I love the colors! Bravo! Isn't shoe storage oddly satisfying?

The secondary wall in my space is orange. It transomes above the kitchen and curves around into the area I've made the living room, spills down into the fireplace and bleeds into 2 niches on either side. It's bold, dramatic and masculine. It scares people and I love it.

I have that feeling when I'm alone somewhere, just sitting. It helps if Tiny is with me. What is a 'lens?' The shelves are nice and colorful. They look like they were custom made.

Maybe in this case I should have called it a "diffuser", but I was talking about the flat piece of translucent plastic that fits on those trim pieces to diffuse the light from that recessed fluorescent fixture. I think they're called lenses because they sometimes are made of a textured clear acrylic that bends the light like a camera lens.

Oh. Now I know about muntins and lens.

Curious as I am, I could not not google-map on that intersection to find out more. Gee, you could have told us it was just across the tracks from Skinner Butte! Then I would have known immediately where it was . Your Willamette looks like our St-Laurent - where the street numbers start duplicating in separate directions - east/west. There seems to be rapids a few places nearby on the river. It doesn't seem that far from the ocean. One hour? In the other axis, you seem to be midway between Vancouver and Sacramento.

Shelves and me are at odds because they collect dust and I'm not what you can call a maniac duster, so since I tend to collect shoes as much as you do, that problem remains whole. It's strange (well not that strange) how light affects the rendering of colors. The wall seems much paler on the left of the unit than around the window (which I suspect is closer to the real color - anyways the one I prefer).

Of course I cannot see your monitor, but on mine, the color to the left of the shelf is a bit washed out from the flash. But I think the true color not so dark or deep reddish-orange as that by the window. And of course the color of the wall does change with different lighting, making it difficult to identify the "real" color, but I think the extreme upper left corner comes the closest (still to the left of the shelves, but not quite as washed out as the middle of the wall). My hotel porch perch is due north across the street from the side of the post office, which is at 520 Willamette--so you can try that address. And yes, it is near the tracks and the butte, in fact it is just a block from the train station.

I can see the color. Something like burnt orange (I don't know if they call it that way in English, but in French it's "orange brûlé").

We can see the hotel all right in Google maps. It's got an inverted C on the roof.