Adventures in color theory

Well, some major progress has been made in painting my house. We completed the most hateful part--rolling the ceilings--on Saturday. Dios mio, did that suck! Unlike my sister, who has the copious free time to do weight training, I have flabby chicken arms, and I did most of the ceiling (with help from my dad, for which I am eternally grateful). Also, being a person of shortness increased my distance from the ceiling, so I had to scurry around a lot, dragging the roller.

The good news is, the purple room is no longer purple, and the blue-green that covered it now looks blue-green instead of scary Malibu Barbie aqua. You know the color I mean? When I was a kid in the late '70s my Malibu Barbie had a signature aqua bathing suit and dresses.

Those color theorists really had it going on. When we started painting over the demure peach of the master bedroom with a kind of pistachio green, the old color sprung into baby-girl pink. The room looked incredibly preppie for a while. Suprisingly, the peach has been harder to cover than the purple, though both rooms will need a light second coat. It's too soon to tell on the third room, brown/tan now covered with blue-green.

The blue-green is a gorgeous color. I almost like it better than the green, but I can't really admit that because the master bedroom is now green, and I must learn to love it. The green is close to my current bedroom, and I thought it would be a good transition to the new house to keep that color. Either way, it'll be fine. The main thing is to keep the house light and airy and make the most of the natural light.