Changing paint colours is never easy; choosing paint colours is even harder.
After final decisions are made it all seems like such a fuss over nothing...but too much of one tint and not enough of another can be the difference between a catastrophe and a triomphe... A colour that seems perfect in a shady place seems glaringly out of place in the sunshine. A colour set against exposed stones reflects differently to a colour sitting against a rendered wall. The way a colour looks upstairs is different to the way the same colour looks downstairs. This is what I have learnt over the last few weeks as the shutters on our farmhouse are painted; you can't have it every way. What I mean is, if you want to stay friends with your painter and have the job finished before the year is done, you need to settle on one shade and stick with it. Secretly, the perfectionist in me would prefer to tint each shutter in just the correct hue to take into account the shadows and the surfaces....
So here they are ....a cross between grey and beige....a soft foil for the wisteria and for the pots of geraniums when they come out for the summer. xv
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image - vicki archer
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