Saturday, May 1, 2010

Yellow?

I love green. I have 5 rooms in my house painted green - all different shades. I actually didn't realize this until recently when we had to go searching for one of the aforementioned shades to do some touch-up in the boys' bathroom (post-re-installation of towel bar after P *yanked* the thing out the wall trying to free his towel - I do not think I need to worry about the kid's strength).

But we never found that particular shade still lying around waiting to be used for small (or not so small) detail work. We did however find 4 other shades and realized that having achieved a rainbow* in our home, we're a little heavy on the green. (Though I challenge anyone who steps into my house to really pick up on it. I don't think we have an overwhelmingly green aura.)

Now that we are going to have to pick out a new paint color for the kitchen - in the kitchen-project-that-won't-stop - I was aiming for green. Before realizing that I'd have a perfect half-dozen of rooms in that shade. My husband balked.

"I like this one," he tells me pointing to one of the dozens of paint chips taped to the wall - it leans to brown. Yellowy-brown. Dare I say, baby-poo brown. The breastfed kind.

He's not terribly wrong. It's a doable color but do I want doable? I think not. I also really suck at this coordinating stuff. At least five times a day (in line with my shades of green), I wish for an expert to come and tell me what to pick so it all works together - backsplash, cabinet knobs, light fixtures, paint, granite. Someone, please, steer me away from serious error.

Alas, no kitchen color expert has come knocking. So I am wading through tin finishes for the backsplash, different shades of bronze for the cabinet knobs, sheer panic at the light fixtures, and page after page of granite colors.

Which brings me to the point - am I crazy for contemplating yellow granite? It's really pretty:

Arandis yellow. 
It has some red - my family room is red. It would work with bronze - the eating area light fixture is bronze. It's *interesting.* I want interesting. But do I want yellow?

And there's no way I could paint my walls green.

*Yes, I have at least one room in each of the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. I may have missed indigo but I'm pretty d*mn close. :)

1 comment:

Katie said...

I think the Arandis Yellow is good, but so distinct you may get annoyed by it eventually......just a thought. What did you pick?