With brown?

Question

I am painting my bedroom walls brown.. but I want an accent color.. I was thinking about turquoise but now i might change my mind but dont know what yet so can you help me please??

Answer 1

Instead of turquoise try aqua. Raspberry accents would add some punch...

Answer 2

Trends are leaning towards natural neutral colors especially in the bedroms, beige, brown, and tan. They are taking the influence from the rock, stone and soil. Bedrooms and family rooms are rooms that people are going to for rest and recovery from every day stresses.

I usually find that I choose a pallette from one or two themes:
Complimentary, which are opposite the color wheel: red/green or blue/yellow which I think are more formal. Or, analogous colors which are next to each other: yellow/green or blue/violet which are more casual, restful and muted for the family room, dining room or bedroom. If you narrow it down to one of these themes, you cannot go wrong. And of course, there are many others. But these are safe starters without going into tertiary and secondary, etc.

Always add a black: a box, shade, frame or other accent which will accent all the other colors and ground the room.

I use a overall theme in 60% hue which will be the dominant color, say the walls.(Yours are brown).
I use a secondary color of 30% for visual interest, say the rooms upholstery. (You could use the turquoise on your bedding of a love seat or chair).
I use the 10% color for a spark of sparkle, say the accent piece or floral arrangement. (Yours could be the beige or tan).

(I think of a man's suit. 60% the suit, 30% the shirt, 10% the tie.)

I then look to nature's lead:
darker for the floor=ground
medium for the walls=trees/mountains.
litght for the ceiling=sky.

To choose a scheme:
Pull from the pattern of the largest piece in the room:
Look at first the drapery, upholstery fabric or the large artwork. This will be your 30% color. Remember the 60% is your wall color, brown.

The trendy undertone now is yellow: hence, we get the sage greens, hot reds, and lilac blues.

Now, look to your adjoining spaces. .
Restate it in a different way. Do you have turquoise in another room? Or maybe another color to go with the brown?
Maybe, it may be a sage green.

Look at the contrast: White and beige are calmer.
Look at local or seasonal: fall colors are calm and subdued.
Remember, I said spring colors were uplifting.

You can always use say, the turquoise in a lamp base, if you chose to use a beige in your bedding and then include it again in artwork over your bed.

I really do hope this helps you out. You have chosen beautiful colors. The trends are leaning towards, and I do hate to repeat myself, the peacefulness of a place to come home to and the asian influence has taken hold. They know what they are doing.

I use darker colors with a northern exposure because it is cold looking and I want to warm it up. With a southern exposure that tends to be hot or warmer, I use lighter colors to cool it down.

It also depends on your emotional factor. I look at red as being lively, blue, brown as subdued. Red is associated with fire, blue with air &sea, yellow with the sun and brown & green with the trees. So whatever emotional impact you would like to invoke in your room, I would consider these factors in.
Spring colors are uplifting.

Finally, I look at the colors for a couple of days at the time of day the room is most used to get the feel for what I am looking for.

Since it is your bedroom, look at it in the mid-afternoon to the evening to see how the colors work for you.

Brown and turquoise are hot colors right now. I wanted to give you something to absorb and think about since you were on the edge of changing your mind. I think you have chosen a great combination.

Answer 3

There are a lot of fabrics as well as home decor items out that have the brown and turquoise combination. That would make it easy to decorate.
Each year or two all the designers, fabric makers, home goods and so on get together and decide on what 4 or 5 colors they will use. So that everything co-ordinates. More or less. You can always tell when they change it too. For a while it was purples, now its browns, cool blues.

It makes sense because if every different "sector" of decor had their own color it would be hard to match stuff up.

Answer 4

depending on the color of brown. if the walls are a warm, chocolaty brown....turquoise and white make awesome and modern accent colors (my bath is actual these colors (with yellow also). if its a more natural khaki, go with brights like red or kelly green.

Answer 5

I painted my family room brown (well it was called coffee) a little lighter brown. I used cream for my windows and a Burgundy (name was incense from Lowe's) for my attached Kitchen. So alot of Burgundy/and even some olive accents as well. Wall hangings etc... My bed room is lighter brown tone (Sandy shell from Lowe's) with 2 green walls (dark olive). Window treatments are Burgundy. Everyone loves it, says looks so good. I can send pics.

Answer 6

Dark browns look great with a lot of different colors such as turquoise, nice bright greens (think lighter than grass green...celadon), you could even do a palate of soft warm tones like yellow and orange for an almost sunset feel. I could even see doing something "boring" like a soft cream (but you could make it interesting such as a graphic stripe with the same shade of cream but in a matte and semigloss for a textural sort of effect).

Answer 7

well, you could always use a Camel color if you eant a warmer touch, also corals and peaches are nice accents to deep chocolates. if you are going bold try a fuscia or lavender, if you go to the standard paint brand website such as behr.com they have endless options, some even have virtual rooms for you to decorate. Good luck!

Answer 8

I think a dark red would be really cool. And maybe get a throw rug with different dark colors. Just make sure to accent with some brighter colors so it doesnt look depressing.

Answer 9

Look at a color wheel. The opposite of brown on a color wheel is blue and blue-violet so I think you are on the right track.

Answer 10

I hope you like things dark. Brown with turquoise sounds trendy and "with it." I like it a lot. But if you don't have massive open windows in your room, it will always be dim lighting.