Pleasant Living: THE COLORS OF FALL

Friday, September 12, 2014

THE COLORS OF FALL

A GAME OF CRAZY EIGHTS MATCHING THE BOUNTY OF THE FARMERS MARKET WITH ROOMS FILLED WITH FALL COLOR

It had been weeks since we'd been able to roll out of bed on a Saturday morning, grab our vintage barkcloth grocery bags and head off to Madison's farmers market. It was still August. The day before had been almost ninety degrees dripping with humidity. It should still have been summer, but the colors of fall were slowly creeping onto the bountiful tables at the market. The rich saturated colors of fall were bursting onto the folding tables laden with plump produce and the heavy full blooms of autumn foliage. As we did the counter clockwise walk around the square Rick talked about his mother and how Rena redecorated every room in their home every time a new season blew across the calendar. It started a game in my head where every color I saw brought up an image of a room splashed, brushed and upholstered in the colors of eggplant, fall rhubarb, pumpkin, and magenta astors.
I pulled out my iphone and started snatching bits of organic color hoping Pintrest and HOUZZ could supply a matching design. It'd be a game of scavenger hunting when we got back home. I typed in searches like crushed rose and chartreuse to see what would come up. I looked for matches to forest green capped eggplants. It wasn't long before I had amassed paired rooms and market fair, like a game of crazy eights matching red fours or black jacks.
Here's my deck of the farmer's market late summer bounty and their color matching doppelgangers in the world of interior design.

A bouquet of paper thin purple and gold