Wednesday
Feb242010
Colors, colors everywhere
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 8:38PM
Colors, colors everywhere
On the wall
And in my hair
Colors, colors everywhere
And not a drop to drink
You like that? I wrote that just for you, because I am a prodigious talent, and because I care about you.
You're welcome.
Colors on the yarn! Last club shipment from our Maryland address heading out this week!
Colors on the wall! Studio painting commenced!
I thought long and hard about the colors I wanted for the walls of the new studio. What would I love seeing every day? What would make me happy? What is fresh and dynamic and pleasing but energetic? My goal was not to soothe myself into a coma, I need fun, I need high impact color. What kind of yarn studio would have beige walls, I beg of you?
So I narrowed it down, and then I went to the paint store and bought no fewer than 25 small paint samples to try out. When I brought in all my swatches, the guy behind the counter stared at me and said, "Well, it's going to be like... a couple of hours for us to make all of these for you." (Translation: I don't want to make all of these for you, it's too much work.)
"That's OK," I said. "I can run my other errands and stop back later." Just to make him feel better, I added, "Once I decide on the colors, I'll be buying at least fifteen gallons of paint." I didn't want him to feel like I was wasting his time so I could do craft projects.
First, I admired the hole in the wall that will connect the two spaces with a French door.
Then I painted 76,000 swatches to approximate the final paint shades I'd chosen.
I had it narrowed down to some combination of turquoise, mallard, grass green, jade, and purple.
I painted the same swatches on the opposing wall, just to see.
I like them all.
I test out the idea of doing a saturated sari-like gold or tangerine color on the back wall.
I love it, but not in this space. The studio is too long and narrow, and the sari effect will be lost, because you won't be able to easily see the colors play with each other.
I sleep on it. I come back in the morning when the paint has dried. With walls that are thirteen feet high and eighty feet long, the walls will not be easy to repaint, and the wrong color will seem really, really, really wrong.
What's it going to be?
The grass or the jade?
Remember that I don't have to match any furniture to these saturated colors, and that helps a lot.
Here's what I ended up deciding on:
For one wall of the studio, the side that will be directly across from my desk:
Jade with a hint of teal.
For the back wall and the front wall (the short ends of a long rectangle), I decide on:
Orchid purple. Because the space is so long, the back wall color really needed to have impact, lest you have to squint to tell what it is.
For the wall behind my desk:
Mermaid Treasure, naturally.
Tomorrow we'll discuss the colors in the other side of the space, the main work room.
But I would like to point out one other small color sample:
What say you? Yay or nay? I am ambivalent about the cut -- it will grow out. But how do you feel about the red?
The paint? It doesn't matter. How do you feel about the color of my hair?
On the wall
And in my hair
Colors, colors everywhere
And not a drop to drink
You like that? I wrote that just for you, because I am a prodigious talent, and because I care about you.
You're welcome.
Colors on the yarn! Last club shipment from our Maryland address heading out this week!
Colors on the wall! Studio painting commenced!
I thought long and hard about the colors I wanted for the walls of the new studio. What would I love seeing every day? What would make me happy? What is fresh and dynamic and pleasing but energetic? My goal was not to soothe myself into a coma, I need fun, I need high impact color. What kind of yarn studio would have beige walls, I beg of you?
So I narrowed it down, and then I went to the paint store and bought no fewer than 25 small paint samples to try out. When I brought in all my swatches, the guy behind the counter stared at me and said, "Well, it's going to be like... a couple of hours for us to make all of these for you." (Translation: I don't want to make all of these for you, it's too much work.)
"That's OK," I said. "I can run my other errands and stop back later." Just to make him feel better, I added, "Once I decide on the colors, I'll be buying at least fifteen gallons of paint." I didn't want him to feel like I was wasting his time so I could do craft projects.
First, I admired the hole in the wall that will connect the two spaces with a French door.
Then I painted 76,000 swatches to approximate the final paint shades I'd chosen.
I had it narrowed down to some combination of turquoise, mallard, grass green, jade, and purple.
I painted the same swatches on the opposing wall, just to see.
I like them all.
I test out the idea of doing a saturated sari-like gold or tangerine color on the back wall.
I love it, but not in this space. The studio is too long and narrow, and the sari effect will be lost, because you won't be able to easily see the colors play with each other.
I sleep on it. I come back in the morning when the paint has dried. With walls that are thirteen feet high and eighty feet long, the walls will not be easy to repaint, and the wrong color will seem really, really, really wrong.
What's it going to be?
The grass or the jade?
Remember that I don't have to match any furniture to these saturated colors, and that helps a lot.
Here's what I ended up deciding on:
For one wall of the studio, the side that will be directly across from my desk:
Jade with a hint of teal.
For the back wall and the front wall (the short ends of a long rectangle), I decide on:
Orchid purple. Because the space is so long, the back wall color really needed to have impact, lest you have to squint to tell what it is.
For the wall behind my desk:
Mermaid Treasure, naturally.
Tomorrow we'll discuss the colors in the other side of the space, the main work room.
But I would like to point out one other small color sample:
What say you? Yay or nay? I am ambivalent about the cut -- it will grow out. But how do you feel about the red?
The paint? It doesn't matter. How do you feel about the color of my hair?
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Reader Comments (31)
Love the new hair color, Sharon! It is fantastic for such a pretty lady!
Do I REALLY need to tell you what I think of the red hair? Have you SEEN a picture of me recently?
If not, short answer: red hair rocks. And you rock it quite well. Must be the Irish in you. ;-)
Hopefully by now you are feeling that red hair glow, because you were BORN to be a redhead, my dear! You look absolutely vibrant here - color, cut - it's a PERFECT package!
As far as the paint colors: fabulous!
I love the red hair! Want mine that color, too. It really makes those blue eyes of yours shine brilliantly!
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