Orange Is a Four-Letter Word In My Vocabulary

Orange and I have never really gotten along. As a matter of fact, I avoid orange is ALL situations -- clothing, shoes, accessories, furniture, hair color, etc...

I once bought orange nail polish and it was a BAD decision. See here. If you want to be all Halloween color-coordinated, then by all means by the orange nail polish. Or, if you're going for the look of spilling Orange Crush soda all over your toenails, go for it. Otherwise, don't bother.

Yeah, so orange and I just really aren't compatible.

Until last night.

We were in Lowe's to get some stuff for the knocking down of the Armageddon shed (another post for another time) and I happened to wander over to the paint section. I happen to love the Eddie Bauer paint collection, so I perused that and you know how they have those little freebie postcards that show rooms actually painted in their colors? I found one that I really liked. (I'd say love, but I'm not sure I'm ready to make that commitment.)

Are you ready for what color family it's from?

Orange.

Now before you get all crazy, it's not the same orange as that in the aforementioned nail polish. Some might even argue it shouldn't be called orange. I, however, think it's part of the orange color family. (I couldn't find the postcard online, so I had to scan and you know what happens when you scan...you lose some of the "real" color.]

See, in the room picture, it looks yellow, but in the paint swatch below ("summer walls") it looks orangey, doesn't it? We'll just go with orangey.

Even John likes it. I hope I like it when four walls are covered in it...