Old House Journal

Joys & Mysteries of Color

he wrong color actually has made me ill! A pale, classical blue left an east-facing sunroom murky as a dirty aquarium; the association was vaguely nauseating. One July, I painted my bedroom an inky cobalt; by winter, amplifying the cold light over the Atlantic, the walls were giving me

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