We are planning to redecorate our living room next week. Plan to skim the wall first as the previous owners did a bad job of painting magnolia over old wall paper and borders and it's left the walls in a rubbish condition. I'm really unsure what colour paint to do.
We don't have a focal wall as it's an L shape room and no fire place. We have oak furniture including a nice sideboard on the long wall with a mirror as a bit of a feature and to break the wall up. A desk area in the small section at the top of the room. A 3 seater settee and chair from Ikea in interchangeable covers either red or black depending on what's clean! A black ikea poang chair in oak and black leather. accessories are black and glass/silver table lamps, red rug and sand coloured curtains on silver pole (not planning on changing as they are quite new) and small oak lamp table and matching coffee table. We are also planning on changing the very dirty light beige carpet to a darker more family friendly grey/beige colour.
I don't think the room can take another colour so it looks like using another neutral colour but it feels a bit boring? Our kitchen has similar colours and is painted in cotton white, which is an off white colour but I'm not sure if that's a bit bright for a living room.
I've attached a few old pics to show you. Ignore any medical equipment as we don't have that anymore.






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