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Ask 6-year-old Geneva Green to name her favorite color, and, without hesitation, she answers, “Aqua!”
And when her 10-year-old sister, Paris, says, “I thought it was purple,” Geneva makes it clear that purple is history.
“Purple was my first favorite color,” she says.
All this from two girls with a creative mother who has collected vintage fabrics from Parisian flea markets, painted her home studio cyclamen pink and chosen a vibrant blue for the playroom.
“I’m passionate about color,” says Sheila Petrocy Green, a jewelry and textiles designer.
She and her husband, Gerard Green, moved into their home on a three-quarter-acre lot in East Aurora nine years ago this summer.
“I loved all the windows and all the pine trees, and I liked the size of the yard. We always loved the village location. I grew up and went to high school here,” said Gerard, a 1980 graduate of East Aurora High School.
The outside is interesting enough, with a historic marker in the front yard that reads: “Here among the trees and on the old Hamlin Farm lies buried Mambrino King. Mr. Cicero Hamlin bought this ‘most handsome horse in the world’ in 1882. Many thousands of people came to the Village Farm to admire this sire of a famous line of trotting and racing horses.”
But come inside for some real eye candy.
There’s a pink entrance hall with vintage blue-and-white plates on the walls. A 6-foot-wide sepia print of grazing cattle. A weathered church sign above the fireplace.
