I love Farrow & Ball's grey/brown tones. For subtle shades, they really have a wonderful selection I like London Stone, which is pretty much my favorite paper bag brown. Get the swatch chart, and have your local paint store match it in whatever base you like. Having said that, I think that a dining room is the least interesting place for a great rug. You don't look at it while you're in the room, chairs and feet scrape back and forth on it, and it's a pain to move everything to vacuum all the dropped crumbs. Here is a link that might be useful: Farrow & Ball

I am in a similar situation looking for a sectional. I will throw out my thoughts and maybe it'll help. First- way back a wise woman once advised that green is always a smart color choice when decorating because every color flower always looks great on a green stem. Listening to that made sense and I purchased olive green sofas to go in a cream colored living room with a light colored carpet. It worked very well, anchored the room and provided a nice color. With the light colored carpet I eventually painted the room a darker gold(Laura Ashley) and that looked beautiful too. I had even considered a muted yellow but with my natural light I could not seem to find the right shade. At times I changed out my accent colors with plums, terra cotta, red, lighter greens...I never was at a loss decor-wise because everything seemed to work with the green. I was very happy with this arrangement until I pulled up the carpet and re-did my wood floors. Now all of my darker furnishings - sofas, area rug, mahogany furniture- look too dark on top of a wood floor. I say this because buying furniture is long term and tastes change and renovations occur. Leather would be very nice choice for you too providing a visual anchor and adding both texture and color. It has good clean up and durability for children. (green was too-hid an awful lot from my own messmakers!) Now I am considering a neutral tweedy light brown and trying to think ahead to various color schemes after I tire of my gold walls. Writing this, I realize I would consider the green again but my area rug is a darker blue-grey Karastan bought at auction for $60.00 and I really want to use it. I hope I'm not sorry. Such decisions, I don't know if I spent this much time thinking about marriage and children!!! :) Hope these musings help!

The navy is growing on me...I have nothing blue in my house all very brownish tan colors with lots of green.....I didn't want to have such a color shock with the blue but I feel it could be warm. Would you do stick with light wood color blinds or tan Curtains/tan blinds? Also what color pictures, would you throw in red?

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