Please help with choice of chair upholstery and whatever else!
Hi all! My daughter is embarking on a long-term lounge revamp. She has bought the 2 Apollo(?) chairs and is having them recovered. Any ideas - leather has been mooted?
She is fond of the duck egg couch - but everything else is up for change. The striped chair will be going elsewhere. So advice on the chairs - and more broadly the whole room, please. The room is a bit dark. My contribution - the curtains must go!!! The
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Comments (15)I am frustrated that I can't get an accurate color for the pictures of the fabric samples I have. Every picture I take washes out the colors. Outsideplaying, I have samples in both green and the gold/ brown you have suggested. They seem to work well with my rug. I also have a bold stripe that might work for an accent piece. If I go with a fabric as opposed to leather what combination of sofa, love seat or chairs would you use and what combination of colors and patterns would make for an interesting room.Should I stick with the roll arm sofa style in my previous post or would a different style work better. Here is one of my stripe fabric sample .....again the color is not accurate but I'm wondering if the scale of pattern will work in the room. The colors in the fabric sample match perfectly with with my rug. Both the rug and the sample have chocolate browns, bronzes and rust colors in addition to the gray green and black. I may switch to a different camera to see if that makes a difference....See MoreHelp please - product to - spot dry cleaning upholstery?
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Well to start with the the book shelf is underperforming its duty as a statement piece in the room. Its a bit pedestrian and way under scale.Not sure of your seating needs but there is too much furniture in the room with the 2 sofas.
If the room is not too narrow I woud put a narrow sofa table to pull the sofa off the wall.
I'd move the rug further out from the sofa.Hopefully the two chairs are being upholstered in a contempory orange contrasting color.
This room needs no more Robins egg blue.
The curtains woud be nice in a wide 2 color striped textile hanging vertically,
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using a large gromet in a flat nickel finish. Restoration Hardware....
There is nothing archectural about the room, it would be helped by some wide window casings and beefier base and crown Mouldings (see fireplace image)
Some other paint suggestions
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