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

Here's the yellow that is the most dominate in the image you posted. It is called Alchemy. I used the same on the walls and trim.



Here's the one that BBB liked, it is called wickerworks.



I need to get back to packing boxes. Will check back in a couple hours and see if you've posted any other color choices you want to see a sample of.

red goes really well with a real pale sage.
We have some maroon and sage color scheme for our new sun room. Its really homey.

That sounds nice farmer

I liked that first one that Butrflynet posted a lot -
also like sage with red and wood wainscotting.

The curtains are beautiful...



I am with Soz on this...I love a nice soft yellow with red...very happy...and perfect for a dining room...isn't there something about yellow and red being the colors that make one hungry?

http://www.writedesignonline.com/resources/design/rules/color.html
on down the page the following appears:

when I am old I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesnt go

I liked the sage colors too but stayed away from them since it sounded like green wasn't a favorite of the crowd. I'll post some more samples in a bit.

You all can do this too, btw. Just go to the Sherwin Williams link, click on the visualizer tool, select dining rooms, select the middle image, then start playing with colors.

Once you have a scene you like, click the download button then upload it to your favorite image hosting place and link to it on A2K.

Okay, here's another batch starting with photo 12, I included the name of the paint to make it easier to refer to them when offering opinions

restrained gold



clary sage



garden sage



green sprout




Back to packing...

I like yellows, greens, and blues... just not extremely bright 'clear' ones in this kind of house. We had a good green in the art gallery/design firm (not all of it, mostly the offices), from a benjamin moore color that I can't link because they've since redone their color charts. Anyway, we matched the color with another paint company as an economy choice, but I've always liked benjamin moore paints.

I usually use Ben Moore paints too.

I went to the paint store today though and all the BM yellows were kind of not right so I picked up some chips from Pratt & Lambert as well.

Right now I'm trending towards either P&L's Golden Burma or Indian Buff, but more towards Golden Burma.

Yeh, both of those are close to my amber yellow (well, to my eyes) - I like the "neighborhood". Slight bias to golden burma --
http://www.prattandlambert.com/color/color-palettes/color-families/yellow-greens/


Liked BFN's yellow too.

Also liked when one or two of her shown ceilings looked a little grey.. probably an artifact - but in many cases I'd rather a color than an actual routine dead shadowed white. Forget the name of the most popular white for decades, started with an I.

That brings up the whole white ceiling thing. I've mostly, in recent years, painted the ceiling the same as the room. But I can see a trim matching ceiling in this case, or a light grey one. Or, the room color..
decision might consider what is going on in the next room, and all house ceilings.

Take a piece of the material to the paint store. They can match any color from the material on their computer and it will give them the exact mix. You can't go wrong if you are matching a color in the curtains. (other than the red)

I liked the wicker and I liked the second yellow that Btrfly posted back on page one.

I can see where the second set of prints work, but don't like the sunflowers because to me they are not in the same... flavor or style... as the curtains. I'm not an artist. Would have to defer to othrs. Sunflowers I think field, farm or Italy. The curtain material makes me think simple, elegant, oriental. Love the fabric!

Ivory?

I like the ceiling just a lighter shade that is on the wall...but that is just me.

Pratt and Lambert are after my time (which wasn't so long ago that I/we picked colors for clients on the odd occasion, most often outside color, but sometimes inside), or at least out of our knowledge then. But I like what I see of their range.

On BFN's yellow, I meant the Alchemy one.

Squinney, I agree (ms. opinion obnox).
The curtains hold the eye, I'm uncomfortable with seeing them deal with other figures given their richness in this room. Diff situation than soz's.

Yeh, Missy, ivory or ivory equivalent, or a lighter shade of the wall color... or, the wall color, if the whole house does that.

Also that makes sense, mismi, re looking up, airier.

I admit I've never used a grey blue ceiling with a yellow room - either ivoryish or room color --- but but but, in the house I sold last, the old great bungalow, one room had, besides a murphy bed of redwood, don't get me started, a coved ceiling with a rectangle of wood at the top of the curve. Thus I was playing with the idea of a the given wainscott, the wall color, the whatchallit (I'm having a lapse, the fancy wood at the top of the room, left as wood colored), the cove (new color), the wood rectangle (stripped or not?) and the inner rectangle (a greyish blue?) with the light in the middle.

Never got to it, sold the house with that, er, standing ready to be addressed.

Should add, my bias is for rooms to be all of a color, including ceiling (though not that last one with the cove). Some people even take this to the trim, but I usually like trim standing out, if only within a range of the room color. I like trim, period, another bias.



Just remembered the favorite white of all contractors, at least for a while - Navaho White.

I really like this one.