sujafr - Thank you SO much for posting the pictures! prill - I can't remember where I got the photos from. (I had them saved in a Word document.) :( prill & lukkiirish - OMG! Yes! The photo with the couch IS Restoration Hardware's Cappuchino! THANK YOU!!! I did a search for that color and lo and behold, the exact same photo came up! Hooray!! Thank you so much!! As for the blue color, the Silver Sage line is very close, but the colors seems to be a touch more silver/green than what I'm looking for. Hmmmm.... *** time passes *** Okay, I just spent way too much time on the Benjamin Moore website. What do you think about Gray Sky?? Could it be the one I'm looking for?

hi, long time since I posted just stacked like it is in a corner looks like something in a mag that a designer put there. although not an original idea using it for wainscoting in a corner or back porch or sun room I have thought of this for my porch and just hot gluing to the wall and using a long pc for the top. just hot gluing it to a pot side by side all the way around and a little taller than the rim . by bundling it just like shown here but in say 4 in round sections with wire then a pc of raffia and then cut to size it would make great table legs . also if you glue up pcs of this with liquid nails it will never come apart and is as strong as anything I believe more than pine. put two long uprights in ground say conduit about 3ft. apart and use wire and attach pcs horizontilaly and make a nice trellis in a hurry . use a pc.plywood for the top and mastic or liquid nails and make a table top then use the other idea for the legs spray on some sealer , darn I want one of those . gotta go Rick

I did my deck in a tan color, with green railings and I love it. I like the way the railings kind of disappear into the green of nature behind them when I look out my windows. In fact, I liked that color so much I painted my shutters that color in the front of the house. But all the pics you showed above are quite handsome too. The job was part finished when I took this pic:

:-) I wasn't really hurt that no one had posted anything yet (in regards to your comment about being sad that there were no replies), as I just posted it at 11 p.m. last night - but I definitely appreciate that you took the time to read and respond! I'm not much of a decorator, to say the least - but I do love warm, earthy tones. The floor pattern we chose was mainly because at that time, we were going to do our kitchen cabinets in the "dreaded" (to some) golden oak, and didn't want the flooring and cabinets to blend into each other (the other pattern we were considering didn't have the black lines - just the "golden" color). Now, with my love of copper and sage for the kitchen counters, I feel like the cabinets need to be something "deeper" than golden oak, with a more red undertone. The kitchen is wide open on two side - one opens to a family room full of windows, the other into a great room full of even more, bigger windows (there isn't a lot of "wall" on our exterior walls...). Everything will be very light and airy, so I thought perhaps I should offset it with some earthier, deeper choices in the kitchen. A blend of walnut and cherry tones might be just right - but now you've got me worried about the overwhelming "red swirls." I do want to keep the copper option on the island. And the flooring has been ordered. Do you have suggestions as to what you would do on the perimeter wall counter (the one 12' run which will have a cooktop in the center)? I didn't think the Metal Earth had that much of red swirls. Or is it the backsplash that should be changed, perhaps? I'm not as tied to that idea. I don't want to tile it, though, so it would probably end up just painted or something else relatively inexpensive, whatever that might be. Would a SS backsplash work, or would that conflict with the copper? I will be putting a SS sink in the copper countertop of the island, with SS faucet - I've been told they'll be fine together. Sorry - I think I just threw out more questions for consideration, didn't I??? Julie