decoenthusiaste If it will be a playroom for children, just pick a color that won't show much stain or spillage and that you can easily wipe down.

Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design A good upholsterer should be able to fix the springs on your sofa. It looks like a nice one with a wood frame. The sunroom is charming, though I'd find it even more charming if you would paint the ceiling a light color. I'm not sure what direction you're headed with navy blue chairs, muddy turquoise walls and gray velvet. I can't tell what colors are in the rug. Please explain further how old the kids are who are playing in the room, whether you can paint the ceiling, and why you want the gray velvet. Thanks.
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lala Thank you for ideas. I am open to painting the ceiling, thought maybe a light "porch" blue color, similar to the rug. The blue chairs are old and a favorite of my DH so he wants to keep them, also their scale is perfect for the size of the room. The rug is light blue with ivory medallions. The walls, what little there are:), I painted to work with the colors in the adjoining room in hopes to tie the two together. I am not married to the paint color either. I would love to be able to repair the sofa. I will look into area reupholsters. I would love a pattern fabric on it. Maybe an ikat with yellows and blues?

The chilldren are well mannered and I have white sofas that have stayed clean in the tv den so I am not in need of any special colors or fabrics. I believe children should be as respectful as adults around furniture. The girls are an under 1, almost 2 and 6 years old. I was thinking of grey to again try and join the two spaces together. Is it ok to treat them as totally separate areas but that flow together? If so how do I achieve that?

Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design Can you put the rug in another room and get a seagrass rug for the sunroom? To marry the living room and the sunroom, you could add pillows to the white sofas in one or two of the colors we use in the sunroom.

So, yes, if you want a yellow and blue ikat, or an orange and blue ikat in the sunroom, you would add yellow and blue or orange and blue pillows to the living room. The white and charcoal of the living room is a very neutral and lovely scheme to which it will be easy to add some color from the sunroom.

lala I can move the rug to another room:) My only experience with seagrass was "rough" so to speak. Are there soft seagrass rugs? The toys, which are stored behind the red sofa, are used on the floor so I would like a soft rug.

dianahb lala: I have a lot of very old seating-- all made with springs-- and a good upholsterer knows how to repair springs. I would keep the sofa. The sunroom is lovely. I would suggest roman shades on the windows, and forget about the sheers. Also, I have a sunroom that has a bead board ceiling, and that's my favorite part of the room. Mine probably isn't as dark as mahogany, but is natural wood and real bead board and looks beautiful. I would not paint the ceiling; rather (if it's too dark for you), I'd see about having someone lighten it. I expect a stain was put on it at one point. Mahogany is beautiful, stained or left natural. But see if it can be lightened (cleaned, or possible stain removed). Unless it's in terrible shape, painting it would be a mistake (my opinion).

Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design Seagrass is softer than sisal, but you're right that it may be too rough for young knees. So either wait a few months until the little one is up and running or consider a different approach.

You could get an ikat rug and use solid upholstery on your soon to be (we hope) rehabilitated sofa. It could be blue denim or yellow or orange canvas, all fun fabrics for a sunroom/playroom. Then you'd select pillows from the ikat rug colors for pillows on the sofa.

Or you could acquire a Dash & Albert navy striped rug and use almost any color of solid fabric that appeals to you for the sofa.
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lala Again, thanks to all for the help! I know this is to small for the room, just trying it for color ideas, I have a navy and white Dhurrie rug from the den that I put in the room this morning to try out a pattern on the floor. Is it too much contrast? I would probally go simple on the sofa, maybe denim or blue velvet if I did a rug like this.

dianahb Well, it's always a little hard to tell, onscreen like this, but I love the wingback chairs, and I think the sofa would be beautiful in a blue velvet (or even mohair)-- and because the chairs and sofa are so nice-- for me, the large pattern in the rug brings my eye straight to the floor. I also happen to like the windows a lot-- and, again, you could keep the sheers--- which do add a softness-- or just have roman shades-- but those windows and the furnishings are so nice-- I just think a rug that busy draws your eye away from every other nice thing in the room. If everything else was awful, I'd say go with it-- but everything else isn't. ;)

Bonnie If it's a kids playroom I would amp up the fun with a fun couch and colors like below... and move the traditional wing chair to another room... Why go so somber?

lala I too am not feeling the busy rug either. I will keep looking:) I have put out calls to local reupholsterers and hopefully the old sofa can be restored! That was my plan when I purchased it at an auction, but then the springs started to pop after a few years thanks for letting me know about the possibility of repairing it:)!

The room abuts the living room and is seen from my formal dining room so I want to keep it somewhat grownup and honest the kids have a lower level playroom that is fun, colorful and even has a swing:) and not as somber. This play space is more for puzzles, board games and "set ups". But When the white sofas in our den go I would love a big cozy sectional in a fun color! I will attatch pics of their real playspace just so no one thinks DCF should be called to save these kids from doldrum:)

dianahb haha. So worried was I about these kids and their primary color(s) deprivation, that DCF was, in fact, my next call. Love the playroom, and I'm with you on the sunroom. I don't think it's at all "somber," just elegant. I've never equated elegance and soft light with somberness, but that's just me. I've been looking at this picture so long now, too, that I've decided I really like the looseness and softness of the sheers. Keep them.

Carolyn Albert-Kincl Design I think the navy and white in the rug have too high a contrast. Something more subtle might please you more, and I'd like to see a third or fourth color beyond blue and white in the rug. The extra colors will add life to the room and give you good colors to use for pillows. I would also try turning the rug the other direction.