With light brown, you have so mnay options. You could go with teal, or burgundy, a deep rose, dark green. Or if you want a really sophisticated look, stay with neutrals--shades of brown, copper, metallic gold, black. My dd has her entire apt, in neutrals, and while it's not something I'd ever choose (I LOVE color), it's striking. I'd try to have a good contrast in value (intensity), but pretty much any color could go nicely with a light brown. What else are you working with? what color are the fixtures? the vanity? the floors/ceilings/walls?

@Beth H et al.. yes, and I'm really thrilled with all of the recommendations, everyone has style and it's great to see varying opinions. So I don't want to think anyone has wasted their time, I think down the road in the near future, we will go with something built out pretty much like you were suggesting early on. As we just finished the remodel within the last year, we are not up for building anything out or even tiling the wall at this point. We don't need new furniture at the moment (kids will ruin it anyway). For now, we were looking for something minor / superficial, if that's the correct verbiage. While we know now, that it may not look "perfect", it's where we're at now. That said, we don't want to do anything (now) with the fireplace, what we are open to is: some type of shelving (which would have to be shallow in depth, I think), definitely plants (faux preferably), artwork or like I mentioned (which may have gotten lost), is maybe B&W canvas print collage (I'm a part-time photographer and we have zero photos of our kids displayed). We are also open to putting a small corner piece to the left side, but it would have to be very small footprint as we only have about 12" from the wall to the lightswitch near the slider, but after hearing/seeing some of the plant options, I think we prefer that. Another note, we (I) have a floor subwoofer to the right hand side, you can see my wife's aerogarden sitting on top of it until we find a home for it :) Hopefully, that helps, again, I really do appreciate everyone weighing in and taking a lot of time for the mock ups. -Matt

what kind of help did you need?

Just Google "Wall Stickers for Boy's Nursery" A million photos will come up. Consider the decals as a teaching moment for the boy. He could be able to identify animals or recognize his name.