365 Top Ten Lists. This is my project for 2010.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Ten Alternative Colours I Could Paint my Boudoir.

1. Pistachio. It would go well with the wood, with the red and pink bedding, and with the navy bedding. It would look lovely and fresh, but would loose a little of the essence of boudoir-ness.
2. Dark Navy Blue—possibly with a sparkly finish, like my nail polish. All you nay-sayers are saying anyway, and no, it won't be too dark. Bedrooms aren't for light sunny days anyway. This would look fabulous with all the wood, and possibly a few extra lamps.
3. Dark Grey and Black. With a stencilled design. Same argument as above. Fabulously moody. Coloured details will sing against that background.
4. Aubergine. Dirty, dark and purple. All the yellow will come out of the wood and glow. Greens would be great against it. Very boudoir.
5. Pure purple (red side), blue (tending to navy), or green (British racing car). Done in a buttoned leather design on the walls. Plush. (Not the sofa people, but beware of the tacky line separating it from this).
6. Brown feature wall. I imagine a dark chocolate. With the other walls a mid tone blue (greener side) and Chinese type branches and blossoms painted on the walls. Nice.
7. Silver or Gold. They have to be great quality. Possibly nothing less than leaf. It would be stunning. And stunningly expensive. But stunning. Yeah, but stunningly expensive. Agree to disagree people.
8. Lilac. This sounds tame in comparison, so make it a mid tone dirty lilac and then paint an opalescent clear in thick horizontal stripes to make it a little fancier.
9. Red. Boudoir staple. Pinky, yellow end of the scale. Maybe leaking to a deep pink down the wall. A wash type effect. Just so it's not 'typically' boudoir. Don't want to look ordinary.
10. Mural. Either a communist type of one full of people—like the one they used to have at Spencer Street Station. Or something like the Moon and Ba stuff from the Google theme of the day the other day.

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