I used them for a living room/dining room project. The woman was very helpful, and even made two trips to a rug distributor to bring me actual rugs to see. Then when the rugs were in, she picked them up and she and I spent almost two hours moving furniture and measuring to make sure the rugs were exactly centered. Intotal, she spent about 5-6 hours with me and I only paid for the curtains and rugs I bought - not for her time. Yes, the prices were more than I could have paid had I bought the rugs online, but her help was invaluable and I liked that I didn't have to pay $100/hour, which is what some of the decorators charge around here. Again, service will vary from person to person, but given my experience, I would recommend Decorating Den. I even casually looked into what it takes to become a decorator for the company :)

You can put a darker color on the ceiling if you wish. I have darker ceilings in my master bath, DH's study and am just painting the coffered ceiling in our hallway eggplant. It tends to bring the ceiling height down, but your ceilings look plenty high so it won't be an issue. I have lenox tan in a bedroom and it is very dark. I don't mean dark in color, but dark in that it absorbs every ounce of light we put in the room. It looks to me like the other colors you've chosen will also read dark on the walls. If this is the look you are going for, fine, but if not, you might want to look at something similar but with a little more life like dry sage....which they suggest goes with maple leaf red.... It's hard for me to say though as I have no sunlight today...very overcast...so my color samples aren't reading true. wethersfield moss dry sage

Any reason in particular why you are keeping the tv over the fireplace? That must be over 8' high. That's some serious neck strain. I would probably recommend a similar layout to the previous owner. It has lots of seating, divides the entry from the living area. The window looks fine with current shutters. If you do not have furniture, start with the rug first. Find one large enough for the room. Use the colors in the rug to guide you for picking out furniture. Artwork and other wall decor can come later once you have the basics. You could always put the tv on a stand to the left of the fireplace. Have fun.

so this is the issue with the rug centered by the fireplace... there is a hallway right there that leads into the den... so it looked kinda weird if the rug was sticking out into the hallway from the den.... does that make sense? I actually had the rug further back under the sofa but the husband insisted on moving it closer to the hearth.. have to compromise here & there ya know... haha but yeah, I had it centered more on the fireplace, but like i said, the only issue was that then the rug was jutting into the hall... soooo... i lined it up with the edge of the half wall that the sofa is butted up against because that's where the hall starts... I'll share some more pictures later on this evening! was thinking of getting a different lamp as someone suggested, and maybe refinishing that table by the sofa in gray or white or something... thoughts?