Subtle color selection and usage has always kind of weirded me out.
I initially didn't believe our colorist/painter when she insisted that painting our kitchen/family room walls a warm cream-yellow would bring color to the existing washed-out bleached oak floor.
She was totally right, and it looks great, even with mostly compact fluorescent bulbs lighting the room.
So, yeah, this is my long way of saying that I now understand that lighting AND texture are important for color selection.
But it still weirds me out, because I can't adequately describe *why* a given color placement feels "good" vs. "bad" when I see it. I just know that it does.
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Date: 2007-10-09 07:02 am (UTC)I initially didn't believe our colorist/painter when she insisted that painting our kitchen/family room walls a warm cream-yellow would bring color to the existing washed-out bleached oak floor.
She was totally right, and it looks great, even with mostly compact fluorescent bulbs lighting the room.
So, yeah, this is my long way of saying that I now understand that lighting AND texture are important for color selection.
But it still weirds me out, because I can't adequately describe *why* a given color placement feels "good" vs. "bad" when I see it. I just know that it does.