Sea Foam
June 5, 2015
You can’t get away with a sea-foam-colored condo in too many places. Sea foam as a condo color–apartment, or house–may only work when your place is near the ocean.
I saw it work really well on the Florida panhandle, in a place called Seaside, near the white sands of Fort Walton Beach and Destin. A trip east sometime in the 80s. All pastels–in the soft, humid air of the gulf. It was just lovely.
Here’s a picture (I didn’t take it, found it on a Google image search):
Their paths to the beach were pretty charming, too (I also did not take this, though remember taking a similar shot):
I bring this up because I came across a sea-form-colored condo along the Esplanade in Redondo Beach this afternoon…
I love this color.
And here’s its beach view. The fog is in the end stages of lifting and everything is soft and sea-foamy. It’s perfect.
Anyway, we’re (I’m) contemplating house colors for a someday paint job on our valley home. I like sea-foam, but I think it belongs at the beach.
We shall see.
(Wish I could bottle that air.)
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