Dresser Paint Color Options – Addicted 2 Decorating®

These are all Behr colors from Home Depot. The colors on the left, top to bottom, are Rococo Beige, Sandstorm, and Sandstone Cliff. The colors on the right, top to bottom, are Casual Khaki, Studio Clay, and Pure Earth.

Since I don’t have the recliner yet, I stacked some boxes in the corner and draped the drapery fabric over them. This fabric isn’t exactly the same color as the chair fabric, but it’s close enough. And then I stood back and looked.

I’ll be honest. I have such a hard time with neutrals. I’m trying to imagine that entire dresser painted in one of those colors and sitting against white wainscoting, and I just can’t even imagine it.

I tried to get a couple of wider views from each direction so that you could see everything together.

The only one that I could even kind of, sort of imagine on the entire dresser is the darkest one, bottom right, Pure Earth.

I don’t know why I have such a hard time with neutrals on furniture and cabinets. So I don’t know what to do here. Should I try the darkest one? It would just take a couple of hours to paint the whole thing.

Or should I do something more colorful, even if it does make the dresser more of a focal point? I know I said I wanted to keep the focus all on the headboard wall, but if that means painting a rather larger piece of furniture in a color that feels like it’s sucking the life right out of me, I might have to go a different direction with the dresser.

I really don’t know what to do here. I know that not everything needs to be a focal point in a room. I get that. But at the same time, what do you do when you’re just simply not a “neutral” kind of person?