The terra-cotta ground in the bedroom motivates one to your villa in Tuscany, along with also the green comforter complements the warm hues in the ground. So you have the beginning of a colorful bedroom, however, the wall shade determines where you go next. Lift the decor up to Renaissance splendor or dial it back to casual Southwestern. One trick to keep in mind — move light on wall color to feature the pairing of terra cotta and green.

Creamy Canvas

Terra-cotta tile is just a rainbow of hues when you examine it carefully, so select a softer interpretation of white, which contains all colours, for walls that frame the delicate dynamic of their clay flooring and celery silk comforter. Leather, antique white, ivory or tea rose are rich enough to balance the textures of floor and bedding, with no overshadowing either. You can now hang floor-length tapestry-style brocade drapes that might have graced the chambers of a Medici villa and then indulge your internal doge. A gilt-framed pier glass along with a plush carpet in muted variations of orange, red, olive, artichoke, cream and taupe finish the tableau within the light-enhancing walls.

Sun Shades

Apply apricot paint to the bedroom walls with a synthetic technique to increase texture and vary the play of light over the walls. The blush of orange from the paint borrows in the flattering clay tile flooring color. The intense ground, graduating to a lighter wall along with linen or ivory ceiling, casts a warm glow over the room, along with also the green comforter punctuates it, drawing attention to the bed. Color-washing, rag-rolling or sponging provide the overall look of plaster or stucco walls. With this particular color scheme, you can go Florentine or Santa Fe, based on the fabrics that you select for the bedding and curtains. Silk, taffeta and damask appear as refined on the windows because they do at a bed canopy and curtains. Linens, cottons, appliques and quilting flaunt ethnic layouts and impart a homier vibe.

Nature’s Palette

An olive or bottle-green comforter against a mottled terra-cotta floor appears quite Arts and Crafts once the furnishings have easy wood frames and also the room is colored in dark hues from nature. Paint the walls apartment gold — a dusky marigold, tarnished old gold, pale mustard, goldenrod or orange chiffon. Gold catches the sunlight of orange and yellow but contains hints of green, so that it disperses the green and terra cotta of the bedding and ground without being intrusive. Keep the remainder of the room low-key and relaxing with delicate shades in the Arts and Crafts palette on accessories — deep reds, soft browns, transparent cobalt, turquoise with a hint of gray or black. Cover the ground with Arts and Crafts-style area rugs in a variety of browns and greens, highlighted with oranges and cinnabars.

Terra-cotta Blues

Paint the bedroom walls pale turquoise, a washed-out blue-green that is nearly as translucent as shallow water. Blue is the complement of orange, its exact opposite on the color wheel, and green picks up the colour in the comforter. The delicate wall color is restful and relaxing, creating a nest-like retreat in the bedroom. Add deeper turquoise taffeta drapes or loose-woven bark-colored linen curtains and a gleaming modern abstract carpet or small rough-woven Berber rugs to highlight the formality or informality of the decor.

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