Just painted a large canvas (28x32?) with Ivorie. Looks like a beautiful creamy yellow in my LR- walnut floors, cherry and dark toned furniture, red accents. I brought the SAME canvas into my kitchen- natural/honey toned cabinets and the color reads a little green :( Unfortunately its my kitchen that needs to be painted. I will remember the color for when I want to redo the LR.

Ms222 Oh my, what a great house on the water. You love modern...really nice table and chairs. If you go all modern and plan on keeping the same kitchen floor plan you will have to replace all the doors top and bottom, eliminate the two short staggered cabinets on top and add cabinets in their place on the same line as the others. Eliminate the upper moldings style and backsplash; the countertop would work fine as is. Eliminate the chair rails and replace all interior doors. I would paint your walls in a flat paint and see how you like it and then decide when or if to eliminate the texture. When I painted my son's textured walls in Behr porpoise gray flat paint we had to touch the walls to even know the texture was there. However, it's hard to see how much texture you have in your pictures and we don't know if there is texture behind the chair rails. Anyway, after all that you'll have a good start on transforming it all to a completely different look. I know it might seem overwhelming but once you get a start on it it will be fun. I almost envy you because I'm a gal who needs projects and mayhem; I'm in limbo now just fixing things up to sell for a future downsize. Not fun! In my next house I'm hoping to do a completely different style. I want to buy the little stinky 60's house across the street from the waterfront mansions. Then I plan on becoming their very bestest friend and ride around in their yacht lol. Jill, please post after you go to the NY store and tell us of the quality. I have never actually touched Lillian August furniture. I really love so many things on the online site though and like the fact that there are a few things in my price range. Of course all the sofa's and chairs I really love are at the highest prices... boo Looking forward to your report!

Loribee's home is Standish White, and it's absolutely beautiful. Every time I see a photo, I want to repaint my entire house that color. I'm not sure how to post links, but if you google standish white, the first image is hers. You could also do a search of her name or of standish white here.

I guess the two floor colors. We can't really judge the colors with the unfinished floor other than which ones we like better in and of themselves. So I vote for the warm ones! They seem to go well with your warm tile samples too. I'm not sure what backdrop means in the above photo. I think the cooler colors do look nice with the cooler dark brown but I prefer the warm ones with the chestnut colored floor. This post was edited by snookums2 on Thu, Dec 6, 12 at 21:54