Since I realized that white walls were never going to work in this room, what color to paint the walls? Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams both have these great tools on their websites that allow you to upload pictures of your room and "paint" them with any color in their lines. I found the BM site would hang if I tried to save my work so I primarily used the tool with Sherwin Williams. I discovered that if my walls were brown and the sofa white, the room looked 100% better.
Fortunately Sherwin Williams sells inexpensive quarts of paint that are meant to be used as samples to help you decide on the color before spending a lot of time and money. From the chips I couldn't decide between Latte or Hopsack so I bought samples of each and painted the back of wall paper to make a final decision. That worked well - I could move the samples around to each wall and see how it looked at different times of day and decided on Hopsack.
I tested the paint sample with a pillow from my white living room sofa just to be sure about the new slipcover too. I had to get in touch with Mitchell Gold to find out where I could order a new slipcover locally - Max & Co. I wanted white, but not bedsheet white. When I went in the store to select the color from the samples, the slipcovers were on sale so that was good news.
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