23/3/2010

Red

I’ve been going a little crazy trying to decide on the perfect shade of red for my living room walls. I wish I had a little more time before my parents come for a visit – this weekend I’m going to (hopefully) see a red finish at Albert Park and the next weekend which is the Easter weekend, we’re going for a drive. So that leaves me virtually no time to get anything done before they get here which suits mom just fine – she loves painting walls (and so do I) so perhaps it will be a mother-daughter wall painting session? My mom insists on bringing her paintbrushes, I’m hoping there is enough for two!

#1 – If I didn’t have a pet I would love white sofas

So after looking at a ton of paint swatches on the weekend I’ve narrowed it down to three shades. I think I’ll let mom pick the final shade. I am leaning towards darker red shades, a lot like the old feature wall in my KL home. There is also the question of Feng Shui (of which I’ve never been an advocate but like all other energy-based belief systems it never hurts to find out more) and so I looked it up and it tells me that I will benefit from having red walls in certain cardinal points of the living area. It also tells me red in the bedroom should be used sparingly. Interestingly, Western concepts dictates that a ‘good’ wall to pick for a feature wall is the one that receives most light which is logical and at the same time corresponds to the Eastern concept of energy and light. The more I read the more complicated it gets so I’ve decided to stick to the original plan and not worry too much about my ‘chi’ since my original plan some what conforms to all these ideas anyway.

#2 – This is what I want my apartment to look like (wish I had a working fireplace)

#3 – This is probably what it will end up looking like (my place is quite hard and angular)

#4 – Oh the fridge! :)

#5 – Have toyed with the idea of wallpapering many times. But painting is way more budget friendly.

#6 – Red stimulates appetite! (lol)

Apparently having dominant colours in living areas also dictate ones personality. Google tells me that people who like red tend to be tigers in the sack. Bwahahahaha. I can think of so many Tiger/sack puns but I’ll leave you with this:

#7 – Meowr!