Extreme makeover
We moved into the house as it was, almost 8 months ago. I guess when the days started to get longer and there was more sun, the urge to finally renovate become hard to ignore. We decided to paint.
My friend suggested (through e-mail unfortunately, she is in Germany now) that the way it is done you invite friends, start a grill and tell them they need to ear their food. Problem is, all our friends around think we are at least insane to paint our own house….
Anyway, it isn’t what I wanted to write about. So I was looking through back issues of my favorite woman magazine “All you” (the only magazine I think there is actually something to read) for some color ideas. OK, so I learned that you can choose tonal scheme (paint in few shades of same color), harmonious scheme (colors next to each other on color wheel) or contrasting scheme (colors opposite on color wheel). Definitely the contrasting scheme was the one I was looking for. Just… not green and pink. I don’t now why, but there were many examples how to make your house/living room/bedroom/any room green, green with yellow, or green with pink. If I wanted blue, I had to figure it out myself.
Opposite to blue is orange, in case you are too lazy to look at color wheel and check. And if you think it had to look awful, check yourself.
A trip to Walmart and a few finishing touches (just look at the serendipitous wall plates) and the room turned into something new. I love the way my husband turned the dirty white/manila or whatever into plates perfectly matching the room. Especially that the trip to the neighborhood home improvement stores make us realize, that all the choices we have are white, black, gold and our “favorite”….