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2023-12-05 |
notes |
- I need to get the correct measurements for curtain lengths. I want to match the LR and bedroom whites lengths. I am going to get the DR curtains hemmed to end just above the trim, and will need to remeasure. Need to ask B about curtain lengths, maybe she has them saved somewhere, otherwise I can re-measure.
- More importantly, I am supportive of the burnt orange curtain sample. I want to order more samples in oranges, rich dark blues, and muted reds.
- The red samples are nearly all too dark, saturated, or aggressive. In LR, the red picks up too much of the red couch or else fights the red couch. Too much red would feel like a war room. In DR, red would work best, and matches the chandelier, but I would want to choose a lighter, less aggressive, less saturated red, like the chill red-brick sample. Red feels too aggressive for bedroom.
- The blue in the rugs are a muted blue, what the samples are calling a teal blue. The carpets are grey blue. The natural conservative move for each of the rooms would be to match the speckles of teal blue in the rugs and grey blue in the carpets, with teal blue curtains. A pointed out that the teal and baby blue samplse would not be a poor choice for matching the rooms. They would not be, but I largely agree with B in terms of saturation and warmth: resist the man, fight the carpet, beige kills babies, and real men go in on rich, colorful curtains. I am prepared to be conservative in my politics, but not my wardrobe, and not my curtains.
- If I was going to go blue, I feel I'd want to go rich, dark, royal purple blue to contrast the warmth of the red-orange light of the chandelier in the DR. We have no samples of that color, so I'm thinking abstractly. The rugs also do not generally have this color, so I would want to make some rug adjustments to pull that off. I could also be a fan of this in LR, but this seems easier and better suited for the DR.
- Greens and teal greens are beautiful, but the yellows and reds in the LR would clash. The DR could be adjusted as conceived of above, but I think a darker blue would be a better contrast than a teal or forest green, against the big red rug, and the red chandelier.
- Yellows, mustards, chamomiles, etc don't saturate, don't coordinate, and don't spark joy. Fuck yellows.