If it's actually sage, I think of cream, rose, peach and the sunset colors. Not grey, but hey....

Aha. According to Lori, Gray Owl belongs to the yellow hue family near green-yellow,

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You can also have a secondary accent color, in pillows or throws or vases. Something like a coral or even yellow.

Your heading says ‘sage or bold’.

Sage what? I’m not sure where that came from.

It's in the title of your OP, at the top of this page --

"sofa colour sage or bold"

What did you mean to write?

Well, if those are my choices, I pick bold : ) .

Edited to add: And I would pick colours from the first painting you posted, Alison, assuming they go well with/are complementary to Grey Owl.

We went with a slightly darker grey walls. Going for charcoal seating in the living area but intend to go lemon seating in the long entry

The neutral room is nice but somber you'd almost say - nice leather though -- so I notice how well grey sofa goes with the hot lemon/ lime, like Pinebaron's. Seems in first art, and would seem good with watery blues... cute clarification I lol.

Mark post colorful chair - do you like #21? well not sure if you need color in sofa, if you add color in chairs?

All walls in area are grey - light, medium? if kitchen in view, show it please.

Another q - do you like adding wood pieces: distressed or otherwise? - if you do, and already have various art [with wood-y brown] --- grey sofa could allow more focus for the wood and art accents.... ?

If you might fall in love with teal in 1st art, then don't buy blue sofa. :)

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Alison, I just remembered you're working with an interior designer. What does she suggest?

The one thing to consider if you're going to go with more grey for a more monochromatic approach is to increase the various textures in the room, with rugs, pillows, throws, curtains/shades, other furniture, etc. Without a mix of textures, the final effect is generally unpleasantly flat.

Very cool -- the sectional and table.... idk if plans for windows, but they could add to that look, or more than furniture: be a permanent contemporary feature, and change pillow or chair some year...

cause that's lots of glass ya can't ignore [unless you won't cover them ??]

What material will be at fireplace? this would be soft on a whole wall.... ?

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Just checking - sort of at sides of light-filtering... would you like transitional softness like those? or go all straight and sleek in entire room?

have to... this is too tall ?... too much coverage...

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New to comment- but Allison- I like the mustard pops of colour you chose in your last pic! It goes so nicely with grey and also with teal. Your wood furniture will look amazing in your space! :)

Just reviving this as we now have selected our sectional and our fireplace is close to done. Attached are more current pics. We've also somewhat settled on a coffee table but are waiting to see sectional in place first. I'm leaning toward a black leather/metal type chair similar to wasily. Would that work?

This is not exact shade but style. The chaise and ottoman can go on either side of sofa so lots of options to move it around.

Centre part of the fireplace will be kendall charcoal. The white bands/shelves will be white like the trim. The rest is grey owl. The tile is a darkish grey.

This is our hardwood and the actual colour of sectional we ordered.

Oh and this is the coffee table we are tentatively liking.

I only can say that I see similar line of table and horizontal of fp.... yes?

Will anything else in room have that particular stain?

Imo, it's not a soft-looking chair; It's got lots of lines, almost a Star Wars chair [?].

What do you think about the knots of your hardwood floor? and the grey is nice and soft.... if rug has bit of black, better.

Your art way above seems also soft in tone, and even with small item like a chair, in black - a complement, not sure.

Architect Mark's chairs in colors and stains - might it blend with floor? and part of art [if the art is semi-sure for a while]? or pillows.... yeh pillows!

Grey birch frame and leather... if tiles, etc. are flat.... small detail, buckles? fun

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Posting cause of table's stain. Maybe you'd want leather's color [and 1 table] for solid look and feel. Also to repeat wide lines of fp.

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What about something like this?

In slate blue.

It's a shame but our 9 sectionals are built and ready for delivery and we are not; we are on the home stretch and not long to go,

Ugh hubby vetoed the one I posted and I agree. I think I need to pause. Get in the house and then decide

We did look at pics together and have some ideas though so it is just a matter of what will actually work in the space once we are there.