We are now the proud owners of a little pink house. The house needs very little in the way of structural work, but is desperate for some color on the walls inside. The main rooms are a standard linen white. The master bedroom is currently a pale yellow, and the second bedroom is a lilac color. All other rooms are some variation of white or beige, which is not only boring but also shows all of the irregularities.
The house was built in 1895 and has had many renovations and extensions. Right now, it has 2 full bedrooms, a living room and kitchen and a bath upstairs, and downstairs, technically the basement, has an office, a half bath with a laundry room, and for lack of a better term, a media room.
So far the colors have only been picked for the office. The house is full of light, save this tiny underground cave in which I am to write my dissertation. I had my heart set on dark brown for a room in the house, but it seemed wrong to have such a dark shade in such a bright space. The office, however, in its cavernous seclusion, is the ideal setting for the dark brown. Three walls are Benjamin Moore Java, and the fourth is a bright green called Citron. On the citron wall are platinum and walnut Elfa shelves from the Container Store.
If nothing else, this blog can serve to remind me, when I can't remember, the names of the paints we used for our little pink house.
In the meantime, we need color inspiration. We had hoped to do the main floor of the house in muted Pottery Barn colors, but somehow the citron and java have pushed us over the edge into brighter territory. I want a yellow kitchen, but now I'm thinking that the Concord Ivory we had picked, which looks yellow in pictures, may not be yellow enough.
Pre-paint kitchen:
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