Someone else's yellow.

Colour is a very personal thing.......... so before I go any further, I want to say I respect other people's colour choices................ I love the combination of (particular) yellows, set against grey............... I know it's a fashionable combination at the moment, and I'm glad of that fact............. But................ ............ When we first moved in to this house a number of years ago, the first wall colour we changed was this bright yellow on the kitchen walls. When we came to start the works on the house, Hugo ripped away the kitchen units, and the old yellow was revealed. It wasn't that we found the yellow too intrusive, (which we did!), it was more about making our own mark on the kitchen. The simple act of a change of colour, made that kitchen............ our kitchen.............. I found a few flakes of zingy, zesty yellow in amongst some rubble I was sweeping up yesterday........ The last of someone else's yellow.........

Comments

[RI]

Now look what you have
made me think of...
All of the yellows around us...
Lemons
Daffodils
Witch Hazel
Gorse
Rose
etc!!! STOP
BRING ON THE PINK {:>))))))))

[Lucy @ attic24]

I agree, yellow is a very personal choice as there are so many variations, not all of them pleasing to live with! We painted R's room a beautiful soft pale yellow when she was a baby, it was a Dulux colour called Wild Primrose and I adored it.
Choice of wall colours is sooo exciting, I bet you can't wait to get to that stage with your new kitchen, what will you go for? I guess it won't be yellow?!

[Alice C]

You are the only person I know who could see the artistic possibilities in rubble and peeling paint AND be able to frame those pictures to make them delightful.

[Pam]

When we renovated our kitchen (mid 30's house) over a decade ago, we discovered the outline of the original cabinets--quite art deco--on the wall behind the subsequent ones. Such a neat thing to see, though obviously not offering as much storage space as the later ones. And duck egg blue or institutional green seem to have been the original colours throughout the house. A few years ago, we changed the outside colour from white with navy shutters to blue/gray with yellow--and a yellow garage door, which gives us a blast of sunshine in the depths of the Canadian winter! Yellow can be very cheering...
Renovations are such fun as a spectator sport--I enjoy your progress reports.

[Jennie]

It is a very bright yellow. The maisonette we lived in for a year had bright yellow kitchen walls and orange squares painted on it.
I love how you word your posts, you are so poetic!!

[Lou]

Hello Vanessa, here's the link to gorgeous israeli jewellery
http://www.ethnicsart.com
check out shula shek but also talma keshet and others are very beautiful
Look forward to seeing you at Jenny's on Mon
Love LOU

[hazeljoy]

boy am i'm glad that is someone else's yellow. it makes for beautiful colour combinations in photos, but real life? no thanks. makes me think of two things: 1) when i was in sixth form, our form room was an old room up in the roof of the building. we were allowed to decorate it as it hadn't been used in several years. and what did the form vote for? a combination of bart simpson yellow and royal blue. vile. never spent more than 5 minutes in there after that. 2) my dad went to uni to do a ba(hons) 3d (furniture) when i was about 7. his first project was about colour. he got given grey to work with. i said i didn't think that grey was a colour. he accented it with a yellow not unlike yours. i love grey now.

[Dragonfly]

The yellow and grey combination they are pushing in Laura Ashley just now, is lovely.
My spare room is painted in Farrow & Ball's Sudbury Yellow and I just love it!

[alice]

Oh yes. I had someone else's lime green. It still dements me.