Adios Jungle Room

We have this room in our basement. It came with the house. It was this way when we bought it. We left the room as it was for far too long. It has no windows and had (note past tense) atrocious wallpaper.
Exhibit A:

On one wall we have the predators:

(See those sneaky zebras? They think they are so cool trying to hang out with the tough predators. They are trying very hard to look all bad ass.)

On the other wall we have the prey:

(Stupid antelope! Look out!! There's a leopard RIGHT THERE!!!)
And in between there is a built in dresser and a swanky 70s sparkle spatter mirror:

And that my dear reader, is why we call it the Jungle Room. Everytime I've walked into that room I can hear the voice of Marlin Perkins narrating the kill that is about to happen. Don't you think the carpet kind of looks like the African savanna? With the waving grass? No? It looks like vomit to you too huh? Ah well...
Anyway- the Jungle room is no more! This weekend I tore down the wallpaper (it wasn't too difficult considering the glue holding it up there was older than I am), tore down the mirror (I live in fear that mirror spattering is going to come back into style *shudder*- we must unite to never ever let that happen- not even in a retro tounge-in-cheek kind of way. Never.)
And I also learned how to tape drywall at drywall school. Or at least I think I did, it's a little debateable until it dries. Soon the Jungle Room will become the Home Office of Productivity. (The former Home Office of Bill Paying is now the Baby's Room of Diaper changes.)

So, if you had a windowless room in your basement, and you wanted it to be less cave-like, what color would you paint it?