Colors and Localities
One of the things we joke about, AdventureMan and I, when we come back to the Seattle area, is that all the houses are grey. Some might look brown, but it is a very grey brown. Some might look green, but it is a very grey kind of green. Some houses are purely grey – maybe they have white trim, but they are very very grey. An occasional truly brown house sticks out, anything not toned down by grey sticks out. And oh! now and then someone with a Mediterranean soul will build a pink or terra cotta house with a red tile roof and people will say “Oh! Look at that! They must not be from around here!”
Yesterday, I was in one of my most favorite places, Home Depot, wandering around looking at what the contracters are putting in the newest houses.
“High rise toilets!” I exclaimed to AdventureMan, who was on the phone with me. “For people who are older, and don’t have the strength in their legs to lower themselves too far!”
I was looking to see what was available in small bathtubs, because I love a hot bath on a cold day, and I want a deeper, smaller tub in which I can lean back with a good book, not one of these huge tubs that take all day to fill. I was looking at shower apparatus; I am thinking one day I want to go the European way with those wall flash-heaters that give you hot water when you need it and don’t keep heating it all day when you don’t.
And then I saw the carpet samples. I just had to laugh. When we lived in Florida, I loved walking into the model homes, with their seafoam green carpets, or even a mellow shade of tropical pink. Everything looked so welcoming and laid back.
In the Pacific Northwest, people choose from shades of sand. I never knew there could be so much variation on beige, which is somewhere between white and brown:
To those of you who say that sand isn’t as dark as the darkest brown swatches of carpet, I can only say you have never walked along a Pacific Northwest Beach on a dark and stormy day. Believe me, sand can be very very dark.
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lol @ the varieties of beige!
google “ofuro” :- theyre japanese bathtubs which might be what youre looking for. theyre like deep short jacuzzis. the japanese wash outside the tub and then chill inside it afterwards.
Aww, I love Home Depot and Lowes! I don’t even know how to do anything, but I just love all the possibilities!
We always joke that my husband’s favorite color is beige. He would love those choices!
be contemporarily eccentric. lay out real sand instead.
oh I love home depot too 🙂 have you been to Abyat in Kuwait?
I think when you look at houses in same colors (not really the same but not too different) you will feel harmony! Once in one of the areas in Kuwait i was picking up a friend and saw all the colors on one street it was disturbing I swear… green, beige, white, grey, and one house with all shades of pink from soft baby pink to bubble gum pink! YUCK!
By the way.. I love beiges and browns… my room is a great example with some red in it of course LOL
LOL! Beige, beige, beige, or… beige?
I love these stores!
I’m going to have to check that out, Skunk! There are a lot of Japanese descendants in Seattle, and occasional articles in the house magazines about Japanese bathrooms . . . hmmm. . . . it may be just the ticket!
LLOOLLL, Carly, I am picturing you taking hubby on Date Night to Home Depot to look at sand-colored carpet samples. Just for grins, though, go to your HD and tell us what colors are the most popular where you are!
Mrm – ooohhhh, I love the beach! And ooooohhh I HATE sand in my sheets!
I have not been to Abyat – but it sounds familiar. Maybe I have seen it in a magazine. Maybe I need to go there! Where is it, Ansam? Caramel (a very yellow kind of beige) and deep red are hot hot hot.
Aafke – you got it! Hehehehehehehehehe!
This post about carpets and colors reminded me of an old Paul Simon , Ex Simon and Garfunkel fame , with the title I do it for your love ,i remember bits of it , romantic song about a hard start to married life , but thank God for the Internet ,it took only minutes to locate the lyrics ,here’s the carpet color part :
Found a rug
In an old junk shop
And I brought it home to you
Along the way the colors ran
The orange bled the blue
it is Thursday , the romatinc part of the week
Abyat is in Industrial Shuwaikh
you can download the map here
http://www.abyatonline.com/v1/content.php?section=2&subok=0&sub2ok=0&page=contact1
Isn’t it amazing how Simon and Garfunkle could get under your skin? I think of Homeward Bound, I think of I am a Rock, Parsley Thyme Rosemary and Sage – so I was totally flummoxed to see you quote a song and I couldn’t hear the tune in my mind. I discovered Jango, but only on U-tube did I find the song. I can swear I have never heard it before. And whoa! How melancholy! But I like the beginning; I was also married on a rainy day. Thanks for stimulating those brain cells, daggero!
intlxpatr :
U welcome , i think Garfunkle has a chain of steak houses under his name in london .