The Best Colored Pillow to Go With Tan Couch

Warm And Cool Shades

• To choose pillows in the color that will best reflect the mood you're hoping to achieve in a room, you need to understand the difference between warm and cool shades. Warm colors are exciting, tend to stimulate people and add vitality to a room. Warm colors include red, yellow and orange. Cool colors are considered calm, serene and tranquil and include green, blue and violet.

A Mixture Of Colors

• Normally, when you're looking for a complementary color, you would use a color wheel, locating the color directly across from tan on the wheel. What makes tan different is that it's created by mixing red, blue and yellow. Because all three primary colors are at its base, tan is unusually easy to coordinate with. For instance, violet is made of red and blue. Because tan also contains red and blue, the two colors work perfectly together. Orange contains red and yellow, meaning that it also works well with tan. In fact, you may find that the challenge is finding a color that doesn't work with tan.

Monochromatic

• If you're looking for a more subtle, sophisticated decor, consider creating a monochromatic look with your tan couch and pillows. You create a monochromatic look by using varying shades of the same color. In this case, the couch is tan so the pillows also would be varying shades of tan, both darker and lighter.

Other Neutrals

• Like tan, there are other colors that work with virtually every shade. Any shade of brown, white or black will coordinate with your tan couch.