Well, talk about an about a U-turn. I went out last Saturday afternoon fully intending to get lime green paint, while dh was at his bowls match. Well didn't he get a bit of a shock when he arrived home to find the wall half covered with paint from a tester pot that was far removed from lime green. Happily he liked it.
As I had looked at the greens it got more and more difficult to pick a good lime green and I started to sway towards my favourite sage greens again albeit in strong deep tones.
I kept thinking about the aubergine as suggested by a pp, then remembered another poster had painted dark and hated it in the winter. Didn't have dh or a friend with me to give an opinion and started to dither. Eventually, went for this one, a very dark Teal. DS described it as the colour of a stormy sea.
Not quite finished yet as the original clock is in place. I need a bigger clock to break up the space. There is a garland of daisies with a lovely yellow centre that is gorgeous against the wall. Unfortnately it's not a great picture and the daisies aren't showing up as well as they do in reality.
On the worktop there is a blue-ish glass mason jar with some yellow wild flowers (weeds) from the beach today, yesterday there were buttercups but they don't last long. I plan on seeing what TKMaxx or Dunelm have in the way of (yellow) artificial wild flowers.
Because it's dark dh is going to fit a (spot) light in that corner.
We also painted the opposite wall at the back door and popped a couple of large, 12", yellow paper flowers on top of the larder, stole them from the bathroom. The kick-boards running along the bottom of the cupboards are also painted Teal and unite the two walls.
I'll still play about with the accessories a bit over the next week or so.
So many of you will think it is miles too dark but honestly, it looks great. As I said, still need something like the buttercups for the glass jar.