What colours go with dark brown /chocolate brown?

I like pale blue with chocolate brown for interior decorating. Greens/oranges/autumnal colours look nice together I suppose it depends on whether you are going for a more traditional interior or something modern?

Depends on the look you're after-

funky- bright pink, turquoise, orange

otherwise- cream, biscuit, caramel, toffee, mint green

Personally, I've got quite a good eye for colours, but something that I find very helpful is to select a load of the strips from the dulux paint mixing section. Either put them next to your sofa to see how the colours go or find one which is the same colour as your sofa and use that for your comparison (always good for if you're trying to match soft furnishings etc and you can always keep the colour sample in your bag where you can't lug your sofa around!!)

Also worth having a play on the paint manufacturers sites, they usually have little interior styles where you can try the colours out or they suggest ones that go together.

Personally, our colour scheme in our living room is of the biscuit, chocolate brown, caramel scheme and our walls are either faded gold or antique gold by Laura Ashley (I think they're faded gold).

It depends what sort of look you're going for really. Lots and lots of colours go with brown. You could have anything from hot pink or lime green through to teal, right down to creams, or indeed a mix of shades.

What's on the floor? Do you want to paint/wallpaper the wall(s) or just introduce colour through accessories and whatnot?

How did the move from your house go? it'll be so exciting getting into a new place, it seems like only a couple of weeks ago you were talking about looking around showhouses

Are you thinking of painting the walls or do you need advice on colours for accessories?

If you are thinking of painting the walls I wouldn't go any darker than this as it will make a room seem smaller https://furniturefromhome.com/images/store/18563-38-35-t179-sd/760x600/image.jpg

Personally I'd go for cream walls and then use pale greens and a hint of pale pink on accessories. I did a design like this for someone last year and it turned out fab. Very bright, fresh and modern.

Baby pink, fuschia pink, turquoise.

We have 3 cream walls, the main wall is olive green and then we have a chocolate brown corner sofa. Works well.

We have dark walnut flooring, antique brown leather sofas, cuban red chimney breasts & curtains then the rest of the room is painted a mushroom / grey colour. Accessories vary in lots of reds, browns and oranges.

We have dark brown sofas, pale beige carpet (nightmare to keep clean) and pale green walls. It took ages to find the right green, we went through about 10 tester pots before we found the right one. It's a fairly 'warm' green (more yellow than blue in it), and I love it.

I used to love dark brown and pale or duck-egg blue, but H says that's passe now...

We have gone for an apple green colour, but also considered burnt orange, pale blue and turquoise.

We are in the same boat at the moment. Our new house is cream walls and carpets througout so I'm having a ball choosing the furniture and accesories. Our new couch will be a mid brown fabric one and we are accesorising with olive green and dark brown for a warm comfortable cosy living room!

Have you got any pics?

Thanks everyone. I think I am looking just for accessories as husband doesnt want the faff of painting the walls but I might get him to do one wall after we have moved in.

We havent decided on flooring yet. It will either be beige carpet or wooden flooring but not sure on the colour.

I want modern but nothing too bright or girlie. We are having a black/white bedroom with splashes of fushia pink in there so would prefer to leave the pink out of the living room.

Have listed down your suggestions and will go and hunt down a Dulex chart and go from there.

No pics yet but will get some done.

Thanks again everyone appreciate it.

We've got red as our accent colour

I agree with jelly baby by using red as accent color. I see a lot of designs using that combination. You can also check out more interior design ideas for color schemes/combination at the school for interior design. Good luck!

You sound like me, we have just moved to a brand new house too, hating the magnolia walls!

How brown is your suite? the reason i ask is because we have a very very dark brown suite ( looks black) and we have got one rasberry wall (rest magnolia) and then dark ebony coloured furniture / accessories with chrome.

Or maybe teal / duck egg blue ( we have chocoltae brown and teal in our bedroom)

Hope this helps

Jan

I like duck egg blue or turquoisey colours with dark brown. or you could go down the rusts with burnt orange, deep red etc or keep it to creams, coffees and browns