Warm Beiges

• Replace your stark white walls with room surrounds with a warmer feel by selecting warm beiges. Choose yellowish beige hues to replicate the soft and unbleached feel of old-world walls and fabrics. To ensure that your beige doesn't clash with the rest of your decor, carefully match several samples to existing furniture pieces to pick the perfect palette.
  
  

Rustic Faux Finishes

• The drywall that makes up modern walls differs greatly from the stone and wood walls of the old world. While you likely aren't going to replace your walls with alternative materials, you can give your walls the feel of another material. Use faux finishing techniques to make your walls look like stone, using gray hues to create variation akin to the kind you would find in natural stone. Create a parchment-style look with beiges and yellows.
  
  

Metallic Trims

• Metallic accents reigned supreme in some old-world decor schemes. Feature these reflective accent tones by painting your current trim in metallic hues to make the wood appear less traditional and more like metal pieces that decorators may have featured in years gone by.
  
  

Italian-Inspired Murals

• In old-world Italy, decorators didn't hang paintings as often as they simply applied the paintings to the walls. Borrow this habit by placing Italian-inspired murals around your space. Look back at some classic Italian mural art and mimic the work of the masters, using soft, ethereal hues to create your works of art.