COLOUR PALETTE
Prompt - Colour Palette : Search online for colour palettes and be inspired by one you resonate with
So so close to the selection of hues that has already brought inspiration, and now causes eager anticipation.
Our living room furniture is raspberry. A quality suede in a pleasant shade, tough, heard wearing, surprisingly cat resistant. All good qualities. But. The weight suggests over engineering, the size leads to a lack of flexibility in the seating area, and... it really isn't all that comfy. And that's the killer fact.
There are two big sofas, easy three seaters, four without too much squeeze. They're the heavy ones. There's also a matching chair, low slung, metal arms, which, with the right cushion in place, makes for a good place in which to read (an essential spot in any home, surely?). But the sofas have hard squabs, albeit of a good depth, and overly upright backs, leading to a lack of support. My lower back aches from too long spent TV watching. (This is why I prefer channels with ad breaks - they provide valuable stretching time!)
So they have to go. In the other half of the room sits a dining table, all glass and wood, and six chairs that have the same raspberry fabric. We would never find a match for that, so the best solution is to break out into a totally different palette, the better to distinguish between the purposes of the two areas. So we set off in search of the blues.
We now await August for the results, with the various new pieces all due to be delivered by and during that month. One sofa gets a direct replacement, a three seater, but this time in a velour and a colour not far off the teal in my chosen palette. Not, most definitely not, a heavyweight monster, but a lighter structure, on light coloured wooden legs, with a soft and welcoming set of cushions (and, crucially, a one piece squab, so that the poor sod sat in the middle doesn't fall into the gap!). There is already a small two seater sofa in the entrance hall, where us oldies can sit to put on and take off footwear. It too is in velour, a golden yellow, and the car can be found sleeping there on many evenings. No claw induced damage has resulted, so we have hopes for this fabric!
The low slung chair, the reading place, is to be replaced by something more upright, but lighter to move around, lighter to look at, with the same wooden legs as the sofa. It too will be in a velour, but this time much like the yellow on the palette, albeit a touch more mustardy. The bright counterpoint to the blues of it's companions.
There's a break in the pattern when we come to the other sofa replacement, for it is far from being a like for like. One becomes two, with a pair of armchairs filling the space, lined up to be the principal TV viewing points. They rotate on their spindly aluminium base, recline and support rthe legs at the touch of a few buttons, and give all the support an ageing body could want. They are the pale blue element of the colour chart, although the reality will be a slightly deeper shade. In leather. A risk, with those claws about the place, but we'll take the chance for the prospect of such comfort.
There's just the navy blue left, and we already have that one here, ready to fit into it's allotted space once all the rest have come home and changed the look. It's a small storage footstool, again in velour, with a metallic band on it which will match with the armchair bases. And that's the palette. That's the colour scheme I wait upon, with some excitement. Not just for the new look, although the greater sense of space will be welcome, but for the sake of my poor old back!
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