Hey, Barbara J.! jjam, Full spectrum color works in low-light situations too -- for all the same reasons. FS color packs a robust bundle of wavelengths and it can reflect a broader range of light wavelengths than regular color. That means, even in low-light situatuions, whatever light wavelengths you have to work with will be maximized. The wall color will reflect back as much as is possible for that particular hue -- nothing will be lost kinda thing. With any color, the more evenly balanced light you have, the better the wall color will look and FS color is no different. But... if in that equation of partnering bundles of wavelengths, one side of the equation is a little short, like the light, you can compensate with robustly built paint color. If you think about it, it works the same in reverse. i.e. A room with southern exposure with abundant daylight is the easiest kind of room to fit with a wall color -- because you have a robust bundle of light wavelengths to work with. In other words, you will find that a greater number of paint colors work in a southern exposure because of the abundance of light wavelengths; they have better odds of finding kindred wavelengths to reflect back into the room. The paint color might be short in some way, but the light is robust. The other part of FS color that I didn't speak to because it was getting kinda long is the factor of black colorant. FS color does not use black colorant in the mix. As we all know, black keeps all the light that hits it, black doesn't reflect anything back into the space. Having black in the mix also creates what feels like dimensional shadowing *within* the actual paint color -- sometimes it's not a big deal, sometimes it is. All depends. Tobacco Road is a good example. My favorite formula uses black -- in fact black is important. I'm anxious to see what EK's version looks like because it's not going to have that shot of black. There's a place and a way to use both versions of the same color. Having a choice about how color is mixed is awesome. i.e. I love to juxtapose *regular* color to FS color. It's a subtle way to add a layer of finely nuanced contrast to sightlines. It's fabulous if you can use FS color everywhere, but if you can only use FS for a room or a hallway, the effect can be rather spiffy.

I like BM Revere Pewter. It can go more grey or more taupe depending on lighting and what you put w/ it. I also like BM Porcelain Ivory, Deleware Putty and Jonesboro Cream all off of the same strip. Some people get nervous when they see that it is in the orange family but it really doesn't show orange at all. Cream Fleece on the next color card over is a favorite of some designer whose name escapes me at the moment.

I want to thank everyone for your input. MtnRR, you bring up a good point, so I went back to look at the size of my island. It's 51x92''+/- an inch, so six inch pendants simply won't do. And Gooster, You're right, Subee's kitchen isn't my kitchen. So I went and did this mock up. I don't have the software nor the skill to mock up the right floor plan, so I had to stick a sepia version of the table plus the dragonfly pendant in the front of the picture. I really really thought everyone would say that the number one option above was too matchy matchy. Maybe now if I could find it in a larger pendant, not a mini pendant, I'd use it, but that light is too small. I've looked at probably a thousand pendants again in the last two days. I'm wiped out. Nosoccermom, thank you for looking for so many blue lights. I've photoshopped them in, and for a variety of reasons none of them are any more right, especially in light of the other decor. I actually really like the first one you posted, but it's too small and probably not the right style for the dragonfly anyway. Ineffable space, if the only consideration were the dragonfly lamps what you posted might be absolutely perfect, but since the dragonfly is the cuckoo in the nest, I'm not certain that adding another cuckoo is the right thing to do. Holly-Kay, I've loved those plantation pineapple lights for so long. They were a given before we even spec'd out a single thing. Glad to know you like them. Akshars, Busybee3 and Annie, I'm keeping the dragonfly lamp for the time being. I like it and it was made just for me. My specific lamp is still in storage, and I haven't seen it for 4 years. When we empty the boxes from storage we'll have the builders hang it, and maybe it'll just have to be one of those things that are quirky to a house that make it a home and not something that a pro decorator has totally coordinated. At the moment, after all this exercise, I'm still thinking that the pendants that I originally posted here repeat the lines in the cabinet mullions and fit the space well, and I really have grown to like them a lot. I'm going to keep looking for something close to what Kellie posted in a regular, not mini, pendant. Worst scenario is that I put in a light over the table in the bkfast room that doesn't coordinate too well with the other elements in the room - that cuckoo in the nest. Worse things have happened. Again, I really appreciate all the input. Makes me really consider the choices. I'm almost afraid to post about the master bedroom selections - I suspect they'd be outta here in a heartbeat! (It's because I'm already second guessing those the most)

The brown chair looks isolated and small by itself in comparison to the visual weight of the sectional. If you consider the last photo in the Susan Davis post, that chair is larger and has a pattern fabric and accompanying ottoman with it that balances better, visually, its sectional. The arrangement of the pieces and the artwork on the walls also create more visual balance in that room.