March 23, 2002

• Shades of Blue

  
  

  Okay, there is a story about that wall.  It's a great story.  It's not really blue, it's purple.  It was a trick of bad lighting and the camera flash that makes it look blue.  I'll see if I can find a better photo to really capture the purpleness of it.

  
  

  I bought the paint at Home Depot and the color is called "eclectic."  At the same time I purchased a very pale shade of lavender from the same color family that was just the shade of shadows at dusk.  The very pale shade was to go on the wall and the dark color was to be used to paint the trim. 

  
  

  The summer we moved into our house I worked like crazy to do all the painting while my baby spent a week at Fugitive's house.  Only, the baby got homesick, and I didn't finish the job before it came time to go get him.  A few months later I took the boys to my parents' for a couple weeks and Tim decided to surprise me by finishing up the painting.  You guessed it.  He got the colors mixed up and painted the wall the trim color. 

  
  

  Something else I should mention about my husband, he doesn't think walls should be any color other than white.  We had a agreement when we moved into this house that I could paint whatever color I wanted in half the house as long as the living/dining room and our bedroom were white.  So for him to put color on a wall went against everything he prefers, but out of love for me, he was willing to use this outlandish purple.

  
  

  This is my favorite wall and room in the house.

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