What Colors Go With Chocolate-Brown Furniture?

Many colors work well with chocolate-brown furniture, because to create brown you must mix many colors together. This offers you a great deal of flexibility when you're decorating; because most colors blend well with brown, a neutral color, you can concentrate as much on your sense of style as you do on the accent colors to go with your chocolate brown furniture. Does this Spark an idea?

Pink

In color psychology, pink exudes calmness while brown promotes stability. As such, these colors complement each other well. Use your chocolate brown furniture as a visual anchor for pink accessories like a fleur-de-lis patterned wallpaper. Extend the pattern on your wallpaper to your couch or bed by adding pillows with the same pattern on it. In a child's bedroom, paint dollops of pink ice cream on top of chocolate cones on the doors of a closet or above the window to add a decorative element. Make a visual tie between the two colors by selecting accessories that have both colors in them.

Blue

A chocolate brown and blue color combination finds favor among people who like to mix warm and cool colors together in their decorating schemes, and decorating styles from Moroccan to Southwestern embrace color schemes that bring brown and blue together. To bring this color combination into your space, paint your walls a dusty Southwestern blue and hanging up brown ceramic Kokopelli dancers on the wall. Throw an afghan of robin egg blue onto the back of your couch or reading chair. Paint the shelves of your bookcase blue. Add blue stenciling to your painted chocolate brown furniture.

Yellow and Red

Color combinations featuring yellow, red and chocolate-brown appeal to people who love warm fall colors. Make the most of these colors by choosing accent pieces that bring texture into the room. Push an ottoman that's upholstered with a red, yellow and chocolate-brown brocade fabric up to your couch. Lay down a satiny yellow and red table runner on your painted chocolate-brown kitchen table to dress it up. Hang linen curtains with red, yellow and brown autumn leaves on the window; use a large branch that you've painted red or yellow as a curtain rod.

Green

Chocolate-brown and green together evoke the richness of a caramel-covered green apple. Use your decorative accents to incorporate this color combination into your room. Add a wreath made of ivy leaves, pine cones and chocolate-brown ribbon to the wall. Hang sepia-toned pictures with chocolate brown mats on a mint-green accent wall. Paint a tree mural on the wall of your baby's room; give the tree a chocolate-brown trunk, dark green leaves and light green apples. A lamp with a hunter-green shade and chocolate-brown base sheds some additional light on a reading area.