Your beige sofa is a neutral so you can go with absolutely ANY color you want. I'd put at least 3 diff. colors and/or patterns together to liven up the space. Personally, I'd pick an "unexpected" color like a blue with lime green pattern. But the pic suggests conservative taste, so diff. shades of blue would be good and tasteful enough

Gorgeous rug.

I'd go with maroon and gold.

Vossner, I agree about adding different colors to liven it up a bit!

Tibbex, I tried red and gold and am not sure it is the right way to go. We do love the rug-thank you!

Beverly, You are right about the blue being a gray blue. I think that's the key to finding the right color combo. The rug looks lighter in the direction shown above. From the other direction it looks much darker, as is typical of this type of rug.

Thank you for your suggestions. I am going shopping for some accessories!

Rug viewed from the other direction:

Yep, I like the one with the dog in the pic. I think the burgundy adds the appropriate weight to the room to go with the rug. You've already got so much blue going on, I like that the burgundy adds more color. In addition, your burgundy pillows go much better, style wise, with the rug than do the blue pillows, which IMO are too contemporary to be mixed with that rug and therefore clash.

I would save the burgundy/red pillows for the holidays and put them out seasonally. I like the bluer(gray?) pillows that you have on it in your last pic better than the brown- the brown is too dull.

I like the top left pillow that bev shows in her group of 6... and agree that the picture above the couch would be better quite a bit larger!

Lovely room!!! Gorgeous rug. I like the one with the dog as well.

Just curious why you do not have your rug slightly under the sofa?

Thank you Tib, Busybee and Aktillery. Moving the rug is on the agenda, but it's heavy and I can't do it alone. Went shopping and got some new pillows and I think they add just the right punch of color. I swapped out the Birdsey print over the fireplace and put it over the sofa for more color (it's not any bigger, but we used to have them side-by-side and might do that again.) Tib, Birdsey used to have a studio in Osterville, which is where we bought this one, after buying several of his pieces on a trip to his Bermuda studio. Are we there yet?

Hi,

Can we please see the print over the sofa?? If it's not large, why not add gold sconces?

Love both the print and the new couch, by the way!!

Ostahville, my hoity-toity, hifalutin neighbors. But oh, to live on Sea View Ave.! I think they should let one po' person live there. Namely, me.

Hi Lori! This print is the same size as the one I posted at the top of the thread. I like your idea of adding sconces, but how many are too many in a room? We already have them on each end of the fireplace, which is directly across from the sofa? Hmmmm. Good to "see" you again! Yes, Tib, Osterville sure is lovely, but Birdsey's studio was a working artist's studio above a hoity-toity store on Main St. He should have been in P-town!