Rainbow Color Therapy

  Yes, Artcellar colorized Hokusai's classic Great Wave -- and I love it.  I get a whole rainbow's worth of color in one extraordinary picture with tumultuous movement thrown in.  

  Lavender in white vases... and it smells good too.  No, this isn't the kind of purple that Ursula the Sea Witch and Barney the Dinosaur made unpopular. This is a subtle purple. Real subtle. I'm still looking for the perfect purple vase.

The R a i n b o w Challenge Take a walk through your house and check each room for color. Designers tell us, sensibly, that it is best to decorate using neutrals as basics, and then add pops of color with pictures and throw cushions that can be easily changed and refreshed by whim. This sounds great… except busy people sometimes don’t get around to buying colorful art or new throw cushions. So neutrals like gray, beige wood floors, white, and more gray become the background of our lives, and unchosen colors from the random items we’ve picked up along the way constitute our palette. I walked into my living room and looked around. I was lucky; the BuyOwners who flipped this house our way had painted it throughout a warm color between apricot and saffron, relieved by white trim on our wide baseboards and sashed windows. We own two forest green couches, one a fold-out somewhere around 35 years old and showing a little wear on the handlebars, and the other an overstuffed gift from Amazon...