Flax/oatmeal linen.

Waht is the bedding ? I use the bedding to set the colors and style of the bedroom. Make sure if you read in bed that the upholstered headboard can handle that . I find most fabrics do not handle that well . Waht are your choices from the bed maker ?I think the furniture can handle almsot any color headboard , wall color should alwsy be chosen last IMO

What is the flooring? Is it carpet or hardwood? If hardwood, what is the rug?

What IS the upholstered bed you're considering? What is the look and feel you want in the room? Show the actual room in this new house: ) Know too, that "Agreeable gray" or any gray for that matter, is not the only wall color on earth: )

I’m doing a grey taupe darker carpet. Considering the West Elm Emmett tall bed 58” in Performance Velvet Sand.will it work??

The carpet feels too dark, and a bit too cold a gray. The performance velvet is fine, but again, depends what bedding you may like!. We've no clue the rest of your home, what is on the floors in the rest of your home. That gray, is too dark for your room, and a big NO everywhere else. Sorry. Is it ordered?

We ask for pictures, more info as it provides more context: )

The floors to the bathroom that but up against the master bedroom are a dark grey tile. (See Photo). The rest of the home is LBT wood (see photo)
The grey carpet is not ordered nor is the bed. The light grey that is in the room already needs to be replaced as it is worn. I have a lighter grey carpet sample of the carpet, do you think this will work?

Not sure what kind of bedding to use. Any suggestions? I just don’t want to order this bed in that fabric if it’s going to be hard to work with other colors in the room.
Thanks so much for your help!!!

Much better, lighter

Now figure out the bedding: )

I took a peek only Pottery barn

Thanks so much for your help!!!
So you think the lighter grey I sent will work or even go lighter? The one that I’m replacing is too light right?

I think what you have in the lighter works

Just know this:

It is not shoes that destroy carpet. Bare FEET kill it!! Why? Because no matter how clean you are, bare feet leave a residue. The residue is oil from your skin, which then attracts the dust, which you then grind in and mat down : ) that happens any color. Answer? slippers.....

Great idea! The carpet there is only 4 years old but pretty worn. Thanks again for all of your help! Now if I can just find some entry way rugs and a runner for my master bedroom I’ll be doing ok. Lol!

Thats a lot of grey. Just saying.

@MichelleMoss

It needs more contrast!! SWITCH UP THE BED fabric, you don't need it to disappear to the furniture.

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The bed is an upholstered headboard and footboard.i did not want dark grey. That’s why I chose the velvet sand. Im planing on adding color in the bedding, artwork and lamps. I’m looking for a serene look.

We have a West Elm upholstered storage bed (similar to Haven) in a linen/flax color and are very happy with it— great solution to skimpy closet space. BUT our BR used to be Agreeable Gray, and the linen color against it was deadly dull.

I would urge you to reconsider gray for the carpet because it will lock you into a not very interesting color scheme, especially with your very nice gray furniture. Instead, I would go with an off-white. A BR doesn’t get a lot of foot traffic, and as Jan Moyer says, wear slippers. If you want a masculine-looking room, get a navy blue fabric for the bed (but maybe not the extra high headboard). Add a punch of orange, yellow, or chartreuse for color.

Personally, I think BRs should be calm and pretty. Soft greens, blue-greens, and gray-blues are always nice and would work with your furniture and off-white carpet. I really like the photo Jan Moyer posted of the room with pale green walls and the mossy green coverlet. Pretty but not overly feminine; calm but not boring.

Here’s a photo of our West Elm bed with blue-green walls (BM Beach Glass):

Here is a photo of the fabric in the agreeable grey walls.we did look at the flax and you are right it did nothing for against agreeable grey.

The furniture is not grey. It’s more in brown tones.The color is Haze. It’s the St.Martin from Arhaus.

The furniture and fabric.

Im not a pro. I really like Caroline O’s bedroom colors. To me, that reads serene. I also like the fifth pic down from Jan’s options. The greens also seem serene, yet warmer, to me.

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I understand what you are saying,.....BUT you painted the walls agreeable gray, you don't have a hardwood floor on which to add a really great rug, You have pale beige furniture. a pale beige.sand headboard, but you have no real contrast. So I'll throw out a challenge? Start playing around with the bedding.....the blues don't look great. Green? what's the relationship with the new rug.? Want to change wall color? A yet lighter rug?

Look again at the darker headboard.

I SEE meh below

Neutral schemes are among the most demanding in design. None are as easy as they appear, no matter how "easy" they may look in a store, or online, and they al benefit from fabulous windows, hardwood floors a great rug.....etc. Bones and infrastructure : )

Here is a photo of the fabric in the agreeable grey walls.

I understand. I just have so much grey in this house. I thought about the off white color called alabaster, for the headboard that West elm offers. I have an off white sectional couch coming, so I did not think that I should get the same in the headboard. I just want to be sure it’s not too yellow.

If I do a dark grey headboard and I have grey tile floors in the bathroom what color carpet would go?

Like this grey for the bed?

It doesn't HAVE to be an upholstered bed........and your bed has not one thing to do with a sectional in your living room. Bedrooms are private spaces. Living rooms are public.: )

Contrast is what you need. It's not just different colors that go well together, it's a balanced mix of lighter and darker tones. Compare your selections to a value chart like this:

If you squint your eyes looking at your pictures, you can see how the tones of your colors align with the values in the chart. If all of your choices are mid-tones with no dark and light areas (as are your major choices so far), it is going to be dull and flat, no matter how well the colors go together. If you look at all the nice pics that Jan included and squint your eyes, you'll see areas of contrast - large or small areas that show very light or very dark, in all of them, even in a small amount. Missing this is like cooking without salt and pepper - bland! Or as Jan said "meh". There's no movement, liveliness or joy if everything is uniform in value.

You also need contrast (and balance!) in texture, sheen, size, shape, pattern... the most beautiful rooms have contrast in at least some of these dimensions - if you look for it, you'll see it.

Yes the slate is better: ) It's also better vertically TUFTED

We want an upholstered bed. We like the one we picked out. Do you have a recommendation for the fabric and carpet? If I do the dark grey what will I do for carpet ?

There is this bed that matches my furniture but I was not a fan of all everything matching.

Bed that matches nightstand and dresser

If I do slate then what color carpet will work against my tile floor in bathroom?

You can DO the palest gray carpet. None of us are in the room or in your light,.

We're all trying to keep you from picking things in isolation as nothing LIVES in isolation. It's a whole.

It's fine to fall in love with a bed, a collection of dresser and side tables. You have to decide the "next" .

You were going to "add color" in bedding, in lamps. Okay.........WHAT color? In that sense? No matter what upholstered bed? They are all to a degree, a bit of a commitment, unless blinding white lol

I understand the contrast so is everyone saying don’t get the velvet sand? If so what color upholstery on the bed and what color carpet?

Would a neutral off white like you see in Restoration Hardware be a good color for the upholstered bed?

Michelle?

We can;t pick your bedding, but if you scroll up? I gave you a half dozen that would work with a slate upholstered bed....to end in serenity.

That's is why I am asking YOU.

When you said, I am going to "add color" what did you have in mind?

You can't pick one thing at a time, you have to pick it all at once. Pick out some images, put them all on a mood board, then see if you have the right variety. Jan gave you tons of great mood boards! None of them have a mid tone grey carpet and a mid tone beige bed and a mid-tone grey furniture. You have to nail down something and work around it, or you'll go around in circles.

I’m going to pick up this swatch called Silver Performance velvet. I called West Elm and Three designers looked at Agreeable Grey paint with the swatches available and thought this color would be good! We shall see! Any thoughts? Then I can move forward with a mood board. Thank you!

Jan, Is this the mood board you like?

yes, Nobody at West elm is seeing your other furniture, btw

My headboard is DEEPER

Understand. They brought up on line my nightstands from Arhaus. So you think that grey will still be too light?

A bit: ) You have the furniture in your home? Get the swathes next to it?

Will do! Thank you!! Hopefully I will be able to tell which swatch works!! lol!

Well, I went back to the store and got two more fabrics in grey. The lighter one on the left is called Silver Performance Velvet. The one on the right ( darker one ) is called Pewter Distressed Velvet. Again my walls are agreeable grey and pictured is one of the two nightstands.
Any thoughts? Thank you !!!