They do -- and I like those. They caught my attention with the ones that were a little different though. Take a look at their website -- they have Italian marble and swirled alabaster shades in 14" and 16" sizes and in brushed nickel. You cans search the site by finish. You might find a local dealer who will order it for you if you don't find it online. I'm looking for a breakfast room fixture too -- probably a dark bronze or wrought iron with fat candles. I saw one in a store that I really like, but I don't like the shade on it -- they are butterscotch color and too dark. I'd really rather have white and they just say tough. Can't change them. The gal at another lighting shop who sold us our dining room fixture showed me a white glass that might work, so we ordered one and I'm waiting for it to come it. Meanwhile, I really don't want to buy from a store that offers no customer service (same story when we were looking for the dining room) but I saw this fixture when looking for the dining room fixture and haven't seen anything like it anywhere else. I've been looking at pendants thinking about replacing the recessed fixture we have in a dormer above our front entry. There is a window, but you don't even see the chain of the foyer fixture, so I thought it might be fun to have something you do see from the street. I've always liked that in other houses. I haven't seen anything that really grabs me -- especially for an area that will be so hard to clean. We put a small Christmas tree up there our first couple of years in this house. I loved it, but not having to go up the ladder and climb up there. Getting up on another ladder or step stool to clean a fixture once up there is not something I would look forward to, so I will have to love it to make the change.

Tropic brown, tan brown are two others. There are very dark golds like Juparana Tobacco or Paradiso which might work. You might also consider something like teak wood. Etching leaves white marks. On a brown marble it will be very visible. For fun, I got a two buck pink marble tile from the box store and had "science" when I was trying to decide about counters. Science consisted of pouring a small qty of lemon-lime soda on a bit of the marble and seeing if I could get it off before it etched. The answer was NO! I would suggest you spend a couple bucks to get a tile similar to what you want to use and have your own science project.

I do think the fluting is strange that it ends. But, it should be hidden by the mantel mostly. I'm not sure if I'm OK with that or not. That was one of the things I just sent to the cabinet maker, my concern about the dead stop in fluting. The panels would be a possible correction to that, but then as palimpsest says, they can't be even and don't directly tie into the book case so that might not be the best choice. I lik the idea of the scalloped edge along the book case bottom a lot and I really like the way that looks in the picture. I have emailed my cabinet maker to see if it is possible to do the footed bottom with scallops instead of the traditional toe kick. I do have remaining concerns about dog hair though. The blues- we have several wholly separate sets of blues within this house but not in areas that share a sight line. Do you think that is a problem. There was rationale behind the choices: In the kitchen, we have blue bahia granite for our center island, and there are cabinets that are blue, although the kitchen is predominantly white (the sink cabinet, stove hood and backs of the china cabinet are blue). We took a small piece of the granite to Sherwin Williams who color matched the blue bahia color exactly to create the paint. This paint color is the blue being used in the kitchen, as well as on these gathering room book cases (gathering room off of kitchen) as well as in the sun room adjacent to the gathering room to create the fireplace surround. Just to perhaps complicate matters before, there is a fire place in both the gathering room (this one being discussed above and in a adjacent sun room along the same wall- and the gathering room and sun room are separated by a glass wall. So, we essentially have two fireplaces in a row. Sort of. But you can only see both from certain vantage points (Did you follow that?) You can see it on the floor plan- that wall between those rooms is partially glass. (This is an old floor plan and doesn't show all the built-ins) Then, we have an entirely different blue on the cabinets in the conservatory, great room and dining room (the same in all 3 of those rooms though, of course) This blue is a stain, not a paint, and it was chosen to match a blue and yellow tile mural that is being inset into the hardwood floor in the front hall. These cabinets will actually be stained blue with yellow piping (picking up both colors of the tile mural) Our master bath also has blue tile. Different blue tile. And there's an upstairs bathroom with blue decos and tile. I haven't considered how any of these blues ties in with the outside blues or really thought they had to go with each other if they weren't in the same line of sight. Do you think that is a problem?

The room is lovely. if you have no where else, i would figure out how to convert one of the cabinets or place the tv on the small wall on the other side of the window from the fish tank. lets see lights and tables. I gave some wood to give some differential in the room. with no art space in the room you need texture color? let me know what you think.