Depends on the flooring/rug...feel there should be a contrast.

Anything but a neutral- I recently had to replace my family room sofa. It took forever to find something in stock that was not a beige color. It is a dark red leather. Surprisingly (or not ) my living room sofa in our vacation house is a deep red leather also! The red picks up a color from the orientalist rug .

Medium brown distressed leather because it's the largest thing in the room and everything else is colorful.

I'm picking a midtone leather that is close to the color of our hardwood floors. The rug is a red oriental and the walls are off-white with a red brick fireplace. Denim blue would have worked but I wanted to limit the palette to off-white, mid brown and brick red with accents of denim in pillows and throws.

Life is too short for drab, boring and just like everybody else has.

Jewel tones! Sapphire, ruby, emerald, gold....something to catch my eye and add depth and richness.

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We own a mid-century slab ranch in Saint Petersburg.  I like minimal decorating.  I chose a tobacco leather Natuzzi sectional with Acacia wood flooring. Easier to keep neat and clean.

Where can you find any new sofa? Some retailers say orders will take 4 to 6 months but may take up to a year. I think I would take any color except black at this point.

I ordered the sectional online from Sofas and Sectionals.  Scared silly with spending alot and not even  being able to sit in it - but they were awesome!  I ordered in February, 2021 and I was told it would be a wait for the delivery.  I was willing to wait.  It was delivered in August and I couldnt be happier.  The leather is supreme and its such a comfortable couch.

Cognac leather. I read here a while ago about the classic "brown sofa" and decided to switch out my beige one for cognac leather. I love the new one!

IMO a color palette is something decided on when you decide what style you like . If Boho is your style you will probably have more color than I do for instance where my art is the color and the rest is very light and airy . Not sure what you were hoping for with this poll but really it depends on so many things it is hard to choose one This is my LR if that helps

Erika, I have solid backs on my sofas so they don't squish like loose cushions do. But I have the same challenge you do--in triplicate.

I have always had tan sofas. Next time, I’m going for a color (in velvet). A few inspiration pictures I’ve had saved a while:

I usually think of light and neutral as a little dull, but then I watched a tour of Kendall Jenner's house. The furniture and carpeting are beige, brown, and cream but then her designers punched up the decor with large, colorful art.

My sofas are emerald velvet. I love them as my home is built around white and emerald, though most greens are welcome. I'll never go back to neutral furniture, though with all the good performance fabrics--I have three black cats--I might do white or a sophisticated pattern with whites and greens.

I like the ocean & have a teal velvet accent chair in addition to 2 grey velvet chairs in my south facing livingroom here in Chilliwack BC. I pick colours which I like & make me happy. (Throws for the cat of course).

Thats a really pretty sofa 51louise.

I am leaning toward terracotta for a new sectional, and pairing it with light neutrals including some caramel tones. I plan on picking the colors out of a rug that I have seen...

Erika, I like the little one decorating your couch.

Pretty

Warm, welcoming caramel colored leather.

I prefer a leather couch.  Red, green, caramel colored, tobacco brown......you name it.  This is our den.  I'd love to have a Chesterfield but the room is only big enough for a loveseat.  Judy W.  and I have the same coffee table.  If only I could get the darn thing to work.

Beige - warm tones so relaxing

Unless it's a truly distinctive design, it shouldn't be the focus of the room - the art is more important. Neutral allows a pop of color in the throw pillows, which can change seasonally.

Canorton824 I have had that clock coffee table that I bought up in Ohio in 2003.  I have moved  it 3 times and it was stored inside storage for a year.  Its 18 years old and keeps perfect time.  I love it still! Does it not work at all? Can you hear the movement trying to tick? A little WD40?  I use that on everything..lol

I have three dogs, dark sofa is all i would ever consider, ad it has to be leather

I like to accent with color and stick to the darker neutral colors that wont show the wear of kids and pets.

Light and neutral - a good sofa is a big investment and also usually the largest piece of furniture in the room. Tastes change, people move, but usually need to take the sofa with them. Put color and new designs in everything else. A light colored sofa will work with everything, especially a darker room. With new modern fabrics or leathers they hold for years and with kids and dogs (I know).

I like a neutral sofa, that I can change up with pillows & throws.

I am going to reupholster this, in a neutral chenille or boucle fabric... a textural performance fabric, but light coloured. Then I will have some throw pillows made in patterned and coloured fabrics to pick up from a Persian rug..

I like many colors for furniture, so long as it is not white.

I have never understood why anyone would want white furniture. The effort in keeping it pristine would erase any pleasure in having it in my house, no matter how beautiful it might be.

With the new performance fabrics that isn't quite the problem any more. Unless, I guess, you have children who like to take their open-faced peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich onto the sofa.

• My preference would be white leather...real leather ...or white linen in an expansive sunlit space with white plastered walls and limestone floors, overlooking the sparkling turquoise Mediterranean! But what I have (currently "in progress") in the tiny cabin that I share with my sister in the deep woods of East Texas is deep gun metal/dark pewter gray linen on the love seat with a pewter gray and creamy white stripe poplin on 2 armchairs. Accents are touches of "sea-foam blue," lime, black and white with lots of bright color in the artwork on the walls...and more color from lots of books on bookshelves. With all of the color from artwork and books, the "base" needs to remain visually quiet...especially in a space as small as the one I actually live in! My point is, as several others have pointed out, choices in color may need to be adapted to fit the environment within which one has to actually function.

Color! My world is very limited because of my disabilities, so when I am not sleeping, I am likely in the family room. One day I thought that what I needed to brighten this windowless world with just a 5 ft door wall was an orange sofa. Off we went to Macy’s where we actually found one. Plus, it sits at 20 inches high for the seat. It was an orange terra cotta. Hubby got a recliner, next. I chose tangerine for it. Then a MCM 1950’s side chair charmed us and I chose a color somewhere between a dark muskmelon and creamsicle. The woven basket that holds dog toys has an orange thread in it. Our Marmoleum is a swirly mix of taupe, cream, and terra cotta. The rugs in front of my chair and the door wall are dark orange, yellow and taupe with bright blue parrots. Unfortunately, I needed to get a lift chair recently. Given that it takes at least six months to get a custom upholstery chair these days, I was stuck with taupe. The big surreal print on the wall is turquoise, grass green, and gold. Walls are a light green that was named “lettuce,” but I may paint a turquoise next time. The full wall of brown brick came with the house and used to suck all the energy out of the room, but not now! I need to get motivated to make the throw pillows whose fabric is in my craft room. Main one is an creamy background with a woven MCM pattern with yellows, orange, and taupe threads. Secondary fabric is a very colorful floral fabric that has some of the same colors as the lamp I inherited from my great aunt, the ceramics master teacher. It has raised petals and leaves in creamsicle, yellow and blues on a dark green field. Color everywhere brightens my day!

Dear Nancy in Mich, Wow! That sounds amazing!

I would tire of a sofa that was anything other than neutral in color. With a neutral sofa you can change out your color with accent pillows and throws on a whim. You have infinite flexibility with area rugs as well. I lived single most of my life and later married a man with grown children and no pets so my cream colored couches are not a problem.

I agree with keeping most of LR furniture unless you have an exquisite colored sofa. Really, art can give you plenty of color.

Warm beige, cream and browns with sunkissed yellow accents

Depends on the comfort. Must be casual and verrry comfy!

Light and neutral. I wish I could say colorful but I'm too financially practical. If I'm going to live with the big expense of a couch for a long time, its easier to change out pillows and throws as others have pointed out. (That being said, I took a risk and did a spring green sectional in our basement/playroom 15 years ago when my kids were little and I still love it!)

I prefer more light and neutral palette. I'm more kinda a nordic style lover of my home decor and furniture.

I have 2 leather couches and a leather loveseat — blue, brown and maple (lighter brown). I couldn’t live in a gray/white house as is the style now, that’s so boring.

Here's my sofa.

This is the palette for my new great room. The neutral chenille is for the couch, the terracotta kind of textural fabric is for the chair. Both have teak on them. My kitchen cabinets are going to be the teak, wall colour, FB lime white, the suede will be on bar stools and dining chairs. Terracotta throw pillows on the couch in both the chair fabric and the diamond pattern. There is also a sample of the quartz..Flooring is on the bottom.

We are in Florida and entertain family and friends often. The large dark gray sectional and chair and a half, are perfect for a group to enjoy without concerns of soiling or wear and tear.

Neutral colors are easier to work around and find other decor pieces to mix and match with.

I tend to prefer warmer neutrals with colours in accents like side chairs, extra pillows... that being said, I do have a Scan Designs turquiose blue sectional in my family room, paired with an oriental rug that is a warm mix with touches of blue in it. I also have painted the majority of our house in Farrow and Ball Lime White. It's also a warm neutral. I don't enjoy the proliferation of grey and stark white everything, that seems to be everywhere these days. It's too sterile for me..