Ldev all good. Temple should be at a lower price point than Vanguard but Temple is well made and well tailored. Vanguard makes one of the nicest products in the industry, great selection of fabrics with their upholstery. I am quite sure there are still family owned and made in North Carolina. Sam Moore owned by Hooker has a good selection of chairs. Jessica Charles owned by Hancock and Moore also very nice, is a step up. You really couldn't go wrong with any of these manufacturers.

patricia, My flooring: Kitchen has 16X16 tile (travertine look but budget friendly ceramic lol, so it's a nice oatmeal/taupe). My cabs are white, but right above the uppers next to the ceiling I have glass cabs that are deep red inside with lights for display (this used to be a soffit area and we did this during the kitchen remodel). My countertops are granite from HD-mojave cream, so it has some red, black, green, taupe, creame white. My living room/foyer, dining room, stairs and upstairs foyer/hallway are all hardwood flooring, it's a light natural oak , (I let my bf decide). I wanted to stain them dark).. Here's a pic that looks almost identical to what they look like: (ours are not polyed yet and doesn't have the orangey look but has the color variation) Our sofa /chair/ottoman is a dark taupe/cappucino colored leather and we will be keeping it. (I bought it after I painted my LR it's current color, which now looks like chocolate milk exploded, that's WHY all the downstairs is being repainted). My sofa table, LR tables are all the dark espresso/cherry like the DR set. I have held the paint chips up to the dining set and the sofa and they look good against it...but i def want to make it look richer and not wash it out! Currently the DR is a deep mocha color, however it makes the room look TOO dark, it's about 2 shades darker that the current LR color. I'm looking for colors to tie in the floor with the color variation, dark furniture, and play off the sagey/grey green of the kitchen (deep red accents) Our kitchen gets Western light, so the kitchen often looks brighter during the day, and a darker olive around sunset. The DR and LR get Eastern light (front of the home) but the LR always gets more light than the DR (more windows). The LR flows into the Kitchen,foyer and DR. The DR sets between the foyer/LR and Kitchen! This is a older home so it's not the super open layout. We did take out 34 inches of the wall separately the foyer/DR to bring more light in since it only has one set of double windows! Here was my inspiration wall color pic for MY kitchen: Here's my granite: *you can't really see the red in the pic above but it's there! I can post pics of my kitchen tonight, LR layout, and sofa for LR...i'm at work now and surfing for ideas! Shame on me!

Oh my gosh, johnmari! I didn't realize that you meant this exact one. My friend and the hubby at the house put in in the trailer for me, as I could never have done it. It's darn heavy, and SO beautifully made. The furniture movers who brought it in for me took my other one out quite easily, as they know their stuff, but this one was even heavy for them. I've enjoyed reading on the H&M website how all this is made, and those nail heads went in one by one...It's an investment piece for me, and am so happy how at home it looks in my LR. I can't sit on it without at least 2 dogs being on it with me, and I am amazed that they haven't scratched it. Leather is great! Tracey, I did my kitchen in a similar color to what you saw in the LR. It's Ben Moore Crimson, #1299, and I LOVE it. It's really NOT 'crimson' as I think of it, but a terra cotta color. You may want to check that out also, but the Baked Terra Cotta sounds more like what you are looking for. Great plan to do it while hubby is away!

your post has much extraneous verbiage, it's hard to decipher what's what. furniture color sample doesn't tell us much. I assume this leather furniture in your pic is going? what does the new furniture actually look like? end tables? what do they look like? forget the storage cubes. Unless you want to do something like this what about a media console or some type of wood furniture under the tv some layout ideas