To mry193--YW, mry. Go ahead, take the plunge! Easy for me to commit you to all this agony, eh? :-) It is hard,sometimes, but it's fun, too, and so gratifying when you get something right. But that's the thing, as in cooking or buying a blouse we think is going to be absolutely perfect with "those" slacks...no matter how much practice we have, we all make mistakes now and then. We get "it" home and it doesn't look right, even if we have years of practice and have successfully executed color schemes before. So I say, don't be intimidated, jump in and when you mess things up, you can do what I still have to do often enough (even after thirty years, two apartments, one rental, five owned homes and probably, counting renos, a couple dozen color schemes): repaint or change the shower curtain. :-D What are you picturing in your mind's eye? What kind of colors do you see in your dream scheme? To hoosiergirl: Ditto your agent; you built a beautiful home, and I love the way you put everything together. [For skeet, if you see this and look at hoosier's pics, the very first photo I saw had a good example of the visual linking. Look at the way the finish on the door on the left side relates well to the floor color on the right, even though the wall colors are different and there's a different (carpet? rug?) color between the door and the other room's floor. So, even though the two areas are different, they're tied together with the same undertones and similar finishes.] To hoosier, again--That's a lovely kitchen, and you seem to have done a much better job than I have in using what look to be almost the exact same colors/tones (as nearly as I can tell from pics) in our kitchens. Aghhhh! Help me, hoosier! LOL I agree with you. We built this house not quite four years ago. The hardest part was picking the paint. I'm happy with a lot of the house, but so far I've repainted the kitchen twice, and as I noted above, I'm having to do it again. I hope I get it "right" this time! I was happy to see your cabinet color used with black appliances. That's what I have, except for the cooktop and fan (SS). I am struggling to get some cheer/energy in this room. The main difference is that I have the wooden cabinets on the perimeter of the room and the (soft) white cabinetry on the island. Do you have decent natural light in that kitchen? Mine's okay until about 2 p.m., then it gets dreary. There's a LOT of wood in here, with the cabs, the plank floors (a little darker than your tile, but the same reddish undertone), and a farmhouse table. There's a lot of warm painted furniture (chairs, pie keep, a linen chest), but it's still a heavy room. The walls were originally some kind of off-white (maybe...BM Ballet?). I thought it would be nice, because of all the (Early American) colors in the furniture, but, no. I think the white had too grey a base. Then I hand-mixed a soft green that looks close to the same hue as yours, except a bit lighter. I thought I liked it, but it became draggy as the weather got greyer. I also used matte, and maybe that was a problem. So...now I'm going to try a warm white (something like BM Navajo or Calming Cream) in *eggshell* on the walls) and a lighter, warm gold (like Marblehead Gold or Dorset Gold) on all the doors and trim. Like your house, there's a lot of trim/millwork. The palette on this floor mostly comes off of BM Philadelphia Cream/Guilford Green/Palladian Blue/Goldfinch. That's a beautiful fan hood, btw. Maybe warmer metal finishes would help around my kitchen. Anyway, nicely done!

So it's called a patio, porch or deck by true Floridians ... got it. These are some descriptions I've read online: http://florida.ssimms.com/2012/02/08/patio-porch-lanai-veranda-whats-the-difference/ https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-a-lanai-a-patio-a-porch-and-a-veranda http://www.homedit.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-porch-balcony-verandapatio-and-deck/ What is Golden Girls decor? I only saw a couple episodes years ago and can't remember what that style might entail.

What a wonderful project. And how nice that the house is set back so that different areas of transition can be created. Will you be growing tall trees so the home is eventually sheltered in dappled shade? Lower landscaping so the house rises above washed with sunshine? Do you want a rather mysterious look with a narrow area of accented house intriguing and drawing the eye in , making people going by try to see more? Do you want an open look with the property lushly foliaged but the house very much on display, serenely or exuberantly? If you have a image in mind of what you want, style, mood and light included, you could then drive around both creative older and expensively landscaped neighborhoods looking for ideas to realize it. Color choices made then? These mostly lack the rich color you want, but I was mostly thinking first of how it might be dressed with garden. :) Lush elsewhere, perhaps, but close in as open and airy as the interior? I'm really not crazy about brown in general, but even I think a brown reminiscent of wet tree trunks works wonderfully to accent and tie inside, transition areas, garden together. The previous property uses it also.

What are your plans with that giant mirror wall? It's not going to stay, now is it? I'm all for light and a big mirror, but this has a dressing room feel to it. To me beach cottage design has more natural materials in it. It looks too modern now with too many hard edges. Maybe you can replace the giant mirror wall with broad whitewashed wooden planks, horizontally placed? Maybe have the same kind of wood on that piece of wall facing the sofa? I understand your feelings regarding the floor. Big rugs will help a lot. Your choice of material for the rugs seems fine. Am not sure about the stripes though. It might be too different from the flooring and as such compete, instead of complete. For the walls I'd choose a sandy tone of white, which is a very light greige. Maybe add some driftwood art, a beautiful big poster of the see to stare at and some beach stone elements. I'd keep my furnishings all in that not too smooth look. If going for a chandelier, my advice is to pick a robust one. Some turquoise accents might look nice here, liven things up a bit, but don't overdo it. If you like more of it, you'd better make a real statement as in part of a wall in a stained turquoise or table legs or a table top in a stained turquoise. Instead of little tidbits of turquoise strewn all over the place, robbing the tranquil feel of the place. I'm afraid the present kitchen will stand out a bit, being so shiny. Maybe that's a project for later on? Have fun with this cool project of yours!