Over the weekend I managed to get my hands on some paint samples for the living area walls. Its been really hard to find something that will match the wood fittings as its a bit dark and outdated. Personally I quite like dark woods (however old fashioned), and in my head I was imagining romantic jewel tones to bring it all together nicely. I was almost certain we were going to go with purple or red, something along these lines;

But when I actually painted the samples on the wall, they looked like this.

(Imagine much prettier curtains)

And I don't like any of them. I really don't want to replace all of the wooden fixtures but I just don't know what to do! Anybody have any suggestions??