Danish Design

The interior paint of my house has always been rich color.
Wheat in the living room, sugar cookie in the hall and my bedroom with butter yellow and crimson. The office and bathroom in blues. Trim is natural wood. I have floor to ceiling wood bookshelves in dark brown.

Last summer I changed the living room color to more of an arctic ice blue. The floor to a deep cranberry. Set against the colors in the rest of the house... I felt like I was in an Easter Egg. You remember the sugar eggs, opened at the end and inside was a frosting created scene. I felt like I was stuck in one of those. The rest of the house badly needs to be painted. The colors I listed above were the original colors from 2005.

"After returning from Denmark I decided, I want a Danish Design color scheme". My sister sits on my couch and glances around my living room. Vibrant in color.

"Are you going to paint the trim?"

Speechless I look at all my natural wood, unpainted trim. In order to go Danish light and airy, I would have to paint all my trim. And doors. Fuck. What a project.

I started two weeks ago, with my bedroom and wow. What a difference. I choose thin ice for the walls and a delicate white for the trim. The thin ice can look gray, lavender or blue in the light. It brings out the accent colors from my bed coverings that were hidden before. I'm also going through clutter.

But as I enter my living room which is in stages of trim conversion. Now I need to paint the floor again and change the curtains. I want to get a new shower curtain in the bathroom, new rugs. This is getting expensive. But man its beautiful to look at and so calming.