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Colors that Grow on You


Paint is the cheapest and boldest statement you can make within a home. I'm not entirely sure what my house is saying, but whatever it is, it's loud. This past month, I painted my basement what Menards dubbed "Highlighter". It's yellow. Fantastically bright yellow.

I realized in the midst of this project that a perk to making bold paint choices is that you end up with a collection of beautiful rollers and stir-sticks. Over the course of the 3.5 years that I've now lived in my home, I've made some bold color choices. And I can confidently say, that I've had no regrets.

I think my most daring move, in regards to paint, was in the apartment I lived in prior to this house; where I painted one wall "Jazz", a hot shade of fuchsia. Across from it, over the length of the mocha wall, I applied a 6-inch wide stripe of shiny, gold paint. I wasn't in that apartment long, but leaving that fuchsia wall was the saddest part of moving.


So I encourage you, next time your perusing paint chips at your favorite hardware store, step away from the taupe, the tan, the eggshell, and pick up the chips that would make your mother shudder. My mother certainly cringed the when I announced my bedroom was going to be "Carrot Cake".