Create a Colour Scheme

Using art as a starting point for a colour scheme is a time-tested strategy.  Here, in fact, the art was chosen from the owner's collection AFTER the orchid wall colour was painted.

It is not an iron-clad rule that paint colour must be chosen last, although often that is the most obvious choice, since there are thousands of paint colours to choose from and that is not the case with other elements in your room..  On the other hand, your art, fabrics and furnishings need not match your walls exactly.

Here, the colours in the painting do actually harmonize with the wall colour.  Next, pillows were chosen with the Moroccan motifs of the painting in mind.  The black oblong one in the front brings out the black frame of the painting very nicely, and, now, everything belongs.