White I Don't Like...

White is a cop-out. Yet, I am not happy with any of the other color schemes for Phase IV in a previous posting.

I must explain because, there are couple of Givens...

the flooring is GOING TO BE terra-cotta. A wood floor, which Dr. You COMMANDED and I SURRENDERED to up in the Apt. Azzurro, costs the double, if not the triple; employs more than one person/company/??? to purchase, prepare, install & finish, when terracotta can be single-handedly tackled by the builder for all those above listed steps; and, further more, terracotta fits the architecture of La Casa Grande. Oh! And another thing, I am an American. Every house there has wood floors. I want Earth. Dr. You is an Italian. Practically, every house in Italy has some sort of Earth or its plastic/ceramic/??? equivalent. Thus, all an Italian cares to see in his dimora... or, home... is a wood floor. What's worse, they call it parquet. Due to this term... its sounds sooo elegant to them... parquet means their wood floors are mostly ridiculously thin veneers... you cannot believe the noise a woman's high-heel makes trotting off to the Kitchen on their veneers... which may or may not really be wood. I want authentic and Earth is that. Wordy explanation. Sorry.

the window mouldings has to be in Our Standard Light Blue Grey, because ALL OUR NEW WINDOWS & DOORS are painted with it. I feel we are relatively obligated to continue, otherwise, where's the Continuity?

So, here is the raw state of the Stanza Grande 2... actually, taken before the roof had been re-built...

imagine, please...

the terracotta flooring...

the window mouldings in OSLBlue-Grey... remember that niche in the middle will be the third window...

now, what would be a groovy color for the kitchen cabinets, silos & shelving and against what wall color?

While you ponder your response, let me say this: up until I met Dr. You-know-who, lo' those fourteen years ago... white was all I could live with and still behave myself. Look at me now: colorized!!!

Why not Pink for the walls? Or, Red... Geranium Red? Could you see those stone walls in the above photo in a Geranium Red stucco? I can. Yet, how would it look with the...

floors...

windows...

walls.

Kind of bright. What cabinet, etc. color then? Hmmm... with all those reds, of the floor & walls... how about sticking with their Natural Oak?

Or, a sort of reverse...

walls in a Natural Oak...

and the cabinets, silos & shelving in Geranium Red?

As you might surmise, any color but Dr. You's Terrible Teal!!! Let's put it all together...

Floors...

Walls...

Windows in OSLBlue-Grey...

And, cabinets, silos & shelving in Geranium Red.

No. Pink. Again...

Floors...

Walls...

Windows in OSLBlue-Grey...

And, cabinets, silos & shelving in Pink.

We aren' there. I may have to go back to Ochre and its yellow brothers. Gads.