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I’m having some rooms renovated and I would like to get some paint scheme ideas. I figure if anyone should know, you guys would.

My apartment building was built in the late 1920′s. The cove ceilings are 9′high (cove: the wall-to-ceiling contour is a curve rather than a 90 degree angle) and the ceiling itself appears as a large, slightly ‘inset’ panel.
There is a molding on the walls at approximately the 8” level that runs around interior perimeter of the room. The long walls also have molding that forms three rectangular panels about 6′ tall and spaced about half a foot apart: each panel has a smaller rectangle panel inside it separated by a 3” border. The short width walls have a similar rectangular molding panel between the windows (the windows also have molding of course), and finally there’s 7” high base molding. Kind of hard to describe, but there’s a bunch of molding!

Does anyone have a good online source that has a plethora of images of walls with molding so I can get some ideas about how and where to apply the paint? Right now everything is white. I want to seem how it would look to either accentuate the molding and/or the boarders with different tones (or possibly different hues).

Thanks a bunch for any references or ideas!