Emily I dream of a clean house like yours

We have the real oak flooring downstaires, it's great and honestly the dogs don't slip about on it too much as they would on laminate, it gets scratched etc but it just makes it look older, to match the house .

When we first got the house we did the living room very cream and brown (with a plum settee lol) so I painted the fireplace wall a lovely shade of bright red and bought a stripy rug from Ikea, and have still got the plum settee! We have dark curtains and the room gets reaaalllly cosy, everybody always comments on this. I love colours, my kitchen has a lovely dark bluey/grey wall! We just wish we had a log burner Ah well, something to look forward to in the next house.

Can only find this pic, it looks pretty dull though, but at least it looks half clean, it's not usually , and the rug is actually quite a bit brighter than it looks here


This shows the colour of the wall better (at Christmas!)

Oh my I am IN LOVE with your living room!!!! at my dads house we happen to have your coffee table too

Hmmmm, I think no quite honestly, coz the mellow mocha has a bit of a pinkish tinge (not chavvy pink!), coz I didn't like the yellow type creams, I wanted more of an oatmeal cream, and when you've got so much of it like I have, you actually notice that pinkish hue if you catch my drift?
Here's my lounge with it:


The wall behind the black chair on the right, is more like the actual colour in real life, as it looks a bit grey elswhere and it's not! The walls next to the window are the Simply Pearl, which goes fantastic with Mellow Mocha, it's part of the same colour scheme.

Sorry Pidge for hijacking the thread, its just cause i saw helena had mellow mocha just wanted to know what it is really like


Old pic, Zena just been speyed, but it's the only one I could find of that other end of the lounge!

I chose it because all these colours go fantastic with the colour of that carpet, and it isn't really as "grey" as it looks, it's more the actual colour of that carpet there.

If you went for a really pale duck egg blue, I would think it would go with it, but if you went for an in yer face duck egg blue then it wouldn't! What I'm trying to say is, if you went actually lighter with the blue, than this mocha colour, it could actually go nicely?

If you look at the "Dogsey" colour, the paler shade around these post boxes, it's very much like that, the little pale strip around the white box, not the larger outside strip lol! I'm rabbiting a bit here, but my finger's better and I can type again!!!

Emily I dream of a clean house like yours

We have the real oak flooring downstaires, it's great and honestly the dogs don't slip about on it too much as they would on laminate, it gets scratched etc but it just makes it look older, to match the house .

When we first got the house we did the living room very cream and brown (with a plum settee lol) so I painted the fireplace wall a lovely shade of bright red and bought a stripy rug from Ikea, and have still got the plum settee! We have dark curtains and the room gets reaaalllly cosy, everybody always comments on this. I love colours, my kitchen has a lovely dark bluey/grey wall! We just wish we had a log burner Ah well, something to look forward to in the next house.

Can only find this pic, it looks pretty dull though, but at least it looks half clean, it's not usually , and the rug is actually quite a bit brighter than it looks here


This shows the colour of the wall better (at Christmas!)

Thanks Helena so much for being honest and very descriptive lol...chavvy pink , i think i knew it kinda wouldnt go, i really thought it was a kind of grey but as you said its not, it looks so nice in your house and gives me a better idea of the colour.
I fell in love with this blue http://www.crownpaint.co.uk/colour/7...c-duck-egg.htm and i dont know what to go with it, with white furniture, come to think of it the link ive posted is quite helpful at picking colours away to play


Sorry Pidge for hijacking your thread, it was just cause i saw the mellow mocha i thought i'd ask :grin:

I will hold my hands up i was one who thought it would be SMALL.I amazed when i first went into Steph home!!!!!!! Its amazing i love it.

Im trying to get her to foster me so i can live there with my little un!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!