Southwest #3: tgaitahoo's Green Dream

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Name: tgaitahoo
Location: Santa Ana, CA
Type of Home: Single Family Residence

What inspired you to use color? Colors affect the way that I feel. They also noticeably affect other people's emotions. I am confident of this because no one ever walks into my house without expressing an emotion about the colors I have chosen. My entryway takes you into my dining room, to the right is my kitchen, to the left is my living room. They're are open and connected to each other, and they are each a different shade of lime green. This color matches EVERYTHING! Of course it would: it's green like leaves to any color of flower, it's green like the stem of the pumpkin leaves in fall, it's green like Christmas in the winter and it's passionate like Valentines Day. Also very fun to mix Mexican colors. It's so fun! It's been three years and I am still exploring new combinations with it.

Color Tip: Find a color that makes you feel alive and wakes you up! So many things in this world brings us down, our living space should not be one of them. Search that color out in different settings and see what it does for the environment that it is in, when you realize the relationship that you have to the color and the color has to it's environment. If you still feel good about it, make it a part of your home in a BIG way, don't be afraid to spread it around, think of it as spreading cheer! The color that I chose in my living area started with a candle that was a gift to me and that I couldn't stop thinking about the colors and the shading and I started to notice it everywhere, and every time I saw it, it made me smile! It gave me the confidence to spread it generously, even with my contractor, second guessing my decision.

Colors Used: Different shades of lime green

Comments (12)

I don't know...I don't see how ONE paint color in ONE room, fruit (that has no choice but to be colorful), flowers and placements qualifies as a good use of color. It kinda misses the point completely. And the black and white living room....?

Oh I see, the living room is very light green but it doesnt come across in the photos so...

I have a question that doesn't address the color at all. In the main photo of the dining room, you can see at the top of the back wall (above the glass doors) an overhang that is a feature of the wall. My pre-war NYC apartment has something similar on some of the walls. What is the name of this feature, and why does it exist? Is it merely aesthetic, or does it cover some electrical wiring or provide some other function? It sure makes it hard to have floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.

I have the same thing in my townhouse and I'm not sure what it's called but many times it houses the air ducts.

Isn't that called a soffit? (Not sure of the spelling.) I have them in my house above my kitchen cabinets and in the bathroom. I don't know if there's anything behind them in the kitchen, though as Monica says they can be used for ducts or electrical wiring. In the bathroom, mine have lighting recessed into them.

I think its called a soffit...

In my opinion, this is too much of one color. She notes that the three rooms are actually three different shades of lime green, but they look very similar to me- too similar. Without variety, and other punches of color, the eye just becomes weighed down by all the green. Plus, it's a bad color on people, and without light it can be gloomy.

Hey Red, It is called a bulkhead. It was an architectural feature in the 50's and 60's I think. In my 1946 house they are/were just empty bulkheads above the kitchen cabinets and over the tub/shower (I ripped the latter one out) Some people like them and many new homes are being built with them again. If you are in an apartment building they could house ducting & electrical. They can be cool with pot lights in them.

it works!

& i really like what you wrote.

Thats a whole lotta green...and the metal tchokes (the musical notes, the scrolled candle holders, the wall sconces) are all very Bed-Bath-and-Beyond-one-stop-decor-shop. That's the kind of stuff I had in my first apartment when I didn't know any better...

I think this looks rather uncreative.