Uh... now that I have red curtains....

The red is going to dominate. How about pale grey with a touch of yellow.

I have a royal purple bathroom. It is great.

That sounds good... (the grey and yellow)

Would like to see the curtain material.
And the wainscotting will be all ivory? or only the wainscott trim?

What kind of red, and what is an eggy blue?

Grey... that might be good. Kind of a bluey gray would work.

The wainscotting trim will be natural wood, as the wainscotting will be. The window trim, door trim and built in's will be ivory/natural wood.

The built ins might end up being natural wood depending on what kind of wood is under the hundred years of paint.

The red can dominate. I love color.

I'll get some photos.....

And I was thinking warm grey, but dunno.

While my photos are loading I'll say that I'm kinda thinking khaki....

Oh gosh. The room is such a disaster, being mid-reno and all, but here's some photos:

Here's the fabric (I couldn't help myself. It's so pretty):



General room layout (the fifth window is on the wall where you just see one window):



The built ins (there are two of these in opposing corners, the doors have leaded glass once we get the paint scraped off):

YELLOW

Lovely!

Rawther Morris.

clear, but not bright yellow (does that description make sense to you?)

the curtains are primarily red with blue/yellow-gold/green/white accents
the grass is green, the sky is blue, the accents in the room will be white-ish
leaves me thinking something yellow-y

your original verbal description had me going along a not muddy grey route, but the photo - in context - yellow

hmmm, mebbe khaki, but for me it'd have to be a very un-muddy kind of khaki

and then again, even though I don't think I've ever suggested this to anyone for any room ever ... wallpaper ... striped

I may be losing my mind

Very nice! Love the fringe on the bottom, too.

I can see a good yellow.

The built-ins are gorgeous too btw.

I'm thinking paint chips.

I'm blinking at yellow, as in, really?
Toying with a rich gold, not rich as in screaming, but complex mix with perhaps some grey and green in it. The word bronze crosses my mind, and leaves again.

I still like grey, no longer want so much a warm grey, but also wary of blue grey. (My favorite bedroom was blue grey, so it's not that I don't like it.) But I'm not sure, thus paint chips.

Trying to picture all this with warm colored wood. I had a lot of warm colored wood in my last house and it looked good with clear rich colors that weren't, ya know, Miami Beach, but had "body" to stand against the wood, which was mellow old redwood and eucalyptus.

I am tending to think darker than others here. A baby daisy yellow would look weak to me against the glorious curtains, in my quick and dirty opinion.

I just happen to have a draw full of paint chips and a bunch on my living room wall, which is in a paint awaiting stage. The color I keep liking best is Amber Yellow by Eddie Bauer. Not that you have to like it - I've funny eyes, and yellow is one of my problem colors. Some might call it Puke Yellow.

Brown

Okay. I'm going to look at yellow.

Ralph Lauren used to make this glaze called "nicotine" that looked great over yellow. It kind of broke up the color -- it was almost like an amber varnish.

So maybe like a marigold color -- yellowy gold, glazed over with nicotine to "break" the color.... something warm and sketchy..... not muddy but.... layered.

By "eggy blue" I mean the color of blue eggshells, light blue but not bright.

Fringe. Crap. I love fringe but I hate sewing with it. What a pain.

Ohhhhhhhhh. Wallllllpaper. I adore wallpaper. I would love to do these walls with a yellow/green grasscloth shot with red. Unfortunately, our plaster walls aren't friendly to wallpaper. However, I am considering wallpapering the back wall of the built ins.

Brown, huh? Brown is my favorite color so I'm always game for brown. But with wood floors, different wood table, different wood windows, who knows what wood built ins, whatever wood wainscotting, etc., I'm not sure I could find a favorable brown. Unless it's khaki.

Anyway...

I solved the double hung window conundrum in this room by sewing fat sashes and attaching them directly to the lower section of the window. When you raise the lower section of the window, the fat sash moves with it

I used the Sherman Williams Color Visualizer tool to pick out a couple yellows. Then downloaded those photos to be able to use the color wand in Paintshop to paint a patch of the color on the walls in the photo of your dining room. You might want to fool around with the visualizer to help you with other color choices.

http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/

Scenario 1

Sherman Williams
6695 Midday Yellow (walls)
6374 Torchlight (trim)






Scenario 2

Sherman Williams
6666 Enjoyable Yellow (walls)
7065 Argos (trim)

Here's another that makes use of both the gray and yellow suggestions.

7067 Cityscape
6129 Restrained Gold