Need help with reception room

8 years ago

Hi all:

We are buying furniture for our reception room and are having a lot of trouble designing the space. Couple questions for those out there:

1) we JUST bought the leather couch and... I am not sure. Is it too big and brown?

2) how should we organise the TV? We were thinking of buying a nice sideboard. Any thoughts?

Help.

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minnie101
8 years ago
Hi. The sofa is fine. I'd just move the other sofa up a few inches/a foot so you can move the other one out of the bay slightly. Lighten up the sofa by adding patterned cushions in the other sofa and chair colour. Tv's look nice on sideboards so you can either add accessories on the sideboard or art to the ŵall so as to "disguise" the tv but I can't really see what it's stood on at the moment. I do think a coffee table would look also nice with accessories on to bring furniture into the middle of the room
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