Rodney

I was all for white walls, but then I started watching "Trading Spaces" with the wife and changed my mind. Now things are a bit... bolder. Our downstairs is a living room/dining room/kitchen combination. The ceiling overall is a mellow gold with small metallic gold tiles glued to it at random intervals; nice effect, actually. As you come in the front entryway, the walls are aqua. Then you walk into the living/dining area. The living area to the left has deep purple/blue walls. To the right is the dining area, which is a warm but not too bright orange; round the corner from the dining room into the kitch and you've got spring green walls (the color of avocado flesh) with yellow cabinets, and each of the cabinet doors is decorated with a tile mosaic. The "room divider" between the living room and dining room is a low, two-sided buffet; hanging down from the ceiling overhead to complete the "wall" are two large pieces of stained glass that I did years ago. The major living room furniture is mild yellow, similar to the ceiling.

Upstairs is still a work in progress, but we've carried the downstairs upstairs by painting one wall blue, one wall orange (with the railing on the blue wall being orange, and the railing and bannisters on the orange wall being kitchen green) and the upstairs hall as aqua. We've tried to have a smooth continuum of the colors throughout the house, so that no matter where you stand, you can see most of them.

It's lively, that's for sure. On the one hand, it was mainly my wife's idea. On the other hand, I picked the colors.