not feeling it

I don't usually love purple, but I've been lusting over that Cassis line from Le Creuset.

Oh god. This is the kind of purple I can't handle. But... LowBrowLawnParty is right--the Le Creuset gets it right.

gag

I did accents of purple and lime green in my very white living room, and it kinda works. The purple rug is good because it won't show kid spills, I had no idea I was an early adapter?

Ok, I do not like purple, and they wouldn't go in my kitchen at all, but I love that Metalac cookware.

Ugh, the colour on the Bodum stuff is utterly vile :( and I love purple! That glassware from Bormioli is gorgeous!

Not doing it for me.

Purple has been my favorite colour my entire life, but most of this stuff is a super ugly shade of purple.
=(
But the glassware is fantastic.

Ugg. Seems more like the color of 1999, when I was in 6th grade and everything in my life had to be purple...
Noting wrong with the color, but this shade is pretty nasty.

Purple is my favorite color but the shades shown above are all putrid shades. Just horrible.

I love purple and I have been resisting Le Creuset for years - and now I don't think I will be able to resist it in purple!!

Some of it is really pretty -- the Dirt Devil looks like a custom motorcycle! I love the eggplant-colored Le Creuset as well.

The Bodum line looks like it's covered with the type of rubbery substance that gets really grimy after a while and is difficult to clean.

Purple is my favorite color and I am so excited to finally be able to find really pretty items in purple

I love purple, but man oh man do these miss the mark.

The shiny purple plastic in these photos looks low end, cheaply made, and like a misguided attempt to target female consumers.

I work in product design, and when a client wants a feminine version of an existing product, I always joke that we should paint it pink and slap a unicorn on it. Sadly, these brands seem to find that advice credible.

I've seen the Le Creuset shades in person and they are lovely, but otherwise, all of the color and material choices on the pictured products looks tacky and plain uggers. These items will look like a dated "trend" before the year ends.

Uh, well, what am I supposed to do? Purple or turquoise??!

I was in Ikea yesterday, and it was all over the kitchen and garden sections.

Several years ago I painted the doors on my kitchen cabinets purple -- something like the body of the Shark sweeper above. The rest of the kitchen is white, black or stainless. It works, but it wouldn't with a grape colored coffee pot (Bodum, I'm looking at you).

I also have some handblown glasses & pitcher about the color of the Aroma kettle. They really pop with white. They were bought in Palestine with a set of heavily decorated plates and they all look great together, too.

Still, some of that stuff in the photos makes me want to hurt myself. The Bodum and the Typhoon for starters. It's precisely the nauseating shade that you should pair with pink and princesses for a 4 year old's birthday party.

meh.

Yahoo!

Bodum's quality is too good to buy in a trendy color that I'll hate in 5 years. But if my 12-year-old Bodum kettle (in white) were to bite the dust this year, I might replace it with that lovely Aroma model.

Purple isn't my personal preference, but I love the idea of a lot of these. I love kitchen stuff in vibrant colors. I do agree that too much of any seasonal color can look dated rather quickly, but the Aroma kettle or Le Crueset items can be loved a long time.

I love many shades of purple, but for the kitchen? Not mine--it's just not appetizing (much like blue is not, psychologically speaking). These violet-hued items makes my stomach turn, actually; I'd wear a T-shirt that color, tho.

I'm loving really moody, dusky (dare I say"mauve-y"???) purples these days...

so so pretty.

Horrible. Worse (and I never thought I'd say this) than the trend for pink kitchen accessories.