HulaGal - I'm concerned that the relatively monochromatic scheme that I'm thinking about may need contrast (as in darker cabinets) - I probably didn't make that clear earlier. The floor tile will really depend on the granite. I originally wanted travertine or travertine look, but now I'm leaning toward the limestone look of the City View - cream and gold granite with the French limestone City View (the more gold color) or the grayish River White with the beige or gray color. I like the limestone look because it is less busy, and I can't find a granite that I like that doesn't have a fair amount of movement. The cream and gold would match the rest of my house, the gray would look better with the bedroom which is BM 451 Pine forest - I really don't want to repaint the bedroom. I saw a kitchen somewhere on GW with lovely traditional cabinets - cherry paired with this awesome dark reddish kind of modern looking tile floor - my description doesn't do it justice, the floor was exactly the color of the cherry and it made everything pop. That made me want to do a dark floor, but I keep telling myself NO NATURAL LIGHT - stay with light colors. Today, I'm leaning toward the creamy granite and cream cabinets, but wewill see what we can get at the distributor, no River Wite recently, I'd have to get it shipped in. Here is a link that might be useful: Pine Forest

At this point I would buy a quart each of Edgecomb and GB and paint 2 very large swatches. Those 2 were also the final choices at my house and I'm glad I went with GB. I did a few spaces with Edgecomb, but I will be repainting with GB when I get motivated!

So many people with issues with parents...sad. I was loved, I had toys and gifts,dresses, dolls, books, sport stuff, games,I lacked for nothing . But as I got older, I think I tried to "recapture" my childhood. As an adult, I loved antique shows, flea markets, garage sales. Any time I saw something we had in our house growing up, I had to buy it. I even bought too many rose bushes and planted them in my garden, trying to re-create my Grandma's rose garden. I now have a linen closet stacked with doilies and tablecloths I'll never use, sets of fancy glasses too fragile to use, things like that. Oh, and on the funny side, my daughter cleaned out my bathroom just yesterday. She found eleven bottles of Listerine. I don't know, I hate the stuff, it burns... I remember buying one bottle because it did everything, whitens teeth, freshens breath, makes gums healthy, strengthens the enamel. I'm just always looking for something to make me happy.

I don't think so, but I might look at the armoire when picking the paint -- not necessarily to match but to make sure they flow together. I am going to have blue in every room on the first floor -- and I guess I did before but we reordered things so I feel like there will be more blue. My entire downstairs is blues and browns and the upstairs has been back and browns -- I'm just trading places with the colors now with the biggest change being changing out a brown leather sectional with caramel and navy walls or lighter and dark greige/bronze walls and a deep blue leather sectional (arriving next week!). If you are a blue person, it is not to much to have it in every room. It can provide continuity and help the flor f room to room. You probably don't want it to be the dominant color in every room, but in the mix. You are working with sofIer and medium tones and using them differently in the differnt rooms. I don't think you are going to overdo it.