Brieen, the room is about 10 ft x 10 ft. Valinsv, nice office! Our cabinets are already here. They are made by Kitchen Craft (a Canadian Company). We bought cabinets for the kitchen, office and all the bathrooms at the same time. They are really nice quality, dove tail drawer construction, full extension and soft close. I especially love my kitchen cabs in Maple painted seashell. Your wood counters are really nice but that is not going to happen for us. I made the decision today with out GC to use matte black laminate and he is going to trim the edge in beveled maple, stained to match the cabinets. I hope it looks good. Thanks for the help!

you know....I like to think of myself as very computer literate..;but for some reason when it comes to posting pictures on this forum..I can never get it right!!! Why isn't there just a simple upload link?? anyway, I'm not sure how to make those pictures any bigger. They are in shutterfly. I will try a link instead.

Sorry I haven't answered the questions. Been away for a few days. It's funny about those two boat prints as they weren't meant to be offset. The picture hangers that I attached to the wall are the same distance from the ceiling! The problem is that the picture wire attached to the prints isn't the same length so one ended up hanging lower than the other and I didn't want to make new holes in my freshly painted wall! Now that I think about it, I guess the easiest way to fix it is to shorten the wire that is too long. Duh??? Caminnc, thank you! Have you painted yet? I was thinking about you and your black dining room the other day and was hoping to see your finished photos. Our dining room is still in progress. I did the same drapes in there as I used in the study. I like them and they work okay, but there's no dramatic WOW factor. I guess that's the chance you take when you order 25 yards of fabric from a 6" swatch! It took me about two months to sew the 8 drapes since I work full time and have three munchkins home from school for the summer. I found art work that I love for the dining room and that has been hung also. The only think left is to paint the ceiling and then DH is going to add trim to make a coffered ceiling. He doesn't mind the dining room black but admits he likes the gray study a lot more. I'm enjoying both rooms after living with the restrained gold for so long and can give you a more honest answer as to which room I like best once the dining room ceiling is complete. cooperbailey, yes I sewed them myself. I don't consider myself a talented seamstress but I took my time, measured, pressed and pinned the hems carefully and they turned out really nice. I think the fact that they are striped really helped as it gave me a straight line to use for turning under the sides which made it much easier to sew. I couldn't find any striped silk premade drapes in the color family I was looking for and happened across this at fabric.com. It was on clearance for $9.49 per yard so including the liner I made each panel for about $40!

Brutuses, Early in the day, I was all set to go with Makore or Amendoim (two days ago I was set to go with Cabrueva or Brazilian Cherry and take a chance of a dark floor) until a neighbor liked the very light Sakura and thought I should take pics and look at the pics to get an overall feel of the colors without being on top of them. Well, I would have never considered the one you chose until you sent me a sample of it and then I ordered a few more samples of it and realized the Cabrueva was the Santos Mahogany that I liked at the store a few weeks ago when I brought home the big samples that I had to return. So you choose Bruce Park Avenue Cabrueva in pics 9 and 10 that you are right has a few tones in it that compliment my credenza. The Amendoim you chose I love also which is an engineered wood (BR-111 Triangulo the big samples is of that is in the middle of the Santos Mahogany and the Tiger Wood in Picture 14). Most of the Amendoim Samples I have here unfortunately are the solid wood with two planks in the engineered since I had to return that pretty sample that was large in picture #14. I love the Brazilian Cherry but some of the pieces were more red than my furniture when I had the big sample here so I was not sure and I should have taken a picture when I had the bigger sample here. I love the Makore and that is why I have 4 samples of it since it looks so real but in the pictures you did not choose it with my furniture and chose the Cabrueva. Now you understand when I say I love the Makore but I wish it had more red in it? The first samples in pics 9 and 10 on the left are the Bruce Park Avenue Makore. Miller88, Thanks for your opinion of Amendoim or Makore which are my favorites along with the Cabrueva. Caminne, Choosing the darkest sample would be either the Cabrueva or the Brazilian Cherry when it darkens up. Thanks for your opinion. Al-Horses, I guess I really wanted a light floor but the real light colors did not do much for the room and seemed to have too much yellow in them or did not look right with the file cabinets so then I thought maybe I will stop thinking light or dark and go with what I feel looks good and so far that is Amendoim (the variations seem to have a red tint to it that looks nice with my desk and is neutral and looks nice in my family room also... I am told the wood will have a lot of knots), Cabrueva (which is Santos Mahogany and picks up colors in my desk and is rich looking and pretty in all my engineered, laminate and solid wood samples) and Makore (= African Cherry... but I wish it has a little bit of a red tint to it that sometimes it fools the eye that it has due to the shine in it picking up the red in the desk.. I love the tones it has and how it looks so real and beautiful) Parma42, I also love the Tiger Wood but when I got solid samples that showed what it looks like at first and what it darkens up to, the dark piece has so many dark black streaks that I was not sure about the Tiger Wood anymore. If the Tiger Wood would not have the black streaks, I love the grain in it and the color variation so much and fell in love with it at the store on the floor along with the Santos Mahogany and the Brazilian Cherry. I like the grain better in the Tiger Wood and the Santos Mahogany than the Brazilian Cherry but I love some of the pretty reds in the Brazilian Cherry so much.