My fave living-room color combo
A 2007 IKEA ad (above) told us to "Be Brave Not Beige". What so wrong with beige i ask? And what about other neutral colors? We need them. Here's why.
Here's a very brave Ekorre wallpaper pattern designed by Anna Werning. It's actually so bold that all you can do is place a white chair in front of it! So what are we dealing with today? I'd like to tell you about my taste in living-rooms. Here are the bare bones of a living room:
Nadia's place via AT
Let's see what neutral colors could fit a living-room:
Dominic's place
Dark brown as a neutral color
B/w, navy and grey as neutral colors.
Navy as neutral color
Beige and off-whites as neutral colors. There's even a "Brown & Beige" Flickr group!
Another beige setting.
In all the above examples, the rooms look bland and lack pizzazz. That's either because they only use neutral colors, with no hint of red or any other bright color for contrast...or that they're not deigners' rooms like the following...
...room designed by Betty Wasserman. The "wow" factor here are the unsual lamps.
...or this room designed by Amy Lau (Navy, dark wood and beige sofa). With the dark wook table being unusual here. and beautiful.
Lisa Wong Jackson's place. Sneak peek from d*s
Couch comes in neutral color. The beautiful pillows are from Hable Construction, Sharon Spain, and Area. The blanket is by bombdesign. Once again, I think a big bold painting would have been better here than small b/w photographs.
My fave living-room color combo : Orange and beige! Orange found in accessories...
or in the art hung on the walls...
or the more classical pop of red in a neutral environment! (NYC apartment)
here the principles are inverted and the couch is orange, while the art is B/w. Works for me!
here's a velvet dark brown couch (similar to the one i own) and an example of colorful art that works wonders with it.
enjoy!
-Beautymist.