Purple, orange. This time of year, we love the pair. And done right, they hit it off big:
From that dark, moody room pictured first to that great tangerine and plum bias pillow by Modern Thread, the pair works whether muted or bold.
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So rock and roll. I love it!
And if done wrong, it looks like the home of a Batman villian!
My sister actually used these for her wedding colors a month and a half ago. It looked AMAZING.
This is my favorite color combination of all time. I have it in various forms all over my house. Can't get enough of it.
@QueenOfTheFall: I enjoyed that!
i took a lot of guff for this, but the orange/purple scheme played heavily in my like of this movie set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63122153@N00/tags/diariodeunaninfomana/
Minnesotta Vikings and Holland America Line Suites
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http://www.hollandamerica.com/images/cruise-vacation-onboard/ships/NO/520XPenthouse.jpg
Funny you should mention this. I'm currently working on some label designs and one of the color combos I'm leaning towards is a purple and orange. Thanks for making me realize I'm not nuts after all!
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A friend of mine has huge purple and orange cushions on her sofa and it looks most awesome! I lovvvve the colour combination.
Purple and orange in sunny rooms may give the feeling of parts of India or Mexico.
These were my wedding colors, too - nine years ago this weekend! My bouquet was orange roses, purple freesia, coxcomb, waxflower and hypericum berries.
I did use it BoddiceGoddess (incidentally, she's my sister)! Deep plummy/eggplanty purples and light/bright oranges look so cool together. And they still looked super romantic.
Our bedspread is mostly oranges, so we really want to paint the room dark purple too.
The trick: make sure it's a purple that reads red. More eggplant and less MN Vikings.
@lupinelle: we did basically all purple except for the flowers. We used orange roses, calla lilies, hypericum (red-orange berries), and orchids. It was fabulous.
The only flowers that weren't orange were in my bouquet. Everything I had was all white.
@bepsf: MN Vikings are purple and gold... and it's more of a bluish purple. This can work, but I still think it looks more elegant when it's a reddish purple.