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I posted this in AT Chicago by mistake so I'm re-posting here. I hope that's okay! :)

I know accent walls went out some time ago, but I say screw that. I love the idea of a chocolate brown accent wall with warm tones of cream and tan and maybe add a cool color (robin egg or icy pale blue?) used strictly in accessories, such as linens, pillows, wall art.

Or, Luis you could create a funky curve on the wall behind your bed using chocolate and tan. I did this in my last office and it was so fun and cool looking. I painted two of my walls a rich eggplant color, and I wanted to leave the other two walls cream. So I started in one corner, covered one wall entirely, but instead of going all the way to the corner of the second wall, I stopped about two thirds of the way across the wall. But I didn't just want a weird straight paint line down the middle of the wall, so I got some of that wide kraft paper looking tape that is really wide and I cut the edge of it so it was one long continuous "s" curve (like this ~~~~~). Then I taped it on the wall, floor to ceiling and painted right up to the edge of the tape. Whei I peeled it off I had a really cool curved edge going floor to ceiling.

You could do something similar on that one wall like maybe divide the wall diagonally with a gentle curving line and make the bottom chocolate brown and top a creamy tan or taupe. Just a funky idea that came to my mind. Good luck, whatever you decide!