How to Decorate Around a Grey Corner Sofa

Everything starts with one question: is your grey warm or cool? Hold plain white paper against the upholstery in daylight and the answer is obvious within seconds. Warm greys lean brown and sit happily with cream, terracotta, tan and oak. Cool greys lean blue and belong with white, navy, sage and black metal. Mixing the two temperatures is what leaves a room looking flat. From there we cover wall colours that avoid the near miss problem of grey on grey, choosing two accent shades and repeating each three times, why timber is the single most effective warming addition, rug sizing under an L shape, warm bulb temperatures for north facing British rooms, how to handle the two walls a corner sofa occupies, and the texture layers that make the difference between a furnished room and a finished one. Used well, grey behaves as a foundation rather than becoming the whole character of the room itself....