Pictures of the rooms. please

Accent walls usually work best when there are no openings on them but we need to see the rooms to help you

I don't care for accent walls painted another color.

Most of the time it tells me the person can't figure out what kind of art to buy.

I love accent walls, they create dimension in a room. I generally paint the window wall the deepest color I might be interested in, (the drapery compliments the wall color, either in color or texture)

When I have a solid wall, generally square or rectangle with no odd angles, I like to wallpaper as an accent. It creates real interest, and is an opportunity to show your style. (a specific pattern, like midcentury, or scandinavian, william morris prints are especially attractive for dining or living rooms).

I use accent walls sometimes to enhance a piece of art but yes we need to see the space and how the color for the accent walls connects to what you have in the space .

Thanks, everyone. Here are photos. We're replacing the green and yellow chairs, getting new shades, and we're building a window seat. If an accent wall won't work, maybe all the walls can have paint that's a deep color and not a neutral?

I don't see how an accent wall would work in that room. There are too many openings. I'm also not able to imagine a turquoise that would go with a wine color. However, if you want to get away from neutrals, move away from gray and beige. Look at greens as they compliment burgandy. If you go too blue I'm not sure how that would work unless it skews gray. Maybe BM OC-140 Morning Dew?

There's a lot going on in that room. I don't think it will be boring, but maybe you just need to do something a little different because you're tired of what's there.

The pictures don't enlarge so hard to tell but I don't think a window seat will be very comfortable. People sitting on it would be leaning on the window. Hard to see your sofa but I would get one that is better scaled for the room and place that in front of the windows