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My mother had pillows she liked with that combination in 1972 and she tried to do the whole living rooom that way. She discovered (the hard way) that look is achieved only if the same ratios of colors are used that way. Don't know why, but it is so. What she got was not what she was looking for or expected.

Love those wall colors? Where's the image from? Any chance of finding out the paint colors?

This is quite possibly my favorite color ever.

Probably because it brings out my eyes.

Hey, at least I'm honest.

Teal is my favorite color of all time. It always has been. I am now really sad that my new apartment doesn't have the gorgeous blue green wall that I painted in my old place. I guess it's time to paint again.

Regarding the upper right photo of the colorful medallion - what is this and where can I buy it?

so pretty. it's one of the colors i'd like to paint a wall right now...

Veanie - The colorful medallion is a Jonathan Adler melamine platter. It's availble here, on sale:

http://www.jonathanadler.com/shop/product.php?productid=17205&cat=400&page=1

As a kid I remember being transixed by a 195Os anodized aluminum patio tumbler in peacock blue and in a matchbook in the same color & metallic sheen from Henry Dreyfuss' redecoration of the Persian Room at the Plaza Hotel in New York, but then I grew up and read Faber Birren's "Color & Human Response" wherein he writes of people with a taste for blue-green--as opposed to blue or r green--"Here were mostly people who were sophisticated & discriminating, who had excellent taste, were well dressed, charmingly egocentric, sensitive, & refined..."--yes, yes, that's me!

But then he went on to add "...They were probably sexually frigid (which goes with narcissism) & divorced (which so often happens to the extremely fastidious & affected)".

Oh, shut up.

I recently painted my dining room in a very similar color, Peacock Tail by Behr.

Wow, how terrible of me not to put links. Sorry, it was late when I posted this (which is also why the post reads like I just took crazy pills and watched Zoolander. Which, btw, was on at 3 am...)

The photo on the left of the dining room is from VT Wonen, a Dutch magazine (it was also spotlighted over at Decor8 fairly recently). And the plates are from Jonathan Adler. AND THEY'RE ON SALE! Yaaaay!

Yeah that is a hot color, heres a great pic of a room thats useing peacock blue and greens, found it on coco kelly blog but i think its from Decor8 http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xwl37FACTh0/RrydQVkNDyI/AAAAAAAAAtg/5CV9CgJIP94/s1600-h/decor8%27s flickr stream.jpg

I went nuts during 2002-2003 trying to find that turquoise for my living room wall. We had nothing but big box stores here at the time, well, except for the one paint contractor store I was too timid to go into! But I finally found it. My version is "Blue Wonder" in the Disney paints line through Behr. Stop laughing. It's an amazing color! And every other paint line at the time skipped that step just perfectly between blue and green.

Lovely though it is in my living room, it does not photograph well at all, so I can't show you pictures unless you want to see a bumblebee stepstool.... Blue Wonder is the lighter color

Parhelia, one of the teal-obsessed

I've loved that color combination for years since the late 90's so it's never been in or out of style for me.

The greens add a nice modern punch while the teal/blue/whatever keeps things grounded.

It also reminds me of the roaring 90's...Bill Clinton, Tom Ford at Gucci, Dr. Dre, internet startups, the first iMacs, and Tamagotchis.

I am so ahead of the curve! ;) I painted my bedroom that color (the dining room color) back in about 1992. It's still fabulous.