While I was in Lowe's looking for a gray paint, I noticed their walls are painted gray. I matched paint chips from the store to their walls and painted my office with it. It looks surprisingly great with whitey white white semigloss trim. My daughter liked it so we painted her room with the same color. It's easy to find the match since all the Lowe's stores are painted with it.

We have a medium brown leather sofa and ottoman in our family room and used SW Worldly Gray walls- a light gray with a beige tone to it. Looks great with the brown leather.

It doesn't matter, honestly. Brown leather will look great anywhere. A bit different, depending on the background-yet still great. Whether the walls are warm or cool.

Take the trees. Let's call them brown (even though many are greige, gray, reddish, white with black spots, or even rainbow))

They look great in the fall when everything around them is golden rusty and red

and they look great in the winter when everything around is white and stark

You get different feel when looking at them, in different seasons.

Yet you never think "these brown trees don't work with their background"