Anna's comment below certainly rings true here: "Despite all of the decorating advice about neutrals being timeless—to me beige, taupe, and brown just seem blah and boring."

These chairs and couches look like dusty, orphaned bits of blah.

As a self-professed furniture junkie, I live in fear that this is what my living room might become if I ever let my guard down. ;)

Ah, but anne/anna--

Just look at how the white items jump out! And just imagine how quickly (and cheaply) you could change this landscape with just ONE brightly colored or highly-patterned pillow!

(but I'll give you "dusty")

I just keep wanting to back one of those beige sofas up against an aubergine wall... it's obvious, it's hackneyed,* but it works.

*As opposed to backing it against a turquoise wall, which would be Hockneyed.

For a non-figurative work, there's something kind of sexy going on in this photograph. I can't quite put my finger on it, but that was my first-glance impression.

Oddly, my first response was "where's a good book when I need one?"

Chair orgy.

It looks like a 12-step meeeting for scruffy furniture.

It's the Shabby Chic home theater!

Patrick (the other one), your valiant defense of neutrals, white and brown as a way to set off small color statements is giving me the courage to soldier on with my current living-room overhaul in the face all this enthusiasm for wild color from AT. Thank you.

Chair orgy, 12-step meeting, Shabby Chic home theatre....I love this site!

Now that it's a chair orgy, this photo is becoming my favorite one of the lot.

TAILORED SLIPCOVERS, your choice of fabric, color, and print.

Yikes. If this is a chair orgy it's the realistic kind featuring average flabby suburban swingers.

This picture keeps scaring me every time I pull up AT, hoping for a new post.

Outstanding photo! The monotone colors pull your eye toward the forms of the nondescript furnishings.

Bravo...Annie

This is one of the photos where the comments made me like it more.

The moment I saw this, I thought "What a great collection of creams, ecrus, beiges, etc."

My color palate - for calmness, serenity etc.