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Help choosing throw pillows

17 years ago

We ordered a sectional the other day and I need help deciding on the throw pillows. There are too many choices!

The couch we ordered in a gray-ish microsuede.

Here is the room it will be going in. It will take the place of the 2 couches here, the new one is a sectional and will be in the corner here. It could also be pulled out from the corner and slid more toward the fireplace so that you can walk over to the window farthest from the fireplace.

We will be getting rid of the wall-to-wall carpet once our 3-legged dog dies (she's 14 now) and putting down hardwoods. That sounds awful but we hate the white carpet now but dont want to do hardwoods yet because she scratches up the floors pretty bad. Probably oak to match the rest of the downstairs, but might do maple. The oriental carpet is down to minimize the appearance of dirt on the light-colored carpet (I have 2 dogs, 2 cats and 2 kids!) BUT we'd probably still use this reddish colored carpet on top of the hardwood.

Anyways, I went to the furniture store and came back with these fabric samples that i like. But now sure they all go with the base fabric that my husband and I already picked out. I'd like some input. The bottom color is the fabric we already picked out for the couch itself.

I love this design, but colors probably dont go.

too much red?

pillow probably doesnt go with rug.

I really rather like this combo together

brownish-purple solid color

same pattern as #1, but different colors - may match better?

a speckled reddish chenille

and lastly

Not sure what to pick and i need to make a decision ASAP so they furniture place can put in my order.

Comments (20)

  • 17 years ago

    The pic of the room is not showing up!

  • 17 years ago

    Whoops!

    Here is the room.

  • 17 years ago

    OMG I LOVE the first fabric sample.. but I am really sorry to say that I don't think it will work so nicely with the red rug. The second version in different oolors would probably work better for you.

    While I like some of the others, I think the 4rth option will look best with your sofa and the future hardwood floors. I hesitate though because it seems to be more orange than the deep red of your rug. Are you married to the rug? How do the two look next to each other?

    Back to that first fabric sample-- do you know who makes it? I would love love love having that fabric and I use those two colors throughout my home.

  • 17 years ago

    funkyart - no idea who makes the fabric, but its a Flexsteel fabric sample. and the sku on it is 787-50

  • 17 years ago

    Just to clarify - you are not trying to match the pillows to the sofa and loveseat pitured above, but to a new gray-ish microsuded sectional, right? Do you have a sample of that fabric for us to see?

    I don't see how most of the pillow choices would go well with gray, except the solid red and brownish purple.

  • 17 years ago

    terriks - the grey is the piece of fabric underneath the pillow fabrics I am showing. Its not that grey, although it was in the grey section at the store. It looks beige almost.

    You can see the fabric here(and in every other shot). its pretty light.

    And yeah, i know that most of the fabrics probably wont work. But I just grabbed all of the ones I liked from the store today to think about them. I am AWFUL at picking out fabric choices.

  • 17 years ago

    If you do keep the reddish rug, I don't think any of them will work, but I can't be sure without a closer look at the rug. I think you would need to match a color in the rug and a solid color, because of the pattern in the rug.

    I am surprised you picked such a light fabric for the couch with the animals and children, as you pointed out.

    I think your current couch color is more soil friendly.

    Can you show that last sample with the rug please?

  • 17 years ago

    Maybe you could so a green pillow to match your curtains?

  • 17 years ago

    I'm with funkyart.

    With a solid sofa and WTs, you can certainly get away with another print in the room.

  • 17 years ago

    Could you take a close up photo of the rug? If you have the pillow and upholstery samples at home it would be helpful to put them on the rug and take a picture of that too.

    I would match the pillows to what I have now and not worry about how the pillows will match once you've made the other changes. That could be several years from now and throw pillow are easy and cheap to replace.

  • 17 years ago

    Sorry, I missed that fabric sample in your pics. I was looking for gray.

  • 17 years ago

    I took some more pictures. I am NOT married to the rug. But have no idea when I will be able to spend $800 or so on a new rug. The one we have is in decent condition.

    The current couch is an army green color. I HATE it. I wanted something more neutral, and the new grey is really not that light. It just shows up very light in the pictures. The guy at the furniture store said that the grey microsuede is a fabric that is easy to clean. Its rated for both Water-soluble cleansers and also dry-clean solutions.

    I am now leaning toward the sample that I marked "brownish-purple". I think I better go with a solid and update to a pattern later when i know where I am at with the rug.

    Here is a close-up of the rug

    And the rug with the grey microsuede (it shows up more brownish)

    The grey on the current green couch

    Fabric I am leaning towards (I might see what other colors they have this in)

  • 17 years ago

    Just wanted to add that the fabric color for the couch is actually called STONE, its gray looking i think, and it was in the section with the grays.

  • 17 years ago

    Not loving the purple - sorry! :-)

    How about the red chenille? I think it would go best with the rug and chenille is a nice soft pillow to lay your head on!!

  • 17 years ago

    How about picking up the navy or medium blue from the rug?

  • 17 years ago

    I love the rug. Try the red chenille or as andee said try some of the blues. However, don't torture it either, I think you don't have to match the rug dead on. I read it as warmish reds and some blues without getting into the golds and oranges. I also read something olive-y in there. Look at what goes with it from standing up and away from it, not held right against the color in the rug. A pattern like that seems to "make" its own colors that arent physically there but are a blending of adjacent bits of pattern.

  • 17 years ago

    The one you labeled "pillow probably doesn't go with rug" looks to me as if the colors are the best match; the pattern probably not.

  • 17 years ago

    Your rug matches with the red color pillow (the one that you marked as "too much red?"). But the pillow you marked as "same pattern as #1, but different colors - may match better?" is also match with mostly any color.

  • 17 years ago

    Okay, I would maybe call that color taupe, but not gray. In fact your "army green" couch looks gray next to it.

  • 17 years ago

    The rug is very nice, It adds alot of great color to the room.

    I have to ask you, WHAT COLOR DO YOU LIKE ?

    You have alot of color options with that rug. And as Palimpsest says they don't have to match perfectly just in the same color family.