A Welcome Change

Since moving back to Charleston--in the middle of the hottest summer ever--I have been looking at my walls.  When we remodeled this house, I kept the colors neutral so that everything would go with it and, I think, keeping my options open in case we decided to put the house up for sale--which we did.
Well, it didn't sell; we are back--and I've been looking at the walls.  And there is no time like the present, when company is coming and you want to spiff up the place to make a change.  I started small--my office/guest room but, believe me, it was a BIG change.

When I showed my husband the paint chip, I could see that he was trying to maintain a neutral appearance as he no doubt thought that I was losing my everlovin' mind.  BUT, since I'M the painter in the house, I get to choose the colors that go onto the walls.  That's fair, isn't it?  Well, that's the way it is anyway.  I know that chartreuse isn't exactly what one would normally call a "neutral" color, but surely the purple that has joined it calms the whole thing down, doesn't it?  Well, maybe not, but it makes me happy and I've decided that that is what is going to determine ALL of the colors that land on my walls.

And, of course, after I finished with the walls, I needed to add a little decor to tie things together.  I already had made the quilts, but I made pillow cases to match and then delved into my stash of orphan blocks and came up with supplies to make two decorative pillows and a wallhanging.  Several years ago, my friend Rita spurred me on to start a memory quilt--which never made it to completion. But I was really happy with the block with entwined wedding rings that I made to commemorate my wedding and now it is happily hanging on the wall as a finished little quilt.  And one of the pillows represents my love of gardening with machine embroidered vegetables and the saying, "2 Percent Inspiration, 98 Percent Perspiration (pretty accurate, I think).
Well, that's all the painting for a while--except that I'm contemplating adding a little something "extra" to the walls.  (My husband is rolling his eyes over that, too, but he's a good sport.)  I'll let you see it when it's done.