It's lucky that my friends are invisible...I can set a pretty table, but I'm a terrible cook!!!!!!!! and yes, I am guilty of chatting with them while I set the table!!! If I were to chat with DH or Cat while I was setting a table for nonexistant company, they would look at me STRANGELY!!!! Love y'all, you are adding lots of smiles to my long, gloomy day!!!

This is probably my favorite gallery (at least today!) Wish I could add more than one pic at a time from my computer without using Photobucket.

Woah, they're selling that stuff on German Ebay, complete with 3M or magnetic attachments, "so you can easily take it with you when you move." Something like 200.00 Euros for 4 feet long (10.00 for shipping). Here is a link that might be useful: Ebay

Since the dark color works with the dogs, what about putting up chair rail, painted your trim color (which appears to be some variation of white) and then go to a light color on the top half of the wall - that is what the eye will appreciate most anyway. Maybe even a shade of the blue that is in the bath? Track lighting from the ceiling lights would be a great way to bring light into the area, and wash the walls with some light. Add a couple of large posters framed in brushed nickel to bounce some light, something with some color and movement, could go on the long wall we see. Or a collection of framed mirrors of all shapes and sizes, which would bounce light, be interesting, but all be small enough that it wouldn't matter what was being reflected in the mirrors.