Dark Brown Leather Couch: Coffee Tables, Pillows and Armchairs That Work
You’re standing in the delivery guy’s way while he waits for you to sign off on this dark brown leather couch that just got carried up three flights of stairs,…
Pillows for a Cream Sofa That Add Interest Without Adding Stress
I used to tell people to keep pillows on a cream sofa strictly neutral. Cream, white, maybe a very apologetic beige, nothing that could stain, nothing that could clash, nothing…
Dark Brown Sofas Deserve a Second Look
I spent about four years telling clients dark brown was a mistake. Told them it ate light, made small rooms feel like a dentist’s waiting room from 1997, and that…
Gray Sofa in a Sunny Living Room: Pillows That Hold Up in Daylight
You’re standing in the sofa section with a pillow in each hand, the light through your actual living room window nothing like the light in the showroom, and you have…
Gray Couch Bought, Now Comes the Hard Part: Everything Around It
“Gray goes with everything, you can’t get it wrong.” That’s what the guy at the furniture store told me when I bought my sofa, standing there with his hands in…
Brown Sofas Are Making a Quiet Return: How to Style One Now
A woman at the fabric counter, maybe thirty years old, tanned the way people who ski a lot are tanned, told me brown sofas were “having a moment.” She said…
Living With a Brown Leather Sofa: What Sits Well Around It
My roommate had literally just set a mug of tea directly on the arm of my brown leather sofa, no coaster, nothing, and before I could even get the words…
Beige Sofas Arent Boring, Theyre Just Under Styled
I saw a beige sofa once that made me want to apologize to it on behalf of whoever bought it. Flat, low pile, the exact same tone as the wall…
Thinking About a Blue Sofa? Here Is What Goes With It
There’s a specific moment this question stops being interesting and starts being urgent, and it’s not in the showroom. It’s the moment the delivery guys have gone, the plastic wrap…
Where a Dark Gray Sofa Fits Best in a Living Room
“Dark gray goes with everything” is the kind of sentence that sounds true right up until you’ve actually put one in a room with north facing windows and a radiator…