The room is lovely! That wall color with the white trim is just divine! It looks great with the wood tones of the furniture and floor.

That bureau is so pretty! What a great piece! I'd paint the bookcase. Can you add toss pillows or padded seats to the rockers to lighten them up a bit?

I had a similar question about mixing paint colors for furniture in a room. I'm about to redo our bedroom, and we have 2 dressers, 2 nightstands, a chair, and a small chest of drawers. I was going to paint it all white, but that's too much even for me. I think I finally decided on white for the big dressers and small chest, a color from the quilt for the nightstands, and some distant or complimentary shade for the chair. Someday I'd like stained dressers, but that's not in the budget right now, and leaving them as-is looks tacky (one is an acceptable light oak, the other is a very dark badly done ?pine piece) so paint it is!

Ttodd, My vote is for the blue bookcase. Can't wait to see that room. I'm one of those people who follow the odd rule, so I would love to see a little blue in a fabric also. That would makes 3 spots.

I like an uneven ratio whether it be mostly stained furniture with some painted or the other way around.
I have a bedroom with mostly painted and one piece of stained. It looks good.
The point is to make the smaller number pieces focal points or accent pieces.

2-1 sounds good. Thanks! I typically try to work in odd numbers but was having a problem seeing the overall picture since I had so many pieces about. DH said he didn't care if I painted the bookcase.

Thanks Franksmom! I'm hoping that the wall color won't be too dark for her tree mural. I don't want to go too dark on the leaves. That bureau looks totally different from when I bought it for $10 or $15 7yrs ago. It was burnt orange w/ big wooden knobs. I bought new glass knobs and glued on the 2 wooden decals. DH found small wheels at his shop and put those on for me to raise the height to a more comfortable changing table height for us.

Jerseygirl - well you know the adult rocker needs to have the seat reupholstered and I've been going back and forth between cream or blue. Maybe a print w/ both colors? Her curtains are a natural muslin color w/ pom pom trim and her bedding is almost he same color as the wall w/ a brown toile print and a cream matelasse quilt. Soft pink sheets.

Bumblebeez - that is an excellent point about focal points and I didn't want to take away from the bureau by adding too many painted pieces.

Do you know how the pieces will be arranged in the room?  I am thinking of a room that I know with mixed white and stained pieces. There are two  white twin beds with a stained table between, a large stained dresser across the room on the opposite wall, and a white vanity and white writing desk on the side walls. There is also a large wood antique trunk in a side alcove with a huge white mirror hanging over it.

Anyway, my point is, maybe it's also about harmonious distribution around the room instead of just the right ratio. In this room, it's about 50/50, BTW.