Well, I know how we came by the red couch, considering we wanted an accent piece and that this sofa is, after all, a love—that is, a more compact, less imposing—seat. A little touch of crimson seemed just the right note to offset the biscotti-tinted walls.
The curtains, of course, had already been purchased: white from Easter to Thanksgiving, the trade-off red for the cooler months.
The red leather reclining chair purchased over a year ago was a completely unexpected but (as it turns out) necessary adjunct to my challenging lower back. It’s quite lovely besides, when not covered with pillows and red napkin cum armrest covers, all used as cat repellents.
And we couldn’t resist the red hutch, its deeply stained wood richly resonant along the stairway wall—or the One of a Kind red dragonfly dish (that matches the red glass candle shade), which now looks beautiful sitting on the glass-topped coffee table.
But the once predominantly green cloth chair that came home today newly recovered in predominantly red cloth was a bit of a shocker. I love the pattern and the hue that we chose, but oh my god, when I stood in the centre of the small room I felt as if I were trapped inside a hothouse tomato.
Of course the red-topped Singer sewing machine and the red front door have been addressed in an earlier entry, but it would be dishonourable to ignore them in this account dedicated to the ruby rouge room we–okay, mostly I—seem to have created.
I am just not sure how it all happened, despite what I have written here. I only ever meant for a little hint of decadent cherry, not a bloodbath. All I know now is that when I turn around and glance in the mirror, everything looks the same forward as it does backward.
Red room, redroom, redrum, redrum, redrum.
bloodshot, blooming, blush, brick, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, cerise, cherry, chestnut, claret, crimson, dahlia, flaming, florid, flushed, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, inflamed, infrared, magenta, maroon, puce, rose, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruby, ruddy, rufescent, russet, rust, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, titian, vermilion, wine
