Blue and Brown are one the more popular color combinations right now. Blue is cool and Brown is warm. If you look at the color wheel you can see that the best color combinations are opposites. I think as long as you stay with in the same hues of color it will work great! Good Luck!

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I'm using a grayed-taupe color (BM Litchfield Gray in their historical colors) as our main color. I like it because it has the warmth of the taupe, but the gray tones cool it down enough to allow it to blend nicely with my gray-blues and gray-greens in the bedrooms and kitchen.

Since you're pulling the color from the accent tiles in the existing backsplash, Grassland will certainly go just fine. If you can find towels, shower curtain, rug, that sort of thing in a somewhat deeper version of the Grassland color (say, more like Connected Gray, two shades down on the same strip as Grassland - try JCPenney) that would look VERY snazzy and provide a bridge or balance between the darker cherry cabinets and the light tiles and walls.

I know I've posted this picture a squintillion times, but here's the secondary bath in my previous house combining both warm and cool colors and dark and light hues - light blue walls, white trim/vanity top/toilet (couldn't afford to replace the Barbie-beige tub unit though so we hid it behind a nice shower curtain), dark-chocolate brown cabinets, medium-toned shades-o'-beige floor...

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Thanks so much for your help, I appreciate it. I ended up going ahead and painting with the Netsuke. The Grasslands just didn't look right. I think it's because all the other colors in the tile and cabinetry are so warm, and the Grasslands is a very toned green on the blue side. The paint just looked terribly drab and honestly pretty darned depressing in there.

I have a similar question. In our living room, we have a seafoam (cool bluish green color) on the walls. Our furniture are olives, sand, taupe and bronz. To balance it we have added burgendy as pillows and on couple of chairs. Now this whole situation seem ok, but it is very confusing what to do with the draperies. Any ideas any one? I would really appreciate any expert advise.