Monday, August 31, 2009

Living with Color



I've been all about paint over the last week or so. Here's the family room, with walls in "Golden Glow." It's a rich, bright color, and changes how the room feels depending on the time of day. Sometimes it seems like a cheery yellow, at others a deeper tangerine. We are loving it!

I've moved on to the kitchen and eating nook, which are both at this back end of the house and connected. One wall is a nice, straight-forward red (Benjamin Moore's "redstone," for those you who need to know. And the rest is a very happy robin's egg blue (Ben M's "fairy tale blue). It is intense color but it sure makes me happy.

Pictures when the masking tape is off!

Now I'm eying the guest bathroom off of the dining room, and mentally selecting colors....

7 comments :

  1. Love it! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the painting. :-)

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  2. I want to come and have iced tea and see it in person!!

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  3. I'm painting Claire's room tomorrow. I can't remember the name... it's bright aqua.

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  4. Color is good :) I like your bold choices very much. Most of our friends' homes are pretty much all white.
    I am loving the Fasset quilt too....do you have a picture of that?

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  5. Love the color, looks wonderful, and those beautiful quilts sure help too!Can't wait to see the rest when you are done. I'm about to start that too, last child left for college, been 35 years since my husband & I were alone.House sure is empty! Great news for Caroline, tell her congratsulations, I'm sure she'll do well!Wendy

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  6. What a happy perfect room.

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  7. It is such a beautiful color! I've had robins egg blue in the house, but I'm thinking I need to find some space for that color.

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