Yes, the picture would be for the dining room.

Can we se more of the bedroom?

Oh, why is there a bed?

No I’m looking for advice on both drapes and artwork for the dining room.

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On top of the fact a Holiday is coming, ( lots of folks out shopping ) and also the fact you don't get a lot of help from hubby, most of us are/ have been encouraging you to finish ONE room. Because of things like this:

"All the projects are on my mental list, but I’m only doing some of them, the ones that can be done an hour at a time as I have time, like wallpaper removal and grout cleaning. It would be nice to just work on and finish one room, but then I’d be sitting around doing nothing while I wait...and wait...for DH to do his part of the job. I removed the wallpaper from one bathroom three months ago and nothing has been done since then, until DH gets around to removing the mirror and I guess the toilet because I couldn’t get behind it................"

I am certain you are frustrated. But limited resources and having half a thing done here,and another half over here, will serve only to waste your money and yield no real visual bang. That is very frustrating!

The dark paneling and trim is oppressive and dreary to most here, to you, but not to hubby. But painting it out would free you. And us .

Take a decorating break, look for some art you really love. More color : )

Happy Holidays!

You could pain it chalk paint you might only need to a pint or 2

@JAN MOYER I am trying to finish the dining room. Maybe sometime I can paint the paneling, but right now I just want to find different curtains and a piece of artwork and call it good. I can keep an eye out for a couple of teal accent pieces over time.

I do like that canvas print I posted a lot...are you saying something with more color would be better?

I would just paint what you have TEAL

If your wall is 73", I think it should be bigger to make an impact. How about 48" wide. Sometimes pictures are sold in more than one size. If you love that picture and can get it larger, I would say go for it. Then put some of your teal items into the room. What color placemats/tablecloths do you use? that would add more color too, if you aren't going to go with the teal drapes. Good luck.

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How wide are the panels? don't seem wide enough, sorry to say.

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You're curtains you picked out match the walls probably but it gives the Room no color

I think they're 50" wide, so I'd need 4 panels. Maybe I should just stick with the gray and cream that I already have and use teal for an accent to add a little color. I'm not sure I'll like it if there's too much teal in the room.

One is $157 and might work / in a light color like wall paint and art's background color, maybe ivory or linen?

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Do I need two patio panels or do the fullness rules not apply with those?

To look decent? You need two. But. You are worrying about restoring pillows to the couch, yet you don't think little kids will hide behind these? : ) That they wont be a pain when in and out of that door? Nor can you go further to side with the mount, unless you lengthen your rod. And then you also have a switch...........left of whatever hangs.

I'd spend the money on colorful art, and hold out for a hardwood floor, and a nice big area rug.

That's why I normally push them all the way to the right:) And why I buy relatively sturdy and washable curtains and not sheers or blinds that are guaranteed to get broken, and a nice sturdy curtain rod. Then I don't stress when somebody twirls themselves up the curtains.

I would love wood floors instead of the tile, but that would be such a huge project. We have something like 800 sq ft of this tile, going through the kitchen, eat-in space, 2 hallways, and a bedroom . It runs under the kitchen cabinets and the baseboard is tile too.

I guess my question at this point is, do the cream and gray I have in there look ok together/balanced?

I thought you were in the LIVING room.........................for the curtains? You have multiple posts.

Love the advice and info on this thread!

I second Jan's comment re: drapes and young children.

Little kids will play, tug, hide, grab, and wipe their hands all over the drapes/ panels. They will do this because their brains do not think beyond the themselves. Their first thought is themselvesi, as opposed to any one or thing else. "Me first thinking" -it is their world and we are fortunate to be in it. Children do not consider the fact that these are Mommy's new drapes to make the house look nice. They live in the moment.

Find some lovely wall art for the big wall, or create a family portrait grid of enlarged black and white candid photos -framed with teal mat boards.

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Or wall art with teal, but has other shades of blues and greens that will open your decor palette, like "Julia Purinton Water Lillies Ii & III "
A table centerpiece of cheery yellow flowers perhaps?

Window film the slides a view u see through or uv film. Or drapes to pull to on side pass the door frame.

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I bought this picture for the dining room but am not sure about it now...does it look ok? Is it too big? It has shipping damage so I am returning it and need to decide whether to reorder the same thing or get it in a smaller size or get something else entirely.

Not a Pro.

I think it is very nice!

Are you adding drapes or valances to this room? Hanging drapes or valances may change your mind regarding the size of the art.

There will be drapes eventually. Will they help the picture to look the right size, or make it seem too big?

I think the size is very nice. There really isn't much room for curtains but I do think a pretty roman shade would look nice.

It's nice :) Your helps are cute!

I am going with these curtains...just waiting for a sale to pick up more panels.

Also wanting to go with navy and teal for accent colors because I found a cute indigo vase for the mirror. If I have the painting, flowerpot, and get a soft teal throw blanket for the ottoman for teals, and get a navy cover for the body pillow on the ottoman, I'll have three items each in teal and navy. That will give me some color without (hopefully) being too much.

I am sorry, but I don't like that the curtains have the bottom section that doesn't line up with beadboard [do they call it that?]….

I like the curtains on the slider, but again, I don't think you have the space to properly stack a curtain panel on the window. Instead, IMO, a roman shade in white or gray would work better in the window.

Size of the pic is fine, it's too "weak" above that dark wainscoting. Keep looking

With the navy/teal/gray, the the white curtains.

You're buying more panels you said. Soft blue-grey is nice with cream -- what about adding a fabric in cream above the blue-grey to create new horizontal line to be level with top of beadboard. It'd look neat and trim. Fabric in a way could be considered ok if a bit different.

Like this somewhat - with 3 parts to it -

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I'd have to think about that. I tried out some cream colored curtains already and didn't like the way they looked. The wallpaper looks pale gray to me (it actually has several colors in it but the overall color seems pale gray) and I didn't like cream curtains next to it.

In what way do the curtains and vase seem to be different than the style/look of the rest of the room?

I'm thinking about ordering this picture instead of re-ordering the vase one. Maybe I will just get a navy/indigo pot for the plant and not do teal at all.

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I didn't know the walls were a pale Gray so then I would to a light Gray curtain or a slate blue it's kind of a blue-gray curtain I like the above picture that looks nice I like the mountains And the blues

Just read that it's called "color blocking" and the style tends to be contemporary [the fabric used matters too]. Solid would be good, cause current curtain's 2 colors create a 'busy visual' next to 2 colors of the upper and lower wall.

Lovin' the look of Sherwin Williams "Naval" walls - "impressive" - "classic"

That would be cozy with ur wood.

I tend to dislike solid gray curtains for some reason. And I originally had steel blue curtains in the dining room (which I think is basically the same color as what you're describing as slate), but after a month or two I started to dislike them. I've discovered that I just don't like too much contrast with the walls/predominant color in a room. My bathroom that has grey and greige-ish tile halfway up the walls and over the whole whirlpool tub surround has gray towels and mats (after I spent a couple months buying and returning towel colors I loved in the store, but didn't like in the bathroom). My travertine and beige bathroom has varigated tan mats and sand colored towels.

I could maybe do white and navy colorblock curtains, but the colored part still wouldn't line up with the wainscoting. Or maybe a denim-colored light-filtering curtain would have soft enough coloring to look ok to me.

Grey can seem dull with medium-dark wood. But the chambray or denim sounds really good.

[I would not choose color-blocked, with one block of one, another block of another.]

Try green shade of towels in bath. I think the denim would look good with navy.

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