What Wall Paint Goes With a Cherry Wood Bedroom Set?

Cool Tones

• Cool tones belong in the bedroom. They promote rest by calming the mind and soothing the soul. A cool color provides pleasing contrast against its warm color-wheel opposite, which makes pairing watery blues or pale or mid-green walls with warm-colored cherry wood furniture doubly tempting. In the world of color, opposites balance each other or work well together, as is often the case with relationships.

Neutrals

• The trendy “greige,” or gray-beige, is ideal on walls that are wrapped around warm cherry-wood furniture. Choose a gray-beige that reads as a little warmer or slightly more brown to support the furniture visually. White walls would complement the warm-colored set, but instead of starkly contrasting pure white, opt for off white or antique white.

Analogous Colors

• Analogous colors are close to one another on the color wheel. They have similarities, such as a warm coloration, for example, which can work well in a bedroom. The look created with a cherry-wood bedroom set and walls in another warm hue, such as mahogany or burnt orange, will have richness and elegance. Give the eye some resting places with accessories in a third lighter or brighter analogous color -- perhaps a yellow-tan or coral.

Focal Wall

• A room’s focal or feature wall is usually the wall facing you as you enter. This is typically the best place for a bedroom’s leading character -- the bed. The linen-cloaked star deserves an elevated setting; hang eye-catching wallpaper on just the one wall behind it and paint the other walls in a color pulled from the paper. Or paint the feature wall black for drama, and adorn it with white stenciling or subtle-colored artwork. You could play off a rich wood headboard with bronze, pewter or gold metallic paint. Neutral-on-neutral stripes aren’t overly stimulating in a restful space. Consider paint techniques, which provide layers of color or a textural aspect, and are often simpler to achieve than you may think. Creating the look of leather, plaster, linen or another material that goes well against earthy wood usually requires little more than a couple of paint colors, glaze, and a sponge, crumpled plastic bag, rag or stippling brush.