HB thought
she felt old as she waited for me in the parking lot at the college where I took my Spanish immersion course this past weekend. I was by far the oldest person in the class; the other students thought I was nuts when I explained that I have memories of
La Segunda Guerra Mundial (WWII) that came up in context.
The youngest student was less than one-fourth my age.... (Sorry, Topicop!)
I'm seeing if I can post pics of our house in TV and the colors we used there. So far I managed to get them onto PhotoBucket; I'll now try the next step.... Let me just mention that I took these in the last hour before we left to come back to NY and things are a little messy. And we've only just starting hanging travel mementos on the walls. What fun we had furnishing from the clearance center, craigslist, and yard sales! Here goes:
These two walls are the same color (the medium shade), whereas the wall 'around the corner,' that you see just a little bit of on the right, is the lightest color. We use a lot of area rugs on top of the white carpeting to tie areas together.
This shows better the two shades of butterscotch (yes, the names of the colors are hilarious, something out of Madison Avenue, we think...).We did the hallway in the same color as the wall around the entry door and windows for a little contrast; there is so much light coming in the solar tube in the guest bath (that you can see a sliver of in the pic) that the hallway is not too dark.
Here you can see two shades; the longest wall is the lightest color for reflectivity purposes, while the medium shade is on the end walls around the lanai doors in the back and the living room windows and entry door on the front wall.
The entire 'big room' area is done in three shades of something like a butterscotch, and in the kitchen is the darkest shade. Can you imagine how lost these beautiful cabinets were when the walls above and below them were white? The neon coffee cup is HB's favorite piece in the house....
You can't see much of the lighter blue, just the small strip on the right side of the pic; that lighter color is the same on three walls of the bedroom, and the two different blues follow through into the master bath, with the darker blue on the three ends walls (in the walk-in shower, above the vanity, and behind the toilet in its own little room) and the lighter blue on all the other walls.
We used these same two greens in the guest bath to tie the two rooms together. We even painted the hokey glass-top end tables the lighter green. (Anything look familiar, samhass?)
HB says we need sunglasses for this room. Both walls are the same color; the other two walls (not in the pic) are a more pale yellow. The pic on the right above the sofa is not blank; it's just the way the daylight hit it.