Logan: There is no law that says you must each have a mirror. I did all this work on my tile wall and didn't want to cover it up, plus two mirrors would have competed too much with the adjacent medicine cabinets, so I built this: It is perfectly functional too.

Thanks for the encouragement all! Was certainly a risk that paid off, and we toiled over this color for a while. In the end it took me painting half a wall and also to model the room on the computer to see if such a dark color would work. During the day in the sunlight it is clearly purple, but very, very dark. At night sometimes it feels black, but always with a purple tint. I think eggplant describes it pretty well. Some of the purple accoutrements help show that we picked this color on purpose :) In an earlier thread people thought we should tone down some of the white trim, doors, and ceiling. We are still considering this...a metallic silver ceiling would be cool (but likely expensive and messy). @lovemrmewey, no real inspiration except my wife wanted something "glam" and it had to have a tufted bed. Originally she thought all shades of grey, but after painting our dining room a really dark blue we were inspired to try something else dark. Also, no real reason for the artwork other than more is more, but after everyones comments I think I'll hold back and try less is more for a while. Also it makes no sense to do anything until we get curtains and see how that looks. We are thinking a shimmery silver. One other thing, is we went risky/bold with the walls, but everything else is shades of silver in case we tire of the purple. @celerygirl, thanks for the test pics with art. I especially like the second, but maybe things are getting a bit crowded. I'll get up the curtains, which will also eat into some of the wall space, so will hold off a bit more. I found some cool x-ray photographs of flowers tinted purple that looked kind of neat. I need to post a shot of the TV wall, its across from the chair -- and is just a TV floating on the wall. The wires are still hanging, and there is a lot going on on the wall with switches, thermostats, volume controls, etc. Maybe I can do something there to hide all that business. @pamelamcleod, thanks. We saw the Benjamin Moore color of the year "Shadow" on the cover of one of their books (its the it's the shot with the spiral staircase) and thought it looked really cool. The problem was the shot was lit really dramatically and in person, the color seemed too light and too purple. We went one shade darker called "Galaxy" which evoked more of the drama we were looking for. This is a new house for us, and the old house was all Tuscan earthy shades of gold and brick and sage, so when we moved we wanted to change it up a bit. We still have some light sage (it worked well in the kitchen with the existing cabinets and countertops), but in the dining room went with a really dark blue. We loved the dark blue so much we went dark in our bathroom (super dark green -- BM "Dragon's breath", and thought lets try it in the bedroom. Worst case, we paint right back over it (we knew we were replacing everything else anyway). Turns out, we love the dark colors, but are lucky that we have tons of light so don't feel anything is cavelike :) Some other colors we went with were some trendy taupes and greys. We have NO gold or yellow anywhere anymore! One other challenge we are struggling with is that some of the rooms still have the heavy ornate wood, gold, silk in a rococo style, while others are trending more transitional or deco. Hopefully we are making it work by keeping most rooms consistent, but as a whole our house is now a bit of a mish-mash. Our dining room is like a war between the two styles, but it kind of works...I think. Maybe I'll post that on a separate thread to get some opinions. Another interesting thing we have found: are antique brass fixtures coming back? We decided to use antique brass hardware with the silver in the bedroom for knobs, handles, accents. Kind of hard to see on the dresser and nightstands in the pics, but it's there. Was counterintuitive vs. brushed nickel or stainless, but we loved the personality. We now are seeing it more commonly, wonder if trend has subliminally guided us? Everyone else: thanks so much for the encouraging words, we are especially pleased and wish some of our other decorating has been as dramatic and successful! Keep any ideas or tips coming, we are kind of decorated out at this point, so moving at a snails pace. Am guessing it will take at least a year before we get curtains :) Cheers, Andy

For me, everything I put in my house has to have some meaning for me, and I hope this has meaning for you, but for me it does not strike a chord. A beautiful painting, something that is art and not just some print that they offer in five different sizes, would give color and movement to this area, with something at each side of the console to hide the cord. A wider piece of furniture would have looked nicer there and hidden the cords, but I'm sure some solution could be devised to hide them.

The suggestions above seem good to me as I agree that the granite was a beautiful choice, so I say go with it! Just like a black & white bath is classic, there is alot of drama with very dark green stone contrasted with smooth white ceramic. If I had to redo a shower stall, I would seriously think about using a slab of granite on at least one wall. That kind of installation luxuriously shows off the stone as a piece of art, and what could be more subtly glamorous?! It might be worthwhile to go to some warehouses to look at various granite slabs to find one with a big scale pattern that appeals to you & would be compatible with your sink top color and veining. It might not need to be the same exact stone name to work! Stone surfaces are natural products so there is natural variation among them. When we shopped for our kitchen countertop (basically looking at the blue version of what you have, the so-called Volga blue), we visited several slab suppliers' warehouses and were amazed at the difference in stone pattern appearance between one slab and the next. Note the "book matching" of the stone pattern in the first photo. And note in the last photo that the same effect can be achieved to some extent with granite/marble tiles rather than a slab, and might be more economical.