blue, glorious blue

[cellio]

I don't think I realized just how much I disliked the paint color in our bathroom until a few days ago.

We had some plaster work that needed to be done, so repainting was part of the package. (No way we'd really be able to match the existing color closely enough, and anyway, bathrooms with tile halfway up the walls don't have that much that needs to be painted.) The walls were this sickly greenish-yellow; I wanted pure yellow. Pure, as in equal parts green and red, no tinges of either. That turns out to be hard. In addition, the stained-glass windows in the bathroom have some green parts, so if I got this at all wrong in the red direction it would probably look bad in sunlight. (And I really don't like green in my yellow, so intentionally erring in the other direction would defeat the purpose.)

Then it hit me: we don't need to do the yellow theme. So now the bathroom walls are a glorious shade of blue -- not quite as dark as I would have liked, but certainly good enough. And a vast improvement over what was there.

Oh, and the woodwork is now white again. :-)

Now that I think about it, I don't really like the paint in the bedroom and dining room, either... but I'll probably ignore them until some external force dictates a paint job.

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Any excuse for an upgrade! *grin*

speaking of blue bathrooms

[eub.livejournal.com]

The bathroom in the Longmeadow house was a fetid khaki-green, so we repainted it blue. And blue. And blue. A blue looks a lot brighter all over the walls than it does on a little swatch -- it even looks more brighter on the walls than on the swatch than you thought from the first time you discovered it looks brighter on the walls. The funny part is that if you go down the basement stairs, there's a naill-hole into the bathroom, where a bit of paint dripped through each time. Three drip-trails, blue, blue, and blue.