How to Decorate around a Classic Red-coloured Furniture

Having a red sofa in your living room is a classic way of adding style and colour to the room. Red is a bold and rich colour. When going for a red sofa, all eyes will be drawn to it as it will be a powerful focal point. A signature item.

If you want to create a classical look for your living room with a red sofa, we suggest that you go for a sofa with old-world vibes to it. We are talking baroque upholstery, intaglio carvings on the wood accents, ball or claw feet, and all that. Today we’ll have a look at how a room can be decorated around classic Italian red furniture.

Let’s talk about the rugs. Most rooms with this much red will have Oriental rugs to make it more classic. We love the diversion the designers took when placing the classic red furniture in these rooms. Atop the rug stands a classic cabriole-legged marble table with golden accents.

You will notice the table and plant stands have cabriole legs while the sofas have ball-or-claw-feet legs. This luxury Italian wingback sofa has arms smoothly rolled to add a shapely and stout appeal. It gives unparalleled comfort thanks to the heavy cushions and thick back.

What tells us this space belongs to an opulent persona is the golden brilliance on the furniture. It is clear they’re after a traditional Italian look.

If you have a space with no windows though, you can put a classic glass table in place of the traditional marble table to create the illusion of a large space. In a room full of classic furniture, don’t make the mistake of adding contemporary furniture, and vice versa.

If you look at the bedroom, you will notice the classical golden bed with red as the main upholstery colour. The golden accents extend from the bed to the dressing table and chair, the two bedside tables and plant stands.

The red tufted end-of-bed bench has a multipurpose appeal to it. Such benches cannot only be used for decorative purposes but also for storage purposes.

Adding gold to a red space tones down the bad effects of red on people’s moods so we love how inviting this bedroom is.

In the bedroom you will notice the room has gold as the main colour and red as the accent. On the other hand, the living room has red as the main colour and gold as the accent. All for a reason.

When selecting curtains for a room with classic red furniture, use velvet-red drapes to add a posh and intriguing ambiance that’ll look even more brilliant with golden hues of lights from the chandeliers and lampshades.

Here is the thing about having red furniture: Make sure you genuinely love the colour. Don’t buy expensive classic red furniture because you saw inviting images of it on Pinterest, Instead, ask yourself: Have I always loved red? Will I be happy waking up to a red room everyday? If the answer to this is no, then, no, you can’t buy red furniture.