Beautiful!
Bonnie

Wow, what a beautiful wall color. The old white must seem so bland to you now. Who makes Bungalow Gold?

Perfect! Where are you getting your drapes?

The room looks great! Do you have a 'before' photo? I'm having trouble picturing it white. I bet it's quite a transformation! I'm very interested because I am in the s-l-o-w process of painting my white living room to a very pale gold. Looks like you did a great paint job.

I like the curtains you chose. That is one wide window! I like how the stained glass piece kind of break it up. Is it the only window in the room?

I think your rooms looks lovely. I very much like the wall color with your furniture. Looks very pulled together. Nicely done.

When I redecorated our LR, I wanted black leather. While waiting for our custom order to arrive (73" sofa), I was searching for the perfect paint color as LR, DR and foyer spaces are all open to one another. Some crazy woman (me) painted some 15 sample boards in her search for the right color. Moved them around the space in different lights, times of day, etc. hoping that the cool gray I really wanted would actually work. It did not. I went with SW Blonde, and I love it. LR southern exposure just did not work with the cooler color pallete I longed for. Gold was the answer.

I also like your choice of drapes, but may I ask why you aren't using the valances? Are you planning to just frame the beautiful large window? I framed our large windows with JCP soft gold pinch pleat shears, push pins on antique brass curtain rings, antique gold decorative rods. Sheers have never been closed. DH wants no interruption of our almost floor to ceiling windows. The sheers somehow just disappear as the paint color is so similar. Softened the windows which looked too harsh at night without any dressing. A compromise that we both could live with. Fortunately, I have no neighbors to peer in, and you cannot see my home from the street.

Accessories to pull it together are shades of red as well as some gold. I have a mix of antique and traditional pieces, many Asian inspired accessories working with my leather sofa and chairs.

I like your DR as well. I can't tell if your DR adjoins your LR as does ours?

Do tell how you plan to dress the window! I am always most interested in the posts about windows, draperies while not interrupting DH's view of our property. When we first moved into our home oh so many years ago, DM with decorator helped me chose draperies for the above-mentioned spaces. Excited newly married homeowner surprised DH with nicely pressed lined draperies, properly installed, only for DH to come home from work that evening remarking that he felt like he was in a coffin! lol Marriage lesson #1, curtains are not "a good thing" in our home.

Great job!

Hmmm...I answered you earlier, AWM, but now don't see it on here. Bungalow Gold is made by Eddie Bauer Valspar from Lowes.

NewHomeBuilder - The drapes are coming from bedbathandbeyond.com. They are crimson from Argentina and are interlined so they hang beautifully. I'm getting the 95 inchers so they can hang floor to ceiling. Only the standard 84 inchers are available in the stores. I've seen them in person in the store hanging on display and they are gorgeous. They look like pure silk and are amazingly eye-catching. I feel they will make the room!

Postum - Yes, it's the only window in the room and it is quite wide! I'm worried about finding a rod long enough...it's just a bit too long for a 120 inch rod, which is the longest I've found so far, but admit I haven't really started looking in earnest yet. I'll try to attach a pic of the before:

Love the painting of the piano!

Work in Progress,

I went to Lowes and gathered up about 20 paint cards in the beige family. My original plan was to paint the room in a beige or taupe. This color was with the beiges in the store and I consider it to be a golden beige, cause I didn't want yellow! I fretted a LOT about whether it was going to look yellow. For those that like it, yellow is great, but I'm not a yellow walls kind of gal. Then I brought them home and put them each up against the furniture and accessories and the Bungalow Gold just jumped out immediately as being the right one. It was the richest and pulled the golden tones from the slate in my tables. I did buy a pint sample can and paint several large patches around the room and viewed it at various times of the day and night. I've just recently seen the light about using color on the walls. I'm 43 and until 2 years ago, I had never painted a wall anything except white or off-white. Crazy, I know! You talked about gray...I painted my bedroom in Spalding Gray from Sherwin Williams. It goes beautifully with black (which I love and have lots of in every room of my home) and mimics the tones of my plum bedding, yet it doesn't clash at all with my light beige carpeting, which a conventional gray would. It's my favorite wall color ever so far!

Yes, I am going to frame the window with the new panels. There are currently ugly roller shades for privacy and light control that are hidden by the valance. Our back yard is completely private and quite shaded, so there's really no need. However, I plan to hang 4 panels in order to allow the new drapes to be pulled closed in case I ever need to do that. The 4 panels will allow them to retain some gathering and not be pulled taut.

The valance question - I have been duly informed by several designer friends that valances are "out" and make a space appear somewhat dated. After much research online, I tend to agree with them. I have come to absolutely fall in love with the look of floor to ceiling, silk drapery panels shirred onto a decorative black rod with no tie backs or valances. I have always done valances in the past and want to update my look and try something different. They look a bit frou frou and I now want to switch to a more elegant look. Hanging them floor to ceiling is supposed to make your ceilings look higher, which I need since I have no vaulted ceiling in that room. It just looks more dramatic, in my humble opinion.

Disposing of the current drapes is a bit of an issue. My mom made them for me when I first bought the house only 6 years ago. My tastes have evolved and I have to find a way to change them without hurting her feelings. When I described what I wanted to her, I had her make them short, which now no longer appeals to me. The fabric is also quite dark (black with gold swirlies). I have used the fabric in other rooms of my home and still love it in those applications so maybe it will smooth things over with mom that I'm keeping those! You can see my old drapes in the "before" pic I posted above.

Actually, our dining table now sits on one end of our formal living room. It wasn't intended to be a living/dining combo. We have a formal dining room just off the living room, but NEVER used it, preferring to eat in the breakfast area of the kitchen. We made the dining room over into a his and hers home office but I just couldn't bear to get rid of the dining table. We do actually use it once per year at an annual holiday family dinner we host. We just pull it away from the wall and basically eat in the living room! The table is used more for my 2 daughters to do their homework on that anything else!...LOL

It sounds like our tastes are similar and that you've done your living room similarly to mine. I'd love to see some pics some time!

Take care!

The new paint is lovely and I think hanging just drapes will be wonderful~

Love the new paint - great color!