Living Room Design Ideas for Beige & Brown With an Accent Color

Foyers

• Foyers offer your guests their first glimpse into your private world. A foyer dressed in brown and beige with accents of pink exudes feelings of earthiness as well as softness and sophistication. Start by putting up a rich chocolate brown wallpaper with light beige stripes or circles. Lay down decorative stone on the floor. Select stone that's light pink, brown and beige. Paint the tops of the foyer stairs brown and the sides of the stairs pink. Look for a pink throw rug. Flank it with tall floor lamps with light pink shades, beige trim and brown support poles.

Cobalt Blue

• For those who love country styles such as French country, brown and beige along with a deep cobalt blue will bring the feeling of countryside decorating into your home. Start by creating a cobalt blue focal wall. Choose the wall based on its eye-catching potential, such as an old fireplace. Add rustic tiles around the mouth of the fireplace; choose tiles with blue, brown and beige patterns. Paint the other walls in the room beige. Hang a tapestry on the focal wall; look for one that features browns and beiges as the primary colors. Position a large item such as a chocolate brown couch in front of your focal wall. Add throw pillows with patterns such as fleur-de-lis or paisley. Choose pillows that feature all three of your colors, cobalt blue, brown and beige.

Zen

• Brown and beige when paired with shades of green will help you create a tranquil Zen-style room. Paint a concrete or old wood floor beige and add patterns of green bamboo leaves with brown stalks. Paint the walls of the room beige and accent them with scrolls of Asian calligraphy done in brown ink. Place jade sculptures on the fireplace mantel. Throw beige bamboo mats on the floor, set up a brown futon in the center and add a low coffee table with large green pillows underneath for sitting.

Rustic

• When it comes to creating a rustic home environment, the colors brown and beige almost always make an appearance. To add life to this decorating motif, add spots of earthy colors such as rust red or mustard yellow. Look for twig furniture and cover the seats of the furniture with pillows of red, brown and beige. Choose large woven wool area rugs featuring these same colors. Hang rough ceramic plaques of Kokopelli dancers in brown and beige. Make them stand out even more by painting the wall red or yellow.