sjharris I am considering Eddie Bauer / Valspar's "Butternut" for my living room. I don't know yet if I am that daring because it's a deep color. But you may like it. It appears to me it would be gorgeous in your room. I am having difficulty finding a photo of a room with this color but it's a deep golden butterscotch. I love it.

Pretty room, pretty accessories! I like how the lamp picks up the valance color. That was a nice find!

Given the yellow-orange of your pine table, if you go with red, it would have to be an orange-red rather than a blue-red. But red would not be the color I would go for given the chestnut colored valances.

I have old pine floors in my house that are very similar in color to your table. Buttercream looks good with the floors.

For some drama, how about adding chair rail and painting chestnut below and buttercream above?

I dont think I would do red. I would take the color of the valance, and go with one shade lighter. I like the colors in the vegetables you have on your buffet, they really go well with the pine color.

Sameboat, I looked up "Butternut." What a gorgeous rich color! I'm gong to get to Lowes to take a better look.

Graywings, good idea about a chair rail separating two colors. That would add interest to the two longest walls. Do you have any specific brands of the colors you mentioned? The lamp on the sideboard was left over from my mauve and pink stage back in the 80s. A can of hammered copper spray paint and a shade from a discount store transformed it.

Roseabby and Graywings, thanks for pointing out what I didn't really think about; how red wouldn't really compliment the pine wood tone.

Just curious, but have you ever tried turning the table the other way? It would seem to parallel the window wall, and the side walls would seem less empty as the visual focus would be on the end wall.

I would think a medium olive/moss green would be pretty and would work well with the table, the valances and your other accent pieces. As for the space between the windows, I think the issue is that while you have many nice things there (wall and table), they all feel kind of similar in size and disconnected. I

A grouping of plates there ( the clock feels like the wrong style for the decor in the room) or an oval mirror to echo the shapes of the chair backs would be nice.

I would keep the lamp and the pedestal with the fruit and the hens. The glass hurricane looks like an afterthought. The basket with the dried hydrangea is nice, but doesn't really add any color or interest to the arrangement. Perhaps that could go under the bench with the other basket.

I would not go red. I really like the color scheme that you have going on now. If you want richer, I would just go a shade darker on the color wheel - lean more towards the bronze/gold family. I agree with the idea of some plates hanging between the windows. You really have a beautiful dining room now.

Les 917, I have tried the table on the diagonal, but not parallel to the windows. The table is 80" long, and the width of the room is 124", only leaving 22" on each end of the table. It might work if we only seated people on the sides and not the ends.

Thanks for all the good suggestions about displays on the sideboard and wall above it. I've taken down the clock and plate and am trying out some different things. I love the idea of an oval mirror to repeat the shapes of the chair backs; the hunt is on!