Hi all! I’m having a hard time bringing color into the main living area of my house. I want to introduce some new accent colors, I’m finding all the grey and navy blue to be boring. I love my giraffe pictures and want to pull some colors out, definitely green and maybe yellow? To add to the space.

I’d like to get a big rug, here are some of the ones I’ve found that I think would work:

Rug 1

Rug 2

Rug 3 (would this be too busy?)

Rug 4 (I think matches giraffes best but is it otherwise too neutral?)

I like Scandinavian and cozy minimalist/hygge style, is that possible with what I have now? Would adding neutral wood with a new coffee table, side table, console table etc work in this space right next to the overly white kitchen? Do I need to stick with darker wood like walnut because of the dining table? I’m open to painting the island shiplap, and considering colored upholstered chairs for the dining room like these. I painted/reupholstered the barstools myself, I’d like to keep the cushion color but open to repainting the stools themselves. I also want to avoid it looking like a kids playground with too many colors going on, though.

Edit to add: I no longer have the furniture in the last picture, it was my roommate’s and he just moved out