Paint color help!

[Atty]

We're painting our upstairs and are doing two of the three bedrooms and the hallway areas, all the colors have been chosen except for my bedroom (mainly due to my indecisiveness!) So I thought perhaps there were some interior design gurus at Anand that could lend their expertise.

Now the first thing is that I have already bought new furniture for the room, before I painted (or knew I'd be able to?) so I kind of screwed myself there. All my furniture is Black wood from Ikea (called Black/Brown) and the pieces that aren't from Ikea are similarly colored. I'm having a terrible time deciding on a wall color that would work well with the furniture. I'm not sure if I want to do it all one color, do an accent wall, or what. I just want it to look good, lol.

Help!

 

[theflyingpig]

Red. Blood red. It's the only option for you. Everyone knows this.

 

[Atty]

That would work...if I was attracted to vampire-goth girls and wanted to turn my bedroom into their picture perfect blood-stained-sex-room.


:-|

 

[iGas]

Black & red work well, but a beige white colour would also do well with brown/black.

 

[Malak]

Earthy tones like beige/green.

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

Jeff Lewis really seems to like "pearl necklace"....

 

[Homerboy]

Earthy tones like beige/green.

Correct.
Red+Black would look tacky as hell.

 

[iGas]

Earthy tones like beige/green.

IMO, green doesn't do well with brown or black.

 

[T9D]

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[bobsmith1492]

Yellow or some shade of yellow looks friggen awesome with black.

Bumblebee lover. Are you a furry?

 

[Atty]

Yellow or some shade of yellow looks friggen awesome with black.

For a guys room?

Bring a girl over, "OH I LOVE THE COLOR OF YOUR ROOM!...want to be my shopping partner?!"

:-|

 

[Mo0o]

A reddish/maroon color would work nicely.

You can always just play it safe and use white then add accent to teh room to match whatever color scheme you want.

 

[T9D]

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[Mrvile]

Most of my room furniture is also "black/brown" ikea stuff. I lived in a room that was painted a very pale yellow for a couple of months and I thought it worked very well. Now I'm in a room that's more of a cool gray and I'm not really digging it. Anything light and warm should work, I'm rather a fan of yellow rooms myself. They are really strange.

 

[Malak]

IMO, green doesn't do well with brown or black.

I'm not talking neon green walls. A really light greenish brown. It works pretty good, my parents did it in a couple of their rooms in their house.

 

[Mrvile]

I'm not talking neon green walls. A really light greenish brown. It works pretty good, my parents did it in a couple of their rooms in their house.

My roommate's room upstairs doesn't have the walls painted this way, but most of the things he has in his room are this color. We call it "poop green." At first he did it as a joke because it was the most hideous color any of us had ever seen, but since then he's invested a lot of time and care into this specific theme and it's grown quite a bit on all of us. The room has hardwood floors and whatever furniture isn't poop green is just wood. It's very inviting.

 

[Malak]

My roommate's room upstairs doesn't have the walls painted this way, but most of the things he has in his room are this color. We call it "poop green." At first he did it as a joke because it was the most hideous color any of us had ever seen, but since then he's invested a lot of time and care into this specific theme and it's grown quite a bit on all of us. The room has hardwood floors and whatever furniture isn't poop green is just wood. It's very inviting.

Colors you'd never use on a car look pretty decent in a house. Earthy tones are warm and inviting. They are comfort colors. They do the best job of blending a room together.