Thank you all so much for your feedback/opinions. Judithva, that's a really lovely room and thanks so much for sharing it. It's nice to know that Blonde would look so good in a room with a similar window situation to mine. After looking at my paint chips all day today and reading everyone's thoughts, I think I've decided on Blonde. It'll be a little bit of a stretch color wise for me but I think it's one that I can be happy with. And yes, I do think simple is best as a backdrop for my stuff. Goldengirl, when my mom moved to a retirement condo two years ago I sold my cherry table and chairs so that I could take her set and keep it in the family. I know the table is a Harden but I really don't know if she got the chairs in the same place. I think she did but I'm not certain.

In most of my rms. RG showed up very gold & was quickly discounted. In the rm. that I've finally found to use it in it shows up very warm mid-tone tan W/ just barely a hint of gold. which is what I wanted.

Thank you all for the wonderful compliments, I really appreciate it. I have learned so much here over the years and have much more confidence than I did when I first joined. Squirrel, I really have to give you lots of credit because I started with my DR and with your PS skills, it was easy to then move through the rest of the house choosing paint colors. My house was pretty open and after a year of builder's beige, I really wanted a warm color that would bring out the items chosen thus far. Vegas, the chairs are Pennsylvania House and are now about 7 years old. They were actually the inspiration piece to get me started in the GR and frankly the rest of the house. I had ordered extra fabric when we purchased the chairs and recovered the breakfast room chairs with the fabric. I took it from there and then matched the sofa, ottaman and drapes to compliment each other. Now I'm considering stretching 3 or 4 pieces of different fabric onto canvas and hanging them over the tv. I also need to find a piece to go over the large opposite wall and then I think that will be it for artwork in the GR. I'm also looking for either a really nice chandelier or chandy/ceiling fan combo and the GR will be done. Finally, gk, the burnt sienna is in my office. Let me clean it up a bit ( I went on a rampage yesterday looking for a document and it is truly a mess) and then I will post a pic.

Les - Thank you for the encouragement in your previous post. I really have been beating myself up about this, mainly b/c I'm such a perfectionist and it kills me that I made such a big, costly mistake. But you're right, at least I am doing something and in the end it will look great. Polkadots - Yes the banisters were a LOT of work. It took 3 guys an entire day just to do the banisters. First they taped off everything around them very carefully, then they stripped them, then sanded them, then stained them, then sealed them, then put a veneer on. It was a ton of work! But I absolutely love the result and I'm glad we did it. It had bugged me, the light oak color that they were before, ever since we moved in a few months ago (this was a spec home so we didn't get to pick them). I appreciate the pp's cautions about the art niche. I do agree that it will be limiting in what kind of artwork we can put there, but I think we plan to put a large iron scrollwork of some sort there, so the color won't matter and will set off the iron that much more. Also, we are just doing the back wall of the niche in red, not pulling it onto the sides of the niche, so it won't be as overpowering. At least I hope so. OK everyone...so now I'm wondering - do y'all think that pulling the Latte through to the LR will make everything too dark? Also, do you feel that Latte is too dark for the entryway or is it OK? I am thinking that having everything one color, since the floor plan is SO open, would make things flow better and look bigger. At least that's what I hear on all the design shows LOL. So we were just going to do Latte throughout, but now I am questioning whether I should pull the Latte through or do a lighter coordinating color, Nomadic Desert or Kilim Beige, in the LR... Is the Latte too dark for my big open LR?