I WAS LOOKING at paint swatches today while my husband was searching for a toilet bowl gasket at the hardware store.
It seemed like the right thing to do. Crap or color. (I can’t believe I wrote that.) Give me the color.
For some reason, I’ve had bright orange on the brain. I’ve been contemplating adding a jolt of color to my bathroom. Orange towels would do the trick.
I've been fixated with orange lately, like the orange in this poppy I photographed in my neighbor's yard, long, long ago, during the summertime, long, long ago in Minnesota.
But there’s one teeny, tiny problem. My husband, the one who was looking in the, well you know, section of the hardware store while I was ogling the paint, says the towels are just fine.
I suppose they are. They are not threadbare. But I am ready for a change. I need an infusion of brilliant color in my bathroom. Yellow. Orange. Anything but the sage and green that have hung on the towel racks for too many years.
However, because we’ve spent (and are still spending) a lot of money on a major home improvement project, I’ll appease him and hold off on the towel purchase.
But a girl can dream in the meantime. While he searched for that toilet bowl gasket, I admired the sunrise, tangerines and the carrot stix. And then I asked the paint expert at the hardware store if anyone ever buys orange paint.
Orange. Orange. Orange. I can't stop thinking about orange.
“For a kid’s room” she said.
Then I explained my recent fixation with orange, my desire to brighten my bathroom.
She figured this might have something to do with the long, cold and snowy Minnesota winter.
I didn’t disagree.
TODAY MY HUSBAND and I repainted our bathroom in “Popular Gray” by Sherwin Williams. I figure my orange towels will really pop against that gray.
© Copyright 2011 Audrey Kletscher Helbling
Minnesota Prairie Roots 
Go for the orange!!! I love it in my kitchen. As an accent item you can change it again in 5 years without feeling guilty. I did buy orange paint for the kitchen first and as Andy (son-in-law) started to paint I had to stop him and say NO. Guess what we went with white. I can’t believe how many shades of white there are. So go get the towels, tell Randy I said so.
My sister says so. That works for me.
I was VERY frightened as I began reading this and was reliving the nightmare of orange walls all over again. The gray walls with orange accents sound very nice!
No orange walls, or orange towels, for this house right now. Maybe I’ll get over my orange fixation, then again, maybe not. I think orange would add a welcome splash of color to my gray bathroom.
I would not like to look for my sunglasses just to go to the bathroom!
Oh, that’s the real reason you don’t want orange towels in the bathroom…
I love the idea of Grey and Orange. That will make a nice color contrast. Fun for you!
Yeah, but I’ll hold off on the orange towel purchase for awhile… at least until the sage and purple towels show more wear…or my hubby decides he can tolerate orange towels.