Two tone blue dining room walls

CAROLYNLEONA is a full service design firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina founded by Liz Goldberg. CL serves clients across the nation with services ranging from interior design, new construction, renovation, customized window treatments and furniture design.

Choosing grey paint is a cinch. You only have a few…thousand choices. Do you want a light grey, medium grey, charcoal grey? A brown-ish grey, blue-ish grey, black-ish grey? It’s enough to throw your hands up and just keep the color you’ve got. Or, check out some real homes with grey walls and see what colors and brands they used as a starting point for your own paint project.

Take a cue from one of Canada’s most prolific designers and create a dining space beloved by you and your guests. Scroll through 20 of Sarah Richardson’s most interesting and inspiring rooms – there’s something for everyone, no matter your style.

Designers will say that a good room may have 1 or 2 moments and that the rest of the design takes a backseat. Well, the dining room has like 8 moments. :) Restraint isn’t exactly my forte …

Stiffkey Blue by Farrow and Ball

Discover all about Benjamin Moore Granite Peak in this color review. It is a rich and silky dark blue paint color.

Modern style, classic touches and plenty of good taste reign supreme today in this Dunbar Road Design home. Take a peek!

We are amazed hot this asymmetrical living room actually looks perfectly symmetrical all thanks to the smart design choices that go flawlessly with the black shiplap wall. The black shiplap wall in color Iron Ore by SW is a perfect background for the light oak built-ins and the floating shelves which are actually a DIY project The black walls make the beautiful stone fireplace pop even more without taking the glory off of it.

See how we are decorating our table for the holidays this year. Using neutral accents we created a festive tablescape that is sure to impress your guests!

Over the past 5 years, we have completed a lot of small, affordable DIY projects in our dining room to achieve our vision of a grand, high drama space. We're sharing the key concepts and style rules we followed to take our dining room from little to luxury on a budget.When we first moved into our home, the dining room had no sense of personality. White walls, a simple chair rail, and a boring flushmount ceiling light were all we started with. The perk was that we were essentially starting…