Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. The girls are feeling the good juju from the sofa.

I have had McGuire chairs for 30 years (recovered 3 times) and I love them. They are very good quality. Sofa looks good with no pillows. Unlike others, I’m not sure it goes well with your rug. Maybe try some of the programs that let you visualize a rug in your space to see if another one looks better with the sofa. I would try to keep that sofa.

Love these pillows:

Or get needlework either do it yourself or find at a thrift store and make pillows of anything you like

Thanks everyone! You're making me feel much better. I don't think it's quite what I envisioned but maybe I just need to get into the new space and give myself some time to get used to it before I change up much more. It's really comfy and spacious (although it does require the use of a lumbar pillow if you really want to veg out), and although the rattan has some dings, I think it could be re-painted/stained if we so wanted. The cushions themselves are in fabulous condition and you can tell the fabric is of good quality and well put together.

It's funny that you bring up that rattan article, tozmo1, because I was reading it last night trying to convince myself that I liked the sofa haha.

As Sam mentioned, I'm not sure about the rug as well.. there is a big reddish/orange medallion at its center, but you can't see it with the coffee table... I also worry about too much color on color, but I'm not sure I want to buy another rug just yet because this one is fairly new and because I'm trying to be thrifty because I'll be quitting my job in a few months to wrap up a final year of grad school.

One possibility, I guess, is that I could put our current area rug under our dining table and then find a different one for the living room, although that might be tricky to coordinate for me.

For example, I like these rugs and think they might look good with the couch, but not sure if I'd also want our other rug in the same room.

https://ruggable.com/collections/8x10/products/hendesi-heriz-garnet?variant=12903538688055

https://ruggable.com/collections/8x10/products/malileh-heriz-champagne?variant=12903852277815

How fun and how stressful... new apartment, finishing grad school! I say "chill." Move your wonderful hubby, cats and "stuff" into the new apartment and enjoy what you have. The other great things you want or need will reveal themselves in time. In July, I finished a major remodel of my house after living in it for 17 years. Still don't have the furniture I want for the space although my garage is full of great thrift store finds and hand me downs that served me well for many years On many days I just lie on the floor (newly refinished) and stare out the (new) 12' slider and contemplate how lucky I am to have many unexpected finds and adventures ahead of me!

lynartist How fun! I could definitely see this working with maybe a more neutral rug and the gallery wall and this rug aelsewhere in the apartment. Thank you so much for the suggestion!

I think the sofa is great with your rug. I'd use the colors in your rug for the pillows and throw.

Here are some great green kilim pillows from etsy:

I love the rug! It has every color in it so just find tribal rugs that go with the sofa and the rug.

They come in so many different styles!

I meant tribal pillows! Keep the rug!;)

It’s too red and overwhelming in the current space because of the colour if everything else, and most notably, the walls. It will always scream before a tan wall—so don’t do tan walls. It will then calm right down. (Personally, I can imagine a grey wall behind it—but with that said, grey is a hard shade/colour to pick, so get pro help if you must.)

The sofa and walls are great. Just change out the coffee table for a glass round one with nothing much on it. Consider a great painting instead of the smaller gallery wall, but it's fine for now.

I love red couches and how can you bulk at that deal. Not so crazy about sectionals but it sounds like you will have enough room for it to work. I was worried to take the step getting red but it really is my favorite couch color. It's great for decorating on holidays. My walls are a valspar "smoked oyster" which is a taupe, gray, warm and comfy.

This is the wall color at our new apartment. It's hard to tell here, but in person it's a warm taupey gray. The lease says we can paint, but I'd be nervous to do so... I've never rented a place that let you paint before!

The coffee table and the gallery wall, for better or worse, are here to stay because I've had them for less than six months and they each cost more than we spent on the sofa. If anything goes, it'll probably be the sofa, which I think I could sell for at least as much as I paid for it, given the brand, quality, and retail selling price. I'm willing to spend on some new pillows, and maybe a new rug if I can still use the other rug somewhere else, but beyond that, I don't want to spend too much at this point given our current circumstances.

You've gotten great advice so far and I just wanted to say I really like your gallery wall. Good luck in your new place. I'm sure you'll make this sofa work. :)

Let us know how it works at the place.

I just found this on Houzz... the same sofa with a different fabric! Interesting to see how others used pillows on it: https://www.houzz.com/projects/1075164/wailea-beach-villas-d101-the-minshull-residence

Is that the room it will go in? It looks like it may be a bit large for the space?

Don't make any decisions before you move and try everything in the new room. The new wall color looks similar to mine and I love it. You obviously thought the sectional would work at some point or why buy it. I think you will find you love it in the new space with a different color wall and pillows. if nothing else you'll have proof of a screaming deal

I did think the sectional would work but I know from past experience that I focus too much on details and miss the bigger picture so that when I actually get everything together, it doesn't mesh.... sigh... I don't know how designers do it but I admire it!

Love the couch. It's a keeper. Good job groveraxle.

Can you roll up the rug, grab a sofa cushion and take them to the new place to compare with the wall color? Generally, paint is selected based on the colors of the fabrics and textiles. You might want to consider leaning into a color based on the blue/gray of in the rug or a color from your favorite art in the collage.

I think you'll find the red will work well with the color in the new apartment.

I feel your pain Lindsey. About 12 years ago, we had Brazilian cherry hardwood flooring installed. At that time, there weren't all the choices there are today and I didn't want oak. I wanted something darker but not walnut so Brailizan cherry seemed to be the right choice. Once it was installed, all I could see was RED so I wasn't sure how I felt about the floor and how was I going to decorate. But there was no going back because it was very expensive. I couldn't decide on a paint colour to compliment the flooring so I played safe and went with a taupey tan colour. I can't say that improved my feeling about the floor. Well, about a year ago, I started googling "What colour walls goes with Brailizan?" Lo and behold, gray seemed to be an option that I had never thought of. So I painted the walls Coventry gray and stonington gray by BM and I can't believe what a difference it made. Now I actually love my floors. So the moral of the story LOL! Wait until you are in your new place before you decide what to do. The couch is beautiful and should really be the focal point of the room. Is moving the rug into your bedroom an option? I don't think moving it into the dining room, if open concept, would be a good idea. If you buy a new patterned rug for the living room space, the two might be too close together. Would you consider a rug with less pattern? You would have more options for cushions with prints. A couch needs cushions, but not the ones that came with the couch.

I say keep the couch. You have many options, you may just not be able to fulfill them all at once. When do you move?

We move to the new place on March 1, so a little less than a month from now! I'm definitely going to hold off on making any decisions until we get there.

As for a rug, I'm thinking I might like a rug that' either neutral or perhaps with more faded colors, but still in the oriental style.

Another option would be to fully lean into the red, I guess, like the below.

Here's my (very rough) attempt at seeing what it would look like with a red rug, although I'm still not sure what pillows would go with.

Maybe yellow, teal, and red? I'm not sure these patterns work together, but I think I like the colors.

Black and white rug. Totally. Cost Plus World Market has some great rugs that would work with this couch. It's a great damn couch.

Solid pillows? Red matching pillows just for utility's sake?

This one doesn't seem too bad either

I think the kilim/tribal pillow idea is so spot on, it's hard to like anything else. I'm meh on the solid color pillow idea unless they had some texture or bells & whistles...like crazy fringe or if they were chunky wovens, etc. I like it best with no pillows at all.

Look at Loloi rugs and pillows.

They have several rugs and pillows with the bohemian look that would be beautiful with your sofa.

...and now you've got me thinking of rugs.

Super saturated red and indigo with gold. Awesome with your couch.

I do like the kilim/tribal idea as well... I just don't have faith in my ability to match patterns. I do like it without pillows, but we'll need some for comfort's sake if nothing else, so maybe something that will just blend in... red lumbar pillows or something.

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Your rusty red sofa has so many possibilities. If you decide on a different rug once you move into your new place then you can play with the idea of pillows.

I don’t like oversized pillows for this sofa. If you like the Ikat and Kilimanjaro type pillows I think you will find mixing patterns looks great. If it worries you , make sure the share the same colors. I think you will find that some variety here is more interesting though. If you are not that adventurous you might want to look at African mud cloth pillows. They have a wonderful ethnic look that looks great with your sofa with a more neutral color palette.

Is sofa base wood? is it black or espresso brown?

[https://www.houzz.com/products/diamond-solstice-multi-rug-710x106-prvw-vr~104985037[(https://www.houzz.com/products/diamond-solstice-multi-rug-710x106-prvw-vr~104985037)

Thank you for all the suggestions! The sofa base is espresso rattan.

Everdebz, I really like that last one you shared, although rugs with a cream base make me nervous because they get dirty so quickly.... I had a cream rug once and vowed never again!

Ok delete I will. Do you want an echo of the rattan element?

I feel like posting this - with a plain rug:

https://www.houzz.com/products/cypress-tree-coffee-table-prvw-vr~32488296

Called rustic but I figure with distressed Caribbean blue, you might find the rattan tied in....

https://www.houzz.com/products/vidaxl-coffee-table-square-reclaimed-wood-prvw-vr~93989652

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Lynartist plz tell me the name of the red and blue rug and where you found it, I have been looking for one just like it. it's the one under the zebra one. thanks!

Either of these?

yes the top one

I just found some mix and match kilim pillows from Grandin Road that seem like they would work perfectly!

Some come in lumbar form too

This one doesn't seem too bad either

I like Grover's first mock up.

I don't want to lean too heavily into the green because the rug is actually blue with splotchy strips of yellow/cream that make it look green from afar but don't look green up close, so it's really hard to find greens/blues that match because of that optical illusion :/

Here is with blue and the wall colour is similar to your rental place.

BTW I like your current rug.