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Earlier this year, I got an email from one of my sweet readers. She told me about her love/hate relationship with color. Sara said that she has a series of different colors throughout her house and she loves them all, but she was having a difficult time focusing on pulling it all together. As she put it, “How do I focus and not make it look like [I live in] a circus?”

I have been thinking about that question ever since then. Sara isn’t the first person who’s approached me with questions about using color effectively in a room, but she is the first one who phrased the question in that particular way…and I loved it.

So, as part of the blog hop series on “How to Decorate” that is being hosted by my friend Beth from Home Stories A to Z, I am finally sharing my thoughts on putting together a colorful homr that doesn’t look like it belongs under the Big Top. And welcome if you are joining me for the first time as part of this blog hop from Rhoda’s blog, Southern Hospitality. I’m glad you are here!

I use color in a lot of big ways around my home. My creativity thrives when I am surrounded by saturated hues, so I made it a point to bring that saturation into my home. You will find a lot of bold patterns and bright colors in every room. I always sort of feel like my color combinations and styling just sort of come to me. But, as I took some time to really consider Sara’s question to me, I realized that there were some key guidelines that I subconsciously follow when putting together a room….

I’m drowning over here in my house, y’all. Sure, we’ve gotten tons of rain lately (which is weird), but that’s not what I’m talking about. I am drowning in projects! I’ve talked about it before (remember my DADD post from years ago)…but sadly, nothing has changed.

I won’t even begin to try to name them all. But, I do have 2 beds in my garage that need paint, closets that need to be built and a vintage pachinko machine that needs to be reconditioned.

But really, the biggest, baddest, most looming project that I have is to finish painting my Mary Blair inspired feature wall. I finally finished drawing it out, but this is all the painting I’ve made time to do in the last two weeks.

TWO WEEKS, y’all. I need someone to light a fire under my rear so that I can get this finished, but I don’t have a boss here to make me work. So, I’m going to light my own fire.

Today, I’m announcing a new theme on the blog: Jumpstart June. And I want you to get in on the action, too.

Here’s what we are going to do. I want each of you who are drowning in projects like me to pick at least one thing you want to finish in June. Just one. It can be something huge like redoing a room, or it can be something small like cleaning out a closet. It honestly doesn’t really matter what it is, as long as you pick something. Once you decide, I want you to comment below with the one thing you want to be able to cross off of your to do list by the end of June.

And then, once a week this month, I’m going to check in and show you the progress I’ve made on my project. On each weekly check-in post, I want you to comment and tell me how your progress is going. See? We are going to keep each other accountable. I’m not going to hunt you down or email you if you don’t check in (unless you want me to!), but I think the weekly reminder will help you (and me) keep that goal. I mean, we all try to do those “30 days of push ups” things. This is way easier than that, right?

The project I’m picking to finish for Jumpstart June is my Mary Blair feature wall. What’s yours? I can’t wait to hear!

PS – If you are reading this post via email or in a feed reader, you’ll need to click here to come over to the blog to leave a comment with your project.

More from Jumpstart June:
Jumpstart June Announcement
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4