Not sure if I have mentioned that I love color. Well, color and texture. OK, color, texture, and print. Oh ya, and I am…kind of..obsessive about color and texture and print.
This picture shows the FABULOUS fabric (a heavy type linen actually- I don’t sew a lick, but that’s what it feels like to me) that I chose for my eeensy weensy shop’s curtains and cash wrap table skirt.
Well, now I have the opportunity to MOVE to a larger space right next door (be still my heart!) that is a whopping 134 square feet (remember, I am currently at the said 94 square feet which actually MEASURES 64 square feet inside) and I would OF COURSE have to repaint and add my signature touches to the spot!
I would want to keep my fabulous curtains (my mom the seamstress wiz sewed them after all…) but I wouldn’t want the new shop to be painted exactly the same color as the one I am in. (The shops look like little cottages and homes, and it would be like painting my home exactly like my next door neighbors!!!) so I am debating, and fretting, and pondering about WHAT colors to choose. 
(see the side wall of the neighboring shop to the left of my quaint space?) I mean, if the color is wrong, the feel, the mood will be wrong...oh, it could be a disaster.
The larger shop has old weathered brick below the windows, (charming and dear) and I would want to accent this. Here is a picture of the store as it looks now 
(Look close and you'll see the side wall of my current shop to the far right) See that darling dutch door? ( I know it's a bit hard, since her lights were off and bulk of the front of the shop AND the door is currently painted black-- WAAAAY to dark for me!) Check out the roofing- I would weather and rust out the all too new and shiny looking copper roofing and add green moss here and there in the cracks (creases?) and add one of my signature bird nests with a bird tucked near the side of the triangular gable area. Oh ya, the roof would have to look as old and charming as the brick. I also would love to put a cream decal across the bottom 8 inches or so of each window saying something like” Shabby Chick, English Cottage" and then "Country French, Garden” in some cool font like fifth avenue (are you following me here?) Sorry, I got a bit off track—
My dilemma is WHAT color for the BODY of the cottage (the front barely has any body showing, but the side does) and what color trims? I am of the mind that I must have a minimum of 3 colors on the shop. I was thinking of going with the light- with faded wheat-ey cream (kind of a linen color actually) for the body, with the lighter sage as trim- very shabby but sophsticated…but would pulling the peachy color be better, or is that oh so 90’s looking?
One reason I am obsessing is that IF I take the spot (I will decide this week) I need to paint an all new sign for out front, which, conveniently, I already have. Ipicked up an oval piece of plywood at a yard sale for 50 cents (score!) and I am DYING to paint it up. This oval can then hang in the peak of the gable (where the Pearl Diver’s Sign now hangs…) Here I am digressing and obsessing again…I think I may go to the scrap book store today at lunch with my fabric and play with colored sheets of paper. You know, the guys at Home Depot can match a piece of scrapbook paper with their computer…then again, maybe I just need to stay where I am at. Maybe less IS more? Sheesh, life is complicated.
