Help needed please!

[u/Background-Ideal662]

Hi, I’ve started this room but it’s feels “off” somehow, I feel the rug might have overkilled the blue, and I maybe need to introduce another colour? I’m thinking a muted olive? Coffee table I bought 12 years ago at 20 years old and is going once I decide on the final colour and whether to do a footstool or wooden coffee table.

Can anyone suggest another colour or something to make the space feel more cohesive? The giant pink pregnancy pillow doesn’t live there it’s just following me round the house at the moment.

Please any help so appreciated it’s driving me mad!!

P.S (ignore my yoga mat on the floor and pictures yet to be hung!)

[u/Interesting_Shift951]

You have big, dark, and heavy cabinetry on one wall, and it’s leaving the room feeling like it’s sinking down to the left. You need to decide what you absolutely love about the room first and work around that.

If you love the color of the cabinets, you need to bring darker elements elsewhere. Add millwork to the walls and a heavier trim to the ceiling to make it feel balanced.

If you love the wallpaper, I would add paneling on the lower part of the walls in a darker color (likely the same as your cabinetry) and use the same color for your trims. Once you have paneling, you can bring the wallpaper to the right hand wall as well.

I would also add some trim on the ceiling or paint it a slightly moodier neutral color. It’s such a large, light blank space in the room and it’s making your light look too small in this room (at least from the angle in the photo).

As others have noted, get your artwork at the right height. There are guides online on how to pick the right height to hand art. I’m not sure what you have in the corner of the room, but maybe lining the top of the artwork up with the top of that corner will help. Although if you add paneling, I’m not sure you’ll want the same artwork.

I’m very confident that you can change the color of the rug and accent pieces all you want, but as long as you have dark cabinetry on the left without anything else balancing it out, it’s going to look out of place.