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Romantic Bedroom Color Scheme Ideas - Black and Gold

This bedroom has dramatic soft furnishings but the room looks a little lost.

The color on the walls is lacking definition.

The white sheer drapery looks lost against the white wall.

The room requires a deeper tone to provide depth and anchor the soft furnishings, highlighting the white bed linen.

We have four options below of how to enhance the look of this room using only color on the walls.

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Original Scheme

Original bedroom.

Original bedroom.

Option One

Black as a feature wall provides a sturdy backdrop for the white bed linen.

To paint the whole room black would be disastrous making the room too dark, so the existing white wall color would remain on the other three walls.

Note how the gold silk table cover and cushion cover now have presence and the black and gold fabric on the chest define the bed end with a stunning contrast.

The white sheer drapes provide a romantic feeling and soften the normally harsh contrast of black and white.

Option Two

White as the feature wall creates a spacious feeling behind the bed, and gold on the remaining walls provides a warm glow and picks up the highlights in the fabric at the bed end and the silk cushion covers and table cover.

The space still feels roomy as the bed, the largest item in the room, is white and looks larger than it really is.

The drapes add subtle texture to the white wall contrasting only against the black roman blind on the window, and a gold hold back.

White as a feature wall behind and gold to the side walls.

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