Roundup: Orange Walls

The orange accent wall has become a design metaphor, an almost cliched expression of boldness in decorating. Despite its pervasiveness, we still really love a good orange wall, especially one that brings warmth and depth to a room. We've seen some great examples on Apartment Therapy, and we love to return to them for inspiration...

SHOWN ABOVE
• 1 Dark Orange Walls at Green Street Cafe
• 2 Mansi's Detroit Apartment
• 3 Interiors from Crown Paint
• 4 Jessica and Andrius: Artists in Residence
• 5 Lena's Family Home

PAINT IDEAS
• Behr's Pumpkin Patch: warm, dark orange
• Yolo Colorhouse's Clay 02 and 03: earthy, non-voc oranges
• Ralph Lauren's Terracotta Pot IB68: "a burnt orange that runs almost brown, but its still quite luminous"

Comments (5)

I just painted my kitchen Behr's "Poppy Glow" which is a really bright orange! Well, only the top half of my kitchen...the bottom half is wainscoting painted white.
I love it! Orange is such a brilliant colour for a kitchen!

:) I just painted my orange wall a very creamy white. But I did adore my orange wall for the year and a half I had it.

the coral orange in the first image - too 90's traditional country, bleeh

my living room and dining room (open to each other) are painted orange, 2 different shades - behr's "opulent" in the lr and "squash" in the dr. i love it. in the winter it's warming and cocoon like and in the summer it's bright an airy.

A friend of mine is moving into a new place soon. When I asked her which hue she wanted me to cover next in my Color Notes series, she replied, "Orange." Hope you enjoy the posting as much as she did:

http://jgkitchens.blogspot.com/2009/08/color-notes-orange-crush.html