Beautiful pics. I like the things that bloom off and on all sumer. If something was eating my cactus I'm afraid it would be it's last supper.

The name is a mystery because there is quite a bit of info. to be found if you google Potinara Eye Candy. Doesn't matter all that much except if you received an AOS award it would not be recognised unless someone paid Ten pounds to register the name.....a bit difficult when the breeding details are unknown. Holiday Eye Candy was registered by Carter & Holmes in 2012 and it is doubtful that it is related to your orchid.

The wall color is your biggest problem. It is easy to make the mistake of thinking that yellow will make the room sunny. Strong yellow is the most anxiety producing color, particularly in a closed, underlit space. It really only works in a place with lots of strong natural light. So if it were me, the first thing I'd do is choose a pale, creamy, yellow-toned neutral like Benjamin Moore's Linen White for the walls, and a bright, high-gloss white for any trim. It will lift the room up out of the ground, and keep the sunny warmth you want better than any other color. Then you need a more workable and less disjointed arrangement. I'd rotate the sectional and TV 90 degrees - put the television on the wall where the bookcases are now, with one on either side of the TV. Then you can paint the one wall behind the TV and the shelves that great terra cotta (firenze, from Benjamin Moore's Affinity line, is a gorgeous one...not too pink, not too red, not too dark), and add movie posters on either side of the bookcases. Place the sectional so that the support column falls right at the corner, and the back of the sofa that crosses the room is flush with the back edge of the column. Set a long narrow sofa table behind the sectional, and a side table between the sectional and the wall, with lamps with clean white shades on both. Hang a tall mirror on the wall above the side table, to break up the expanse of wall on that side, and throw the light around. Find a slender bookcase that is the width of the little window and comes up to the sill (or as close as you can get it). Put a matchstick blind at the ceiling above the window, and let it just cover the upper trim. Hang a slender pair of very simple curtains out to the side on a rod at the ceiling. Those elements will settle the window into the room. Then find an attractive table for your computer, and set it against the wall to the left of the window, with wall shelves above it if you need them, or a nice pale pretty print...or both. Add a good swing arm lamp on the side wall to light up the corner, and give you task lighting. Move your pretty floor lamp to the corner to the right of the window, and set a comfortable chair there, facing into the room across the corner. Set a round or square table and four slender chairs in the corner where the computer is now, with a swing arm floor lamp, that you can use as a game table. Hang a long mirror on the wall there, too, to elongate the view and increase the light. Put a pair of lamps on the two bookcases flanking the TV, add an ottoman in front of the sofa with a big tray on it to use as a coffee table, and you're done! I think you can find everything you need at the consignment store, or yard sales, or on Craigslist...be prepared to give some things a coat of white or terra cotta or deep green paint, to do this on a reasonable budget. Rugs can come last, once your arrangement suits you. Whew. That was fun!!

What about horizontal stripes? A little more contemporary than the vertical ones. I though this was a great example, particularly the tone on tone color. It could be one wall of stripes, the whole room or maybe this only works in a small room like this bathroom from Houzz. [[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/striped-bathroom-traditional-bathroom-phvw-vp~46492) [traditional bathroom design[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-bathroom-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_712~s_2107) Here is another idea. This one has three bands of color, dark to light, I could go light to dark (and maybe even top off with dark ceiling.) [[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/christyj-contemporary-bathroom-charlotte-phvw-vp~37488) [contemporary bathroom design[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/contemporary-bathroom-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_712~s_2103) by other metros interior designer christy johnson Or more traditional - wainscoting light, dark above. Or even dark above with vertical stripes like the previous post. or horizontal stripes above the wainscoting (might be less intense that way.) I also like the high wainscoting in this photo, but even more traditional. [[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/coastal-family-room-family-room-phvw-vp~44206) [family room design[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/family-room-ideas-phbr0-bp~t_720) by other metros interior designer Seaside Interiors Dining room used to have chair rail, maybe we put it back, dark below, light wide horizontal stripes above. So many options, only one dining room. Again, looking for another option for dining room - warm and casual versus the more elegant we have been considering.