Pro v. Con-Template-ing

What do you think about the look of this page? Is it boring? Do you like/dislike the color? Layout? --I'm getting bored with it.

I wouldn't have normally chosen this color, but one day it looked appealing to me. Now I have an itch to change it like I would a paint color. A quirky thing to know about us is that all of our interior paint is in 12 different neutrals. You know how some people like to have bright colors on their walls? Not us. It influences our moods too easily. And then we get bored with the same color very quickly. There's also only 2 things hanging on our walls. 2 in the whole house. One is a dry-erase board, and the other is a little panoramic view of the Navaho reservation from a trip I took there once and it hangs in a corner all by itself. I guess you could say we're minimalists in that way.

Which brings me to another question. My friend once told me she doesn't like when people change the templates of their site. She says to her it conveys the message that the person lacks a core personality. Do you find this to be true? Does it unnerve you to re-visit someone's blog and suddenly things look totally different? If the design is totally different than the one you are used to, do you suddenly feel like you don't really know that person?

Normally I would have instinctively gravitated towards a soft green or something earthy with more dimensional sections, but I notice that most blogs are those colors, with the exception of a few other brightly colored ones. The color I chose for this page reminded me of a bloom that I haven't yet seen. It was sort of symbolic of our new garden. But, again, I'm now looking at it like I would if it were in my bedroom.

So I'd like to hear from you. Does it feel too bright when the page comes up? Do your eyes need to adjust? How do you feel about it?

A) It's okay the way it is.

B) Maybe change the color.

C) Harsh, maybe just tone it down a level but keep the same basic design.

D) Add some dimension or texture somehow.

E) Pick a new template and do it fast!

F) Sorry, I haven't been able to read this post due to my blinded vision upon entering.


This is one option I was playing with earlier. I had to take the picture with my camera and load it the hard way. Would this be preferable to you?

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