I suggest you post over at the Home Decorating forum (http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/decor/). There are some great color experts over there. This forum tends to be more about painting techniques than color choices. That being said, one of my favorite BM reds is Raspberry Truffle, but that might be the shade of red you are looking for. You can ask for advice at your BM store and maybe get a sample pot or two of popular red shades and paint them on some foam board and see what you think.

All these photos are beautiful!! I still haven't figured out how to use the photo gallery on here very well...I searched under "red rooms" but got nothing. ? Have to look into it further. dixiedo - Very nice! I LOVE Swiss Coffee...I have that in my home now. My builder uses BM - "White Atrium" or "Atrium White" (I forget which?!) seems to be the BM equivalent of Swiss Coffee. :) A very nice, warm and cozy white. :) Thank you for your photo! newhomebuilder - Nice! Thank you. I really like your Olive colored dining room as well. Is that a tray ceiling or cathedral in there? Looks great! Love the faux wainscoting! Does look real! I like red rooms....I too think they look very garnished with white but was second-guessing myself with the white faux wainscoting. I think I will go for it now! :) What do you both think I should do about the tray in the ceiling? I think leave it white as I cannot imagine red on the ceiling...might be too much! Thank you for your suggestions/advice. You have helped me a lot.

I love Farrow & Ball's grey/brown tones. For subtle shades, they really have a wonderful selection I like London Stone, which is pretty much my favorite paper bag brown. Get the swatch chart, and have your local paint store match it in whatever base you like. Having said that, I think that a dining room is the least interesting place for a great rug. You don't look at it while you're in the room, chairs and feet scrape back and forth on it, and it's a pain to move everything to vacuum all the dropped crumbs. Here is a link that might be useful: Farrow & Ball

Thanks everyone. I never even noticed the little things in the house you compliment. First off, the brownish goldish mustardy color is called SW Cardboard. It's on the same card as Camelback. Looks better photographed now that I see it. Perhaps it shocked me initially on the wall since I wasn't used to dark colors. Heck, even Rasp. Truffle did at first. There is a story behind my chandelier. When we bought our first home it was original to the house built in 1920. It has 6 matching sconces, which I wish we hooked up. Maybe all your compliments will inspire my husband to do it. But I would hate to cut open my nice new red walls. Def. someday. WEll, back to the story. When we sold the house, we took them with us, chandy and all. We had them in my second home and when we sold that, we took them once again. We knew that in both cases the new owners would have tossed them in the trash. We love antiques and most of what we owned we got at garage sales, trash bins, etc. My husband loves things of quality. He has a good eye for what others would call junk (even me sometimes). Our wood floors are rather plain compared to our old home, which had beautiful parquet with inlaid corners. Yes that is mahogany. I never noticed it. They do need to be refinished or at least get another coat of poly cause with all the work this house has seen, they got the brunt of it.