How to Decorate With a Green Sofa

As the foundation of your living room, your green sofa reflects a modern color spectrum full of fresh green tones like celadon, mojito and limon that evoke serenity and restfulness. Decorating with accessories that highlight and harmonize with the green in your sofa will provide the finishing touch, giving the room your signature. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

Nature's Palette

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Study a color wheel, an interior decorator's most important tool. For example, complimentary colors are opposite on the color wheel; remember the expression "opposites attract" when selecting your accessories. Red, opposite the color wheel from green, is a good choice to accent a green sofa. If red is not an option, pick neutral beiges. Other color schemes can include adjacent or triadic colors or varying shades of green.

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Sketch out a floor plan of the living room to determine the best location for the green sofa.

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Add a patterned area rug with splashes of reds and beiges to add "pop" to the living room and complement the sofa.

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Add other furniture. Green and maroon plaid or print chairs are safe bets. Consider coffee and end tables, and, if the room is large, a sofa table.

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Add final touches, such as coordinating throw blankets and pillows in neutral colors and reds for the sofa. Coordinating lamps, wall art, candles and picture frames that pick up on the reds, greens and beiges in the room give the room a polished look, suggesting that a professional decorator accomplished the room's design.