For example, the center print fabric is a valance from country curtains. All the other fabric swatches from calico corners can be used as ideas for colors to use in the room. To help give more visual separation between the dr and lr areas, I'd think about painting the wall the table is up against an accent color. (If there's room to turn the table 90 degrees so it goes the other way, you might want to try it...it will add visual width to the room.) So in this case, maybe pick the pale gray background in the print as the wall color, except pick the warmer gold for an accent wall by the dining table. Use the other colors or prints for the fabrics in the room...the throw pillows, seat cushions on the wood chairs, placemats, candles...

If you can spring for a carpet maybe one in the avocado would look nice in this arrangement and bring some brightness to the floor....

I like the look of the Brainstorm Bronze mock-up, it's very sophisticated. Your room looks really cozy and a comfy space to hang out.

I could see a pretty green like the top sample in Annie's board

Here is the green from Annie's collage. It reminds me of Behr's ryegrass.

Here is waterbury cream

Thanks so much Roarah, that is very helpful. I think the Waterbury Cream is going to be too bright and too yellow, which is the same thing I'm seeing with the sample. I like the darkness of the navy, and think I'm maybe going to have to persuade DH that a dark color is the way to go.

Thanks for your ideas Annie. Maybe I will find a new fabric for the pillows and can pull some color ideas from there. I definitely need some pattern.

I did not want to influence you with my opinion so I did not mention that I love the navy! I however like deep color a lot! It really is already a beautiful and inviting room!

if you have other colors in mind let me know I can mock them up too.

I really like your table and chairs in the first photo. I can't really figure out where they are in your house, since it seems you have a formal dining room elsewhere. I also like Annie's color palette. I'm a fan of creamy walls with a yellow/gold undertone = sunshine captured.

My lr and library are painted in SW Jersey Cream. It is lovely on the walls. I really hesitated to paint my room but it seems perfect.

Thanks Linelle. It's a long narrow room, TV area on one end, table and chairs at the other end. We use that table for casual meals, homework, crafts, puzzles, etc.

That table and chairs started out as the ubiquitous two-tone white & pine in the 90's. I have painted them several times. It's a great, sturdy, comfortable set. Cost $200 :-)

This is more the green I was thinking of.

I think you need to go with a historical paint which is slightly muted to keep in tune with your lovely furnishings. Here's a link to a great group of such tones and all of them are muted. I lean towards the golds.muted paint colors

The bronze looks so cozy and inviting. I think the cream will be too yellow with all the light reflecting. Cozy space!

I have BM Windham Cream, which is a soft yellow. I had sampled along the lines of BM Healing Aloe, Quietude (?),but it was too cold for my north facing room.

Also sampled along the lines of Lancaster Whitewsh (?) as well as stronger yellows.

Thanks all, I greatly appreciate your input. Yaya, I completely agree. That is my favorite paint color collection, and the tones I gravitate toward. I love the Mayo Teal, and maybe I could make it work with my sage sofas? I'll keep pondering.

I think you could make almost any wall color work with your neutral furnishings if you found an area rug to incorporate the new wall color in it. Add some throw pillows with the new colors and you're done.

You have some really nice pieces and they are all neutral so some color could really transform the room without doing a thing to the furniture. I'm in the navy blue camp as well. Wall color, throw pillows and a rug. Oh, I changed out your light fixture for good measure.

Magdalena you are a photoshop pro! My mock up is so rough but I did want provide jock with a mayo teal version of her lovely room. I still like a navy!

love the hale navy! the room needs color. do it! it will be a whole new room!

Here's BS Bronze & WB Cream:

Take a look at BM Stratton Blue if you're wanting a teal. Its an historic color and I think would work well. The reason some of the photoshopped colors look off is because your photo is very dark. If someone could adjust the exposure and fill light I think your get a better idea of how the paint colors would look. I really like tge Hale Navy mock up!

BM Stratton Blue

Check out bm van deusen or lucerne.

I have Lucerne and it's a bluish teal.

I definitely think that that room could handle a deep, saturated color. My first thought was navy and I love the one Magdalena did. I also like the darker bronze one. If you lean toward blue, check out Van Deusen Blue as another option. Looks like there's blue in your existing pillows too, no?

Here's a pic of Van Deusen Blue in my bathroom.

Love the navy! And the rug that Magdalena added. Gorgeous. Totally transforms the room. Personally, I think the cream/camel is too bland with your furnishings. You need something to make the furniture pop, and that will be a deep color. Good luck!

Ppg spiced vinegar? Or ppg jute?

Omg, Magdalena! I barely recognize my own room! I think I'm sold on navy, or some shade of dark blue. And now I REALLY want a new rug. It's about 11x18, so it's going to be pricey. And I do want new lights too. Maybe I need to get a second job :-)

Could I talk you into trying the navy with my current rug, just to see how it would look? I do have a smaller rug in the DR that has navy... I don't think it will work though.

Thank you Roarah, for trying the teal! This is all very helpful. I agree that the creams, greens, and tans are just too blah.

I also have Van Deusen blue (new construction) and Stratton Blue. Love them both!

Stratton Blue with Palladian Blue ceiling. It goes from a steely blue to a Jade green throughout the day.

I also have Van Deusen, no pictures on my phone for some reason. It's a really strong, calming color. I love it.

Thanks Akt, you must wake up earlier than me!

Just playing with color and pattern.

That first blue I posted was more of a navy blue. Here is the Hale Blue:

Thanks Aktillery and Magadalena. I think the rug Mag photoshopped really makes the room, it's just not the same with my existing rug... hmmm. I like the Hale blue too. I need to go get some samples.

Annie, I can see doing a valance on the smaller window, but on the big long picture window, don't you think it would look strange? It seems like it would just be a long narrow stripe.

The geniuses with photoshop have some great suggestions for paint colors. And you have some nice art that can fill in some of the blank spaces, and I love your TV cabinet and the other pieces you have in the rooms.

I'm with Annie in maybe simplifying, and possibly editing some of the furniture pieces. Do you use the 2 chairs flanking the TV? They seem to block access to and thru the room. I'd try hanging a couple of pieces of art on either side. And the bookcase with the clock - could you move it where you now have the grouping of art beside the window? I can't tell what size side table you have by the sofa. Maybe it wouldn't work there. I'd also move the other bookcase so that it is more centered between the window and the corner & not crammed into the corner.

I don't think a valance would look strange at all. You can always add some trim at the bottom, do a couple of pleats, or I'm sure Annie has some great ideas. She's a whiz with window treatments.

The rug I used is at Home Depot. They have an 11x15 on sale for $686 and free shipping. It's not wool but I think Safavieh is pretty good quality.

No I don't think a valance on a long window will look odd. I think it will add some softness, much needed color, and it will help hide the mechanism for the blinds.

I have to admit, I'm liking the Hale Blue wall color. If I knew I could've changed the rug, I would've in my mock up...I think it would add a lot of brightness.

I think Hale Navy is quite a bit darker IRL

Hale Navy is a pretty color (the photoshopped version and IRL), but I agree with NSM that it's much darker in person. Something to think about when trying to narrow paint sample purchases.

On my monitor, this is how my real life sample looked.

Her husband did not want a dark color. I love the rich look of most of the colors suggested, but I'm not the one she has to live with.

her husband is probably just basing that on "what he knows, and what he has lived with(which seems to be lighter colors)*. OP was hoping to redecorate...the darker color ROCKS the room...voila! redecorated!

Definitely check out BM van Deusen. I saw it recently in a high end furniture show room and actually made them go back to their storage room to check the paint color.

Oh, and for rugs, check out Aktillery's sources (also Butternut's, I htink) --- she has a knack for finding great rugs ---- and especially Ebay (antique or vintage oriental rugs.)

I like the softer blue, especially the BM Stratton, it brightens without darkening and still adds plenty of color. I think your room is lovely and very welcoming.

I think just painting the room isn't going to be enough. In order for the wall color to make sense, you need accessories, wall art, throw pillows, curtains, rug to incorporate the wall color for a cohesive. I'd be looking for Those things as well.

So, DH is on board for a darker color, thanks to the photoshopped images above! I have been looking at paint colors, and hope to have time to try some samples in the room this weekend. Here are some colors I'm considering--

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I can't do a new rug right now, as much as I'd like to. I have looked at some fabrics, and I'll do some new pillows, and possibly some valances. Maybe something like this photo below, but the fabric is a cream background with some bright jewel tones in a paisley-ish pattern. I'll snap a pic of my fabric sample when I'm at home.

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I do like this valance, but something like this is probably way beyond my (lack of) sewing skills.

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Love the rich navy blue better than the pictures of the Hale Navy ... since your room has so much light, it can easily handle a navy blue.

We went with a rich navy color and love it! BM Champion Cobalt.

It always amazes me how adding color and a strong color that one might be afraid can make such a big difference, in a good way. Nice mock-ups.

I like the direction your are going now.