Colors

When we bought our house a year and a half ago we loved the color on the walls. They were all brown. A little lighter than chocolate brown, a little darker than tan. All of our furniture is dark brown, espresso if you will. Our picture frames on the wall are brown. Our carpet is tan. Our cabinetry is wood. (And therefore brown.) We have chocolate brown sheets. So, everything surrounding us is brown.

I AM SICK OF BROWN! So, we have painted 5 different color swatches on the wall in the kitchen in an attempt to make a decision on what color to paint the walls. Colors, I mean. We are actually going to paint more than one color throughout our house! Clay's room is green (which we love), the laundry room is the same color green, and the office is gray. (The gray in the office is too dark for me - and yes, I picked out the color - , but Casey likes it and it is his office!)

The new colors we are thinking about are as follows: (very) light blue for the bathrooms, (very) light green for the kitchen, a light neutral (either a dark white or a light tan) for the living room and hallway, and possibly the same color neutral for the bedroom. We also have painted an extremely pale lavender swatch which we both love, but I am not sure where we will paint that color. (I think it will be good for the bedroom, but I may have to talk Casey into that.)

There may (or may not) be a direct correlation between mood and color. Before we had Clay the walls were just walls, they were brown, and it was fine. Looking back maybe while I was pregnant I was feeling a little dark. (maybe?) I liked the walls and everything else in the house being brown and blah. It was a direct reflection of my mood. Now the world has changed. Now that I am not laying flat on my back for days and days on end the world is a much brighter place and I want the inside of our house to reflect that. (I don't know that I knew how blah I was feeling while I was pregnant, but now that I feel 100% and am overjoyed every day - I know that I was feeling really, really blah. Downright bad.)

I am looking forward to painting! (Not the physical act of painting the entire house, just the end product.)