Colour and succulents

It was Deirdre’s birthday this week – she had a party yesterday to celebrate. She and David have fairly recently (in the past couple of years or so) bought a house after renting forever. It is a weird transition sometimes; the responsibility of debt a bit freaky in my memory, the ‘permanence’. Deirdre has appeared here before – she is wired for colour and vibrancy – and her new place reflects that big time. One of the benefits of your own place is that you can decorate how you want, and they have taken to the color theme in a bold and glorious way. Yesterday we birthday guests participated in this process of moving from a neutral, ‘tasteful’  palette to something much wilder and warmer. It was fun.

Here are some pics – a kind of before through to after (click to enlarge as usual)…

Layla doing the outline

Becky painting the bottom layer

Layla p the top (with other painted walls in the background)

Becky finishing the bottom layer

Annie having a go

Annie with paintbrush

The paints

Top layers

Annie and Becky in action

Annie, Beck and Layla

Doing the drip line

Dripping

Deirdre looking at progress

Some of the drips dripped too far! (can you have too far?)

Heart taking shape

John painting the heart

D looking happy/excited, John and Layla in action behind

Layla, Walid and Sophia

Outline of heart and more layers and cumulative drips

Heart happening

Heart and blue layer

Nearly done

More or less finished…

Everyone had a good time – Layla was great as a kind of coordinator and others of us did bits or cheered from the sidelines. I did a little bit of the top yellow layer and some of the yellow drips, but mostly took pics thinking of this blog (a kind of virtual neutral wall that I paint week after week).

Here are some other photos of Deirdre’s colourful place and her succulents…

Back yard with painted panels

Plastic lid art

Close up of a panel

Cushions at the party

Plants and panels

More plants and panels

Bucket with monstera

Cushions and plants (with Black Adder)

Cushion and plants

The lounge, featuring teatowel throw rug, cushion and woollen rug

Walid dancing (fab!)

Luca’s picture and plants

Succulents in front of a panel

More succulents

Fingery succulents

Succulent in funky pot

Sound system and funky pot

Basil and tealight candle holder/flower

On the door in the house

Even the folders are fab