I came across your question as I was finishing a blue mood board! Given you have a picture and cushions in indigo blue you can draw your scheme from it. Indigo and generally dark shades are very hot at the moment and can really give character to a space. I wouldn't worry about the light as you have huge windows. Your floor is amazing too. So I would either paint or wallpaper the wall behind the sofa in in dark blue, highlight the sofa with a few more cushions, maybe introducing another colour like yellow, and accent the scheme with natural materials such as leather and wood to warm up the grey.

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I wonder is it actually the sofa you dislike or the fact that it is so obvious? By that I mean as the room is new and not yet accessoried, if you were to add a rug, artwork, lamps etc the room may feel more done. At the moment you have a kitchen area and then a sofa maybe once you accessorize everything will feel more together. For what it's worth, I like all the things you are chosen, I just think it needs finishing.

Hi,

I seriously can't see anything wrong with it. It's perhaps that your expectation was different from how it turned out, but it looks really good to me. I love the space and what you've done with it. Floor, kitchen, sofa... all looks gorgeous to me.

If you want to warm it up, you could add some burnt orange or mustard accessories. I'm also thinking that a round rug would be a cool and unexpected addition.

Another thought: if it's a rather dark space, perhaps a mirror above the sofa, instead of art?

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Thanks everyone for all your comments! I will carry on bringing furniture & accessories into the room and see if that makes it any better! I think for me I just don't like the grey sofa colour, I should've gone darker.

Thanks Carolina, I never would've thought about a round rug! The purple swatch that you see is for a cute vintage chair that I was thinking of getting recovered and putting opposite the sofa.

Asifa, its the Tokyo corner sofa from John Lewis.

Gray is neutral colour, so you can go with any one warm or cool one.Or you can go monochromatic. Your ideabook is empty. Pick some interiors that you like and go for it.

Gray colour is great to work with! I got Casablanca multi rug from irug.co.uk and picked colors from rug for accents. You can go with some colors or with 1, or 2.

Be sure that rug is big enough for sectional and purple chair.

Here i painted wall

in white

and bluish-gray

And gone is the boring sofa. Nice one celerygirl!

Olive green looks great with grey and wood flooring, may be worth considering some colour on the wall and duplicate it with large plants just outside.

You have a lamp (?) just behind the sofa which contains all the colours mentioned above - olive green, aubergine, yellow and all the colours in celerygirl’s pictures. So take the lamp as your inspiration!

A large rug rectangular or square rug would in my opinion cover way too much of that beautiful floor. A round rug will add some pizzazz and will soften all the rectangular lines.

Thank you all for your comments!

Carolina, I am so sold on the circle rug. Would never have thought of it!

Colourhappy - I do actually have a large olive green piece of art, I will go dig it out and have a look at it above the sofa, thank you!

Celerygirl - I am so bad at imagining what this space could look like, those pics helped so much thank you!

I personally think the only thing wrong with the sofa is the cushions, It looks like it needs twice as many and larger so that come up higher on the back. I think It's the lack of larger cushions that's cheapening the look. It just needs to look a lot more sumptuous.

Thank you Man About The House. Cushions are driving me mad! It’s impossible to find large ones they all seem to be so small!!

We had the same problem, in the end the wifey went to Dunelm and bought cushion covers and large cushions to go in them, works a treat.

Man About The House, are you the Marquess of Bath? Or was that 'wifelets'? :)

Haha, I was wondering if anyone was going to comment on the spouse term MATH used...

:)

Definitely of titled birth.........................Not! just a chauvinist pig, apparently, amongst other insults that get hurled at me on a daily basis, usually. I honestly don't understand it...........I just ignore it for the most part and carry on in my own sweet natured way.

I was going to put 'Little Woman', but thought that was inappropriate.

You could try with one of our Art Deco Wall models ,it could give life to the wall behind the sofa.I attached you a pic but you can check more models in here Wall Art Lola Paris

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Here are two options to brighten up the space. Hope it's helpful

@pdando, I'm fascinated by your piece of art on the easel like stand. It looks nice but what is your reason for putting it in the the window? Covering so much of it, doesn't it block a lot of light unnecessarily?

Or did you just put it there to facilitate the photo?

You said you wished the sofa was darker. I take that to mean that there isn't enough contrast in the room for your taste, and maybe not enough drama. Certainly a rug will help to separate the sofa colour from the floor. Have you considered making the wall dark, if the sofa isn't? Paint the wall behind the sofa in a dark colour (maybe use the aubergine), then add brighter, lighter paintings (or a mirror). This would give the room the definition and drama that maybe you feel is lacking. This room has purple not aubergine, but maybe it gives you a feeling of how a dark wall could look.

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