Hi Juan-

The table and chairs are beautiful!

Is the first photo the dining room?

The wood floors are beautiful too.

Will you be keeping the deep blue walls?

Will you be keeping the white buffet that is shown in the first photo?

The table and chairs are beautiful!

Is the first photo the dining room? yes... that is what we have so far

The wood floor is incense wood

Will you be keeping the deep blue walls? YES

Will you be keeping the white buffet that is shown in the first photo? YES

What is incense wood? Maybe it has another name?

tree from south america...

thanks loobab

we were hoping to bring more color through accents (on top of the buffet and table, art on the oposite wall). we thought about navy and some other blue and a touch of a more vibrant color like orange in a couple of places. would that work?

buffet is wood with with lacquer -matte- and we thought about mixing more contemporary items with more classic/rustic ones. For lighting we may need s chandelier type but more in a contemporary style?

White wash reads as a more casual finish to me, and the rest of your room seems quite formal. It's not the color of the white wash that I don't think will go, it's the relative formality.

I love the blue.

Hi Juan-

Blue and orange go so well together because they are complementary colors, and if you add in a little bit of another blue that you like that will be just gorgeous.

It's difficult for me to tell if your wall is blue as in primary blue or more blue-purple, but no matter, they both go perfectly well with orange.

Depending on the look you want, you can use

1. A tint of your blue (think of your color blue paint with white added) giving you a lighter blue color

2. A light tone of your blue, which would be your blue but lightened up with light grey added.

3. Something way out there, and I don't know if this would work, it depends what color the wall is in real life, something like turquoise blue.

Here is some orange to look at so you can look at the colors all together, and of course, there are many orange colors as well.

Whenever I want to know if certain colors can go together, I just look to nature.

You can mix styles of furnishings too, but carefully.

I bet you can find a marvelous Oriental rug with blue and orange and umber.

Look here for some rooms decorated with blue and orange

https://homedesignlover.com/dining-room-designs/blue-and-orange-dining-room/

https://eyefordesignlfd.blogspot.com/2013/01/decorating-with-blueorange-color.html

https://homedesignlover.com/living-room-designs/15-stunning-living-room-designs-with-brown-blue-and-orange-accents/

https://www.decorpad.com/search/orange-and-blue-living-room

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/170081323398158996/

There are so many marvelous chandeliers. You can do something with crystals that still looks contemporary, or get something like that looks very geometric but gently rounded like folded paper or folded fabric.

cawaps

thanks! we were hoping to find a good balance between more formal and classic items and some more casual ones. Need to figure out if we can pull it off! Any tips are welcome. Lighting, accents, wall art, table wood finish, etc...

thanks loobab, we will go with the touches of orange!

lighting still something we need to crack

Hi Juan-

Can you use some sort of photo editing program?

That would really help you a lot in your project with trying out different type of chandeliers, mirrors, artwork, fabric for the back of chairs, etc.

I am with earlier comments your elements are all fabulous but the white wash sold white of the buffet and trim won't play well together I am afraid.

thanks arcy_gw!