A good mid century sofa doesn’t need a lot of help, just the right company. These 5 rooms show what happens when a rich-colored couch gets a curved coffee table to push against, and every one is easy to borrow from.
5 Mid Century Sofa Styling Ideas With Rich Color and Curved Coffee Tables
Mid century is the clean-lined, wood-heavy look from the 1950s and 60s, and it still works because the shapes are simple. The sofas here run from olive velvet to cognac leather to dusty blue, so the color does the talking.
What ties them together is the table out front. A thick slab of knotty wood, oval marble, kidney-shaped glass, a cloud-shaped wood top, a round tray: each one adds a soft edge to balance the sofa. Here’s how each room pulls it off.
Make Olive Velvet Feel Warm, Not Heavy
Olive velvet and a thick slab of burl wood, the knotty, swirly kind cut from a lump on a tree trunk, make this room feel collected over time. The sofa’s rounded arms and the chairs’ curved wooden slat arms all point the same way, so the dark colors stay calm. The woven jute rug breaks up the dark wood floor, which is what keeps all that olive from feeling heavy.
Keep a Big Sectional From Feeling Boxy
Slide an oval table in front of a sectional this big and the corner stops feeling boxy. The black marble top gives you a curved edge to walk around, and the wood tray holds the flowers, the candle, and a small green box. That green repeats the emerald velvet pillows, which is what makes the sofa and table read as a pair.
Sage Green Calms Down Loud Red
Why do hot reds and oranges work next to sage green? Sage is quiet, so it lets everything else do the talking. Here the warm color repeats at three heights: pillows on the couch, a lamp at eye level, a paper lantern overhead. The glass top on the kidney-shaped table lets the rug show through, and these green velvet sofa ideas cover more shades if green’s your pick.
Match Your Rug to a Curved Sofa
A square rug would fight this sofa, and a round one follows its curve. The rug here layers circles of rust and mustard stripes, with the cloud-shaped wood table sitting right on top of it. Dusty blue-gray velvet calms all that warm color, and the mustard cushions along the back pick it up. These blue living room ideas show how far blue can go.
One Color Family Keeps Patterns Calm
Stripes, a grid, diamonds, and a zigzag share this couch and none of them fight, because the blues and grays stay in one cool family. The warm wood base under the cushions repeats in the legs of the round gray tray table, and a short stack of books plus one white bowl is all that table needs.
