The Colours of My Room

The room I grew up in was my room my whole life. Although the 4 walls never moved, the room changed looks a lot!  When I was just a wee baby, my mom decided to paint the light grey carpeted room a "dusty rose" however either someone mixed the paint wrong or named the paint wrong because it came out HOT PINK!!!! So I had a very pink room for the first couple years. I barely remember this so I must have been young when my mom turned my room into a Victorian magazine. The bottom third of my room was thin stripped pink & cream wall paper, with a very florally border above the stripes. I want to say the top of the room was also pink?? Mom correct me on that??

Then I got old enough to make my own decisions and that's where it got crazy! I was still in Public school so I was probably 12 year old, when I told my mom I wanted to paint my room lime green!!! She just about had a cow!  However the amazing parents that I have let me do it! I got really creative! That might have been around the same time as the "Floor Incident".

What is that you ask? well that's a whole other story but I will tell it to you anyways!

My parents were having the hard wood refinished that was under the carpet in the living room and the old wide pine hardwood that was in the kitchen/dinning room replaced to match it. We went on vacation and put all of the furniture in my brother and my rooms. The fridge happened to be in my room! In that fridge the floor workers stored their lunches....also in the fridge was a pitcher of red Kool-aid that one of the workers lunches pails accidentally caught on and spilled all over my light grey carpeted floors! AND HE DIDN'T TELL ANYONE! Crazy right??? So we get back from vacation to a beautifully hard wooded house and one big deep red stain in my Victorian bedroom.  Once the owner of the flooring company learned of this, he offered to replace the carpet in my room or re-do the hard wood that was also under my carpet. My parents left it up to me to decide! I wasn't crazy I did grow up in a classy house so I made the right decision and picked the wood!

Back to Lime Green!! I, being the grown up that I was at 12 years old picked out 3 colours that no one in their right mind would put together today.... lime green, pastel purple and a pastelly-blue-almost periwinkle. I came up with this crazy idea, that who knows where it came from, because Pinterest wasn't around then.... heck the internet was barely around then! I painted the bottom the light purple with a darker shade of the same purple sponge painted over top. The Top 2/3rd of the room was the Lime Green and the border is where it got crazy!  I had 4 of my best friends forever come over and we painted the bottom of our feet, rolled around on a computer chair and placed our feet wherever our initials were on the wall.

I remember I had a sophisticated sticky-note system: something like: KP - P, MK- B, JI - G, etc. which stood for Katie Porados -Purple, Mandy Kenney- Blue, Jessica Isherwood - Green. I think the 4th person was Laura Goulden but I sadly can't even remember!! I'll have to go back and look at pictures! I'm still friends with Mandy and still sort of friends with Laura, Jessica was my best friend for YEARS and I should write a whole blog about that.  Katie was a really "cool" girl thought she was best friends with Mandy, but that is iffy, again a whole other blog!   I was the 5th set of feet around the room and I also put 1 hand print on the back of my door surrounded by 1 foot of each girl! I remember that if I could remember the order of the feet pairs I could always figure out who's were who's because Mandy had the biggest gap between her big toe and her next toe, so I would find hers and go from there!

notice the hand print on the door

The next transition of my room came as the final transition. I wanted the room to be empty for wedding pictures of me in my dress in the big amazing floor to ceiling mirrors, but I wanted a rich colour on the walls and I promised my parents I would do all the work!! However sadly due to immigration stuff I had to stay in the USA up to my wedding so they ended up packing up my room, and painting it (every parents worst nightmare).

My brother was moving in so we agreed on a colour that would work for the rich wedding pictures as well as make him happy to live in that room until further notice.... We decided on a burnt orange, and after the wedding he painted all the trim a tan colour!