IdaClaire: My point is that no one should feel that there is anything great at stake for such a small decision. What if everyone in the country needed help making every $20 purchase? People should feel free to buy what they like and use it in their homes. Architectural Digest will never come knocking. And if people are worried about what their friends will think about their choice of pillows, then they need better friends. It's all just noise, and it bumps real dilemmas off the front page where they are more likely go get help. If something is permanent, costly, or one-time-only, that's different. And if there is a clear right way and wrong way (or dangerous way) to do something, that may pose a dilemma. But none of that is the case here and in similar questions (like buying a toaster, also posted yesterday). HGTV has scared some people into thinking that there is only a particular way to do things and that every decision is important. This is pillows! Buy 20 of them and rotate them with the season for all anybody cares. It's your home. And still not a dilemma.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><md>Hahaha! Those definitely compliment the barn

Your room seems to be gray and greige, but the new rug looks to be off-white with a navy and yellow pattern. Look for pillows with those colors. Choose patterns or solids as long as the colors match the rug. Look for curtains that pull the color up onto your walls. I prefer contrast in my decor, so I show a navy that would stand out from your walls. And, look for some art for opposite the curtains that contains those colors.

Thanks, all! I think I'm going to try to find black pillows that have some sort of texture or raised design -- trying to make the room look more modern. I have navy pillows right now and they don't look very sharp. I like this rug on its own (we've had it in storage for several years and seemed wasteful not to use it) but I had put together this room around a "greige" sort of color scheme with another rug that I had to get rid of.