Up until last week, we had a red dining room (Kilim Red by Ralph Lauren). We used Behr's Swiss Coffee from the chair rail down, and now (after 4 years) are FINALLY putting up the picture frame moulding LOL! SO, not exactly the pic you want, but here is our old dining room (in progress obviously):

There are lots of other red dining rooms on this board if you look under the gallery section!

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We have had one red room in every house we have built.

Our first build had a red dining room, but we used a historical light blue/olive green from BM. It was beautiful and "in" at the time. (I'll post a photo if I can find one.)

In our next house, we had a red billiard room (see photo) with white trim. I always thought the red looked garish with the white trim.
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In our current home, we have a red bathroom with white trim and it looks OK.

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Having said the above, I think your dining room will be lovely. We currently have the picture mould to simulate a faux wainscoting in our dining room, and everyone thinks it is real.

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Here is another of the moulding:

And the old red dining room (remember this was years ago!):

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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.

Our DR has only the white molding beneath the white chair rail. That was enough white in that room for me because I wanted to bring color down to a low level in the room and also I wanted the baseboards to stand out.

All these photos are so nice....I guess I can really do anything as everyone has tweaked it various ways. :) Thank you all for your photos.

Kerry,
I just saw your post for my gray-green issue. Thank you! I love Camouflage, but I think it is a hair too light. As for the picture frame moulding and chair rail...I just painted the new picture frame moulding in my dining room last night and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. It makes a huge difference, and I think it looks just like the "real thing." It changed the whole feel of the room. I think red and white will be stunning. Go for it.

I love the green dining room posted above. We had green in our prior house with the picture frame molding below. A neighbor had done SW cajun red in her dining room with the picture frame below...and it looked great. So when we moved I painted the cajun red. While I loved the red, it just didnt look right with SW super white, which was what the prior homeowner had below the chair rail. I also have several layers of a tray. I was all done painting when my husband told me it looked like a candycane. I was devastated. All that hard work was not intended to look that way, so I repainted below the chair rail SW croissant. That helped as you can see. Ceilings are gold.
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Kerry, I just saw your post to me on the shutter post. I think I answered your question without even knowing....the red is SW Cajun Red from their victorian collection. You cant find it on their color decks, its in a fold out card. Unfortuntely it does not photograph well, its a burnt red with a hint of rusty orange...if that makes sense:) Definately not a blood, fire or burgundy red.

gk5040 - I see what you mean...about the white and the red. But it looks really nice with the gold! My red is very similar to this red you have. The white is a bit "darker" than the Super white. Hopefully it will be okay. ha ha. All these photos are so different yet all of them are all very nice and look beautiful...I can't get over it! It's so nice to see everyone's styles and how they change things up. It is so helpful. I wish I would've found this site a week or so ago when I was choosing paint colors for all my other rooms!!! what a chore?! ha ha. Overwhelming!!!!

I know our builder in our previous home did not use super white, he used SW crystal white, which is much softer and is probably why this room looked like a candycane with super white....it was just too white. I know my friends room looked awesome with crystal white and red. Its ashame that all the pictures I posted really do not reveal the true color of the red. I have tried taking MANY photos of that room and they just dont come out well.

kerry2008 - My dining room ceiling is a deep tray. It looked like an upside down swimming pool until we painted it, however I think the green is too dark up there.

Wish I had painted it the same color as the walls in the adjacent room and maybe cut the formula in half for a lighter tint.