We All Live in a Yellow Submarine

Our living room is now lemon chiffon. That is the official name, but it looks a bit heavier on the lemon side.

I try to keep reminding my better half that it will look different with a little furniture, bookshelves and framed artwork in the room. But he still sees a repaint in the near future. My parents once told me that there comes a time when you are tired of beige. When the walls, carpets, furniture are all neutral for so long, you start starving for some color; something bold enough to stand-up against all the camouflaged surroundings. All of our furniture fits into that beige category, but maybe we are skipping forward past all those years of bland walls and carpets and moving into bright new colors.

We really don’t have much to put into our new yellow room, and maybe this gives us the excuse we need to start a new look with some styling new curtains or decorative plants, new dark furniture and colorful paintings. Almost all of our old furnishings fit into the family room, office, and bedrooms, so this room is like a clean slate. A yellow one.

When this all began in the paint store, we overheard this first-time painter choosing mustard brown in semi-gloss for all his living space. At the time we left giggling about his shiny brown walls. I can only imagine that when we got our paint mixed, there was someone thinking, “They want to paint their room banana peel yellow?”

Note: the picture above is not our real living room