How about a warm, pale sage to pick up on that wonderful existing mosaic?

You did not say if you like the current shade of the bedroom. My bedroom is a similar color, and it is really soothing and invigorating. I love how it looks with the warm tones of your furniture.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

What a lovely room! You are fortunate to have such great architectural details. With such great architecture, why not play it up?

The current color scheme dilutes all those great details. With the pale walls and white trim, the fireplace looks out of place. And frankly, the fireplace is a great focal point, and the most beautiful part of your room. You need to make the rest of the room live up to IT.

Do that by going darker. Choose a deeper, richer colored paint that will work with the tile. It doesn't have to match; it just has to work with it. And paint your woodwork darker, too. (And it doesn't have to be brown.)

One thing I would say is that you definately don't want a television competing with the fireplace. I would hide it if you can or move it to another location. I think your existing furniture wors, but I would try to move it around the room so all of that dark wood is not on one side. This will move your eye around the room (like connect the dots), and not make that side feel "heavy". If you can't move it, I would suggest an equally dark bedspread to draw the eye over.

I don't think there's a problem with the color (in these pictures the wood looks like it's similar in tone with the window seat, though if you put cushions on that I guess it's irrelevant) or style of your furnishings, but it looks like it would be hard to fit both your casegoods into the new bedroom, even if your bed is smaller than the one in the pictures.

I'm a fan of gray, but maybe a cooler gray than the one in your current room. Though it's a little hard to tell if there's any color in the fireplace (is there a green tint?)

I agree with arroyo, the current paint is too light for the dark surround and insert of the fireplace, which is the best part of the room. Darker paint choices would look best. If you are feeling adventurous maybe Malachite green?

Check out the cool print in the other room, you are adventurous. Go for that Malachite green and paint the fireplace white.

I think this color would look great:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/olive-green-interiors-136403

I agree with arroyo about the trim on the windows. Could you sand it and put a darker stain on it to be more compatible with the fireplace? If you can't or don't want to maybe repaint them cream rather than bright white.

I agree with dark sage green, not too vibrant but natural looking. Accent it with pops of a deep red throughout the room for something lively - or greys and charcoal for something more muted.

Hmm. I like the black furniture and white trim.

What i would do is paint the walls a pale blue. Add a curtain on each side of the bed on the wall above the end tables. Something light gray-ish. So that wall isn't so boring. Then 3 small black picture frames above the bed in the center. Maybe a throw blanket and some pillows that bring all the colours together.

Since i don't see a closet, I think you should look into Bed Risers. It'll give you more space for storage under your bed.

Andd the tv. Hide that thing! Maybe in an armoire?

I see you like the color turquoise by a few small accents in your current room. Any chance you'd be willing to paint the new room a light turquoise? I think it would look absolutely stunning against the darkness of the fireplace, and it would work with your current bedding. Although, you may need to stain your current furniture a darker color to match, but - wow - wouldn't it be worth it?

This is a great room. I agree with arroyo to make the details in the room pop you could pick a darker color. A blue with tones green and grey? I like grey too like lepidoptery suggested. Fireplace - I would paint it. I cant tell what the tile looks like but you could maybe pull in those colors somewhere else in the room (which would work better with grey walls) OR you could paint the tiles as well. (make sure you use the right kind of heat resistant paint if you do that)
I think your furniture will work, maybe not all of it. Before I saw your furniture I thought maybe a nice tall headboard (upholstered or a fake one out of wall paper or fabric) could be nice. If you use your bed put some big art up there. Your bed looks smaller so you might have room for some side tables that could lend to a little more storage. I could see your taller dresser going to the left of the fireplace. I agree, the t.v competes. Put some picture up there/jewlry stand/or mirror. I think your big dresser wont fit in the room. My first reaction to the pic you posted of the new room is move that dresser that blocks the view of the fireplace and makes the room look smaller. I would put a reading chair in the corner (right of fireplace). If it where my space I would get a taller bed (or cheap bed rails and diy a tall headboard) get some non matchy matchy nightstands that can act as storage. Reuse that longer dresser of yours in another room, use your taller dresser to the left of the fireplace...if its too small add a colorful coatrack? If you need a t.v., mount it on a swivel on the wall right of the fireplace (where the dresser I would remove is resting) and couple it with other pictures. Hide it when you want, not a focal point, visible when you want from bed. Put a chair in the corner, and paint the fireplace. If you want more storage maybe you can find a small dresser, storage peice to go at the end of your bed.

I agree with redsocks - I think your furniture is fine but just needs to be rearranged so it's not right next to the fireplace. I would definitely NOT paint the fireplace - I think that old architectural details like that are true gems when they've survived on this earth that long and haven't been painted.

I think a cushion to cover the light wood on the window seat would help a lot (or even painting the light wood white to match the rest of the trim), and I think more contrasting colors in the room are what you really need to bring it all together. The paint color could stay or go, but some more interesting textiles would do a lot - a nice rug, bold curtains or more colorful bedding. (Or maybe all of the above?)

Good luck and have fun!

Just to clarify: I would not paint the fireplace. Go with a darker wall and trim paint colors.

I think your furniture will work nicely in the new place if you paint the fireplace surround white. As someone else pointed out, the wood tones of your furniture work well with the window seat. After that, I think almost any cool color (to counteract the red in the wood) will work.

DO NOT PAINT THAT FIREPLACE, please!!

Dark wood is absolutely gorgeous, especially with the architectural details you're lucky enough to have in that room. Lovely!!

What is your design style? We have a company called ROMO that makes the coolest wallpaper and fabric. Some of their wall papers are very subtly metallic and would AWESOME as an accent on the recessed wall behind the fireplace.

For the walls, a warm medium gray would be beautiful. I am not a huge fan of the current wall color, it doesn't seem to blend with the style you have.

I would however, change the trim to a dark stain. Its very conflicting with the period of the fireplace and just is off.

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I hate to say this but I think your furniture is too contemporary and too much cherry woods.

Can you sell it and thrift a couple of vintage pieces in black or dark wood.

I think going dark paint by painting walls and trim the same color, don't paint the fireplace, stain the wood at the window seat dark and add some cushions to tie in the other colors you end up using.

Get a really nice bed cover and euro shams in a white linen, layer with nubby pillows and throw.

Farrow Ball Down Pipe would look nice and compliment the detail greens on the fireplace and some blues and greens for accents

see the color here-
http://www.hashai.com/?p=164

Just to be clear, the furniture in the new room is not yours right? It's the existing owners furniture I assume, and I have to say I like yours much better. I have two ideas 1. you could get some brightly colored drapes and cushions for the window seat and use accessories to bring in the colors in your print and paint the walls a dark gray or use white drapes and cushions and paint the walls a pretty turquoise or pink, either way the walls should be dark and rich but not fight the woodwork color of your bedroom set, so nothing yellowish (like the current new room color). I'm not sure about painting wood work, it's usually not a good idea, but I have to admit I think I would be very tempted to paint the fireplace white. Finally, I hope you are bringing your cute light fixture with you, because I think it will bring the right amount of whimsy into the new space. Good luck!

So it appears that you walk into the room directly into the side of the bed?

I wouldnt' arrange the space like that as it seems very uncomfortable - I'd place the bed where the former owner's dresser is now, so that the bed faces the bay window, and place your long dresser where the bed is now.

As far as color, I'd select a deep dark shade - perhaps a dark blue or a dark brown or charcoal grey...
...but I woudn't have a problem with painting the fireplace woodwork since the rest of the trim is white - tho I would consider adding crown moulding to the room.

I hope I am understanding your question correctly. The first two pictures represent the bedroom in the house you’re moving into (so it’s someone else’s furniture and décor), and the last picture is the bedroom you’re currently living in, with your actual furniture? I hope I’ve got that right, because I’m basing my advice on it.

And I guess I will be a dissenting voice here (although you’re getting a really wide range of advice generally), because I *would* paint the fireplace. Not just because I am the sort of person who generally prefers painted woodwork, but because I think the fireplace is way too dark and heavy for the room – even if you were to paint the walls a richer, warmer colour, I think the fireplace is still too dark to work well with the floor. (And the colours of the fireplace and the floor clash.) If you are planning to use the dressers that are in the third picture (which have kind of a midcentury modern look to me), I do think it’s going to be quite difficult to pull all these disparate elements together. It will be a little easier if the fireplace is painted to match all the other woodwork in the room. That will also give you much more freedom in choosing colours for walls and accessories, because right now there are so many competing elements I don’t know what to suggest. If the fireplace is white, you can pull colours from the surround (is it tile? Really hard to tell on my monitor), and make that into the focal point of the room. It looks like there are a number of medium greys and greens that would work well. I wouldn’t go too pale or dark in this room.

I also think it would be great if you can avoid putting so much furniture in the end of the room with the fireplace. In this photo, it just looks and feels crammed and a bit chaotic. The eye still goes to the fireplace, but there’s a lot of competition for it. If there isn’t enough storage elsewhere in the bedroom closet/house, maybe some kind of low, wide storage unit at the end of the bed would work better. (I don’t suppose that window seat has been designed to provide storage, has it? On my monitor I can’t tell if the seat opens anywhere; it looks like it might.) The suggestion for maximizing underbed storage is also a good one.

If you have the space and funds for good closet organizers, you may find you can fit more in there than you imagine, and do away with at least one dresser/chest of drawers. We have rows of wooden shelves in our closet, and I lined up a bunch of baskets from IKEA on them. I put all the stuff that was in our dresser drawers in there, and got the dressers out of the bedroom. It works and feels so much better not to have them taking up space in our bedroom. Where the dresser is next to the fireplace, the one with the TV on it, it would be lovely to have a small tub chair in an inviting fabric, as a place to read by the fire. (If there's space; it's hard to judge from these photos.) For a number of reasons, not all of them décor-based, I agree with those who suggest not having a TV in the bedroom. (Although this is something you may not care about, this room has a number of feng shui issues and the TV isn’t helping.)

A custom-made cushion for the window seat would add a feeling of much-needed softness to the room. If you or someone you know is at all handy sewing, you can custom-cut a piece of inexpensive foam rubber for the padding and sew a simple seat cover. It doesn’t have to be an expensive project. No toss pillows, though; the seat is too shallow and too close to the windows for that. If you’re going to leave it uncovered, though, I agree with the person who suggested painting it white to match the rest of the woodwork, because it’s just another choppy, distracting element.

Hope this is some help. This has the potential to be a really wonderful room! I wish our bedroom were this big and bright.

Consider finding a piece of art work you like, and then pulling a dominant color from it for the wall color.

So jealous of the window seat! What an awesome room, cozy fireplace and a spot to curl up with a cup of tea or a favorite book. I wouldn't paint the fireplace. IMHO you should preserve it's originality and tie in other elements to spruce the room up.

I wouldn't paint the fireplace if it's original. I would stain the top of the window seat to match so the fp blends with something in that room because now it blends with nothing.

Then I would paint, like people said, a grey like what you have in your room now, but a little darker. I think a grey or a smoky blue (or blue/green) would be great against both the white of the trim and the dark wood, plus would play nicely with the tiles. I wouldn't do an all-out olive green because I feel like it would pick up TOO much with the tile in the fireplace and feel a little matchy and very green.

Placement, I would primarily stay away from putting your tall dresser where theirs was. It's too much competition for the fireplace, color, material, and placement-wise...with the fireplace off-center you want something to draw the fireplace over so it's the focus of your eye; a tall wood dresser there does the opposite. It distracts from the fp and makes the room seem more off-balanced. A nice chair there in a lighter fabric with a pillow would not only give that area a purpose and make the fireplace the focal spot, but putting upholstery in there would also help break up any disjointed feelings of the wood fireplace with the white trim and window seat. As it stands I think if you put your furniture in the room, it wouldn't feel like a put-together room since your furniture is nice and all, but doesn't necessarily "go" with the fireplace. I don't think you need to replace, but accessorize with a chair and curtains and things that aren't more wood to help blend everything together.

We have almost the exact same majolica tile & fireplace surround/mantle for the fireplace in our bedroom. Unfortunately, the wood was painted white long before we bought the house.

We have dark furniture with just the slightest reddish cast to it. We painted the room using Benjamin Moore African Violet (2116-50) and love it. We also considered a pale, ice blue but felt it clashed too much with the furniture. It might look better with yours.

We might have done an olive green, but we've already used that color for my office/spare bedroom (Benjamin Moore Georgian Green hc-115) and I wanted to use something different for the bedroom.

Good luck choosing a color; it's a lovely room!

What is the artwork over the bed in the 3rd picture?

I would sand and stain the white trim dark to match the fireplace. It will be a lot of work but it will guaranteed be worth it. I would also paint the walls white or off-white. I think the current colour competes with the fireplace. I think white will really make the dark wood stand out. I think your current furniture may work but I can't tell forsure if the wood's will go together until it's actually in place. I think the current owner's furniture is too dark.

Fireplaces are a virtual mystery to me, however...the suggestions by melissakay and philosoknitter are exciting. You might add bright red accents, too. Enjoy!

Funny- before I read the other comments I was thinking green too.

Are you certain that the fireplace is original? The ceilings seem awfully low and plain for a period house.

Much as I hate the idea of painting antiques, I think the fireplace would look better in white to match the trim. However, the first thing I'd do is move in and decorate the rest of the room: it may be the case that the dark fireplace doesn't look so bad when surrounded by your cherrywood furniture and decor items.

As for paint colours, I rather like the existing green as a background. Dress the room with green and aqua fabrics and just a tiny bit of pale pink, and see how it looks.

I'd be super excited about a fireplace in a bedroom also!

I also nominate painting the walls a coordinating dark shade. And that seems to be more practical and efficient (even though it is more space) than painting the fireplace.

A nice warm hue that coordinates would add even more to the essence of the fireplace. You could also create a reading nook/area in the corner by the window or in front of the window, with a chair/loveseat & side table. I would also add to the texture and nature of it all in your textiles and accessories.

PS, I also love how coordinated your previous bedroom was. Great color choice & a unique one also.

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Please DON'T paint the fireplace! I think the room would look nice painted the color of your current room, or something else on the darker side of things. I certainly think you can make your current furniture work. I like bepsf's furniture arrangement idea.

I thought about this earlier but didn't mention it. But given how many people are suggesting that you paint the fireplace, I feel the need to speak up.

If you paint the fireplace white, the fireplace tile will look awful. The tile is very deep and rich (especially the tile in the top of the fireplace area) and would just look WRONG with white paint.

Trust me on this. You really have to look at the room as a whole -- not just a series of disparate parts. This is sort of like my mom putting striped awnings on the exterior of her house, but not realizing that she would be looking at those stripes from the inside, also. Everything is connected. (Don't get me wrong, I love striped awnings. But you gotta understand how everything works together...)

Is the fireplace painted black or a dark wood? I can't tell from the photo.
I think your current furniture definitely works in the space, if you like contrasts. With that in mind, I would go with a grayish-brown or a brownish-gray for the walls and trim (matte for walls and satin for trim - just a tiny contrast, a detail really) and pick up the stone/tile (?) on the fireplace with the bedding/window treatment. Also, some pillows for the window seat, and maybe pendant lights for side lamps.
If you are willing to go bold, maybe use your current chandelier as one of the side lamps, and a modern-ish pendant for the other side of the bed - again, contrasts, since your furniture is definitely modern and the fireplace is more of a crafstman (? I can't really tell from the photo). But keeping them balanced through size, color, height (at least one, so there is balance).
Also, I'd pick the contrast concept with the bed linens, contrasting materials there (a crochet/hand knit throw over a satin/silkish spread, linen pillow covers, etc).
That's what I would do if I were lucky enough to find a place like that, and have that gorgeous furniture. Hope it helps, and congrats on the new place.

After reading other comments, I would like to add this to my already huge list:
I'd also go with light colored bedding (classic irish linen maybe, with the lacey edges, which would be a good male/female contrast with you decidedly male furniture), and accent pillows and the crochet/hand knit throw in bright colors, picking up the fireplace tile color.
Now I want that bedroom!!!