I'm trying to be thrifty and buy some used furniture on craigslist
( obviously going to check out the stuff first )
but I can't seem to judge if the love seat I have my eye on will match my patterned couch.
I know things don't have to be too matchy-matchy
but I don't want my house to look like a thrift store gone wrong either.
Here's the pictures from the post:
I was interested in the area rug and the love seat (not the big couch)
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| Here's the area rug |
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| Here's the love seat |
Please take note that our kitchen and bathroom all have that shade of teal as decor.
So, here's our living room at the moment.
I was hoping that the rug would tie things together since it has
beige stripes with blue stripes.
So my idea is to place the love seat going at perpendicular
position from the closer end of the couch in this picture.
(so if it were placed there, you'd be looking at the back of it)
Then to pull things together, I was thinking of putting that patterned pillow
on the teal couch to create a good balance/contrast.
MY OTHER PICKLE
So far everything in our home (furniture, frames) consists of
black or dark wood.
I so badly want a brighter home with white or light gray accents
and have had the thought of painting all of them.
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| This is the side table that Im thinking of painting a matte gray. |
Here are the CONS to doing this.
1. Our kitchen table we JUST bought is black with dark wood panels for the top.
Painting this would be difficult and also I don't know if I want to paint such a new table.
2. The trim on that couch matches our side table perfectly as is.
3. I don't know if gray will offset the warm accent walls too much.
Then again, this shows how gorgeous gray and warm oranges look together.
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