Glad you are painting the living room the same color as the dining room. Put blue/beige/white pillows on your couch...the red just emphasizes the red couch. Hang artwork over the couch with the colors you have. Another thing I noticed, you do not have any lights next to the furniture...do you not read in this room? Put your lamp (the one in the window) on the other end of the table next to the chair and maybe a floor lamp on the window side of the couch to balance out the grandfather clock. A throw on the couch...either in light blue or beige will look nice. As for your coffee table....it is perfect IMHO...just need a low plant or some books on it.

I have the same color scheme - and love your rug...where did you find that beauty?

The idea that comes to mind when I see your rooms is earthy and earth tones. Maybe try something with the sage green from the rug in the room. I would go to some place like Pier 1 or Winners/Home Sense and get a bunch of throw pillows with the colours from your rug and see what colours or colour combinations work in the room. Then from there decide on fabric for the window, accessories for the coffee table, art work, etc. Then take back the pillows that don't work and keep the ones that do.

I would try to use pillows in the same color as your wall will be. Blues or other colors will only accentuate the red of your sofa. I'd do the window in the same kind of shutters you have now. For the art, I'd have something with just a touch of the red so your sofa doesn't look like an afterthought. A round wooden coffee table wouldn't look bad.

Thanks everyone, I do have a picture for over the sofa (you can see the corner of it near the cabinet), and it just has touches of red.

Rug is from Overstock.

I do need some lamps. There is recessed lighting on the side of the room across fro the shuttered windows.

You can always do a slip cover on the sofa....

Can you place the clock someplace else, not under the soffit? It looks like it's scraping the ceiling and it's such a lovely clock, it deserves a little more breathing room.

Maybe a fabric like this will pull in some of the beiges and the sage green with just a hint of the red.

Unfortunately this is the only place for the clock.

I don't want to slipcover, unless they custom they never look right to me. I like the idea of a patterned fabric to pull everything together, I'd love an ikat or jacobean floral, but am having trouble finding fabric with all the same colors.

I don't mean to be pushy, but that can't be the only place in your entire house to put that lovely clock. How about the hallway, opposite the baby pics, maybe? It's not your average grandfather clock and needs a place where it can shine. Can you tell us about it?

I don't have much to offer in the way of suggestions, but I love many things about your house. Love the wood floors and the patterned wall-to-wall carpeting in the living room, and the blue chairs look comfortable.

can it go in the other corner behind the chair where the chest with the mirror on it is? that looks pretty safe and no soffit....

I'll run it past my husband...he lets me decorate however I like but this clock is his baby. I agree it would look better there but would be less visible.

Okay looked at some accent fabric to pull this together and did a mock up...I would do a few pillows maybe one in the center of the couch with pillows similar to the wall color on the sides, and one on each chair. Oddly enough I was looking for beiges and two of the ones I though worked are blue backgrounds. Any opinions on which looks somewhat updated with my antiques?

What about these paired with neutral pillows...

Here is a link that might be useful: pillows

Those fabrics are pretty.

I think you should add shutters to the small window to match the big window.
Otherwise they look like they belong to different rooms.

Fantastic clock!

I agree w/ grandmaof3 - add a throw to your sofa. I politely throw in my suggestion about using 2 spa blue (or close to your chair color) throw pillows to your sofa in addition to 2 patterened throw pillows that contain the spa blue like that middle fabric that you posted. I think that adding blue to the sofa will actually 'tone down', 'incorporate' and 'lessen' the impact of the red and here's why: it's pulling the color from the presence of the chairs and thereby balancing the room. You have the solid spa blue to pull that color directly across, the addition of pattern that incorporates a reddish color to now blend the 2 colors together. I would layer the solid blue in the corners of the sofa then add the patterned pillow next working inwards. If you could stand 1 more pillow just for 'show' maybe add a small lumbar or boudoir sized pillow right in the middle.

Great place - have fun!

I think that clock is SO beautiful!! I think hanging panels from close to the ceiling on the small window will balance it a bit,, and then a picture over the sofa will look framed.

i like all three fabrics, but the one on the right with the birds is my favorite.

Nancy

I like the round coffee table idea, What about this coffee table?

Here is a link that might be useful: coffee table