Help! Wall color selection... Oh & a house project update too.

Okay... The Hubs & I have been going crazy with all of our recent home and garden projects lately! It all started when he made my fabulous craft table, which turned into creating and decorating a whole craft room. 

Then we were on to lots of gardening - ripping out yucky, prickly, spidery ground cover and planting new perennials, germinating heirloom tomato seeds (we now have lots of tiny little heirloom tomato plants!), planting annuals in footed urns on the front porch and of course trying to grow green grass instead of weeds. During all of this my amazing Hubs manages to create a "dual" sower head in our master bath, re-caulk some surfaces that supposedly needed it and even went around the house repairing nail pops.

While much of this was happening, I was able to locate the *perfect* 6' x 9' area rug for our kitchen - a feat not to be passed over as this was quite a task; I'd been shopping for one forever! I finally located THE rug at World Market (cannot locate online), during their huge rug sale, on a day I could use my WM "Explorer" Friends + Family discount = wahooo!!! I truly get a high from such awesome deals. Said rug:

 

Then, of course the upholstered chairs that came as part of the hand-me-down table set needed recovering - although to be totally honest I've hated that fabric from the beginning and have been threatening to reupholster them for the past three years...

 

Ewww... Can't believe I didn't do something about that earlier - FYI: they did coordinate better with the previous sisal rug that was there before (it's now in my craft room).


I knew I wanted to step out of my comfort zone a bit with the fabric selection and also out of the Hub's (who tends to lean toward traditional styles). Here's what I came up with:

I am in love with that fun Ikat patterned fabric, much like this design from my {new} favorite fabric store Lewis & Sharon (although my green dots are brown - wish they were that fun green!): 

Of course we weren't done yet! You may not be able to tell, but the metal base of that table was this funky metallic color with gross gold accents... We needed to remedy that little problem & I felt like those chairs were just screaming for nail head trim. We made both happen this past weekend:

Ahhh, such a refreshing change! Now, just to update that table top decor - for sure :-) Oh and on to the main reason I'm requesting your help... We're thinking about painting a couple of walls in our kitchen. Yay for paint!


As you can see, our kitchen is very open to the rest of our home & so I'm only looking to paint a couple of accent walls - really make the cabinetry and crown mouldings really stand out. And... we're just not ready to tackle - or have someone else tackle - the HUGE walls in our two-story living room & foyer, so we don't want to continue the paint in there. Yet. Possibly in the future, much to the Hub's chagrin, muahahaha! 

Here are a few pics of the spaces in the kitchen that the new paint would cover:

 Up above the cabinetry

In the little nook/hallway leading to our garage & laundry room & the walls of our pantry

And there's one space I can't seem to find in a picture (mind you - these are all old photos from when we first moved in) - a wall where french doors open to the porch.

So - the BIG question is... What color do we go with?!?

Right now I'm leaning toward a shade of the blue found in the reupholstered chair fabric and in the rug (a lighter tone). Possibly like this Niagara Falls color from Benjamin Moore:

 

Well, am I on the right track with this one, or should I be moving in another direction? I'm also planning to add some burnt red tones, similar to those in the rug, in the form of lumbar support pillows for my newly reupholstered pillows (those chairs are deep y'all & could use the extra support!). So, we could go with a tone in this palette...

Ugh. I'm usually okay at color selection, but this one's just tough for me - so I could REALLY use your help! Please comment, e-mail, Tweet me, whatever and let me know your thoughts. Thanks a million!

xoxo

Arlynn