I’m in Lust with a Color
6.24.2009 | Blog, Sensuality
Is there a color that soothes your soul? That you want to wrap around yourself like a blanket?
I have one: Weimaraner.

It all began with my love for William Wegman. Then I discovered that Martha Stewart paints had a color called “Weimaraner.” I was hooked.
I’ve had at least one room in all of our homes painted this hue. I love the way it changes from silver to brown depending on the light. Our white trim looks so crisp against it, and the leather furniture brings out its richness.
Mmmm, I totally adore this color. I want to surround myself with it and be swallowed up by it. I can’t get enough of it.
I feel a weekend’s worth of painting coming on …







6.24.2009
GRIN! I love Weims too! Maybe because I am colorblind and they are known as the Gray Ghosts I don’t have to stretch my imagination to far to understand what they REALLY looked like.
6.25.2009
Mmm… I like this color, too. And I’ve been searching for just the right brown room paint — this sounds perfect! But the color I could get completely lost in is actually a range of colors: the blues of the ocean and of the world at twilight. My dining room and studio are painted a light blue that isn’t quite robin’s egg and not quite baby blue. I need to think of a name to describe that shade…