What color walls with grey couch?

[bunch]

I'm in the same boat and have been obsessing about it. I think I'm going to go with a really pale blue with grayish undertones, but I also like yellow. I'd consider it if I wasn't going to use it as an accent color other places in the house. I'm leaning toward SW rain washed camilleroskelley.typepad.com/simplify/2012/04/the-house-house.html

[ssmjlm]

I think with the brick wall, I would go light on the walls, some sort of white. Then pull in the yellow with the rug and other accessories.

[grey56]

We have a grey sofa and our walls are Silver Drop by Behr. It's a little too light IMO. The next color down is Dolphin Fin. I really like grey in general. I like adding in color elsewhere. Currently our living room has accents of yellow and teal. So overall it's grey, yellow, and teal in a 60/30/10 ratio.

[sratsey]

What color is the brick? I love the idea of a gray sofa against a yellow wall.

[Blueper]

With the color of the brick and floor, I would do a sage green or light greige.

[OG Jo]

Mar 4, 2013 9:56:44 GMT -5 grey56 said:

We have a grey sofa and our walls are Silver Drop by Behr. It's a little too light IMO. The next color down is Dolphin Fin. I really like grey in general. I like adding in color elsewhere. Currently our living room has accents of yellow and teal. So overall it's grey, yellow, and teal in a 60/30/10 ratio.

Just a head's up.  I have both Silver Drop and Dolphin Fin in my house and both read really blue to me, not a true gray...

[sillygoosegirl]

We did an olive green in our family room next to a brick wall, and I think they look really good together. It's kind of dark, but that's the room where we're gonna have our projector, so we were going for dark.

Then we moved the couch back in and discovered it's almost the same color green. Oops.

Can I PIP from an iPhone? If someone can tell me how, I'll do it.

[sillygoosegirl]

Mar 4, 2013 13:35:43 GMT -5 littlespitfire said:

Mar 4, 2013 13:26:09 GMT -5 Blueper said:

With the color of the brick and floor, I would do a sage green or light greige.

I associate sage green with the 90's - thoughts on that?

So what?

[downtoearth]

I'd still go lighter grey/greige on the walls and then add color with paintings and accessories to tie that warm brick into the sofa. I think it would look great.

I like this pallette (gray, white, turquoise) for a room and you could model your paint colors after this:


I also think you could go with a creamy, light yellow wall color b/c gray goes well with yellow also and if your brick has more red tones, then the cream would look good. Like these colors together:

[ssmjlm]

I think I would still go light light gray, almost white. I think yellow could be difficult with the floors and doesn't the new house have wood trim? I just think it could read wrong in such a large space.

As for sage green, NMS for living areas. I did a gray/green in our hall bath, but I couldn't do a large room with it.

[Blueper]

Mar 4, 2013 13:35:43 GMT -5 littlespitfire said:

Mar 4, 2013 13:26:09 GMT -5 Blueper said:

With the color of the brick and floor, I would do a sage green or light greige.

I associate sage green with the 90's - thoughts on that?

I suppose that my thoughts would be that I myself associate hunter green with the 90's, not sage.  This is a color that I was thinking would look good www.houzz.com/georgian-green

[bunch]

I also find sage dated. Add a little blue or yellow and I'm fine, but true sage is definitely 90s to me.