Mellow Yellow

[poliphilo]

I'm painting the bathroom. The colour is "lemon zest" and it spreads with the consistency of runny yoghurt. I can almost smell the citrus.

There are lots of things I like about winter, but mornings like this are not one of them. I woke at 8.30- out of mud-coloured dreams a whisker away from nightmare- and it was still dark. I opened the curtains and the world was pewter and everything dripped.

Yellow, yellow, yellow. Lemons, sunflowers, dandelions, fields of oil seed rape.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

But your kitchen! Is it finished? It was yellow, too, I think.

A picture, please! (A companion piece to your Wonderful Victorian Room with the Tree and the Marvelous Fireplace.)

I like so much the idea of a lemon-colored bathroom.

It's pewter-colored here, too, with a glaze of frost on every bush and roof. Yellow is a lovely idea to carry around today.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

OK- but I need to tidy the kitchen first.

The kitchen ceiling is yellow, but the walls are terracotta. I wonder if the colours will reproduce faithfully in a photograph? Well, we shall see....

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's right--terra cotta.

Thanks! It's so early-morning winter gloomy here; seeing some warm colors will be invigorating.

[queen-in-autumn.livejournal.com]

I love yellow!

I grew up in a yellow bedroom, and when I painted my studio a few months ago, I painted it bright yellow. I live in a basement apartment in the frequently gray and rainy city of Seattle, so I need lots of bright colors on my walls.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The last time we painted the house we went for dark colours- the kitchen was midnight blue, the bathroom was blue and purple. I guess I was going through some sort of a goth phase.

[beentothemoon.livejournal.com]

My favorite third grade teacher had her classroom painted bright, hallucinating canary yellow. After it stopped burning my retinas it was quite cheery.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ailz says the bathroom was freezing when there was just the white undercoat on, but it's a lot warmer now.

[beentothemoon.livejournal.com]

That's funny, isn't it? The only problem with a yellow bathroom is that the lighting is immensely unflattering. No one looks good in yellow lighting.

Signed,

Exceedingly Vain Girl with Rose-Colored Lightbulbs in her Bathroom.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

LOL.

We have a very small bathroom mirror- and it's tucked away in a corner.