Why Neutrals Work For Me

I have never been a "color" person. Even in the 80s when neon was in, I didn't get it. My sisters had the Florenza neon sweaters with matching neon earrings. I did not. When I bought my first "real" car, it was W H I T E. A pure white Honda Prelude with a white spoiler and white wheels. I loved that car. Funny how things change as you get OLDER. The only thing I care about these days when it comes to cars is that it has four tires and can get me from point A to point B. I have learned to embrace the smell in our minivan.

I have not always designed and decorated with neutrals, but now that I have, it is definitely for me. I get bored easily and love to change things around in my house and using neutrals makes that easy to do. I can move things from room to room and know that they will still work. Like the day my husband came home and found that we no longer had a dining room and we also
no longer had a "great room". I turned the dining room into a family room and our "great room" into an extension of the kitchen. We NEVER used our dining room, EVER. It just hit me one day that the  two rooms should be switched so that we would actually use BOTH rooms and get functionality from both. So, I moved the eight foot long dining room table (a yard sale find) into the "great room" and moved the UGLY denim sectional out of the great room and into the basement. When I am determined to do something, my muscles kick in.


Dining Room in the DARK days before neutrals:

More neutral Dining Room after renovation. Never used.

 

 

Dining Room turned Family Room 

"Great Room" turned extension of kitchen:

More neutrals

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