gottabeme's picture looks good! Only concern I have with maple is - I recall when looking at kitchen cabinets I was told that you should do a dark stain on maple, and probably a glaze as well because it doesnt take light stains well and tends to blotch. Maybe the maple in the picture is just natural maple with just a clearcoat?

I just checked and that piece has an Early American stain on it.

Are you making or having custom pieces made? If not most manufacturers and craftsman, have a system of staining that keeps the color even.

IDK if I will need to go custom or not - it might depend on what pieces we decide to add and what I can find in a style that fits in. A lot of the danish style stuff has the midcentury spindle type legs which I'm not fond of. I may lean toawrds a transitional style piece if it has the right scale - scale is another issue since our exiting furniture has a much smaller footprint compared to what I am seeing these days.

Wondering is natural cherry would work? It seems like the grain may be similar, and it is fairly light.

You might want to look for cherry, Brazilian cherry, or mahogany. You can also find vintage furniture that is stained to look like mahogany. Then there is always teak, too. Rosewood is beautiful wood. Good luck!

Depening on what you want to add to your bedroom, I think something painted would be interesting. Not in a color(blue, green, pink, etc.), or even white. I could see black or off-white, depending on what the piece looks like. I also love the look of natural wood, but did break it up a bit with some painted things. Just thinking outside the box(wood of course!). ;)

I'd go even lighter with something like birch or beech.

I think the Danish Modern piece is Walnut. When I married DH #2, all his furniture was DM and he said the wood was Walnut.

I've only seen Oriental furnishings in Rosewood, and the color is more of a mahogany, with a pink to red/burgundy hue.

Are you sure your bedroom furniture isn't Walnut rather than Rosewood?

The beauty of the rosewood is that it has so many shades in it to choose from so you could go lighter or darker and it will work, so long as you stick with the same color tones...by which I mean, I wouldn't go with anything that's, for instance, gray undertones...rather stick with the warmer red/oranges.

I'd look for wood that coordinates with the lighter shades of brown in the rosewood. We have rosewood flooring (vinyl actually) in our house and it blends very nicely with the cherry woodwork and cabinetry.

Pattycakes, I'm sure it's rosewood and not walnut. i love walnut too, but its more brown. I actually came across a piece for sale online - vintage and it matches our exactly. Apparently rosewood is now protected so the older stuff seems to have increased in value. Ours is 35 years old and the piece i saw advertised is going for more than we paid.

I gave also seen the oriental oieces, and they may be rosewood from a different area because they do all seem to have more of a purple tone than ours.

I think lighter is the way to go. If I use mahogany or Brazilian cherry, it would look like I tried to match it and missed. But I might consider having something made that is lighter but with some dark trim in one of those woods which would tie it all together. Our pieces are pretty dark, with red and black more than orange. I remember when we bought it, one end table came in with more of an orange tone and we rejected it.

I shopped for Danish Modern furniture in the early 60's with my mom. The most prevalent wood was teak, followed by rosewood (more expensive) and walnut (less, and used more prevalently later as teak became more expensive/rare). I have a pronounced sense memory of the smell of the furniture stores, I assume from teak oil.

I'm sitting in one of the teak armchairs we bought; I also have the 3 seat sofa, dining table, and chairs. All teak/teak veneer. I don't remember much discussion (I was 10 yrs old) of deforestation or environmental issues at the time. Now, I would be looking carefully at the origin of the wood used in construction.

I like the contrast of a lighter wood with the rosewood. I think the grain and rich color of the rosewood will look even better in contrast with lighter wood. My parents' home had birch paneling in the LR/FR and ash kitchen cabinets. The teak looked wonderful with the lighter wood. I have also, on occasion, seen lighter wood (birch, maple) furniture with rosewood accents/inlay. You might try natural or caramelized bamboo with your pieces. They could look great if the grains aren't fighting with each other.

I agree with pairing maple, birch, or even cherry with rosewood. I also think white or black painted furniture would be a great compliment. What pieces are you interested in adding? If you're looking for new (not vintage) furniture, Room and Board has a good selection, and they offer a variety of woods for most of their furniture. Plus they have things that fit in with mid-century furniture.

Satinwood and ebony are two woods historically used to compliment palissandre

Casey

Birch and rosewood (1st dibs)

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Beech and rosewood

Elm and rosewood