I like blue and use it a lot - in the garden; in the house; in my wardrobe... but I've never felt the need to pursue 'true' blue - if it's reasonably blue, I'll likely be happy with it :-) Color preferences are definitely a personal thing, although it does change over time I've found. In general, these days I prefer cool colors more than 'hot' ones. I do like pink - but mainly the cooler shades of pink. And I prefer to use large quantities of a color - I'm drawn for some reason to monochrome type color schemes where the planting includes variations of a limited number of colors. Sometimes though the introduction of an unexpected color can be just what's needed. Gardengal- orange is one of those colors that I don't normally use but I particularly like the spring scene out the window of my home office. The squirrels obviously raided a neighbour's tulip bed and added their booty to my garden! I wouldn't have planted these tulips myself but I love the combination and, luckily, it has been coming back for at least 5 years now! Without the orange, this would be a rather dull scene...: Another accidental orange combination I really like is this one of some of those cursed ditch daylilies that came with the house plus the next-door-neighbour's Jackmani (?) clematis tumbling over the fence. I like it so much that I have refrained from ripping out the ditch daylilies (that are otherwise a PITA!) I seem to have strayed off topic somewhat here but I really like playing with color and am always looking for color combinations/ideas to adopt. How do you use orange gardengal - i.e. what are some of your favorite orange scenes?

The story behind the headboard: Before leaving town, I found someone selling an entire set of Henry Link Bali Hai bedroom furniture, no headboard. FOR $100 !!!!!! I plan on painting it (maybe) a dark blue and painting the hardware too--maybe an aged brass color. So, while in Greenville, I was on CL, well, I was looking at CL and I found this headboard. Gal was selling it for $30. I looked around the web. Hmmm, this particular unmarked headboard is selling on the web for some moolah. (One Kings Lane included). We met with her, I said "You are asking $30", she immediately said "I'll take $25". DH is a quick study, he immediately whipped open the wallet and paid. So, here is my hideously ugly yellow headboard, with cat pawprint in the paint included

Your marble backsplash is so gorgeous. Still wish I could have found a way to sneak a bit of marble into my kitchen. It's truly beautiful. I too almost did madre perla--I love the softness of it. The wall color is so nice!!! Are the subway off white or white?

Gracefully, I love Palladian blue. My K cabinets have a beadboard back which was painted with a Palladian Blue wash. But I digress... we tried, IIRC, 12 colors. Ended up choosing Martha Stewarts' Porch Ceiling, LOL! It's discontinued but maybe it can still be mixed? https://www.myperfectcolor.com/paint/58921-martha-stewart-c26-porch-ceiling-blue