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

Mmmm, I like that gold, maybe even one dash darker (or maybe not, quite like that), but for the walls, presuming the house has a bunch of "ivory" sort of trim and that the trim stays as a constant. Also like that grey, but am moving goldward.

Looked up the eddie bauer amber yellow, not sure I quite believe it.. my double chip looks different, but maybe it's the diff from the computer screen and the chips. Mine seems to have a faint whiff of green yellow in it. Or, again, my eyes in action. I may be thrown off by the more orangey block of color to the left.
http://www.myperfectcolor.com/Match-of-Eddie-Bauer-EB25-2-Amber-Yellow-p/mpc0082027.htm
When I looked it up, I saw people using it with Restrained Gold...

Switching ideas and going towards the red - what will the next room look like?

I like rooms to flow from one to another - strong bias - not meaning exactly the same, but not to be a big visual jerk.

I guess I'm against going towards the red.

I can see shewolf's brown (which... I'm off on tan/bronze/maple. Would need to work with the wood.

I might as well add that I'm careful in garden design with red. It is a literal eye catcher. Not that one should never layer reds, but...

and in the garden, both the delight of the gardeners/homeowners and the nature of the climate matter.. re colors. Sort of like when you grey as a person, some colors perk you up from time to time, and some look garish given your face. I can say that, given my face. In this case it is a house that has a certain patina.

Well, no one has been pushing for a red wall (though I've had a chocolate brown one in an old building myself, as well as purpley rose for my last computer room) - but this also speaks to the appropriateness of certain colors for certain houses. There's a reason paint firms have "heritage colors". Not to isolate oneself to those, but a certain non-clarity is a consideration. Y'all may call a color muddy that I might think works with the house.

Oh, I love the curtains! What a beautiful color and design. Here are some colors
to it - I like them all!

Hi, CJ, glad you're here.

On the colors, you're kidding...

I say belligerently.

but I don't know how to reciprocate with my versions of those colors...

That's okay, osso. I like vibrant colors - my walls are orange after all!

Yeh, but I bet you're not in a twenties house.

I had a purpley rose computer room/cream ceilings and trim, but the rose was "greyed". To to not grey it in such a house is to relive the sixties.

I'm suddenly off on a bandwagon.
I've had clients who "restored a house" as opposed to renovated it. Most of us don't want to do that. But..

well, there was a slicko loft renovation in the NYT today, and I'm yawning, no matter how many million it took. Not that I hated it, but ultimately a yawn.

And a slicko Quincy Jones house renovation, which I liked better, in the LA Times. Not that I loved it, but I understood it.

Houses/Residences have a temperament. Some houses that have been shunned in my life have a new life as cool re the original design. I'm not engaged in period renovation, way too constraining, but houses do have a voice.

In the sixties and early seventies millions painted walls in myriad ways in various places. Groovy.

But I'm not representing that, today, anyway.

Getting back to color suggestions that will coordinate with the colors in the curtains Boomer made...



This one is a lighter grey, on walls and trim. Added what I thought was the closest background color of the curtains as the chair color so you can see the colors together.



And here's a khaki version for one of Boomer's suggestions

Here's one with just a hint more warmth to it that they call burlap:

The grey really works

I like the burlap. Re yellow, a sort of French Vanilla ice cream colour?

I like Wickerwork against the red curtains:

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

Oh! I like that "burlap" too!

I was looking around my house for inspiration and things I could repurpose for the dining room.

I have this print hanging over my fireplace (excuse the glare) -- the mat is kind of a cranberry color. It would fit, at 46x36, almost fill, the longest wall in the room:



Here's a detail of a yellow I like that is "broken" -- I think I could imitate it:



Also, I picked up these prints at Goodwill a few months ago but haven't hung them anywhere. The mat is exactly the same as the larger print. They are 21x27 so together they would fill up the second largest wall:





So......

I think these prints coordinate with the curtains pretty well and they would spread a bit of red around the room. But is that too much red? (I love red.)

What do you think of using a yellow kind of like the yellow in the big print detail?

The Sherwin site has a tool that lets you upload an image for color inspiration and it matches the colors you point to in the image. So if you can either textually describe exactly which of the many shades of yellow in there that you like or draw a circle around it and post the photo again, I'll do a sample room with that color for you.

Regarding the red, I don't think it is too much red, but I would be very careful that the reds are all in the same family of tones. It looks like what you have so far are all a bluish red similar to cranberry. I'd avoid any that are more of the orangish reds. I think the red matting on an opposing wall would give the room a bit of color balance.

What about the trim? Are you leaning toward trim that is the same as the wall color or a bit of a contrast either lighter or darker than the wall color?

Deep yellow like osso showed and dark brownish bronze.

I has spoken.

Agreed; I think you can pick up the sunflowers in the painting and it'll work.