“It’s Not Easy Being Green” - Kermit the Frog

It’s a running joke in my family that if I get to choose the color of anything, it will always be green.

After a few years of this teasing, I started to wonder if my love of green could be explained in any way. It always felt like everyone else’s favorite color was blue. It’s possible that I see green as the same color as you see blue (stop! philosophical rabbit hole!), but I think it’s more likely that moving to sunny and often parched California, part of me always longed to add back the green from the fields and trees of rural England where I grew up.

This was my home for the first 18 years of my life. Picture taken during a rare moment of partly blue sky.

Anyway, it’s a long way of saying that I’m going to be painting another piece green. This time a pair of nightstands:

Hopefully they will be finished in a couple of weeks and I can send photos of the result.

Here's how our favorite colors break down according to Hotdesign who have been collecting results since 2011.

If you have a favorite color and you know why you like it, I’d love to hear about it. Perhaps I’ll be able to crowdsource some insight into why we like the colors that we do.

Thanks!

Sarah