Before & After II

The dining room is Silhouette. We were disappointed not to be able to open the walls completely up, but it did mean we could be more dramatic with the paint.

Being able to see the big dining room windows from the living room is better than we even expected. With the white trim, I now am not even interested in putting drapery up there, the windows are so amazing.

Before & After

We used Benjamin Moore's Cosmopolitan on the living room walls. After living with that dark orange, I and tried a much lighter color, Abalone, first, but that went on very very lavender.

Cosmopolitan is from BM's relatively new Color Stories line, which doesn't use any black, in the same style as the fancier Farrow & Ball, etc. It also means the color varies a lot, with lighting, etc. When you read the design blogs and magazines this always represented as a plus - the color is "elusive". But, for another perspective, our painter says it just causes him problems because people think they like the color and call him a week later for a change. In this case, the color changes are great.