What a beautiful room. I love your rug and the colors.

When we sold our house last year, we had used various beiges and accessible beige was one. I am trying to find the color names we used in our dining room - they were deeper and richer than accessible beige but still complemented it nicely. I will keep looking for the color names and post back when I locate them.

Not a Pro.

You have such lovely furnishings and some great accessories. I would start by taking down all the window treatments, fake ivy, and pare down some of the accessories.

Can you replace the area rug or do want to keep it?

Start with a clean slate. Leave only the wood furniture in the room and you'll see it all with a different eye. Then take a close look at the adjoining spaces and see how you might tie all of them together.

I think just removing window treatment and painting over the red (?) will lighten up the space. And de clutter- just leave the big pieces (and rug if it’s staying). If you are willing to reupholster chairs, I think a neutral animal print would look fresh and modern

Thank you all for wonderful advice. The rug can go. @njmomma the photo you posted is exactly what I was looking for.

We love seeing the update.

Please post after pictures or pictures as you go along updating.

Looking at @njmomma's post, ( I love that blue color) it looks really that the key difference is the window treatments. That made such a difference in updating the feel of the room. I see the rug was also changed, but I suspect that without repainting, just changing the window treatments to something similar (light panels) might give you what you are seeking.

For the record I did track down the colors we used in our dining room (to sell) and it was BM Muslin on the bottom and Stonehouse above the chair rail. I didn't love it, but it was one of those combinations that seemed very agreeable (recommended when we were removing busy wallpaper in anticipation of the sale) with almost all decor . The house did sell in a matter of days.

Like the ideas of updating done things. I’d repaint, remove ivy from cabinet, update lamps and curtains but I’d KEEP the rug you have.

This might inspire you.

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I'm not a pro. That said, I think that a pale yellow would really brighten things up.

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You furniture is gorgeous! My advice is to keep the emphasis on the furniture and make everything else minimal. A paint job and upgrading the window treatment maybe all this room requires if you like the look. The room would look more transitional if you replaced the chandelier with something more modern. I also like the multicolored persian rug here.

This is a 3D interactive build of your room so you can swap wall colors, rugs and drapes to help you visualize your room more clearly. Might help you make a decision sooner.

I would start by removing the rug and the drapery, and priming over the red. Currently it's hard to imagine anything different in the space.

Your furniture calls for pattern somewhere, but I would switch things up. Do either a pattern in the simple curtain panels (no valance) and a close to solid rug OR a pattern on the walls with plain white curtain panels, and again a semi-solid rug that doesn't overwhelm the space.

@Styldod, while it is admirable of you to post helpful schematics, would you please stop linking to your page? It's considered spam and not allowed in these forums.