I'm coming in late to this thread, but here's a few photos. You can click on the photos to see more at my photobucket album. Master bath with natural-cleft quartzite floors More master bath - the missus' makeup area. I made the little jewelry cabinet on the counter. Den (Scherr's cabinets, finished and installed by me) Living room/music room (tile is tarvertine with copper accents in a pinwheel pattern) Swimming pool (my daughter walks on walker :) This is actually the view directly out my kitchen windows. The waterfall cascades into the pond, then feeds back into the pool. The backyard at night, an awesome place for small dinner parties.

i'm on bedrest or i'd whip over and take a few pics, but let me try to explain. in the living room, the maple floor has a walnut inlay about an inch wide that outlines the wood. the inlay stops the wood floor from running right off into the stairs by providing a frame of sorts to the room. the same is done on my landing to the master suite (the frame) and then in the door specifically we have one strip of wood running the same direction as the door, and from there the rest of the floor radiates out on a diagnal (pointing to the lake). THE SAme (stupid arm hits the cap button) will happen in the family room...with a wood strip stopping one wood and then the other wood will run at a different angle to the landing. if instead you tried to just run the exact same wood in the same direction as the other wood in your home...well it's akward (AND i've seen it more than once this way). i personally find having the same wood throughout the entire house gets boring. i want my rooms and home to have destinct personalities, but personalities which flow well :) hopefully i've acheived that by keeping the tones comfortable with each other. if not,maybe the magazine folks will run out screaming when they come to shoot (patient suckers i'll say!) heh heh

I absolutely adore that blue hutch in your kitchen and the sunroom ceiling color. Amazing! Seeing the tones in those and the floor/cabinets/counters, I would chose a fairly neutral tone trim color like BM Simply White. If the tone has any warm reds it could read pink (our engineered cherry floors did this to us) or yellows it will emphasize the counters. Since your floors have an orange tone (at least on my monitor) and that's opposite on the color wheel from the blue hutch and accents throughout your home, I recommend not encouraging or contrasting that color. Essentially, adding more warm color tones like Cotton Balls would make the warm tones even more dominant and adding cool would provide contrast, potentially making the warm pop more. A neutral tone will let the two coexist without dominance. Threers is right about lighting too. My husband rebelled at daylight lights in most rooms, but our kitchen was the one room that really needed it. Higher kelvins can wash out some of the warm tones, which can make the colors better go with the rest of your home.

Yes, it's a really nice look with the painted paneling, and I like your idea to keep it all one color. I had the same issue with White Dove looking too cool in a north-facing dining room, so I painted the walls and trim in BM Linen White. It's a beautiful warm off-white that works very well in a traditional space such as yours. I don't think it's a problem to have White Dove in the other rooms--my kitchen is Snowfall White and it doesn't look bad next to the dining room. There's enough of a difference between the two colors that they don't really compete with one another.