I posted on another board and someone suggested painting back window all (photo attached) but leaving bay window alone so it doesn't feel so rectangular.

I avoid painting accent colors on walls that have doors or windows. I do make an exception for fireplace walls if the fireplace is the only thing on the wall.

I would paint the navy wall cream too. This space doesnt seem like it benefits from accent walls

My couch and area rug is white. I don't really want to go with an all cream colored room.

Does this help?

I'm sure there's apps out there for this huh lol thank you. Sending this pic to my BF now

What do you think carolins? The room seems dark but there is actually a ton of light. Today is a very grey day. Eventually we are adding in white interior plantation shutters to the windows.

From what I see I like it a lot ,once you will have your furniture in the room you will too . Paint only one wall navy .

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Curious to see what you're going to do. To paint or not to paint, that's the question of today :-)

Oh sorry, hadn't seen your question before I posted my previous comment. What would I do? Hmm... I would paint the window wall navy too. But I do like dark accent walls, so I'm sort of biased. And I think that the dark wall colour frames the window nicely. So yeah... even though it will make the room feel darker.

I'll definitely post an after photo when the room is finished and I can finally put all my furniture back. Thanks again for the photo.

The stationary drapes would be amazing for the back window wall. Unfortunately I hate the bay window we have so I am thinking shutters for that in the front.

But I want it to flow so it's either drapes or shutters. The bay window is making it real hard

I like just the one dark accent fireplace wall and not the window wall.

Do navy drapery on the window wall instead.

I am actually really loving the drapes idea and not painting that wall navy now. Thank you BeverlyFLADeziner.

And so funny because I was on pinterest looking for ideas for drapes for the bay window and that first image popped up and I had to send it to my boyfriend because this is something we should consider zzmom40

Good luck.

White sofas? I would paint the entire room navy. Love.

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Yes my sofa is white. It's a large white leather L shaped sofa. Going to put it on the back corner there.

You're not painting that wall navy? Shame. I think it will be really good. I prefer white curtains on a navy wall. But there we are, it's your room ;-) I do like JudyG's suggestion of going really brave and painting the entire room navy. I love that! And people who've asked for opinions here and actually took the step to paint the whole room are very happy that they did.

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Carolins - the problem with my bay window is that it doesn't go to the ceiling like in those photos. It's a bit different. It's a bit lower. I'd have to put the rod outside of it.

I am definitely still debating on the entire room being navy. The second person I have to convince is my boyfriend (it's really his home but he's letting me choose the colors and furniture). He feels it may be too overwhelming. I told him in the beginning let's paint the entire room navy. I feel once we get the baseboards in and furniture moved in he will see if should paint the entire room navy.

If you decide to go all navy then your furniture should be very light in colour.

add a lot of lights and mirrors too.

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My sofa is white and my area rug is light in color too. :)

There are ceiling tracks. However the window itself is crooked. My boyfriend actually went in and sanded the walls flat because the texture was so bad.

I really like it as is.... I think the space looks great with the one accent wall... Or you can paint out the navy wall cream to match the rest and do navy drapes. But im biased because I painted my largest wall in a semi open floor plan navy (sw indigo batik to be exact). My adjoining walls are mindful gray by sw. :)

One accent wall only as you have it.

What would you all think of a stencil design on the navy wall as well? Gold metallic paint over the navy. I bought the stencil but I am having second thoughts.

I think it would depend on what else was happening in the room. It sounds very active. The fireplace surround is beautiful but more subtle, and gold patterning around it might make it harder to appreciate. As it is, the dark color around it highlights the stone nicely.

I have been an interior designer for 38 years. Just about all of my friends are in the design industry. No one does accent walls. Very old-----dated idea. Sorry. Paint it cream like the rest of the walls. Put your navy blue in your fabrics and accessories.

I ended up painting the back wall navy and surprisingly looks great. I left the wall in the front cream and the wall for the TV cream. I'm getting curtains for the back wall which will be white against the navy wall.

The room isn't done yet (we are doing everything ourselves, sanding/texturizing the wall flat and installing baseboards). But when it's finished I'll show you the photos.

one bad part is our couch is large and does block an entrance to the kitchen. We may end up putting a door there to block it off

And no gold stencil on the wall. I am going to put that in my small office instead