The Bold and the Beautiful

Being bold is complicated. You have to constantly justify your decisions to people, and face more open criticism. After a few rounds of this, you start to wonder if maybe you went too far, and then you stay awake at night questioning yourself. Our house is bold, and many of our decisions are therefore bold. It would be so much easier to have our kitchen cabinets be white, for example, but it's too easy, too expected, and well, not bold. Instead we have to do multiple mock-ups of the same color, squint at it, and look at it sideways to decide that we still like it.

Being bold takes more time. It makes your truck look like this:
Being bold means that tradesmen will often respond to your direction with, "Well, if you do it that way, it will look weird.". No, no, it won't. Tyler and I have been forced to make rapid decisions on key items. Sometimes it means we stay at the site until 8 o'clock at night deciding and executing in order to prep for the next day's work. Being bold means we have to explore the options and often times take the harder route. Here's what today's conversation looked like:
Followed by the execution:
I'm sure along the way we will make some design blunders, but for now, we would rather be bold than bland.