Red is low on my list of favorite colors. I have no red clothes. The only red in my Massachusetts house is an enamel table that used to be my kitchen table, and now serves as a desk/place to stack books. I'm partial to blues and greens. Touches of pink and orange. White and brown. Not red.
But as soon as we started planning the country kitchen, I had to have red cabinets. I thought it was a desire to pay homage to the many barns in the area. But I think it's more than that.
Our country house is deep in a hollow, surrounded by trees, water, slate--cool things.
Winters are long and cold.
Red cabinets, like red flannel shirts, warms things up. So maybe it's all about context.
I don't think of red as being a seaside color, but this tomato red house in Provincetown is charming.
As is this painting by Provincetown artist Chet Jones (you're seeing a postcard here on the aforementioned red enamel table).
I love the red in the above three pictures, all taken in Provincetown.
So maybe I do like red.
Is there a color you think you don't like but secretly or subliminally you do?
Well I am a huge fan of the color red. The backs of my book cases are painted red and all 3 doors in my little hallway used to be red, now they're a purplish shade called Mystery.
ReplyDeleteI have newly polished toes in red and now that several oriental rugs are out for fall, reds on the floor.
so obs, I love your cabinets and all the other photos you have shown us.
This is a perfect post!
xo Jane
Well, when you put it that way. I'm sold on your reds.
DeleteI have mixed feelings on blue. I don't like having it in house, or for clothes, but obviously it's the colour of water and the sky, so how can I not like it. it's similar with green. I love it. but aside from having many plants surrounding me, I'd not choose it for anything else....
ReplyDeleteMy house is filled with blue and green. I like you anyway. :)
DeleteWhen I was pregnant I did not want to see my elder son's red shirt, but it was exceptional experience. I'm sometimes fascinated by vivid color like red and it surprises me, because I choose mainly dark color or subtle hue for some items
ReplyDeleteintentionally. Your question about "subliminally" is interesting!
Your pregnancy experience is interesting!
DeleteI do of course, like red, in many forms. It struck me that I have (almost) no red in my house or closet. Once, years ago I fell in love with a red down jacket. I had to have it--something about the red...
Hello Jen, Of course, where I live red is a common accent color, for example, those planchettes that I wrote about a while ago. I just looked around, and I don't really have any large expanses of a particular color--even the green marble in my checkerboard floors mainly reads as 'dark'.
ReplyDeleteAll colors look good in the right places, but one of my least favorites is mustard--it always seems rather muddy and dreary to me.
Now I want to see pictures of your checkerboard floors.
DeleteMustard is a difficult color, though some vlever person could make it look great with brown, cream and green. Or maybe when it's ochre and on an old building in Italy.
Actually, now that I am thinking this through I have more trouble with purple than red
I love a spot of red but am too shy for larger swatches. I am happy, like Jane when the oriental carpet goes down in the Fall... it warms everything up!
ReplyDeleteNow I want an oriental carpet. And a red plaid flannel shirt. And of course red flowers are always welcome.
DeleteI'm so susceptible to suggestions.
I'm a blue and green person too. I wear a blue shirt every day. Rarely green or purple. Never yellow and never red. Any red in my house would have to be very tempered with green or brown so that it's burgundy or pomegranate.
ReplyDeleteBut I agree that all of the green in your country weekend place need to be balanced with a warm color. A barn red or perhaps and ochre. I think it was a really wise decision.
There's another very sweet red shop right in the middle of Provincetown. I think it's a bath and body shop with barn doors that open up on the front. It's very sweet and one of my favorite places in town.
I love red, just bought a red dress actually. Kind of funny because I tend to dress with a lot of black, New York I guess, but I do like a splash of color now and again although an entire red dress is a tad more than a splash. My toes are always red. Anyway, I love your red cabinets it's a great shade. I'm not partial to yellow, only in flowers. I'm having color anxiety right now trying to choose the house color, none of the greens are working for us and they start on Monday! Maybe I'll look at red.
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