* If I were to be welcomed into your home what colour scheme would I find to be most prevalent?
* Is this colour scheme true to your personal taste today or does it reflect a season past?
* Have you been inspired by this week's study to make any changes to your current decor, wardrobe or personal style?
I grew up with a grandmother who never shied away from colors, the brighter the better. Grandma always had those slippers with the very bright colorful jewels on them. She also wore her color. She gave me the love of color in the scraps of material she passed on to me. Grandmother worked for Cole of California and often brought home leftovers. One of the things us grandkids got to do was go through the box of fabric she kept in her bedroom to pick what we wanted. I remember one of my favorite dresses was a silk like fabric. It had wedges of yellow, blue, purple, and orange on a white background. I made a simple A-line dress and wore it all the time.
My main floor is full of what I would call spice colors. I just painted my dining room sage green (which will be the kitchen color as soon as I get that pink flowered wallpaper off the walls, ick). My laundry room will be turquoise to match my lime green and turquoise curtains. My living room is currently terra cotta to be soon a light teal. My room that leads in from the living room is a dark yellow color because it gets a lot of light and my plants live there, it needed a bright color. My bedroom is periwinkle and my bath is turquoise. My main bath upstairs is blue, yellow, and white. My office is yellow and my sitting room is yellow. The guest room is currently mint green soon to go to white with a red accent wall. My front door is blue (Dodger Blue), my kitchen door leading to the deck is purple and my basement door is a light green going to eggplant this Spring.
I love color and would have a purple house but selling that would not be good and I have never seen purple siding. I love periwinkle and cobalt blue. I am not a pastel girl nor do I like the fall colors brown, green, orange, gold, etc. The brighter the better. My closet looks like lots of blue, purple, some bright pink, white, black and gray.
I believe choice of color is a very personal thing. You like what you like and should be ok with it. How often do you see people buy something in a bright color in the middle of winter just to have a splash of something happy. I say use whatever color you want and embrace it.
