In Living Color ~ Scotland Isle
First and foremost, I apologize to those who stopped by on Monday for this second installation of In Living Color, but instead found no such post. No great excuse except to say that I gravely mismanaged my time. For what it's worth, the materialization of this post was always on my mind.
Okay, the first picture picture (Before picture) is how the dining room used to look. It's weird seeing old pictures of the dining room the way it was that day we signed our lease. I'll never forget that wet rainy day. I felt as though I had just won the lottery.
For those who are unfamiliar with our old housing woes on 19th Avenue, read more about it here. To make a long story short, we used to live above party teenagers who lived amongst themselves without adult supervision. So we kept our eyes peeled for rentals, but the hot San Francisco/Bay Area rental market and tight dog restrictions made our housing search close to impossible. But it all worked out very well in the end. As the wise old saying goes, "every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage."
As you can see in the *Before* photograph, the walls were neutral and very boring. We wanted to add a VIVA factor to this room in particular -- for the very reason that it's the room where we would partake of life's bounty -- yes, we're hard core foodies. Hence, our color choice of green.... but which one?
As I had mentioned in the first installation of In Living Color, Behr.com came to our rescue with their color previews. After about an hour glancing through what seemed like millions of variations of green, we chose Scotland Isle.
We chose this color over the other shades of green mostly because of its name. We have dreams of one day running up and down the moors of Scotland (with bagpipes blaring in the background) as William Wallace did in Braveheart. So it is with these romantic ideas of bounty, life and freedom that our walls are covered with the pigment of Scotland Isle.
Next Monday: In Living Color ~ Golden Cricket
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