Course Correction...

You & I spent last evening texting each other with our color choices for La Casa Grande. He was checking the Internet at work, his bevy of nurses lending Support & Assistance. I was in Codiponte with my laptop slapped on my lap careening from Fowler & Ball to Ralph Lauren, Benjamin Moore to Sherwin Williams. Dr. You let me throw upon the wireless table of Our Discussion My Ardent Desire for Sevres Green, Aubergine & Red Geranium et al. I let him propose his Teal of Choice. Che testardo!!! Dr. You let me explain through paint-chip numbers for him to check on his computer My Reasoning for such extreme colors...

la Casetta is Sage to represent Mother Earth. Well, at least, Earth. The Upstairs Apartment is Blue for the sky. Isn't that quaint? Now, since La Casa Grande is between the two, I wanted colors to express Life... mostly agricultural products such as, wine, veggies, chicken... food, and yet, an occasional plate pattern too, i.e. Sevres which, by the way, has a magnificent Turquoise.

Ditto for the Dr... his idea is to unify the two colors used... Sage & Blue to make... Yep! Teal.

To reply to his Teal, I sent him a code for a lovely soft sandy Rose... an extension of his Terra-cotta Bedroom and a kind of compilation of all the colors of Life before they deteriorate into White. Dr. You replied that he HATED Rose. I told him my feelings for Teal had not changed either. HATE it. Then, by accident, I discovered Sherwin William's Belize. An Acceptable Compromise... a light & airy Teal...

Belize

And, it dawned on me that putting a Sevres Green would be... A) a waste of an excitingly bright color, we can do it with furnishings, etc.... and so B) might appear ridiculous with our terra-cotta flooring. So, I have gainfully accepted...

Belize

The Kitchen might be the ONLY room of the three to be stucco-ed & painted in Belize. Here's why...

It could be a shame to cover in stucco the nice and very, very, very old stone work and paint it with any color. The stones in the above shot are regular in shape, their courses are straight & consistent and it renders a value of il Poggiolo's History.

So, we may leave History to show and minimally use Belize where really needed... in the Kitchen and its cruddy stucco from the 20s and some walls in the future Salotto. There, some walls show stress with a network of cracks/fissures/rifts which must be repaired and concealed by stucco & paint.

Now, all I have to do is get the builder to reduce his estimate by Euro 10,000 and we can begin. Gads.