I need to have yellow some where in my home ,l love daffodils they cheer me up too . My bedroom is pale green. My home is very small, big enough for me and my wee dog.Enjoy your painting,Julie 🙂 X.
It’s strange but it was yellow when I first moved in so it’s kind of like going full circle. Last colour I had it was orange. I like bold colours but as it’s quite a dark house would benefit from a little more light.
Yes daffodils are a lovely little treat this time of year.
My little terrace house in inner city Melbourne was predominantly yellow, all different shades, hall way and bedrooms in a light lemon, tiny longe room with brighter yellows and almost orange chimney, an aubergine feature wall (back when we did that) when we extended the kitchen - lounge. painted it one Xmas eve while listening to Johnny Cash singing ‘Personal Jesus’, clearly we were in a merry mood 😂🍻🍻🍻 Deep ocean blue benches and splash back - sounds hideous but looked ok 😂😂😂. Moved to the country and the house is a neutral cool white … my furniture is bright fabrics and indigenous art work full of colour. Always fighting the urge to go beyond the ‘young leaf’ front door and splash back in the kitchen 😂
😂😂😂 it is a little dark which is probably why we kept playing’Personal Jesus’, heathens that we were/are 😂. Changing rooms … 😂, give me one of yours and you can have one of mine 😂🙏
I am no longer looking for that perfect 'colour' for me but am contenting myself with finding the perfect colours for my home ;) ... so far that has made me happier!
Very interesting article Julie! I purposely have the same neutral color all throughout my house because I like to be able to change my decor without changing the wall color. It literally looks different in every room because of lighting and windows. I tried several pots before I settled on a shade.
Interesting. I just asked my son what colour he wanted his bedroom thinking may blue (colour of his fave football team) or something else. His reply “white”. I think sometimes colour can overwhelm us.
My wife tried the tester pots before, but she will find a color and "throw the dice" and pray for a good color. She tried to figure out like you did but to no avail. A small sample does not show what the whole wall or room will look like.
At first, I didn’t know what a tester pot was. (This has more to do with something like being “separated by a common language” but also because I was reading without the benefit of the photo of the color swatches.)
Then, I read on and found “A friend admitted to me recently that she’d never bought a single tester pot in her entire life. She just chose something that seemed okay and cracked on slapping it on. I was surprised.”
I thought. “Oh! I like that ‘slapping it on part,’ and we’re still talking about paint, right?”
Until I read the next sentence: “Because to me, paints are like people.” (Um, yes. I’m dull, but by now I was pretty sure what the topic was. Painting people on walls.) --Just kidding.
Then, I read this part:
“Obviously it’s impractical to go on and on, trying and scrutinising, but we owe it to ourselves to be a little discerning before we commit to going all out.
It’s the same with people we let into our lives.”
What I took from that was, YES! I wholeheartedly recommend discernment, thorough testing and patience with people, always with the hope of letting in people who reflect “the colour that holds up under every imaginable light.”
Yes, I’m in the UK and the tester pots are the miniature pots of paint, to me when I hear swatch I think of a colour card (like the image I found). I just couldn’t find a decent photo of a tester pot so stuck with that. Glad the message wasn’t lost though :)
No. The message was clear. I was just being silly (though truthful about not getting it at first.) It's a fine art of life, having good boundaries and still letting the "light" in.
Lovely enlightenment on colours of people. It resonated with me Julie as I see people in my circle and my pets by colour. I’ve always thought of my husband as sunny buttercup yellow, my dogs have been bright orange, calm lilac, grass green and bold red.
My daughter is a mid blue, my son orange and so on. All colours I’ve come to love and love with in harmony with my own shade of purple and occasionally white.
Maybe we also change colour with our emotions since I see two for me and I used to see my daughter as a peachy pink. 🤷♀️. Either way it’s a lovely way to see a beautifully painted world. Xx
I need to have yellow some where in my home ,l love daffodils they cheer me up too . My bedroom is pale green. My home is very small, big enough for me and my wee dog.Enjoy your painting,Julie 🙂 X.
It’s strange but it was yellow when I first moved in so it’s kind of like going full circle. Last colour I had it was orange. I like bold colours but as it’s quite a dark house would benefit from a little more light.
Yes daffodils are a lovely little treat this time of year.
Very edifying. I second that emulsion.
Ah loved this. Not least because I have an entire staircase wall full of tester pot splashes because we can’t find a colour that works 😊
I can relate!
You actually made me feel better about it. I can wait now until the right one shows itself!
My little terrace house in inner city Melbourne was predominantly yellow, all different shades, hall way and bedrooms in a light lemon, tiny longe room with brighter yellows and almost orange chimney, an aubergine feature wall (back when we did that) when we extended the kitchen - lounge. painted it one Xmas eve while listening to Johnny Cash singing ‘Personal Jesus’, clearly we were in a merry mood 😂🍻🍻🍻 Deep ocean blue benches and splash back - sounds hideous but looked ok 😂😂😂. Moved to the country and the house is a neutral cool white … my furniture is bright fabrics and indigenous art work full of colour. Always fighting the urge to go beyond the ‘young leaf’ front door and splash back in the kitchen 😂
Oh I love that Johnny Cash album with that on it, it’s amazing (if not a little dark😉)
‘Feature wall’ - oh I’m coming over all ‘Changing Rooms’😂
😂😂😂 it is a little dark which is probably why we kept playing’Personal Jesus’, heathens that we were/are 😂. Changing rooms … 😂, give me one of yours and you can have one of mine 😂🙏
😂😂
I treasure this! Thank you miss thing.
Thank you Cori. Glad it resonates x
I am no longer looking for that perfect 'colour' for me but am contenting myself with finding the perfect colours for my home ;) ... so far that has made me happier!
Yes I think many of us reach that point Rachel!x
there's only so many tins of 'paint' you can try and be disappointed by :D
😂❤️😘
Hm….
Very interesting article Julie! I purposely have the same neutral color all throughout my house because I like to be able to change my decor without changing the wall color. It literally looks different in every room because of lighting and windows. I tried several pots before I settled on a shade.
Interesting. I just asked my son what colour he wanted his bedroom thinking may blue (colour of his fave football team) or something else. His reply “white”. I think sometimes colour can overwhelm us.
I tend to buy and slap on, too. This made me think. Which is a good thing!
My wife tried the tester pots before, but she will find a color and "throw the dice" and pray for a good color. She tried to figure out like you did but to no avail. A small sample does not show what the whole wall or room will look like.
An uplifting post to read on a Monday morning. Thanks Julie!
Glad you thought so. Good to be uplifted on a Monday :)
At first, I didn’t know what a tester pot was. (This has more to do with something like being “separated by a common language” but also because I was reading without the benefit of the photo of the color swatches.)
Then, I read on and found “A friend admitted to me recently that she’d never bought a single tester pot in her entire life. She just chose something that seemed okay and cracked on slapping it on. I was surprised.”
I thought. “Oh! I like that ‘slapping it on part,’ and we’re still talking about paint, right?”
Until I read the next sentence: “Because to me, paints are like people.” (Um, yes. I’m dull, but by now I was pretty sure what the topic was. Painting people on walls.) --Just kidding.
Then, I read this part:
“Obviously it’s impractical to go on and on, trying and scrutinising, but we owe it to ourselves to be a little discerning before we commit to going all out.
It’s the same with people we let into our lives.”
What I took from that was, YES! I wholeheartedly recommend discernment, thorough testing and patience with people, always with the hope of letting in people who reflect “the colour that holds up under every imaginable light.”
Yes, I’m in the UK and the tester pots are the miniature pots of paint, to me when I hear swatch I think of a colour card (like the image I found). I just couldn’t find a decent photo of a tester pot so stuck with that. Glad the message wasn’t lost though :)
No. The message was clear. I was just being silly (though truthful about not getting it at first.) It's a fine art of life, having good boundaries and still letting the "light" in.
Lovely enlightenment on colours of people. It resonated with me Julie as I see people in my circle and my pets by colour. I’ve always thought of my husband as sunny buttercup yellow, my dogs have been bright orange, calm lilac, grass green and bold red.
My daughter is a mid blue, my son orange and so on. All colours I’ve come to love and love with in harmony with my own shade of purple and occasionally white.
Maybe we also change colour with our emotions since I see two for me and I used to see my daughter as a peachy pink. 🤷♀️. Either way it’s a lovely way to see a beautifully painted world. Xx
Yes some people present as a colour when you encounter them. Maybe it’s like an aura thing.