I mentioned earlier that my walls looked very bare, but I was having trouble convincing myself to hammer nails into the walls. Well, you can see that we have started. The first nail holds a crucifix, and the second nail holds this. I wanted to hang this shell right away because the past few months have convinced me that we truly have no lasting city here--no lasting home--no refuge at all except for the heart of our Lord, and everyday is a pilgrimage on the way that Home.
Underneath the shell is our Harry Potter closet.
Just to the left of this picture, the wall joins the wall that you see in my profile picture at the corner of the room. Despite the way this picture looks, the walls are the same color, the color in the profile picture being correct, and, as you can see, the room really did turn out to look very much like the blog, as I suspected it might.
AMDG
Wow, that wall looks fabulous. I love the color, and the gleaming white woodwork.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know. We finally painted our upstairs hall this summer, and it's still very, very . . . pristine, is how I prefer to think of it.
I'm steeling myself for the first time someone spills something dreadful.
DeleteAMDG
Our white isn't nearly as crisp as yours is right now, but I do believe that's the same beige-y color the vast majority of my house wears! It is remarkably like the blog, as you mention.
ReplyDeleteI bet it's colder at your house right now.
DeleteAMDG
Very nice. I'm not seeing the colors as being that much like the blog's, though. The blog is much more...hmm...yellow-toned? You never know whether what you're seeing on a monitor is the same thing other people see.
ReplyDeleteI like your new profile picture.
The wall behind my left shoulder is closest to the real color, and it looks very close to the background color of the blog to me--the part on the sides. Of course, the wall is lighter, but it has a much greener tone than it does in the pictures--especially the one above.
DeleteThanks.
Over the years my wife has schooled me pretty well in the view that my eye for color is imprecise at best, so who knows what I'm actually seeing?
DeleteI've always wondered if any of us really see the colors that everyone else sees. Maybe our cones have very tiny variations in shaped and so all of us have little differences in the colors we see, which would account for differences in taste.
DeleteMaybe that's why you like black and white so much.
DeleteAMDG
The wall color is reading very golden to me. On my monitor, the blog's colors are much browner, but still in that yellowy range. With, now that you mention it, a green undertone.
ReplyDeleteEnthronement.
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