Lamps.
cozy neutrals, kinda MCM in some ways but in other ways it's contemporary enough to work. roomy thanks to side tables instead of coffee tables. love the floor-to-ceiling shelving too.
This is kinda the direction things are going now in terms of colors (with the green walls)... the other photos with a neutral wall and more color in the furniture are so much more appealing for me. This is nice but it's relating to the tuscan brown era (or its precursor) and doesn't have the clean light look that many of the others have.
The texture of this rug is pretty great. The coffee table is chunky enough to work with the couch; the lightness of the chairs adds some balance.
Lots of white/off-white; leather and black.
Cream, wood, leather, a little blue - works in large part because the room is sun-drenched.
Pretty sedate combination here. In a dark room, a medium color is soothing (painting a dark room in a light color doesn't fix the low light). The couch is one of the saturated colors here, the turquoise pillows are the other one. The floor and wall are washed out; the white serves as an accent, and the rug stays in the middle ground. The living room floor (since it's wood) adds some life to a room.
Once again, saturated colors - black and yellow - provide some pop in a room full of neutrals. It makes for a relaxing room but not a deadly one. It's also pretty darn empty - no coffee or side tables, and no floor lamps!
This works because, even though the main colors are brown leather, cream, and a dark greige, there is also some saturated colors: the reds and even the black. Without the art and the doors, the room would be drowning in blah.
I'm really digging the oatmeal linen in the foreground; there's a mix of traditional and sorta-funky in this image that gives it character (without the character being overwhelming).
This was interesting because it works with the sagey color by using stone and glass; the rest is white, greige, and then tiny navy accents.
Leather with creams, gray, and wood. Not quite enough color, maybe. Would take a different direction for the coffee table to impart some character.
Leather with off-white, wood, and muted blue. Could see this working, even without all the MCM stuff. Just the palette.
Another view of the same room (not crazy about the chair design, just the fabric).
Leather with navy-and-white furniture, wood floors, and offwhite walls. This could work really beautifully. Bringing in an abstract geometric print like this - at this scale - would be a great move. Ditto the rug. Similar color to the floor, but brings a bit of texture and scale to it.
Leather, white, and a couple blues with the wood floor. I could see the couch being a deep blue. There's a mix of clean and dirty color happening here that's a bit challenging.
Brown leather with lots of neutrals in the beige family, then a bit of muted turquoise. The proportions of colors are too heavy and muddy for my taste (not a fan of beige at all) but if the proportions were remixed it could be fine for the living room.
Brown leather with muted colors: a cream that's almost a butterscotch beige. Gray, muted blue, and orange round it out. The look lands between Tuscan brown and hotel lobby...
Brown leather with white. A mix of gray, wood, and turquoise round out the package; other colors are secondary accents.
Brown leather with white and glowing peach. Accents of hot pink and yellow/olive.
Main colors: leather, white, gray. Accents: turquoise, black/white, plant-green.
Brown and turquoise; backdrop of white (or pale gray). Glass top on chunky base gets a table with visual weight that doesn't get too ponderous. Note the variety in the pillows - almost all solids, but different sizes, shapes, and colors.
Gold as accent?
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