Ladies, I need your ideas

[Margies3]

We are having our living room painted next week. We have new light brown carpet. Our furniture, which I don't have the money to replace right now, is forest green.

So here are my questions:

1) We've never had anything but plain white walls. This is not an especially huge room, but I'm seriously considering getting a very light version of the forest green color for the walls. What do you think? Will it make it look too small? Or maybe a light tan???

2) Here's the biggie!! I hate the drapes we have right now. They're old, old, old! I am so ready for a change! We have a large picture window on one wall and a smaller regular size window on the other wall. Do you know any sites that have good drapes at decent prices? Do you have any great ideas for drapes? Would you go for the green color or for the brown?

I'd sure appreciate any input or suggestions any of you might have.