Feeling Blue?

It's become a bit of a joke at our house.  "Do you love me?"  "What did you paint blue today?"  I love color; bright, saturated, clashing color and my garden favorite for the last few years has been majorelle blue.  I painted one exterior wall of the garage, now greenhouse, that color many years ago. This is all that's left of that wall. 

I was thrilled when my pal Loree suggested I paint the rafters in the greenhouse this color and paint the walls yellow.  I got the paint and tried it out on this door but the greenhouse filled with plants fairly quickly so the rafters were left natural.

 
This old cabinet and the table on the left got the blue treatment. (They're really the same color but light does strange things.)  Also in the greenhouse are several bird cages found in free piles on the side of the road that have become blue prisons for a variety of plants.

These chairs looked a bit dirty in this earlier picture so they got painted the darker blue color.


These garage-sale chairs we white and the glass-topped table was green.  It was nearly impossible to paint just the metal undersides of the table without getting paint on the glass part so it got painted too.

The back gate was looking a bit shabby, like the fence around it so...

Just the other evening, painting this handrail seemed like a fun activity to do while talking on the phone with my niece. I had some nice black rust-oleum paint and the best of intentions but somehow the brush found blue paint instead.  Alison talked me into painting the metal grate on the top step as well. (Actually, she suggested painting the stairs - black treads, blue risers but settled for just the grate.)

Watch out, I still have a half gallon of this paint left and so you may not wish to stand still in my garden for too long or you too may be painted blue.  Perhaps it's time to open that gallon of lemon yellow.

Have a colorful weekend everyone!