This sounds like a lot of dark. As a proud mud puppy mom (photo included because, well...), I'd encourage you to think about adding easy to clean fabrics in a lighter color. Maybe a white leather ottoman to complement the white pillows you're planning to add? Or something made from a performance fabric, like the stuff Sunbrella makes? We've had a light grey couch for awhile that is a not-so-resilient IKEA fabric, but it's machine washable. That's another direction to go in for a fabric ottoman.

I would encourage you to think lighter for the rug, too. We have a light grey, cream, and taupe rug with a lot of irregularity and variety to it, kind of likethis one, but we bought it for a lower price several years ago at HomeGoods. It has survived multiple moves, a renovation, and potty training and it's still nice enough to go into a formal living room space. It looks modern and adds a lightness to the room.

Follow up: the rug I included came up when I did a search for modern industrial area rug. You could also look at distressed area rugs.

IMO the sectional is a bad choice for seating if at all possible change it to a sofa and 2 chairs. get a ruggable rug to be able to wash it and the dog needs to have feet wiped before entry . As for the rest those things are decided after move in and large pieces are in place. All that dark with no relief will not be a pleasant space to be in. Pillows are the last choice and wall color not until all pieces are in the room.

@Kate Hip first of all, adorable dog!

Something I probably should have added is that this room is pretty bright with a lot of natural light. It’s open on one side to our basically all-white kitchen, another wall is almost fully taken up by two big windows and floor to ceiling fireplace paneling that will be white, and there’s 3 other good size windows in the room. The previous owners had some big, heavy, dark furniture (with a darker wall and fireplace color) that still didn‘t overwhelm the space.

I love the idea of a white ottoman, I guess I just struggled to find anything that looked like a good fit. I also wasn’t sure how It would look with the leather couch as well if it didn’t match

@Patricia Colwell Consulting thanks for responding - but you lost me a little. We plan to have professional painters in before we move in, so doing the wall color after we buy everything isn’t really an option, but the colors we’re looking at are pretty light, even more so with the white/natural light in the room(see my last comment on all this).

Also - why is the sectional a bad choice? To me the sofa and chairs seems like a more traditional/formal set up, when we prefer a more lounge/laid-back feel for our main hang out space. We do have a white accent chair that will probably end up in here (I’d forgotten about it since it’s currently being used as a desk chair while we’re both working from home because 2020) but we want to be able to hang out and relax on our couch, and the sectional is a better fit for that.

@auntthelma ah, that makes sense :) yes this house will have two, one is a narrower room that connects a few others, making it more of a pass through space so it’s definitely a sofa in there, but for this room we want to maximize that cozy/comfort space with a sectional.

I‘m open to the nesting tables - if we went with the bigger ottoman coffee table I was thinking of getting nesting C-tables if we needed some additional surface space

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