I’m not good at this stuff so would love some suggestions! We are going for laminate flooring and I have a couple of teal upcycled furniture pieces I’d like to keep if they’ll fit the decor. I had thought maybe dark oak floor and swiss coffee paint maybe, but I might be way off. Photos of the room, our new sofas and a couple of pictures I found on here that I like attached. Thanks all!
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PROMarina Drobot at Cinnamon Space
4 years agoHi Lyndsey, I agree with Ana to go for a lighter colour scheme and add some blue or turquoise in the accessories if you like. Go for a SoHo House style. You also can white wash the stone fireplace and that will unify the look or plaster over it altogether, this will give you a sleek modern look.
Lyndsey Longson
4 years agoThank you for the input both! Really appreciate it. Some more photos attached. As you can see it needs updating throughout. But lounge first!
Sonia
4 years agoPainting the fireplace white will bring it bang up to date as Marina has suggested. I love tan leather sofas (why haven’t I got one!) and they look great with a boho vintage vibe. I would go with white or off white walls, a rug and wood and brass accessories. And lots of plants of course, either real or faux. However, tan goes amazingly well with blue so you could go deepest navy up to the palest blue on the walls. Here’s some pictures to inspire you.
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Marina Drobot at Cinnamon Space
4 years agoHi Lyndsey, is there a patio door behind that sofa on the picture? I think you can improve the layout a bit, if you decide. Assuming that you are not changing any layout at this moment, here is an idea for a light and bright colour and product scheme. You can fit some shelving to the right of the fireplace. The tv can go on top of the fireplace or in the fitted shelving on the side, where it is now. All furniture is wayfair and John Lewis, paint “architectural neutrals” collection from Farrow and ball
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Marina Drobot at Cinnamon Space
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoHi Lyndsey,
I really like the flooring. i'd go bit cooler on the main wall paint though, with some cool grey undertone, like Natural Flow L2EW48E, Wispy White W43E, Pavlova L15AW30E to cool down the flooring and the tan sofas. get a sample of paints and paint them on a large piece of thick paper. leave it in the room to see the colour in the day light and under the artificial lighting. for the rug and curtains i'd go a bit lighter, cause they are big part of the room and would enclose the space too much. Fleet street would be a good colour for accent pieces.
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do you have pictures of any existing furniture that you would like to bring into the room? Lyndsey Longson
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThanks so much for the input, thank goodness other people know what their doing!
I’ll check out those paint colours, cheers. I assumed I needed to aim for warm to make it cosy, I’m learning all the time!
Here are the two pieces I’d like to take with us. I saw this rug that I thought could work?
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Marina Drobot at Cinnamon Space
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThe colour of the wall paint will depend on the amount and direction of the sunlight and will change when the artificial light is on and even on a different wall of the same room. I’d go for a cooler greyer tones. However be aware some greys can look greener with different lighting. Choose some samples, paint them on a large piece of paper and hang them in different walls of the room, look at them during the day and evening. You might find out that you like whites and greys with yellow and red undertones more.
The blue pieces are very nice and will go very well with your light brown sofa
It’s a very nice rug. I like the Middle Eastern style. I’d go for a bit darker blue to go with your blue pieces.
https://www.carpetright.co.uk/heriz-oriental-medallion-blue-rug#0
Then you can compliment the rug with more Turkish motif curtains https://www.hillarys.co.uk/inspiration/edgy-geometrics/
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Marina Drobot at Cinnamon Space
4 years agogo for a large size rug, that can go slightly under the sofa. Normally the rug would determine a specific zone in the room. Like a tv watching zone or a conversation area. So all the furniture sit on the same rug, creating a group
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