mamabird, I can appreciate your (or is it DH's?) desire to have a white room to house that large stone fireplace. It sounds very good to me, in fact - a lovely Scandinavian-country look. I really like the idea of a nearly-white in that room - it won't look cold! not with that behemoth of a firebox in the room. LOL! If you like the White Dove for the woodwork, it looks good. For the walls, if you're amenable to other brands, I would suggest Farrow and Ball's "Strong White". I have this colour in my living and dining areas and it looks like cashmere on the walls - just regular undyed, cashmere. A definite white with a little bit grey, a bit green, a bit tan, but only enough to keep that white from being blinding. Strong White's my preference for your room. It will "go" with the white dove as well as with the tan of the stone. Another (set of) suggestions are from Donald Kaufman. I have DK-24 (in a bedroom) and I love it. It is basically a white with some green, blue and lilac / tan to it. I have it in north-facing room and it reads quite like a blue-green tinted white - once again just enough to knock the blindingness out of the white. This would be even more of a scandinavian-country touch to your room with the great big stone fireplace. Other nice whites from DK are DK-4,5 and 6 the last of which has a noticeable amount of green to it. So not a green colour per se, but a green-shaded White. Alternatively, if you're really bound for a deeper colour in the white-ish territory, I'd suggest F&B's Off-White or Shaded White. Both are gorgeous, definitely deeper colours but both also come across as whites-in-shade if you get what I mean ;-) And I think they'd go swimmingly well with that stone fireplace. Good luck. For what its worth, I support your paint-it-white vision as I think the look will look stellar in it with the fireplace.

It is a triple slider and a single window. These drapes were made for my previous house, they were on 2 seperate double hung windows. The ink wasnt even dry on the check when we found out we were moving:( I put two panels together in the middle. They are stationary. However, in the living room I have a travis rod (which I painted the wall color, with sheers behind those stationary drapes. I dont have a picture of that room with the sheers closed. Scroll up and look at the pic with the piano, you can see the rod I painted the wall color. The sheers are tucked behind the drapes. Those drapes were in my previous home too. They were on 2 windows. I had someone put two panels together so that they could be reseperated if I ever moved and wanted to take them with me.

This is very close to the table. The floors are medium color wood, the walls are metro gray by BM with white trim on the windows. I know it is a lot of gray but I'm not really into color and I figured I would add color with accessories. The dining room also opens up onto the living room. The only other color chair I considered was white but I was told white chairs will get dirty over time. I do not want black chairs.

Or you could get stools that are adjustable from 18" to 24" to fit both a regular counter and a dining table . I for sure would not do a counter height dining table most people do not love sitting on stools for dining.