I have a green sofa. Green, if it's a soft green, almost feels neutral to me. I've used the colors you're talking about...green, red, gold, and I have a touch of blue turquoise as an accent. Here's a couple of pics. I don't know if it's your style at all but it will show you one use of the colors.

I should have smoothed out the cushions before taking this picture, but you get the idea. I agree with mimi_2006, soft sage green is actually pretty neutral. I've had mine for 7 or 8 years, and I still like it.

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Gee, if you take a look at our sofas you'll think we shopped at a furniture store where green sofas were the only option.

We went with green, gold and red in our home, too. We just varied the amounts of each color from room to room.

Sun Room

Family Room

Living Room

Bonus Room

I don't mean to hijack the thread but I just HAD to tell Mimi how much I LOVE her coffee table(?). It is absolutely amazing. Would you mind sharing where you got it??? Your whole room is just beautiful!

Tuesday, have you given any thought to a light-medium chocolate color for your sofas? That is what we have and I really like them. They are actually a very neutral color and go very well with our color palette which is very similar to what you have described.

Here are a few pictures of ours. Please keep in mind that we have not been in our new home very long and we have a TON left to finish. My husband did most of the work when we were building so we have many, many projects waiting to be completed. We will eventually rock our fireplace all the way to the ceiling and have custom built-ins on each side of the fireplace. Also, I am not at all happy with the art above our sofa but I needed something really big and that's all I had to put there for now.

Wow! There are more green sofas on this board than I realized and I am liking what I see.

Mimi, what color are you walls. That will be my next agonzing choice.

Tess, love your choice or rug with your sofa. Hope I get that lucky when I start looking for rugs.

Monablair - you have made a believer of me. That is exactly the look I am going for, especially the sun room. You also made great choices in pulling it all together with your rugs.

Saving all these pictures.

Thanks all.

Tuesday

Tuesday_2008...While many of us love green and think you won't tire of it, another thought might be leather. My DH prefers not to sit on leather so I only have the one chair but many people like leather. It's a neutral that might have more pizzazz than the beiges you're looking at. I'm definitely a green supporter but just wanted to throw out that thought also. You could still use green in other chairs, pillows, etc if you're afraid of the 2 large pieces being green. Do you have any pics of the area so folks here can get an idea of your style?

Scarlet..Thank you for the compliments on the living room. It was the last room I furnished when we built this house 2 years ago. The rug was my inspiration piece and I chose things to go with that. The coffee table was one I bought about 10 years ago at Haverty's for my previous house. I've recently looked at Haverty's recently and it doesn't even look like the same store it used to be, the quality and line of furniture they carry has changed a LOT. The coffee table top slides open for storage within so it's handy. When I bought it at my previous house I nearly cried after delivery because it didn't look right. I tried to GIVE it to my daughters but they didn't want it either. After we built this house I said hey my coffee table FINALLY fits in...lol.

Tuesday,

The wall color in that room is Duron paint's "Plantation Beige".

I'm glad you're liking the greens :-)

Mimi, if you ever decide that you don't like it and you're ready to give it away again...I'll take it. Heck, I'll pay you for it. It is GORGEOUS! ;0)

Here's mine

Here is a link that might be useful:

Scarlett, your home is beautiful. I have tried several shades of tans and chocolates, but for some reason they don't look right with my floor. They actually take on a pinkish/mauvish cast if that makes sense. Your floors are pretty, but they appear to be darker, slightly browner than mine.

Mimi, DH would love your suggestion of leather! I am going to compromise and get a brown chair or recliner to make him happy. I love the look of leather, but I don't think I would be happy with it for sofa and loveseat.

Kitty, that is a very pretty shade of green.

Now I gotta get to the furniture store and get my green ordered! Thanks all.

Tuesday

A few years ago, when my former favorite sofa was on it's last lump, I was dithering about as you are. That sofa was a serendipitous find on-sale and was in my favorite color, a deep, forest green. So, when I went looking for a replacement, I was researching all the brands for a good solid couch that was also beautiful. I told my DH that I wanted to do a more 'neutral' color this time, in fact, I was SET on having a taupe or dark mushroom color. But when I started bringing home the fabric samples (probably checked out 2 dozen from different stores over a course of 3 weeks!) nothing really did it for us. If the color was good, my son would object that it wasn't soft enough. If the fabric was soft and touchable, the color didn't work in my living room. (I had just painted and made new window treatments, plus, my carpet was grey-blue...) Finally, I had to deal with my own prejudice. I get tired of safe tan and beige very quickly. If I had the knack of putting together a neutral beige or cafe or taupe room as some of you do, I would love to try it. But I can't. So I brought home a couple of greens--soft sage and deep moss. The deep moss corderoy chenille looked wonderful in my room with my other things. It was soft and I was assured it would wear well. I knew it would look good with my red dachshund sleeping on it. I was a little bummed that, after 10 years of a dark green sofa, I was only changing the specific shade of green. But a deep green is a good neutral for me, and my sofa moved quite easily into my new house too, where the walls went from Navajo White to Cornsilk yellow to Baby Turtle sage.

Red

Forgot my photo! Almost embarrassed to post this, since some will note that not only is my moss chenille sofa in a green tone, but my walls are Baby Turtle, and my vintage rattan sofa got a cover of bronze-green floral chenille. Even the rug looks beige-green!

Here is a link that might be useful: Sofa

red,your room is delightful and interesting; certainly not boring. IMHO, you have enough different green colors, patterns and textures to keep the look interesting, inviting and welcoming.

Green leather Natuuzi/Italsofa (sorry I haven't decorated this room yet).

The paint is BM Antique Jade and the w-t-w carpet is green too. For some reason greens tend to look blue with my camera though. Fabric on the back of the sofa is cream Chris madden drape I will hang eventually (next month?)

Red, I LOVE your room. It's rich, warm and inviting and all the colors seem made for each other. Also, beautifully decorated. Do you take house guests?

Our green sofa is in the computer room, although you can't see the large desk and laptop. (All ancillary equipment is stored in the walk-in closet a few feet away). The room also doubles as my husband's studio for now; you can see a corner of the easel. I've had this sofa for a number of years and the soft color lends itself to many different backgrounds.

Can you stand one more! I have two love seats in my brown study.

Nice sofa and pretty kitty pillow, Ingrid. I'm allergic, but the fat fluffy ones always make me want to pick them up anyway. Thank you for the nice words. And Mona too. Can you believe, I have actually never given a lot of thought to how many muted greens I have in that living room? But when I needed to post the pic for a 'green sofa' thread, I realized that I'm almost crossing the line into monochromatic. Do the Granny Smith apple green fake apples in my wrought-iron coffee table bowl count as green too? Thank goodness I had my old chair done in a mocha brown.

Red