Colour!

A short comment on colour; we're leaving shortly for a couple of days in DC. By bus.
I the private plantation houses we haven't been able to take photos but we've been surprised, astonished even, by the wall

colours which apparently are true to the era of 1630-1750-ish. Pink drawing rooms, bright green, blue, combinations of the three, and occasionally a conservative rich cream (Shirley Plantation).
In Williamsburg itself, the buildings are public so we were able to take photos in the Wythe house, the first time we saw wallpaper instead of paint. As you can imagine wallpaper was expensive "in the day". Obviously there were  no rules about mixing patterns as long as the colours didn't clash too badly. Very liberating but I think it would be exhausting to live with.