In the tiny hamlet of Les Bassacs, France (population 25!), we saw the 15th century farmhouse shown above. The orange walls and purple shutters surprisingly complement one other. Could this color combination be brought back to use at home, or does it only suit the dreamy Provence countryside? More photos below the jump...
What do you think of the orange and purple combination? Could it work in your hometown?
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Comments (4)
Depends on where your hometown is. It's a look that requires a lot of sunlight to make those colors glow - just like that pink kitchen everyone loved/hated so much (also in Provence if I remember right). If you compare the first picture (in shadow) with the fourth, you see what a big difference it is. SW US, Mexico, the Carribean, the Mediterranian, the Middle East... you could do it. (But my shutters would be bright blue.)
It works on the stone with that intense Provence light bathing n a warm, clean glow all day. The mottled quality of the color on the masonry makes it look like the air. Very few places would look proper like this.
I"m cracking up here imagining my weathered cedar shingle home in grey, rainy, coastal New England painted orange with purple shutters.
Love love love it in Provence, though.
It's all about embracing what's indigenous to a region.
There is a little clapboard house near me, which is painted a deep but greyed terra cotta with cream trim and lovely purple hydrangeas and other flowers in the yard. It looks great.
I want to like it, but it seems too jarring in all but the 3rd photo. But... that 3rd photo looks really good. Think it might change quite a bit as the daylight changes.