A Mysterious Coral Reaction

This morning. The porch ceiling was the original color, a very pale olive. Last year I laboriously scraped off many later layers to reveal this.

 

This afternoon. Somehow, the ceiling appears to have had a spontaneous chemical/molecular reaction with a mysterious mist which came through Emporia around 2PM today. And the ceiling turned coral!

 

 

 

 

12 Comments

  1. Nathan Davis on October 8, 2017 at 6:22 pm

    The coral adds such wonderful warmth and richness

    • Ross on October 8, 2017 at 6:25 pm

      Agreed! And, as I posted previously, such a porch ceiling color was highly popular in the 1890s! Who knew?

      • Trace. on October 8, 2017 at 7:01 pm

        I also agree, the new color does bring a lot of warmth and richness to the house. The other image actually kinda looked a little bit dirty and depressing, but now it just looks really nice.

  2. Jarrett L. on October 8, 2017 at 7:46 pm

    Oh my! Spontaneous coral is always a great thing!

  3. Lindsie on October 8, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    I’m pretty sure that “mist” is how I got my ginger hair, too! Weird!

    Looks great! Actually makes the color on the chimney look extra nice, too.

    • Lindsie on October 8, 2017 at 11:42 pm

      The light looks so ‘happy’, too, now that is is clean and surrounded by warm color. Fun when a small touch brings out so much beauty of the things around it.

  4. Sandra Lee on October 8, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    Warm & wonderful & the coral ceiling is perfect! I could never have believed it would work on both ceilings. Looks just great!!!

  5. Mary on October 8, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    Fantastic! Each thing you are adding lately just makes it better and better!! Perfect complement to your color scheme and picks up chimney color.

  6. Katie on October 8, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    Yes! What Mary said. I like how it’s picking up the chimney color.

  7. Rick S on October 9, 2017 at 8:02 am

    It even matches the front porch ceiling. What luck.
    looks great.

  8. Alice on October 12, 2017 at 8:32 am

    When you first proposed this color I was very doubtful–but it (of course!) looks great! Adds so much lightness to the porch.

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