Name: Racer Pink, IB-51
Brand: Ralph Lauren
In 1936, Diana Vreeland began a column in Harper’s Bazaar titled “Why Don’t You…”* which dispensed inspirational tidbits in her typically broad style. Here is our second entry with three suggestions along the same lines: Why don’t you paint your built-in display niches with recessed downlights and glass shelves hot pink?
Name: Orange Juice, 2017-10.
Brand: Benjamin Moore
Why don’t you paint your powder room bright orange? Lara painted this during what she described as a color emergency. “Because you can only look at white walls for so long.”
Name: Onondaga Clay, 1204
Brand: Benjamin Moore
Why don’t you paint your living room deep terra cotta? Ms. Darlene Chamberlain, of Chamberlain Window Treatments, went against all advice to paint these rich accent walls in her own home, which perfectly sets off the wood, brick and white carpeting. Stunning.
So I put it to you: if you have anything rare and wonderful, unusual or unexpected, send it in. Send me your pink radiators, your sapphire ceilings, your chartreuse cellars. I’ll start with color items, and if we get enough entries we’ll start a separate column at Apartment Therapy involving inspired design choices in general. Why don’t you?
Email pictures, a brief description and the paint name if you have it to colortherapy@earthlink.net, and put WHY DON’T YOU in the subject line.
* In 1936, Diana Vreeland began a column in Harper’s Bazaar titled “Why Don’t You…” which dispensed inspirational tidbits in her typically broad style. Such items included: “Why don’t you…turn your old ermine coat into a bathrobe?” “…put all your dogs in bright yellow collars and leads?” “…wear black leather mules with red leather heels?” “…have a white monkey fur bedcover mounted on yellow velvet?” The column was widely read, ridiculed and imitated.
I’d like to start the same thing at Color Therapy, and have several entries from readers for our second edition. Without further ado:
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Love, love, love the pink niche. I'm not as high on the others, though.
Love the bathroom. For a poweder room, it's wonderful!
Interesting idea, I like it!
Why don't I paint my powder room bright orange? Because the wall between it and the living room stops about 5/6 of the way to the ceiling, and with the living room wall in front of it soon to be black, it would look like halloween exploded. The pink is an idea I can use, however.
more use of exciting colours in slightly odd places:
i work in a protein biochemistry lab where we study various proteins involved in cancer. my boss, who loves using colour on walls, managed to persuade physical plant to paint our lab bright yellow (bombay gold), and his office orange (harvest moon). those of us who work here refer to them as 'safety yellow' and 'caution orange'. unfortunately our benches and desks are hand me downs and mismatched, so the effect is somewhat dulled.
my boss' adventurous use of colour has resulted in other offices and labs being painted: periwinkle, mustard yellow, pale milky yellow and so on.
while i'm sick of working long hours in the yellow lab, i do admit i'm happier than if it were the usual standard beige or white. and my purple ice bucket really stands out.
I find it a slightly spooky coincidence that I, as the owner of the Orange Juice powder room in the second photo, also have a room that's painted Racer Pink, ala the niche photo. I guess we color junkies must know a good shade when we see it.
How about Rendezvous Bay, anyone...anyone...?