While some people may think that the gray wall is boring and outdated, we actually think the opposite. With proper design and arrangement, painting your walls with gray can create a beautiful, cozy space. The gray walls also can be a great neutral backdrop that can easily blend with any other colorful shades.
However, in gray-themed spaces, furniture colors play an important role, as they can be the key to preventing the entire space from feeling boring and monotonous. And that’s the reason we did an experiment by trying different furniture color variations for a living room with gray walls.
Finally, we can give you an answer. The ideal furniture colors for gray walls are cream, navy blue, white, dark emerald, light blue, and canary yellow. These furniture colors can easily stand out against the neutral gray backdrop, providing an interesting final twist to your interior space. At the same time, they perfectly complement the gray wall, keeping its elegance to create a stylish, calming, and inviting atmosphere.
Read on as we will discuss all these amazing furniture color ideas below.
13 Best Furniture Colors for Living Room with Gray Walls
Cream
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This is one of our favorites. The beautiful combinations of cool gray walls with this warm color create a perfectly balanced space. Since both are neutral earthy colors, pairing them also will bring a natural and fresh ambiance.
The cream comfy couch looks gorgeous as complementary color against the gray backdrop, while the artistic wall art blends flawlessly with the walls behind.
Lastly, cream furnishings can blend really well with almost any shade of gray, from light gray walls to a dark gray ones.
Navy Blue
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To create an elegant and stylish space, we highly recommend this gorgeous tone, navy blue. Using navy furniture with the warm gray wall will create a bold and rich living space but still feel comfy and relaxing.
To warm it up a bit, we add a cream area rug with a blue pattern to keep it looking seamless with our couch and accent chair.
White
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If you want a simple, easy, and risk-free alternative, you should go with white. Well, this no-brainer, neutral color scheme actually can create a fascinating result.
As you can see in the image above, all of those white elements blend perfectly with the gray walls to create a smooth, calm, and crisp space while at the same time looking quite elegant and luxurious.
What we love from this setting is the black and white wall art that blends nicely with the gray wallpaper to bring some artistic touch to the entire space.
White and Yellow
Alternatively, you can add a bit of twist to the white furnishings by incorporating some vibrant yellow accents. This will prevent the white furniture looks boring, and at the same time can spark some joy to the uninviting grey walls.
Since yellow is a very strong and vibrant shade, you don’t even need to add a lot of them, just some small yellow accessories can bring a significant impact to elevate the vibe of the gray wall and white furnishings.
Black and White
This is another stunning color combination that works nicely inside any living room with a gray wall. The gray wall sits on the middle tone between the black and white, creating a flawless and harmonious connection between the wall and the white and black furniture around it.
At first, this may look like a monochromatic color palette, but actually, it’s quite different as the color range stretch a lot from white to black, avoiding the boring and uninviting looks that often occur in the typical monochromatic design.
For the best result, we tend to use more white furnishings rather than black, as this will keep the entire gray living room feel sleek and crisp, while the black elements add some bold and elegant twists to elevate the space to the next level.
Light Gray
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Monochromatic design becomes quite popular in recent years, this style is often used to create a beautiful aesthetic and Instagram-worthy space. You can apply this style by incorporating some light gray furniture and decor items.
This approach will create stunning flawless looks and make all of the items feel integrated with the walls. However, this monochromatic style often leads to a boring look, thus, it’s important to add some accent colors to the space to live it up a bit.
Dark Gray
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This approach will be resulting in a similar result to the previous ones but a more bold and elegant touch. But it’s highly recommended to add some neutral and lighter shade throughout the space to help lighten out the spaces.
A white or cream area rug can be a great option. Or you can also put some bright throw pillow above the gray sofa. Another important thing if you want to use this combination is to make sure that your space had plenty of natural lighting.
Dark Emerald
Incorporating green furniture into a living room with gray painted walls can be tricky, and actually, most of the time this combination doesn’t go well. However, if you still want to use any green furniture, then we highly recommend you to go with any darker green such as this dark emerald.
The dark emerald green had a strong gray color undertone, and this helps to make them blend with the gray walls. To get an even better result, you can choose any dark green furniture with velvety looks, such as glam and velvet dark emerald couches or sofas.
Light Blue
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While most of the previous colors in this list tend to create a simple, elegant, or monochromatic space, this time we try to create a more fun, vibrant and cheerful living area by using light blue.
This cool color works quite well with the gray wall to transform a boring room into a more fresh and lively space.
Light Brown
Brown and gray is a timeless, classic combination that never goes wrong. That’s said, the problem with this combination is that they often look outdated. But don’t worry, you can easily avoid this by using any brown furniture that comes with lighter finishes, and avoiding darker ones.
Most of the time, the light brown furnishings can bring a more modern and up-to-date look, and together with the gray wall, will create welcoming and inviting spaces.
Brown and Blue
For you who still want to use some dark brown items, one of the best ways that you can do to avoid your living space looks outdated is by combining it with other fresh furniture. One of our favorite choices is light blue.
As you can see in the image above, the light blue couch perfectly matched the dark brown leather chair, and together they create a perfect eye-pleasing balance that keeps the entire space soft and soothing but still had some bold and glam characters.
Yellow
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This will show you how versatile gray is. As you can see, although we used a deep, medium tone of gray, it can also still work wonders with yellow furniture to create a sunny, summer-style decor.
The cool gray tone also will help neutralize the vibrant yellow so it doesn’t look overwhelming, but still spreads fun and vibrant vibe to the entire space.
Orange
Or, you can go with orange. The neutral gray wall can be a perfect base to let the orange furniture stand out beautifully without looking overly dominant, as the gray will help neutralize and balance up the vibrant orange, creating a more pleasing visual appearance.
To further enhance the orange, you can add a lot of neutral color throughout your space.
