Hues of Browns and Oranges

          I have been wanting to write an entry talking about the different hues of browns. This might not be an interesting entry to those of you who aren't into decorating but if you are this might be an entry for you and make you think a little bit about why you decorate the way you do. I never knew why I like any color with any brown. It just came natural to me. I see something brown and another color then I would love it right then and there.
          But this past month, I have been thinking a lot about things because of situations that have happened in my life and I think I know the reason, if not all, part of the reason I like to decorate with browns. I grew up the first 4 years of my life in a house where I remember everything having a brown tint to it or the color went a long with brown. I use to sleep in the "blue room" but I remember the bigger areas being browns. I will admit most of the colors with that brown was that nasty 80's looking  orange but yet it was brown. The outside of the house is a pale yellow with brown trim.
            I also remember later years that my babysitter (2nd Father) spent a lot of time in his workshop building things so they would have a lot of wood around the house light and dark. I think to that if you like browns it is usually because you are somewhat of an outdoorsy person, which I am that too. I remember going for walks in the woods and just spending time out on the farm. I still have a bookshelf that he made for me and it is dark brown and by my bedside no matter where I move to. I always make it a point to put it there. There was one house where I had it at the end of the stairs but that is when I was little and didn't care where to put it. It did make a little nice reading place for me though.  I will tell you more about that bookshelf in another entry later on.
            It is funny now too because I live in an apartment that is painted a light brown and all my things go along with it. I have mostly dark colored things but I do love like the lime green with the darker brown and the pale blue, more like robin egg blue, with the darker brown too. Then any pale color goes great with the lighter tannish brown. Brown is really an easy color to decorate with. Even in bigger houses now days you will see the basic color is a brown.
             I might be strange but I have always liked the darker colors or browns to painted houses with and decorate with. Light colors can be good at times especially if you have children living with you and I might have to move to the paler side of that if I ever have children. It is said that the paler the color the calmer it might make the child.
             I write this because it just seems strange to me how you can live around a color or decorations so long and don't know how much influence it had on you until it is gone. You could also never know why you like the browns or wooden floors or more of the outdoorsy theme until you really think about it. Those colors have left me and even though I understand that they are way out of date and the other reasons behind changing them it still hurts a little bit but it does look a lot better and up to date. It is just another one of those things that we take for granted day in and day out.