How to introduce a color into your home!
03/07/2008 03:21 PM by Gretchen Schauffler

By the time March comes around we are ready to drop our winter blankets on the floor and kick them under the bed—out come the lightweight cotton linens. We wait, with sleepy anticipation, for sunrays to fight their way through and reach past the chilly veil of winter. Spring feels like an awakening. When the cold air becomes lukewarm, a spring color brigade emerges out of nowhere. New growth gets its marching orders from the sun and is sent forth to declare that things are about to do more than just heat up—they are about to reproduce and produce in full color! The first line of attack comes in, in fits and starts, with a strong mission to prepare the way for what is about to come—the guts and glory of summer and fall color. Watch around you as the “coup d’état” begins—subtlety, as if to soften the blow for winter’s bare backgrounds so they don’t feel attacked or dismayed.

These shades of change come in determined Daffodil yellows that sprout from the ground like chards of sunlight, buds that birth with assurance that life does go on with uncompromising bright greens, blue and purple rebels that show off their independence the likes of Hyacinths and Crocuses—who by the way, have no issues with advancing color troops in a flamboyant way (not that there is anything wrong with it). Learn from spring’s colorful invasion strategies when a revolution of color needs to take place in your home.

For example, if your room feels like it is drowning in a beige ocean, try introducing a color, like orange, by hanging a burnt orange wall piece, setting out terracotta clay bowls on a table and arranging coral lilies in a glass vase. DON’T MATCH the oranges; play with several different shades, tweak and edit. Once you have prepared the way with orange, new sycophantic colors can then be ushered in with out the whole thing looking like a hostile take over. Mix in other colors, like cranberry, pomegranate, chocolates, or gold and determine the course towards the next color story you want to live in. They say change is inevitable and spring makes it the kind of change that leads by example!

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