it is so hard to find just the right cream. I swear I tried 20. I ended up with BM windswept. it is PERFECT in my house. some others that looks like the perfect cream in other peoples pics looked, grey, green, orange, etc in mine!

Glad ou are feeling better. Have you figured out if you can lower the chandelier?

Maybe Philadelphia Cream is what you looking for in the dining room. I like the painting.

I'm prefering the Jersey Cream since it seems to have a bit more *life* to it. The Windahm Cream..........yaaaawn. Not much better than a white. I absolutely love your yellow/blue inspiration pix.

lascatx- Thank you. I think the chandelier can be lowered, but I'm not going to keep it. Of course, the ones I really love are over $1k, and that's not happening!

happy-I will check out Philadelphia Cream. Thanks.

Patty-I like the Jersey Cream better than the Windham too. It looks great in there tonight.

It is coming along!! You have a great plan. Looking at your inspiration pics...they really read as very light lemony yellows, NOT creams. I think that is why your samples might seem a little "blah" and beige-y compared to the pics. I don't have any good yellow recs, but I'd check out the yellow chips if I were you. It's going to be lovely!

I second BM Philadelphia Cream. Used it in my front hallway. Used BM Dunmore Cream in my dining room, with an accent wall in red. Very nice creamy yellows.

The worst cream-color paint I ever had was SW Heavy Cream. It turned sickly green on my walls. The best cream color I ever had was Farrell-Calhoun Soft Gold. It stayed a pretty, soft cream. I doubt that you can find F-C. It is a regional paint company, I think. My point is to look at some paints that are called gold, instead of just looking at paints that have cream in the name. btw, the lovely Soft Gold was picked for me by the guy at the paint store after I described what I wanted.

I agree with bbstx. There may be a few creams that appear to be in the 'yellow family', but your best bet is to look thru the yellow/gold for a truer color. Here's SW yellow pallette:

http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/family/yellow/

How many coats of primer is that? You got amazing coverage!!

Seeing your room with lighter walls is a revelation; I think that alone will make a huge difference in the feel of the room. I'm not so much a fan of your walls being yellow, but that's for you to determine.

Look at all that light! The Jersey Cream looks beautiful. Love it with that painting.

Agree with others to look in the yellow lines. And congratulations on a fine priming job! Wow!

You are a woman on a mission! Great progress!

OMGosh! What a difference. It almost looks like different room, so much larger.

Wow, you are doing amazing!

I absolutely love your painting.

Yellow gets more intense in large doses so you may want to try a large swatch on the wall before commiting.

Look at SW pineapple cream and venetian yellow, on same strip. Both are very creamy. You will never be able to tell simply by paint chips I had to paint big sections on the walls and look at various times of the day.

You have made great progress. Love the Jersey Cream (between the 2 colors) you show.

Echoing robo and ravencajun about testing. The paint-store guy told me to be sure to paint samples up against the trim instead of just painting in the middle of the wall. He said it would be even better if I had a section where I could paint the sample between two pieces of trim (between 2 windows, between a door and a window, etc.).

And then there is my sister's method for painting samples. She had a large scrap of Sheetrock (4x3 ish) that a builder gave her. She would paint the entire sheet whatever color she was sampling and move it around the room at different times of the day. The plus was she could see how each time of day would affect the color. The minus was she only did one color at a time, so it was a slow process.

I love your inspiration pics! I can't wait to see your progress. I love white, yellow and blue.

That is 2 coats of 1-2-3 primer. After painting about 20 boards and moving them around the room at different times, I have narrowed down my favorite paint colors. We had about 5 minutes of sun today, despite a very rainy week, so I got to see the colors in the sun, too. I am loving the Lemon Sorbet!

I think I might end up using one of these greens or Rainwashed in the LR across from the DR.

Here are chandeliers I like, in the order I like them best. Need to stay around $400 or less.

Thinking I will go with the cordless bamboo shade plus off white drapes, then something fun on chair seats. These are my favorite fabrics so far, but not making that decision just yet. The embroidered one doesn't show up well, but it is TDF and has multiple shades of blue in it.

Thanks for your thoughts!

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Love the Lemon Sorbet in your room.

I like the first chandy. I like the softness of shades. The second is too cold, the third look I think has peaked (the drum over chandelier thing) . I also like the last chandy a lot

OOh OOh I love bamboo with off white

I agree with what Mtn just said! So exciting!

I agree with Mtn too! I need to see a bigger swatch of the fabric, I can't get a feel for the pattern.

I was just looking at Pottery Barn Drapery panels, they have some in blue and white that remind me of the last inspiration picture that you posted.

Oooooh! I like the lemon sorbet. Yummy. Your current chandy looks like your first inspiration photo. Maybe finish the room and then decide?

Thanks for posting. It's fun following your progress. I may be doing the same to my dining room soon, so you are inspiring!

Adding I would keep looking for chandies... None of these seem quite right although I am on a "you can't go too big" kick so like the scale of the last one (pictured in the bedroom setting).

Love the lemon sorbet! Still in awe of your priming job over the previous color...

N-thing the 1 and 4 chandelier choices. Looking amazing!! Love the fabric choices for the chairs. This is going to be such a different room, well, it already is!

Finished painting-2 coats of primer, 2 coats of wall paint and 2 coats of trim paint. It's certainly yellow, but it's growing on me. Not loving the matching chair rail, but it definitely makes it recede. I think I'm just used to it being white. New chandy arrived yesterday and Roman shade and drapes are ordered.

You are fast! which Chandy did you pick? What a nice view from your window.

The paint job looks super. It will feel less yellow when the room fills in.

Looking great!!!!!

Looks really good!

Looks great!

Nice work! Can not wait to see your finished room!

It looks so pretty! Can't wait to see the rest of it come together.

Yummy. I think that once the roman shades, chandy, and drapes are in, you will not notice the chair rail. Anxious to see the finale.