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From a strictly color theory standpoint, you need to use contrast to draw the eye where you want it to go. A contrasting color like blue would compete and draw your eyes away from the furniture, a neutral like grey brown or beige would also draw your eye to the most interesting color: the red-brick and leave the furniture out of the picture.

If you want the furniture to be the focal point, you need to use an analogous palette: orange, red, and yellow wall color with enough texture would make it so the eye "rests" on the neutral furniture and bedspread.

For example in a picture like this by Matisse: http://www.hep.yorku.ca/menary/publications/matisse.jpg the eye is naturally drawn to the contrasting white inside the window and the orange/reds are pushed backand hardly noticeable.

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