If you're looking to warm up a room, check out the brown family. You can start with light tan or taupe, which is just a bit stronger than ivory, or go bold with deep mocha or chocolate. Depending on your accents and decor, brown rooms can move from tailored and masculine to chic and sexy.
Light brown is a great choice if you want to take your walls a few steps warmer than white while still maintaining a neutral look. Venturing into darker brown wall color does take a bit more planning, since a room's natural light needs to be considered, as do other decor choices, so your dark brown room doesn't feel oppressive. Softer, lighter accent colors, such as bright white, light pink, or teal blue, all work wonderfully with dark brown walls to create a bold look that isn't too heavy.
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1. Dunlap Design Group (via Houzz) has created a very airy and modern aesthetic by pairing light brown walls with dark brown painted trim.
2. Light brown can look crisp and clean in the kitchen, such as this light brown kitchen with white accents from Country Living.
3. A pinkish-brown wall color, such as this example from House Building Collection, is modern and sexy while still feeling neutral.
4. Tan-mocha walls, such as in this living room from Eclectic Revisited, look incredibly tailored in a room with cream and wood accents.
5. Deep tan walls translate as rich and classic, like this study from Coastal Living.
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6. This pink and brown living area from Chinoiserie Chic is a classic combination that looks effortlessly elegant. Chinoiserie chic, indeed.
7. Brown walls in the bedroom can feel plush and soothing if the room has an abundance of natural light.
8. A mix of brown and teal looks warm and modern.
9. Rich chocolate brown walls work wonderfully in a room filled with bright natural light.
10. Deep brown walls, like this example featured on It's So Very Cheri, look incredible when paired next to a bright white border.
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I'm generally not into brown walls, but I love the dark chocolate in combination with chartreuse in #9.
In my first house, when I became single, I moved into the smallest bedroom and painted it a cocoa color -- a warm, restful nook. I liked it so much that I painted the living room the same color. In my second house (a Queen Anne style built in 1906), I used Behr's "Prestige" in the living room and was pleased with it until I found that though I perceived it as "cocoa with a slight pinkish cast," my boyfriend called it "purple"! In our current home, the bedroom is Behr's "Amazon Stone," like 90% dark chocolate but with enough gray in it to make it relaxing instead of bracing.
I've always like brown with pink. Was is Saks Fifth Avenue who once upon a time used that for packaging? (I miss some of the old department store bag and gift box design...Bonwit Teller, especially).
The danger in using dark brown is straying into poo brown. You have to avoid certain undertones.
There are some delicious color schemes featured here, but the number 2 (!) photo is, to my eye, many shades of beige. Not brown.
We lucked out by moving into a house whose master suite was already painted the most luscious deep brown... sort of a "chalky" brown, with cool undertones. Very soothing, and goes perfectly with our white wrought iron bed frame and a milk-glass vase of hydrangeas. I never want to repaint. It's rather close to image 7, a little lighter maybe. I love brown walls, anywhere!
Thumbs up on eight out of ten.