I am open to any & all suggestions. Need a fresh eye. 
Could you please take a look and give me suggestions on how to improve the kitchen/dining room so it looks cohesive & beautiful? I suppose my style leans towards traditional, clean cottage. I'll let u be the judge as I have a tendency to mix & then it begins to overwhelm me. I like my dining chairs. 
Would like to work with existing pieces-not totally opposed to painting them again (dining room area).
The wall color is the 2nd color since we added part of kitchen on in 08. Although it seems to ground the cabinets, it tends to feel dark at times. 
You are so good with color-looking forward to suggestions to pull it all together. I recently purchased SS appliances (fake SS for fridge) so if you can imagine that rather than the white. 
Please email me with any questions and I so look forward to hearing from you!
Dear Jill,
Let me start by saying that you have a lot going on that is great. First of all- let me compliment you on your decorating of the hutch in the second picture. Very well done. You have a good eye for scale and are a terrific "overlapper." :) You have done a good job adding greenery.
You are also right that the area lacks a cohesive "finished" feel. It is in your walls. You have a traditional home, and yet you have very little pattern, and not a lot of texture. You are perhaps "playing it safe." Your wall color is nice- although perhaps a little dark, but I do not see it duplicated anywhere. There is no repetition. I would wallpaper the walls. This will make all the difference. There are a number of different ways you can go with this. Check out the paper at the top of the post. These come in a million different color ways- find a color that goes well with your rug.
Even a very simple wallpaper- like the one above- is a great way to "marry" the white and beige in your room, as well as adding pattern and interest.
This paper would require a different rug- but I thought it was a beautiful paper- and felt like the style was consistent with your furnishings.
I love a classic toile. The paper in the background above would go right into your place perfectly.- grasscloth
- simple floral
- blissful blue
- traditional toile
The grasscloth is from grasscloth.com; the rest of today's papers are from York.
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I really like the simple floral and blissful blue.
the grass cloth is my favorite, but i do like the simpile floral also.
I think the grasscloth would look amazing.
the simple floral, first choice. I think grasscloth will seem pretty boring long-term. its plus is the texture but that could be added in accessories. Grasscloth used to be the rage and I got really tired of it back then, makes me feel 'walled in'!
Hi Christine-I am so excited my kitchen/dining made your blog! I think wallpaper can be beautiful as I've seen following your blog but I don't feel it's for me-especially for kitchen area. Perhaps an accent wall in grasscloth but I have so many walls that jut out in odd places-where to stop & start? I think Anonymous comment is interesting about adding texture with accessories. Not sure what undertones in my cabinets but is it possible to suggest a paint color & build from there with accessories. Possibly different rug & suggestions on art? Not fond of my light fixture as it looks french country & do not want to go that direction. The wall in pic when dining chairs were black -before they were reupholstered shows the hutch behind it-I have since moved it to the shorter wall(2nd pic) so I now have nothing behind dining table in that space(cleared out brown hall table also-was too short). I like coastal cottage too...clean/simple-not busy,natural,nuetral.I love to WINDOW shop at Williams Sonoma:) Window treatments to soften/bring interest/texture or leave as is? Maybe a less traditional but timeless look.
Wow-getting way ahead...just wanted to get a few thoughts out - love your blog & thanks for comments everyone. Hope this didn't throw off course too much.
Jill
fyi..See more pics at www.flickr.com/photos/jillian1996
Being that I'm practical, I can't see grasscloth in a kitchen. How would you clean it? ANd when you got bored with it, what's the removal process. Not being a fan of wallpaper for that simple fact (I've spent waaayyy too many hours scraping off layers hundred-yr old wallpaper) What about a hand painted thing. Since wall treatments are out, maybe that could help? An updated version of (and I laugh) stenciling?
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