Cream chaise sofa, cane-sided armchair and chestnut coffee table in a warm neutral living room, with blue-line Scribbles artwork and moss cushions.
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ROOM 01 · Living Room

Room to stretch out

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Cream upholstery, chestnut wood and a line of blue

A chaise takes up a fair amount of floor. Here it earns the space: there is somewhere to put your feet up, a chair for company and a clear way past both. The pale upholstery leaves the blue line in the artwork unusually visible.

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THE DESIGN

The sofa is the largest decision in this room. Its long outline needs a substantial table within reach, but another upholstered seat of the same weight would make the group cumbersome. Cane and darker timber give the chair a more open shape.

Above the sofa, Scribbles introduces blue without committing the whole room to it. Moss returns in the cushions. The chestnut table has drawers and an open shelf for the small things that otherwise stay on top; the picture and patterned rug can supply most of the decoration.

WHY THE ROOM WORKS

The furniture leaves room for the people using it.

Colour palette

  • Ivory
  • Oat
  • Warm timber
  • Muted olive
  • Soft stone
01

Scale before accessories

The chaise, table and rug form one clear group. Exposed floor around the rug leaves the room a visible edge and an easy route past the seating.

02

A little colour travels

Moss appears in the cushions and the artwork. The blue line introduces contrast without asking for a blue sofa, rug and curtain to match it.

03

Texture at arm’s reach

Cane, velvet cushions and a woven rug bring variation close to where people sit. The separate Pisang shade softens the light from the Digha floor-lamp base.

WHAT TO BORROW

Judge the sofa, table and walking route together. Then choose the rug that fits that group, rather than asking the furniture to fit a rug bought first.

THE PIECES BEHIND THE DESIGN

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