Hello! I know many of you are really good with color choices and I could use some advice on my dressing room. I'll give you an idea of the surrounding colors -- the space is so small that I'd like it all to work together.

It's a 1939 Tudor cottage with two bedrooms upstairs and a bathroom in between. Both bedrooms are painted RL Thunder Bay (deep camel) with ivory trim and ceilings. Bedroom on one side has charcoal and black accents (he's a minimalist) and ours has black and ivory toile and checks.

Bathroom has black floor tile and toilet (added by previous owners) and peach vintage sink and tub. Not sure what color the walls will be -- I'll save that for a future posting. :)

The dressing room is just a tiny pass-through between our bedroom and the bathroom. The doors on each end are narrow paneled dark walnut. One side has a wide closet with two dark walnut doors. The other has built in cabinets around a window. Below the window, the cabinet has a mirrored surface to use as a (tall) dressing table.

I've always had the cabinets ivory with black knobs, but I keep seeing dark painted cabinets in magazines that appeal to me. Somehow the dark color seems more "vintage."

But what color to use? Would black be too much? Maybe a darker shade of the wall color would be better? or should I try putting a glaze on the ivory to darken it? I've never done any faux painting before...

I would post a picture but all the cabinet doors are already off so there's not much to see.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!