What colours would bring these rooms to life?

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We've just moved into a 50s semi and are almost starting from scratch. No curtains etc as yet. I'm feeling overwhelmed!

At the moment all walls are cream (crown winterbloom), downstairs floor is parquet and upstairs cream carpet. It feels like a dull beige box but I'm struggling to work out what colours will help inject some oomph. We have two sofas on order, one duck egg blue and one soft dark grey.

Can anyone suggest some colours that will help? In particular for the sitting room and spare bedroom. Both are good size, large bay window, east facing. The cream carpet has to stay upstairs.

We usually like bold colours and prints, e.g I've ordered Korla's grand Kyoto in cherry for our bedroom blind.

At advice would be gratefully received.

I think if you like bold fabrics (and that print is gorgeous) I would first seek out fabrics for curtains, cushions and rugs if you plan to have them, then choose wall colours picking out colour from there. When redoing our living room, I fell in love with a John Lewis 50s print fabric, lived with it as a cushion for a couple of weeks, then ordered the curtains and chose the wall colours, light shades etc to balance and tone with that fabric, which is warm grey with citrine. I used Pinterest a lot to collect my possibilities together and see how they'd work.

I would love to do that, TheGirlOnTheLanding, we took our time with our old house and it paid off. All windows are uncovered at the moment so I need to make some quick decisions. I think starting with curtains/blinds is probably the way to go.
Good idea to use Pinterest--I'll begin collecting!

Do you think cream carpets limit us in any way? Maybe not...

Depends on the shade of cream I suppose but I'd count it as a neutral unless it's overwhelmingly bright. Curtains/blinds seem like a good starting point - depending on what you go for you might find you don't even need to change the walls.