
It’s the Marmite of interior design. Brown: you either love it or hate it. It’s either cosy and comforting, like hot chocolate. Or it’s deeply drab and depressing, like office carpets.
Brown living room ideas and other room ideas can be so divisive that fifty per cent of subjects in a 2020 study by a team of experimental psychologists, Feeling Blue or Seeing Red?, (Domicele Jonauskaite et al), chose the emotional response ‘Disgust’ when shown a brown colour stimulus.