No.

Just NO.

Sorry, but having lived through the late '70s and the 80s, there is one colour I hate, loathe and despise, and it is peach.

Peach is The Golden girls, terrible family restaurants, and tired and depressing hospital rooms.

Peach is a tricky color. It can look too flesh tone which is unsettling. Not recommended.

Another color that pretty much requires a lot of white around it.

I hate pink, but peach is ok. I always get compliments when I wear the color -- anything from pale peach to coral -- so I'll bet it's flattering to lots of skin tones, even if some people think it IS one!

I probably wouldn't paint a wall peach (although that super pale first one is kind of nice) but the huge painting in my living room has peach tones in it (as well as greens and neutrals) and it's easy to decorate with. (I tend to emphasize the moss greens instead, though.)

I had this in my last rental and HATED it. Everything I put on the wall looked weird, nothing looked right with it. My new place came with yellow walls.... so much better!!!

The best is 5, imo (could be the black cat addition) and the worst is, oh, any of the others but maybe 2. @mschatelaine has my vote: "Peach is the Golden girls, terrible family restaurants, and tired and depressing hospital rooms."

I do think peach ice cream is wonderful, however.

The colours at the lighter end of the spectrum, as in pic 1, 3, and 4, are collectively known as 'grandma's underpants' around our house.
Between this and every 80s mall food court, peach seems very tricky indeed.

Peach only works when it has more pink, and could be interpreted as pink instead, like in 5 and 9.

I have the same feeling towards this color as lavender, yesterday's color spotlight. They're tricky, and I don't love any of the examples. Reminds me of bad 80's bathrooms, ha! Maybe it's that they are hues (pastels), because I have no problem with purple and I love orange. I think that's it. Making pastels look comfortably modern and blend with other colors without becoming an easter basket seems to be the problem.

It's probably just living through the 80s, but it feels too soon to rehabilitate peach.

No. Won't wear it, won't live in it. I am having 80's flashbacks. I gave up the Aqua Net, the pegged jeans and I am not going back.

Yeah, I'm not on board with peach, even though some of the examples above are nice, esp. #4 and #5.

Unlike lavender from yesterday, which I feel can be adequately un-pasteled and un-80ed if it's paired with strong neutrals, rustic textures, etc., peach is just... muddy pink or flesh tone. Bleah.

I love peaches and corals, and all of the examples above. It may be because it resembles flesh, but it's the most flattering color room to be in. But I may be biased. My living room is a dark coral color, and both of my bathrooms are the same bright pinky peach (even the tile in one of them).

I think it will come back around, just like all colors eventually do, but we'll see it used differently than it was in the 80's and 90's.

Peach, like any colour, can work if you want it to...Depends on your imagination and your preferences....All of the colours on a peach itself should provide some clues....

And yes, reallly fresh peach ice cream and preserves are a little bit of summer heaven!

I'm shocked at the disdain for peach. I enjoyed every one of the examples, especially #10.

The effect on skin tone is an issue, though. I'd probably feel sallow in a yellow/orange room. I'm a "summer," so I prefer the pink- and coral-tinged peaches, especially paired with aqua. I'm redoing a basement room at the moment and am about four days away from painting the main wall in Behr's "Autumn Arrival" -- not too russety for me, not too pink for my partner. We picked that color to coordinate with lots of other crazy things going on in the room, but it's just one chip down from "Orange Grove," which is what I just used when I had to paint a windowless basement powder room in a house we're selling and we wanted it to pop as a nice warm surprise instead of a dank afterthought. If you need a warm, bright color -- like in a basement -- yellow and peach are your contenders.

My guest bedroom is a super-pale peachy shade, paler than #1: DKC #3. The funny thing is that everybody who walks in the room loves the color and asks about it. They say it feels 'happy' and 'warm', and not one of them can identify the basic color. They all think it's a neutral. One thing that helps is that room get a ton of natural light. I don't think it would be as successful in a dark room.

I'm surprised that so many here hate peach. I think it's a lovely, relaxing color. I don't think I'd paint an entire room in it, but touches of it seem soothing and fresh to me.

(Correction Note: it's incorrect to use the word myriad with "a" and "of" on either side of it. The correction to the sentence it's in would be "There are myriad shades...")

I had a peach bedroom growing up, about the same color as in pic #2 - never got tired of it.

Totally hate it, but wonder if it did make a comeback, would I change my mind? That's why I clicked thru, but don't see anything here that would make me reconsider.

Funny, I was just planning to paint a small bedroom BM's Salmon Peach (closer to #5, but going for the look in #3). I didn't think I'd ever like it again after having lived thru the 80's, but then I saw some coral peaches and it sorta grew on me.

I love peach. Feminine, filled with light, but not weak.

The 80s, huh? I live in an historic semitropical town on the coast, so I associate it with breezy Georgian and Napoleonic decorating (yes, there is such a thing). And seashells. My bedroom, which gets muted natural light, is "pale ecru"-- just lighter than picture #1 with bright white trim. It makes big cherry and maple furniture look really nice and goes nicely with navy. I'm really not a fan of the darker peaches, though, as they start looking like Band-Aid colors.

MSCHATELAINE - I'm with you. Peach was the color of the children's hospital wing when I was admitted. I hate peach walls! Even more so than brown and blue-grey walls.

Correction to Fromage's correction, verbatim from the dictionary: "USAGE: Recent criticism of the use of 'myriad' as a noun, both in the plural form 'myriads' and in the phrase 'a myriad of,' seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the work word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun 'myriad' has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural 'myriads') and Thoreau ('a myriad of'), and it continues to occu frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it."

@Bee for Brian, I'm *completely* willing to admit I'm wrong on this, but would you mind linking to a source? I make my living in etymology and I've consulted three expert sources since I saw your comment and haven't come across this.

@Fromage: Source for that quotation is Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition. Also, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, by Kenneth G. Wilson, says: "As a noun, 'myriad' means 'ten thousand,' but its most frequent sense in 'any very large, indefinite number of persons or things,' as in 'We could see a myriad of stars' or 'We could see myriads of thme.' The plural is hyperbolic but standard. The standard adjective 'myriad' simply means 'innumerable': 'There were myriad stars in the sky.'" Bryan Garner (Dictionary of Modern American Usage" says adjectival "myriad" is "more concise" and "better" than "a myriad of," but doesn't say "a myriad of" is incorrect.