I also think that carob chip is a good choice because the brown in it will play well with my other colors. The walls around the dining room are BM shaker beige and browns look really good with it. Carob chip is dark enough to make a big statement, and still has the purple in it that I love without it looking like my daughters room. I'm so excited to paint it! We're repainting our entire house and I'm going to paint the dining room last. I want my first impression of it to be the way it looks with all of the new color around it. It will clash with what is currently on the walls. Hopefully by Sunday night or Monday I will have it finished.

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Here are some possibilities to pull the entire visible space together since it opens onto the kitchen as well. The whole space is a mix of informal (kitchen, living room in distance with slipcovered sofa) and formal (dining room panelling and ornate pendant.) If you're only interested in making one change, skip my Comment. All my suggestions below take into account the kitchen and living room, all visible from the dining room to create harmony in all three areas: --Repaint kitchen and dining room white to match your visible living area on the other side of the kitchen. As mentioned, your dining room and kitchen are dark--dark countertops, dark wall paint, dark floor, dark dining room furniture. Lighter wall paint throughout the entire visible space would give you a sense of flow and airiness. --Remove that decor clock and replace with a beautiful, light colored horizontal landscape art work that will echo the outdoor view of your dining room window. A long, wide art work will give the feeling of another window. Art work can be abstract trees, skyscape, in greens, reds of falls, or whites as below. The creams and whites below echo your dining pendant. You could also do a pairing of two art works on that wall. --Your pendant, though beautiful, seems far too formal for a dining area open to the kitchen and in a mountain house. But if you love it, then pair the ivory color with an art work and nubby linen ivory panels ceiling to at the window per Diana Bier. Also consider a new overhead light in the kitchen to upgrade that space since it's totally opening to the dining area. --Consider adding ivory half slipcovers to dining chairs as shown below since you don't want a rug This will lighten the dining room and, again, echo your pendant and slipcovers at the other end of the space in the living room. (You could also paint the chairs ivory and your counter stools.)

How big is it? I sure looks like a pool table could fit there? If not that , what about some sort of other game space - poker table? foosball? Puzzle table ? These things may be noisy in an open concept... A nice reading area is great or what about a great bar? Some nice pub tables and a full bar against the wall?? I would post some more pictures - what do you see when you have your back to the windows? Could you go the opposite way and actually close off the room for something quiet? Just some thoughts