I would go with black. I think white would be too jarring with the rest of your stone, countertops, wall color, and back splash-none of which seem to have any white at all, but are more earthy in tone. Love your double fireplace. I would like to alter ours between the living room/dining room into one like yours. Very pretty spaces and I think your table idea will be great!

Depending on your family and life style I would avoid fabric covered anything. The dining room seems to be significantly easier to keep chairs really clean in vs the stools at an island in my experience. For us when we did our kitchen which is open to the dining area I wanted the stools to be very low profile and not be the star. I wanted the island and the colour of it, which is a dark grey called iron mountain to be the star. As a result our stools are actually chrome bottoms and then acrylic see through on the top. With three kids I need to wipe them often but everything always wipes off...I shudder to imagine if they were fabric!

If this was my room, I would have the dining table completely away from the window. If the view is that nice in the evening, I would want to be able to walk up to the window and look out. I would forget about the acrylic table legs. Even if you had the dining table beside the window, the table top will block the view, not the legs. But for me, I’d put a low profile bench by the window so you and your guests had a place to sit and enjoy the view. Add a good size sideboard where the armoire is and if you still have room, think about an overhang on your kitchen countertop on the dining room side. Then you can have bar stools for your guests to sit at while you prepare dinner.

Often times the floor matches or compliments the COUNTER TOPS. It sounds like you have plenty of design decisions to make. A kitchen has 7 design elements. Lighting Counters Floors Cabinets Backsplash Paint Appliances So you can see I've listed 'lighting' first....it is SOOOO important to figure out your lighting FIRST and get it installed FIRST! Why? Because it determines how the colours 'appear' to your eye. What looks like a nice 'match' in the store (green/yellow lights) could turn out to be VERY different under natural lighting in your home. You will notice paint is WAY down the list...right above appliances. That's because paint is used a final coat of 'unifier' and will depend on ALL of the items above it. I grouped the 'horizontal' items first = counters and floors. These guys work together so you might as well CHOOSE them together. They also throw light/darkness up into the air and effect all the colours you put in the space. Then I grouped the vertical items together: cabinets, backsplash, and wall paint. They often run together as a pack. Again, notice how paint is almost last? Right. It is SOOO easy to change (as in you take it back and buy something else) because it is quick and cheap and easy. You have decided on 'white' for the cabinets. Right. Which 'white' are you going with? The best way to do this is to do a single drawer/door mock up (sanded, primed, painted and sealed). You then take that drawer shopping. When finding floors, I like to take 3 of my favourite counter top samples shopping (that means you need to have the samples in hand). You then ask for samples of 4-6 floors that work with your counters (like 2 floor options for EACH colour of counter top). Now you take those home and look at all 3 items (painted door, counter tops and floor samples) in YOUR lighting. Which reminds us why LIGHTING is first. Anyway. What you will find is your lighting changes the samples enough to see clashes. Toss those clashes IMMEDIATELY (hide them in a drawer to return to the shop). Now you will have 3 counters and probably 4 floor options. Good. Now put the sampled down in different areas and leave them there for all 5 lighting situations (see, there's that 'lighting' thing again). In other words you leave them in place for 1 full day. You will 'watch' the colours change during the day (no point leaving them there if you don't check on them). Notice if there are 'clashes' once again. As soon as you see a clash you remove it (send it to the drawer). Once you have done this for 4-5 days you will be down to 2 counters and 2 floors. Excellent. Now you find out which floor/counter top is the EASIEST to locate/purchase for your time frame. Go with the 'easy' part. You may end up with your second favourite counter and your least favourite floor but you will have a coordinated kitchen. And a coordinated kitchen is tough to do if you are DIYing the colour scheme. It's worth all the marbles.