The Cottage, 1200 sqft, is entirely northern light. Benjamin Moore - York Harbor, a yellow, is already lighting the house.
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Both bedrooms will be York Harbor.
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Bunny Williams, An Affair With A House, has been no small inspiration. She uses yellow. It doesn't seem to be popular at the moment. Bunny transcends 'popular'.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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pic taken at a project last week. Oh no, I've neglected to look into this room from the garden.
One wall in our kitchen is yellow. Another a patterned yellow wallpaper.
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How you doing, my friend?
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HI there! When I was 9 we moved to the "perfect house"! It was 1200 sq feet! It faced east!. But it was the perfect proportions....and was built in the 50's!
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(Later, people bought it and added on, and on....and ruined the proportions.......it is now a complete mess. It was so perfect....and the garden was really good tool.except for the lawn! I can find pictures! It had a round lawn...... 20 feet in diameter.....at 8 I said to my mother......why do we want this lawn? The birds don't want it! We need bushes with flowers for the hummingbirds! No lawn!
(I must have had some really great teacher who told me that...I could not have thought that up myself!)
No, it didn't face east! (I am so bad at directions)
ReplyDeleteMy bedroom and my Mother's bedroom faced North (she had a window facing East; the living room, dining room library faced the garden; South! There was a divine 10 foot wall around 2 sides the East and South because it was subdivided from a beautiful huge estate.
I agree with Bruce; yellow , just the right yellow! For the dark bedrooms! That is what we need electricity for! (not can lights!) but lamps, sconces, (maybe a central ceiling light....? Sometimes plastered over, but I discover them in old houses all the time! for either a ceiling mount or lantern. (with a dimmer)
I leave the lights on in dark rooms!
I love the sound of it!
I applaud your courage to follow your heart. Yellow is not a color that I naturally seek—in my home or garden—but I always admire people who look good in yellow. It is a sunny state of mind.
ReplyDeleteVery few people look good in wearing yellow! But it is a savior of dark rooms! Along with mirrors!
ReplyDeleteI've missed so much Tara! You know...I never used to like yellow that much but when we moved to the farm cottage in the country I took a paint chip and used all 3 colors on the chip throughout the house and I LOVE it. It has wonderful flow and the house looks larger than it is. To me yellow is a neutral. Your cottage is going to be wonderful and I can't wait to see it when it's all done. Enjoy!
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