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20 Brown Living Room Ideas You Hadn't Thought to Try

Lindsey Brooke Design

Need proof this earth-friendly hue can be equally as pretty as reliable? Brown, a color often associated with safety and security, can make for the most beautiful living room spaces if you embrace it.

But if your mind automatically drifts to brown painted walls, let's change gears. You can effortlessly layer in this sturdy color in an infinite number of unexpected ways.

From sleek credenzas to hardwood ceilings and entirely brown painted rooms, here are 20 stylish brown living room ideas you hadn’t thought to try.

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Arbor & Co.

Light brown leather poufs are teeny pieces of furniture that pack a punch. Not only do these floor cushions moonlight as comfy footrests, extra seating, and kid-friendly coffee tables, but poufs also blend well with most design aesthetics. This light brown iteration shown above is cognac leather (available in vegan or faux options)—an ideal fabric for dressing up historic and farmhouse-inspired spaces in a snap.

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You can never go wrong with adding accent chairs to your living room. These single seats bring comfort while lining up your other living room elements, like your rug, sofa, and end tables. Plus, accent chairs create a seating arrangement that builds a conversation area to relax with friends and family.

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Cathie Hong

If you prefer rustic, old-world craftsmanship or a prairie-style look, stick to natural, stained wood for your window casings and baseboards (instead of painting each white).

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Forbes Masters

For total mood mastery, paint your walls a dark brown. Here, this chocolately brown painted wall looks classy and demure at the same time. Its darker shade revives this traditionally earthy tone while helping ground the space as a whole.

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Looking for a classic look that delivers high drama? Design a brown accent wall with paneling. This ideal backdrop can house artwork or help out a dull wall that's in desperate need of some design magic.

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Nile Johnson

For a lively rhythm, dot your room with subtle touches of brown, a trick guaranteed to make any living space feel pristine. Whether you bring this hue in through artwork, lamp shades, or oil-rubbed bronze metaled accents is up to you!

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Becca Interiors

If your space lacks texture (a crucial design element), converting your fireplace to stone is an easy way to make your living space visually stunning. Plus, stone fireplaces will forever maintain their inviting appeal and provide a cozy atmosphere.

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Bespoke Only

To add an intimate look to your living space, forget the floor and add wood paneling to your 5th wall—the ceiling. This concept is typically best reserved for taller spaces (with high ceilings) prone to receiving plenty of light. However, to offset the darkness a wooden ceiling may inject, keep your textiles and furniture pieces in cheery shades. Here, cream curtains help balance the dark paneling right above.

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Decorating with brown in a living space can also mean going ultimately monochromatic. Bring different tints, tones, and shades of brown through your wallpaper, window curtains, built-ins, rugs, and furniture for a zen effect.

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Monica Wilcox Design

Since there are so many tints and shades of brown, it’s easy to find a hue that works with your living room style. Here, this wallpaper motif flaunts a juxtaposition of two different browns, forming an elegant backdrop for pink accents to take the lead.

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Will Brown Interiors

A brown upholstered sofa can easily create an earthy modern space that's also pet- and kid-friendly. And performance fabric or not, brown won’t show stains as easily as other colors. It's a reliable choice that will look good for years to come. Bonus points: brown sofas (especially leather ones) pair well with other patterns and colors.

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House Sprucing

A wooden coffee table is a long-lasting staple and a functional piece that will forever hold its design appeal. Wooden coffee tables can also come in several shapes, sizes, and colors—ideal for any style goals—whether you’re going for a casual, unstuffy look or a traditional feel.

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Desiree Burns Interiors

Rattan or seagrass baskets typically come in brown tones. The best part: these baskets are environmentally friendly. Rattan, for example, is one of the most available natural materials in the world. These baskets are also easy to maintain and flexible. Plus, their lidded iterations can keep clutter out-of-sign all while doubling as a piece of décor (or pineapple as shown here).

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Decorilla

If you live in a warmer climate, pick a neutral brown tile for your flooring. And if you choose a porcelain tile, you'll definitely reap its benefits. Porcelain is typically slip-resistant and extremely strong, a great option for pet and kid-friendly spaces. If you’re not a fan of the traditional tile look, try wood plank tiles instead—tiles designed to look just like wood (but without the upkeep of natural wood).

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Lindsey Brooke Design

Built-ins offer an attractive display space (and a great shelfie moment), becoming a timeless addition to any home. Plus, you can use built-ins to frame your fireplace and television all while adding storage to showcase your collectibles. Truly, built-ins offer an outstanding aesthetic that will spruce up any sized space.

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Black and Blooms

Brown brick is a perfect way to add depth and warmth to your room. And when treated correctly, it can be super durable and great for high-traffic areas.

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Ashley Montgomery Design

Curtains are a practical design addition that can also enhance the beauty of your home. Blackout curtains are specially designed to block out more light from entering your room (whether it's streetlights, car headlights, or sunlight). Here, these checkered light brown curtains add an earthy, soft touch to this living space.

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Rikki Synder

Your big-ticket items like a cushy sofa and rug spearhead your space's design, but what brings a room together depends on the power of accessorizing. Enter: ceramic décor pieces. Ceramics look stylish, and have been around for centuries.

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Brophy Interiors

If you still have carpet on your main floor, consider a hardwood swap. Hardwoods come in several shades of brown, and can truly warm up an otherwise cold, uninviting space. If hardwood isn't a practical option for your budget or lifestyle, try engineered hardwoods, luxury vinyl planks, laminate, or porcelain wood plank tiles for the same effect (but with two added bonuses: less money and maintenance).

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Ferrer

Bringing in bold brown art is a beautiful way to recast a plain space. Larger pieces of art can also look more sophisticated and chic than grouping together smaller pieces if you have an extensive wall to fill.

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The Top 59 Brown Living Room Ideas

Isn’t it time we all said goodbye to the all-white look? It’s blinding, sterile, boring, and a pain to keep clean.

Shake up your living room design with these brown living room ideas. Embracing a brown color palette can give your living room a warm and cozy feeling.

You don’t want to paint all of the walls dark brown, though. This will make your living room very dark and close the room in. Instead, you could paint one wall dark and leave the other light.

Or you can look for ways to add brown to the room in the furniture or decor. These brown living room ideas will help you add beautiful browns to your living room.

1. Accent Wall

A brown wall is perfect for creating an accent. It’ll add warmth to the space and make it feel cozier.

Choose a shade that will complement the rest of the decor. Some shades have a slightly reddish hue that will complement wood with red tones.

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A rich chocolate brown will look beautiful with dark woods, light grey, or light cream. You could also choose a color that’s a lighter shade of brown, which will help to keep your living room feeling light and bright.

2. Boho

Create a bohemian feel in your living room by embracing an earthy-hued color scheme. You could have a dark brown sofa, textured fabric brown shades, and a patterned area rug.

If you choose to have a brown leather sofa, use fabric accent pillows to add punches of color. An alternative is to have a fabric sofa that you place leather throw pillows on.

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Leather is a perfect way to add brown hues to your living room while also having a boho feel. Look for pieces that are one of a kind or are handmade. This will give your living room a craftsman or worldly feel.

 

3. Contemporary

Stick to a lighter shade of brown when designing a contemporary look in your living room.

Hues that will work well for this modern feel are colors like a light beach, teak, pine, birch, spruce, light elm, light walnut, or rustic oak. As you can see, many brown paint colors come with names that are reminiscent of the wood that it’s similar to.

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Other popular living room ideas add brown with natural materials. You could install faux stone panels on a wall for a natural look.

Choose wood furniture for the shelving, built-ins, or entertainment center. You can also choose naturally brown living room decor. You could have wood, leather, or metal accent pieces.

 

4. Dark Walls

Using a dark shade of brown paint on your walls, such as chocolate brown, can give your living room a sophisticated and elegant feel.

However, you need to decorate the room carefully to prevent your living room from looking like a dark brown hole.

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Accent this darker paint color with lighter pieces. Brass and gold metal accents can add to the room’s ambiance and help elevate the space’s feel. These warmer-toned metals can help the space to feel welcoming.

 

5. Decor

You can add more brown living room decor than just accent pillows. You could hang wood shelves on the walls. Or you could place wood sculptures on floating shelves.

Look for other decorative pieces that are made out of natural materials. You could find pieces that are made out of grasses, wicker, or rattan. These will add natural brown hues while also adding texture.

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You could also add more subtle accents, such as wood picture frames. Or add accent beams to your ceiling. Or choose light fixtures that have wood or brown metal accents.

 

6. Furniture

Dark brown furniture is perfect for homes with pets or children. The darker color of a brown sofa hides stains and spills, so there’s no worry about little ones drinking or eating while sitting on your brown furniture.

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Everything immediately thinks of a leather sofa when you tell them to buy a brown couch. However, this isn’t your only option.

A suede or microfiber sofa will be a soft and cozy feeling, giving your living room a warmer feeling. Throw some woven wool or fur pillows on it, and you have the perfect spot for curling up and watching a movie.

 

7. Industrial

Brown is a perfect color to use in your color scheme when creating an industrial look in your living room. You’ll want to focus on using wrought iron, worn wood, and aged leather.

A vintage brown leather sofa, accent chair, or loveseat will give your living room an authentic feel. Look for a Chesterfield design that’s immediately recognizable for its rolled armrests, tufted back, and plush seats.

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Pair this with a coffee table that is made from a metal frame with a wood top. Then spread out cowhides on the floor instead of a rug. This will give your living room a masculine feel while also honoring industrial elements.

 

8. Luxury

Elevate the look of your living room by using expensive materials. Choose leather furniture that’s constructed of top-quality leather. It could have gold metal frames. Then pair it with a coffee table that has a marble top.

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Tie the entire room together with a large area rug. Oriental rugs that are handwoven from silk are the most expensive rugs you could buy. However, you could choose a woven wool rug for more durability.

Another easy way to make your living room feel luxurious is with light fixtures. Hang a chandelier in the center of your living room for a central focal point and statement piece.

 

9. Modern

Pair your brown tones with other colors to give your living room a modern feel. You’ll see teal used in a lot of modern decorating ideas. The bright teal balances out the neutral brown shades. It looks beautiful with lighter sand shades and darker brown hues.

For a modern feel, keep the walls a lighter color and choose darker brown furniture. Then use teal and turquoise as the accent color. You can find glass elements that have green hues that are perfect for accenting your living room and giving it a modern feel.

 

10. Neutral

Not all brown living rooms need to be chocolate brown. Embrace lighter neutral colors like beige. Then you can use a darker brown as the accent color. Choose the right lighter shades of brown and tan, and you can mix them with shades of grey for a sleek modern look.

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By using different shades of neutrals, you can add depth and dimension to your neutral room. This keeps it from falling flat and looking dull or boring.

You should also look for ways you can add texture. This creates visual interest and breaks up the room so that everything doesn’t blend together.

 

11. Rustic

Rustic living rooms embrace natural woods, leather, and soft accents. The difference is that the pieces you choose should have a well-worn or vintage feel. Rustic pieces have rough edges or are well-worn. They could look handmade and unique.

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Look for ways you can channel a farmhouse in your living room. You could create an accent wall that’s made of salvaged wood planks. Or add decorative wooden beams to your ceiling. Hang a vintage chandelier that’s made from a wagon wheel, has lanterns or antlers on it.

 

12. Wall Color

When choosing your wall color for a small living room, you want to choose a hue that will add to your room’s look. This means considering the size of the room and the amount of light that it has.

Smaller and naturally darker living rooms should have lighter walls. While a larger living room or one with a lot of natural light can support a darker color.

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If you have your heart set on a darker color but it won’t work on its own, try using it with a lighter color. Paint the bottom half of your walls the dark color and the upper half the lighter color.

This keeps the dark color’s heaviness towards the bottom of the room, while the lighter color on top keeps the room feeling open.

 

13. Wallpaper

Look for a brown wallpaper with a pattern or texture. This will add depth and dimension to the room. It’ll also give it more visual interest than just a plain brown, which is something you could accomplish with just painting the wall brown.

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For a traditional look, try a repeating pattern or a damask. A modern wallpaper will have a mural or large-scale design. You could also add visual interest by choosing a wallpaper with texture or metallic accents.

Modern wallpapers are easy to apply and can be done yourself as a weekend project. Some are temporary with an adhesive on the back so that you can easily remove them when you’re ready for a change.

 

14. Wood

Using wood lets you add natural brown tones to your living room. You can skip the flat brown paint that tends to lack dimension and instead opt for a rich-hued piece of wood.

There will be lights and darks filtered together to create depth and luster. Wood also has a natural texture that’s perfect for creating texture in a neutral living room.

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For lighter browns, stick to light woods like basswood, pine, sycamore, maple, cedar, and poplar. Medium brown hues are accomplished with walnut, teak, or cypress. Dark browns can be added with woods like stained walnut or mahogany.

Brown living room - 90 photos of ideas and novelties of stylish design

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Brown has a huge number of different shades that are found in a modern interior. Furniture, decor, flooring, accessories are made in brown.

The interior of the brown living room is especially cozy and warm, and to make the guest room look very stylish and fashionable, you just need to think over the balance of shades - a reasonable combination of dark and light.

Beige-brown walls will be perfectly combined with any upholstered furniture, and its color will not play a special role.

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Living room with brown furniture

The hall is the room in which the whole friendly family gathers in the evenings, guests are received and celebrations are celebrated, and therefore it should look elegant.

An interesting design option for the kitchen-living room when brown furniture is used.

The following furniture should be available in the hall - a wall, a comfortable and roomy sofa, and a table. The brown leather sofa looks original and very beautiful, and it goes well with dark and light floors and walls.

Textiles are matched to match the brown furniture. To give coziness to the guest room, the curtains are complemented with green tulle, a heavenly shade.

If you are just thinking about the design of a brown living room, then pay attention to the fact that the sofa can be complemented by several armchairs and chairs, the upholstery of which is light blue or sunny yellow.

When choosing armchairs made of natural leather, you should choose a shade of white or cream. Furniture for the living room is ideal made of wood, because it brings sophistication to the interior.

Combination of brown and black in the living room

The living room in brown tones looks great, but the main rule is that brown is not used in a “not diluted” form, so to speak.

A modern living room in brown and black looks unique, because both colors are luxurious and emphasize all the nobility of the living room.

If the living room is small, then the colors mentioned above are not used in order not to make it even smaller.

Complementing the brown color in the interior with white, beige with a gray sheen, blue, green.

To make the room more spacious, a combination of brown and white is used. The interior of the living room looks unusual, which is made in brown in combination with a very fresh and spring light green.

Brown living room

The design of the living room, decorated in brown, looks perfect, the main thing is to equip it thoughtfully by looking at numerous photos of the brown living room on the Internet and choosing the best option for decorating your room.

Brown, just like white, is versatile and will easily complement any interior. The classic living room is most often done in dark brown, but is complemented by white and gray, beige.

The classic living room is restraint in everything. Neutral finish is used, natural shade parquet. In choosing shades for furniture upholstery, again, preference is given to naturalness.

Furniture

The choice of cabinet and upholstered furniture is an important decision. Particular attention is drawn to the wall, because the styles of its execution vary. The wall not only complements the interior, but also has an important functional significance.

A very interesting option is a light brown wall, because it is compatible with all finishing materials.

If the room is compact, it is better to choose a corner wall, while the mirrors are equipped with mirrors to expand the space.

It can be concluded that the brown interiors of the living room, the photo on the Internet confirms this, look luxurious, amazing, but it is important to choose the right finishing materials, choose the right furniture and accessories.

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Calm, only calm! These words perfectly reflect the concept that interiors decorated with brown color carry. Noble natural shades give housing thoroughness and measuredness. It seems that even time among such walls flows slowly and serenely. Are you interested? Let's then pay attention to the design of the living room in brown tones.

Modern living room design in brown

Combination of brown and cream colors in the interior of the living room

Brown color for interior decoration

Bark, cinnamon, brown… One word row. Feeling of naturalness, naturalness and closeness to all living things. It is considered a natural color, including shades of earth and fallen autumn leaves. According to its effect on a person, it belongs to neutral shades that pacify and soothe, give a feeling of comfort and security.

Living rooms in brown tones are preferred by melancholy, privacy-loving and nostalgic people. In such an interior it will be convenient to relax in the evening after a hard day from the hustle and bustle of city life. Those whose work is associated with noise and bright visual effects will feel especially calm here.

Brown shades are soothing

Small living room in brown tones

Brown shades in the interior of the living room bring a sense of stability and stability. Thinking about various important issues in such a room, decisions are made balanced and deliberate. Rest among such walls is calm and serene.

Remember! Emerald, turquoise, orange, blue accessories will help add brightness and dynamism to the brown living room. Sometimes a few pillows on the sofa or vases with paintings are enough to make the room sparkle with freshness.

Brown often appears in incredible shades, different, unlike each other. By choosing the right color for the living room, they can correct shortcomings, for example, visually stretch the room or expand it. Light shades will be able to visually increase the height of the room and increase it in depth.

Spacious modern living room with brown elements

Brown furniture in a modern living room design

They will also help to recreate the right mood. For a cold and gloomy room with north-facing windows, you can choose light brown with a yellowish tint. Brown with red or red nuances will give the room cheerfulness and optimism. And shades of chocolate brown will turn the most ordinary living room into a luxurious hall with a cover of mystery.

These colors are not contraindicated even for small spaces. You need to follow the rule, the smaller the room, the more light surfaces you need to match the main tone, and make more bright accents.

Combination of brown and blue colors in the interior of the living room

Brown color with green color in the interior of the living room

Orange color in combination with brown color in the interior of the living room

Shades of brown shades everyone will find the one that he personally likes. Because brown options are chocolate, cocoa or coffee, shades of wood and cinnamon. All of them are well suited for decorating a living room in various styles.

The most popular combinations

Brown color with its noble character wonderfully sets off many colors. Blue, yellow and green are perfectly combined with it. The most successful combinations are obtained from classical unions.

Brown - white or beige

This interior has an elegant look, the contrast gives it solemnity and harmony. The classic design involves walls in two colors: brown and white or beige. Such a technique is also popular when not the entire wall is made in a contrasting color, but part of it, for example, a niche behind the TV.

Large objects look good in contrast, for example, a beige carpet on a brown floor or vice versa. In modern furniture designs, this can be a sofa of a simple, concise shape, made in one color, and a lot of pillows in the second leading shade. For such a living room interior, coffee tables made of wood are selected in the usual rectangular shape without unnecessary elements.

Brown-Green

Also a traditional combination. For it, green is used in a grassy, ​​swampy shade, avoiding bright, flashy accents. In this version, classic living rooms are often performed, measured and a little heavy.

Upholstered furniture is selected with rounded parts. Well, if it is made of brown leather. In such an interior, the presence of natural wood in warm shades is mandatory. And it can be a cabinet wall made in the style of an English living room, a dining group from the same collection.

The walls are green and the ceiling can be finished with wooden beams. If the design of the living room is done in lighter colors, copper, olive, then dark brown furniture is selected.

Brown - blue

Bold and bright solution. In such an interior, the main emphasis is on contrast. If the walls are finished with wallpaper of the main color (it can be partners with a large print and plain), then sofas in blue will look interesting. With the opposite option and heavenly walls, they acquire a brown sofa, complementing it with blue pillows. In such an interior, textiles with contrasting patterns will be appropriate.

Blue may have shades. For a modern living room, a rich dark color would be appropriate, and light colors are more suitable for the classics. Brown with turquoise and gold trim is the perfect option for lovers of everything elegant and stylish.

Brown - yellow

This interior will be truly cozy and homely. Yellow furniture and various accessories will bring the energy of warmth and tranquility. Interiors are considered classic, where all shades of golden, orange, brick, orange are found.

Selecting furniture for the brown living room

Since the name of the color means bark, it is clear that the main material for making furniture in the living room is wood. Such items always look stylish and noble. Furniture with chocolate or whitewashed facades looks spectacular. More popular shades of cinnamon and light brown, matching the texture with natural wood.

One of the most popular items in the living room is the sofa, often made in brown leather or textile. This is not only aesthetically pleasing, but also practical, as stains are less noticeable on such upholstery, and it is easy to care for it. If there are children in the family, then instead of leather upholstery, you can buy furniture with modern materials that are softer and warmer to the touch, but very easy to clean. You can balance the brown color of the sofa with heavy curtains of the same shade. And as a highlight, add transparent curtains of a green or blue hue to them.

For a small living room, you can purchase a small sofa, and if the area allows it, it can be modular furniture complete with white or beige armchairs. A pouffe is also purchased for such a set, and not necessarily from the material from which the main furniture is made. With its light shade, it will help to dilute the deep shade; sofa cushions or a blanket also get to match it.

Unless the owners want to recreate the spirit of old England with a dark interior in their home, then cabinet furniture is matched to the dark walls: a wall, a rack, a chest of drawers - in light brown colors. It can be shades of chocolate, cappuccino, cocoa, bark of trees of various species, stained wood. They will bring warmth and comfort to the living room.

The role of accessories

Accessories can enliven any laconic interior, give it coziness and warmth. There are many possibilities for a brown living room, as a few stylish touches will add brightness and charm to the room. It all depends on the imagination of the inhabitants of the housing and their desires.

Very important! Try to maintain a sense of proportion so as not to oversaturate such an interior with natural patterns. It is necessary to strictly dose the number of leopard or tiger patterns so that they do not turn into a banal kitsch.

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