I love your rug. It looks great in your room. You could pull some blue from the rug for accent pillows on the sofas. Is there any blue int the rug? can't tell from the pic

Wood will warm it up, plants, rust accent color, maybe a spot of yellow; and white, wood, or cork lamps lamps.

The color does not show well on the pictures, it is a teal blue, or some people call it petrol.

It works for me.

Gorgeous rug. I find it traditional and your furniture modern. What is your vision for the room?

I like the combination and would bring the color into other surfaces in the room.

Ideally the rug should be a little larger but I think it looks great with your furniture. I like the coolness of the space and if you add a little wood in the coffee table, you'll add that warm feeling without adding warm colors.

If you can, move the front legs of the rug onto the rug. It'll add a sense of purpose the rug and make the space more cozy.

I think a brown faux leather pillow would add great texture and interest to the space.

Get some blue up on the walls.

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With the rug the room is starting to form a personality that should relect YOU. Where have you travelled that you love? What would would you like the room to say about you? I see a carefully edited space, but I don't see the person who lives there. But the rug is great!

When I saw this video, I thought of your room and how the colors, pillows, furniture, brass accessories, natural elements, art choice, etc in the living room would really compliment yours and your rug is the pefect backdrop. http://houseandhome.com/video/watch-now-small-bright-open-concept-condo/

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My fav: It echoes the light fixture and introduces some weight to the room. And it's blond wood to match credenza.

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Great rug.... nice room! :) Have a nice holiday! :)

@Twocats, I remember your dining room thread and loved your choices back then. Now seeing your living room, I'm still loving your choices. You've got fabulous taste. Rug works beautifully with your gorgeous sofas too. Hope to see more progress and more of your lovely home.

Wow! We went out for a few hours and came back to find all these comments :))

Thank you everyone, a lot of great suggestions. We have decided that the rug stays. We have turned it around and find it looks more faded ( because of the nap of the fabric).

I agree that the wall should be painted, but this is a rental and we might have to move in a few months. So painting will have to wait for a while.

We found a painting during our afternoon expedition, I will make a picture in the daylight and post it.

@carolins: I really like the idea of burnt orange, but not keen on anything pink!

We were considering a round coffee table, white with very thin chrome legs, but the consensus seems to be wood, walnut finish like the front of the tv unit. Maybe look for a reproduction of the Noguchi table, would that work? We also also like the idea of 2 round tables, one a little lower than the other. Very trendy now, would that work as well?

Just want to show you what I was thinking about when I mentioned pink ;-) It does work gorgeously with copper and burnt orange. But there we are, if you don't like pink, you don't like pink.

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@carolins, cute pink sofa, I can imagine Doris Day sitting on it

I like the two round tables in the last picture. Any suggestions for good websites for nice coffee tables, reasonable prices? I have looked on bol.com to get a list of resellers, but haven't had the time to go through them all. Any of your favorite sites come to mind?

FONQ ?

Ignore the pink pillow.

Hi Carolins,

Thanks for all for all your suggestions. I have not looked at HK Living yet. that shall be done right after I post this :)).

I have looked at VT wonen, Wehkamp, 4udesigned, I subscribe to Westwing, but have been deleting emails before opening them, been too busy lately! I have looked ar Woonexpress, so Trendhopper does not make me shudder :)), I will check that one too.

The sofas were bought at Loods 5. Can't remember the name of the manufacturer, but it's a dutch brand, they have nice modern stuff. Let me know if you want the name, I'll see if I can find it. We have been away for a few years and we find that there is a lot more good dutch designers out there. I think the talent has always been there, but not enough at the forefront. We see a lot more creativity, it seems to be encouraged more. At least that seems to be the case here in Amsterdam. Nice stuff out there!

Merry Christmas, joyeux Noël, fijn Kerstdagen ( hope this is spelled correctly, I am not dutch, I am married to one).

Picture of the rug now turned around, now looks more faded, at least in person it does. And

Sorry but the picture cheapens the rug. The rug is lovely and there's a better picture to compliment it.

One other issue seems to be the sofa on the small wall isn't a good fit. It's crowding the entrance to the room and looks off with rug placement.

@Twocats, I really like what you've selected thus far. Btw, sorry if I missed this somehow, but is there room to move the sofa to the left a bit....just so it isn't overlapping the glass doors?

Also FWIW, if you love the art....definitely keep it. It looks like it works well size wise. And IMO although the art should complement the space in relation to its style and/or the overall direction you're wanting to go (which I think the current piece does), the art doesn't have to necessarily color-match the rugs, accessories, etc. of the room. This is reflected in many of the best-designed, well-curated spaces I've seen published here on Houzz as well as elsewhere.

The table lamp ruins the line of your console. I would replace it with a floor lamp in the corner behind the sofa.

I think you need two coffee tables, one for each sofa. I'd get two very different modern ones.

I'd probably limit colors of my accessories to two, one being teal, the other that rusty terracotta from the art (shown below), or the yellow from the art.

Having seen your new painting, I'm thinking something like this: lamp and pillows from Wehkamp, bamboo kind of table (I've seen it in real life and it's a nice one, you need a tray on top though) is from Wehkamp too. The small table is from Flinders.

and...

Again, thank you all for the great suggestions.

The lamp next to the tv will be moved. I agree a floor lamp would look better. We want 2 coffee tables, but did not consider 2 different ones, I like the idea a lot, so thank you groveraxle and carolins for your great ideas. The sofa can be pushed by about 10 cms, that's it. It was not easy to find sofas we both like and the exact size to fit that space. We chose this size because this place is a rental, we might have to move again in a few months because of work, so everything has to be moveable and more or less not too big, nor too small. As for the painting, hubby and I have very different taste, I prefer modern, more like the examples leelee gave. Hubby prefers more bold colours. We compromised on this one, unfortunately the picture doesn't do justice to the colours. Some of the blue in the painting is in the rug, and we can go for accessories in a darker teal coulour and rust or burnt orange, also in the painting. The nice thing about the painting is that it is rented for a 6 month period from an art place, this gives plenty of time to decide if it works for us or not.

I love the rug. Glad you're keeping it.

Rug is great, I also would like it a little larger, but you can work around it.

i also agree with taking the lamp off the counsel and having a clean line.

as far as the art work, it is a matter of feeling,mart invokes an emotion, not just a color match, if you like that painting then go with it. It will be a major statement in the room, then play of those colors with rust, deep orange to give the rug a pop. I like the idea of two coffee tables, but would make them the same if you are going with the artwork. Most modern art leaves me cold but that is me, also more wood to match console is a must to warm up the room.

have fun and Happy New Year.

kathy