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I have been stalling decorating this room even though I love to decorate and can't wait for it to be done. For some reason the color was throwing me off. I promised my husband I wouldn't make him paint. Anyway, last week it hit me that I would like to see some rich green. Not sage (which I love) but for some reason the color of a puffy, deep, rich taffeta green. Like a jewel. Either a deep deep teal or emerald, or even an irredescent.

I love old. My former home was an older home and I had no problem decorating. This is home is stuck in the 80's and I want to decorate with a fresher look for today and yet still reflect what I like.

Anyway, I found these drapes today online and I think I'm going to go have a look. But I need some opinions. What do you all think. Am I nuts? Do you think this will give me the look I'm after?

I don't know how to get the window treatments to appear in my post.

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Here's my room (I've since taken down the hodge-podge of stuff on the walls and the blanket chest and TV is out of the room. I also have a large palm plant on the hearth now:

Love the "old" look you have going on. The paint colour seems too "modern" for the look you are going for, so I would paint. Know you didn't want to hear that, but tell hubby that paint may be cheaper than the new window treatments. and it looks like the current WT match the chair really well. If you're "bored" with them, maybe add a fringe on the the vertical edges.

And I would paint the white bricks the same colour as the room as well as the wood trim on it (or remove the wood if you can). Would be more cohesive-looking. Looks like it used to be a fireplace area, not sure why it was removed, but I could see a portable electric fireplace there, a corner one. Nowadays, they are pretty reasonably priced, I've also seem some on CL in my area.

OR, you could build bookshelves in that corner, in a deep mahogany stain...

Know this is more than you asked, just a few things to consider, take what you like & discard the rest!

So I've already removed the window treatments in the photos and discarded them. The velvet tab top panels were worn and had pinholes so I got rid of them. :<(

I agree, take the trim off the brick. I don't know what these people were thinking. They slapped that cheesy trim up all over the place in places it didn't belong! There's a gap between the brick and the wall but DH said he will make a filler piece for me. hmmmmmm...that might need painting...

Anything else?

Colors on the computer are not reliable, it appears that you have a dark red chair with a gold print and leather furniture in a brown-orange tone. Bringing in green drapes that don't match anything else in the room doesn't sound like a good idea. Light gold drapes would work. I would change the wall color - it's a small room and you could paint it without help from your husband. A safe wall color choice would be a lighter shade of the drapes.

Are you planning on a rug? That might be the first thing I'd do before deciding on drapes. I'd have to agree that the wall color is kinda fighting the mood that your furniture creates...it's a little too light, feminine and contemporary to work with the weight of the furniture and leather...which I love. I'd second a pale gold on the walls.

I wouldn't do a green drape or any with a sheen. With the leather's slick surface, a texture will really look great...chenille, nubby linens or something along those lines.

I had leather furniture in my TV room in my last home...went with fauxed gold walls, deep gold chenille drapes on hefty rods. The woodwork was painted in my own "swamp green" :).

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I will have to get paint swatches and make sure the color goes all right with the mountain mist, too.

Filla, the TV is out of the room because it's a 12 x 12 front room that we call the living room. My husband and I sit and have our coffee in there after work or I like to curl up with a magazine sometimes. I want it to look luxurious and pretty and yet okay to put my feet up (once I get the leg fixed on my coffee table). We are lucky enough to have another room above the garage where we watch TV and the kids hang out. So this is my little corner of the world.

I did think about taking out the brick all together but DH wants to eventually put a gas stove there. So for now I just have a huge palm tree on it.

I also pulled a rug from another room into this room. I will have to take updated photos without the miscellaneous stuff in there. It would be great if I could have it all together by the time my new end table and sofa table come.

Thank you all for the great ideas and your interest in helping me make some decisions! If you have any input on paint color I'd like to hear it.

I was also thinking if I ended up with a pale beige wall that I could go back to the burgundy colored draperies. I wasn't crazy about it against the pale blue walls but like I said the walls and white blinds were here when we moved in a year ago.

Thank you!

I took more pics this morning of what is in the room. You will see there is some of that green I love in a painting I have and also a tole tree I plan to keep in there.

The rug can go but maybe the teal green/blue color in the rug is another thought...

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Oddly enough I just pained my smaller spare bedroom and I think the paint and panel colors I used in there would work very well in your room.

If your walls are in good condition, no cracks or nail pops to fix, then painting really isn't hard to do.

I went to Lowe's tonight and had so much fun looking at paint colors. At first I was looking at purple-grays but then realized I'd be in the "same boat" as I am now - trying to make the room work with the color of the wall.

So I tried what some of you had suggested and looked at golden colors. I am in love with Valspar / Eddie Bauer "Bungalow Gold." I got a few chips and placed them next to everything. This color really is beautiful and ties in all my accessories, even the rug! I was thinking of taking the burgundy chair out of the living room but I found a room online with this color and the burgundy looks beautiful with it! I linked to the sample room online below.

DH and I also looked at some really beautiful tiles to (someday) go over the painted brick when we decide to get a gas stove.

So with this new color, it opens a lot of options for me as far as curtains go. This color looks pretty against the new wicker-colored roller shades and it also looked beautiful held up to just about any of the curtain panels at Lowes. I am ecstatic and I think well on my way to finishing my room.

I am sure I will have updates and also more requests for suggestions. Thank you all.

Sameboat, I know you weren't wild about the idea of painting but I do think that the gold color will harmonize with all that lovely wood you have in the room. Your current wall color is rather "cold" and it doesn't do a thing to show off that wood.

Now, the one thing I don't know is if the place you got those paint chips sells sample pots of paint. Do you know? If they do it would really be worthwhile to buy one and paint some places on the walls in different spots. Golds and yellow paints can sometimes look very different on walls than they do on the tiny chips. Larger areas can sometimes start looking a bit too "intense". I'm not saying that will be the case with the paint you selected but, spending a few dollars for a sample paint and trying it out could save a lot of work if you don't do that and then paint the room only to find out that it's not exactly what you want.

So yes I've learned my lesson. lol This room doesn't get much light so I am interested to see what the gold looks like once it's up. I do happen to like "dark" though.

I will check out Penny's. I am so excited. Thank you!

Here are some excellent pix of Bungalow Gold I found here from an older thread:

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