Unexpected

I read in House Beautiful that when you come across something that looks "unexpected", it usually means that it doesn't work. Hubby brought home a beautiful pair of chairs in the loveliest raspberry color with platinum nailhead trim. He knew that I would like them even though he thinks they are too vibrant for our home. We both agree that the design, look, and style of the chairs are perfect. The only problem is that the raspberry may overwhelm our more neutral palette of creams, champagne, sea greens, and pale blues. Though we have more pale green and less blue, is similar to what we have right now:



I am considering the addition of more pinks. Husband prefers to keep the living room peaceful and soothing. I like that too, but I think some color would really liven up the space. Right now, despite our blue accents, it seems almost too monotonous. Splashes of raspberry, fuchsia, and pink works really well with our color scheme as seen the following pictures.









However, the vast majority of the pictures use pink and raspberry as accents. Would it be overboard to have two raspberry accent chairs? Imagine that shade of raspberry upholstery on the white chair.



If I added in some gently patterned pillows to our ivory couches and tossed a smaller patterned pillow on a chair, would it work? Or would the bright raspberry chairs still be "unexpected"?

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