What color should my sofa be?

[Lolalovejoy1488303268]

Im coloring a sofa of mine for my house and well i cant think of a color, I have a teak floor and its basicly a glass wall loft.

[Randall Ahren]

I think teak is a dark color, so the sofa should be a contrasting lighter color. How about red, yellow, or orange? If you want to be safe, go with black. However, black leather in a sofa is pretty boring.

[Josh Susanto]

One trick to colors is to take a complex texture you have (the teak), run it negative, reduce it to 1 pixel, and then re-enlarge.

That shouldn't necessarilt be your end color, but it might give you a starting point from which you can decide what's not quite right about it.

Your inverse-teak should probably be some kind of blue green color. If you want something more warm/incandescent, you can try swapping RGB data. I recommend swapping R with B as a first try. 

I actually have a lot of textures that are negatives, but spectrally similar to the original image because I swapped R and B.

 

[Void Singer]

depends on what else you are trying to match it to. "teak" runs from almost burgundy reds to to yellowish browns. and says nothing about what the view is like, nor what the other furnishings are like.

do you want to contrast against that, or complement it. the former separates the person from the view, the later makes a person part of it (and is why beach hotels use sandy and ocean colors).

[Smoothie Perl]

I suggest you to start with purple and then start to add red in there  But that's something subjective

[Ishtara Rothschild]

How about periwinkle, vermillion, or cerulean? Alizarin looks nice too.

[Void Singer]

punce... it's very tasty =X