Hi Manbike and other experts, I just bought an Elite full top-grain, aniline plus leather sofa that is made in their California plant. They use tempered steel sinuous springs for both the back and seating suspension. From their site... Depending on the design of an individual style, our frames are made of responsibly forested Pacific Northwest alder hardwood or of Forest Stewardship Council (FCS) certified hardwood plywood. The hardwood plywood frames we produce also meet the strict standards of the California Air Resources Board (CARB). We create the frames in our own mill and reinforce our fames to ensure proper tailoring of the selected covering. And, while others may not use corner blocks at all, we use many in each sofa to enhance its strength. I do not have it yet. Most of the better sofas like HM are out of my price range. I sort of got warn down on my research and took the plunge. I did read a few bad reviews but apparently they have a cheaper side line sold at Macys and a few other stores that is made in China. I'm a bit nervous as I did not try it out in person. Also, if plywood is bad what do they mean by hardwood plywood? Does that mean crap? The choices are so limited around me so I ordered from a dealer I have used in the past. Do you know anything about Elite quality? I have read that not all sinuous springs are bad and that some can be very good. I should add that I did write the factory and ask if my sofas had any China on it, they wrote back and said no, it is made in the California plant. Now granted in the world of furniture I am not making a huge investment. It is however a big investment to me in my world. I bought a four seat Aero sofa and a three seat Aero sofa, both in the top grain leather for a total of $4800. IâÂÂm just hoping that IâÂÂm getting a good mid to mid high quality and not over paying for a poor quality. Trying to get the best bang for your buck in a mid to mid high range is incredibly hard. Not everyone can spring for a HM. With H&M you know what you are getting. Not so much with other brands these days, even brands that formally had a good reputation. This post was edited by jterrilynn on Thu, Mar 13, 14 at 10:14

I have been looking for a house to buy, and I looked at one that had a layout somewhat like yours. I just wasn't ready to buy and it wasn't exactly in my price range either, but it was hard to turn down because it had a fireplace like yours, open on one side to the LR and the other to the kitchen. Except the house I looked at was particularly odd, in that it had stone face on the LR side of the fireplace and brick on the kitchen side. So that would have had to be redone, IMHO and it was one of the reasons I passed on the house, just didn't have it in me to do that. But anyway, while I was dreaming of what I would do with that house, I had this idea, and let me toss this out to you just for conversation's sake. The house had an open concept with a dining area adjacent to the kitchen, so the fireplace on the kitchen side was just for the view. If I had bought the house, I determined that I would get two wingback chairs for the kitchen side, and have them in front of the fireplace, at a 90 degree angle to it, facing each other, with a table in between for tea or a game for two. Any chance of you wanting or being able to do something like that with your wing chairs? Might be fun to try, and you could move the other chairs around in the LR to fill in the spaces. I just love the romance of a wingback chair curled up by the fire with my cup of tea.

Thanks for your opinions, everybody! I'm a little hesitant about doing white because we're in and out of the left hand closet all day, since it holds the family's footwear. Something higher hiding might be more practical. I went through pinterest this morning and looked at door colors. I do like the black, such as these doors: But, I'm still pondering a taupe-beige kind of color that would pick up the checks around the windows, but it would not be such a strong contrast like the black: And on these panels with the birds is the greyed down blue green (Patina Farm), which very much inspired the overall palette of this room (yet ours looks much different with our black chairs.)

Many, though not all, indecisive people I know often tend to be people who could use a dose of extra self-confidence. Self-doubt can manifest itself in many ways and indecisiveness can be one. Either because of or as a causal factor to being indecisive, after struggling to make decisions, such people often continue to evaluate, question, investigate, and reconsider decisions they've made. An unhealthy practice, of course. We all face the need to make decisions, big and small, and few of us have the time to dwell or question past decisions because of other obligations. Often the result is dissatisfaction and more and future indecision. Also, another of my (n= a small number) anecdotal experiences, people who have jobs or other responsibilities that regularly require they make choices and consequential decisions learn how, either through practice or necessity, to make decisions as they come up and then move on without looking back on the decisions themselves. Sure, we all learn from decisions and bad decision impacts do come up, but not because the decider continued to ponder past choices or continued to seek out and assess alternatives after decisions have been made. That's unproductive.