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Fuschia is the favorite at the moment. We just remodeled our kitchen and everything is Bedford Grey. I'm thinking about painting one of the walls fuschia so it doesn't look so sterile and morguesque.

I like a rich, deep merlot at the moment. (the color, not the wine.. though aren't they one in the same?) The purple-red tones ooze with the feel of crisp fall days. I especially enjoy the contrast of merlot colors with a mustard yellow. I'm trying to incorporate those colors into my fall table settings.

Blue has always been my favorite color ever since i was a child. Not really sure why but i just really love it. It makes me feel good.

My current favorite color is actually a color combination. Imagine an oceanic blue-green with a persimmon red-orange. Yes, they are opposites on the color wheel. I love large swaths of the blue-green with small explosions of the red-orange.

My current favorite color is a pale turquoise and tomato. The colors I have been updating my kitchen with. Colors very similar to the ones Lorena Barrezueta uses in her collection of beautiful porcelain pieces. Love them!!!

My favorite color these days is red. It just really stands out and catches my eye. I have noticed I've been buying a lot of red stuff for the kitchen lately. It just seems to look really good with the shade of yellow I chose for the walls.

Pistachio.

It's the color that reminds me of the jasmin green tea that I try to take the time out to savor every day and the green tea shortbread cookies (I make them using my pistachio-color Kitchenaid mixer) that compliment my tea.

I dream of owning a pistachio colored milk glass cake stand (pedestal) made by Mosser Glass.

Pistachio, a beautiful color.

Pink is one of my favorite colors. My garden is filled with pink flowers. I grow pink hedge roses, pink hibiscus, and pink crepe myrtles. All of my male friends love it and are never overwhelmed with too much pink.

lately i've been obsessed with the perfect shade of saturated red-orange. not fire engine red, not orange peel orange, but a perfect balance of the two, with a little bit of rust or sienna or paprika mixed in. it's a fantastic accent to all the darker colors i'm loving right now—chocolate, slate, nickel, mustard, and even navy—and sometimes it even seems to work with my old stand-by favorite, avocado green.

My daughter calls tomatos mee-nos and eats them by the slice or by their cherry tomatoe selves as quick as her 10 fingers can grasp them and her 10 teeth can smash them. "Want more mee-nos!"

This will be her dish, under parental supervison. Filled to the top with mee-nos for everyone.

I'm in love with buttery yellow right now. It is happy, warm and calming to me all at the same time. It is also a shade that can be paired with most any other color. I've been thinking about incorporating it into my robin's egg and chocolate scheme.

I fell in love with a soft shade of blue, the color of the sky just as the sun starts to set, when I started the cure on my home.
So I designed the living room around that wall color and it worked out well, I have the Tord Boontje Icarus lamp there and it looks like a bird flying in the blue sky.
Just walking into that room makes me feel happy.

White.
It's everything and nothing at once.
Its space, its grace. It brightens, it reflects, it frames and embraces the shadows and colors of its inhabitants.
Its perfection and timelessness.

Oranges of all shades are doing it for me recently. I know you'll think it's because of the season--but I'm actually not that inspired by the rusty, burnt sienna look that the trees are taking on this month. My facination with straight-up crayola orange and it's pinky, rosy-cheeked tangerine and musky brownish organic-egg-shell colored cousins came from finding a swatch of fabric that juxtaposed orange and grey. Almost art deco looking, but somehow fresh and crisp too. I've just moved to a new apartment, and for the first time in my life I'm not going to have a blue bedroom--headed toward orange this time around.

In my secret life as an oil painter (the life that happens when Im not wasting good daylight hours in a cubicle farm) I have grown to love all colors. I love rich jewel tones, warm and cool shades of the same hue. Each color serves a purpose even if its just to enhance my enjoyment of another color.

I'm currently in love with the color of a Japanese Persimmon. The contrast and richness of this color orange is something I've been trying to capture in accents of color in my 10 month old daughter's bedroom. It feels bright, warm, and happy - like her.

Purple has been my favorite colour since I was three years old. I switched to pink for about a year when I was 6 and got stuck with a pink bedroom. When I finally moved into an apartment I could paint, the bathroom was painted a bright, deep purple. I had repeatedly told my husband not to let me pick the colour, but he insisted. Half of my wardrobe is purple, and I picked my wedding dress because the colour accents were an "almost purple" shade of fuschia.

My current favorite color is Chartreuse (the non-neon variety). A shade of a green that I can finally embrace! Green has always been my least favorite color and at times I just downright loathe it, probably because it never seems to mesh well with my favorite tangerine orange and deep, dark pink colors.
But as time moved on, I started to become more open to expanding my personal color palate. I gladly welcomed turquoise into my life as a calmer alternative to orange, but it always seemed a bit out of place with the rich warmth of my preferred color palate.
And then I discovered just how perfect of a color chartreuse is. A wonderful cool, maybe lukewarm, tone to bring balance between all of my favorite colors: orange, dark pink, turquoise, and now chartreuse.

My favorite color at the moment is, in fact, tomato. It's finally gotten cool enough that the fruit flies are gone, which means I can leave produce outside the fridge, and oh, what a time to do so! Forget Christmas - tomato season is the real most wonderful time of the year. For now my kitchen gets its burst of color from the tomatoes piled on the counter, but when their season has ended I would so like to have a bright, beautiful dish to remember them.

My current favorite color is Orange. Well, if current means, for as long as I can remember.
I can be a curmudgeon by the time I get home from work. The orange I've used throughout my house always makes me feel better, and puts me in a better mood. How can you not feel happy when you see the color orange?

green! i had a green sofa and various accessories for a while, but it was too much. i like going with more neutral basics (sofa, chairs, etc.), but with brighter accents.

Growing up, I hated turquoise. I always associated it with southwestern jewelry, which is nice, but for other people, for sure. Then, just recently, I discovered darker shades of turquoise and have fallen in love. In fact, I just bought ceiling to floor curtains in a deep blue-green to cover almost an entire wall in my apartment. And I find myself fingering turquoise pillows in stores. How long before I start wearing soutwestern jewelry?!?

I love purple, because it is beautiful and unique.

In the world of decor i'd go with an dark orange, think Chinese lanterns (the plants) though i think pretty much every shade or green is pleasing to the eye.

Kalamata or aubergine--purple all grown up.
I love purple but this fall am really into a dark, rich, kalamata olive color of the walls in our family room/study. Friends/family who see it have similar reactions, "Hmm, what were you thinking? What happened?" and then by the time they leave, "Yeah, that really works. Tell me the color again." It's unusual, inviting, quiet, warm and calming. And the mixture of it being a little off and on is what I like too.

My new fave color is raspberry - in fabrics, in prints, in just about everything. It makes me feel like summer is still around, cept I don't like the feeling of those seeds in my teeth....:(

My favorite color has always been red. Bright, rainbow red to be exact.

Red is such a versatile color and can mean so many things and make you feel in so many different ways: red can be passionate, red can be Christmasy, red can be hot, red can be cozy, red can be childlike, red can be gory...I could go on an on. :-)

Teal, the good kind. The one you put with grey, silver and brown. Loved it both before and after I dug through a thrift discount bin for the vintage dress at the bottom. Now if I could just find teal mohair for my reupohlestry projects...

Deep cobalt blue. I went on vacation on the Outer Banks a few weeks ago and bought a deck prism as a souvenir. It's a pure deep, deep cobalt colored glass that reminds me of the color of the Atlantic in those parts. It's so crisp and clean and pure, I just love it.

Orange is my favorite color! It's bright... it's happy... and it's a bit unusual. I like colors that will wake me up, get me going, and be just a little bit shocking.

Red, Red, Red!!! As a true redhead, I endured a childhood during which I was always told that I could NEVER WEAR RED. Apparently in the 70s that was considered a big no-no for redheads (clash??). The outcome of years of RED deprivation has made it my favorite color forevermore; I wear it whenever I can, use it for strategic accents in my apartment (particularly the kitchen), and have numerous pairs of red shoes.

Interestingly enough, I was also deprived of hot pink as a child (apparently another clash with the hair), but I still hate hot pink.
Go figure.
Merci for reading.
KKP

ORANGE is my favorite color. It gives me energy that I so desperatly need. It simply makes me happy. My partners say's it makes him hungry, so we painted the kitchen orange.

I'm loving all shades of grey at the moment. It has been popping up everywhere lately, from accents in my bathroom to my new favoite shirt. There is a shade of grey to go with anything. I love the combination of grey with other neutrals. Better yet, grey with a bright pop of color!

Chartreuse is my current favorite. It will help me through the winter. Besides, who couldn't love a color named for a French liqueur flavored with extracts from 130 plants!

A coppery caramel. It was one of my wedding colors and it's perfect for this time of year. It echoes the seasonal colors of fall and complements different shades of green elegantly and still adds contrast. Caramel also happens to be my favorite food. :)

chartreuse! not only is the word fun to say but I feel like if it were a person Chartreuse would be energetic, quirky, exuberant and charming. Chartreuse is the kind of friend you can call at 2am with the most pointless observation, and it would gladly mull over the insignificant details with you. Oh chartreuse, you kill me.

Teal. It's like swimming in velvet bathwater. I love the versatility, I love how it can be a jewel-toned silk or a flat humble cotton and it still catches my eye. And the fact that it's a warm inviting shade of blue makes me happy as well. I've been sneaking in pillowcases and place mats into my apartment decorations, and it's been a fairly painless operation. Also, I'll be honest, it flatters my skin tone. Love that.

My favorite color is green. I wasn't aware that it had always been until I looked back in my memory and saw my sister and me in our matching green corduroy jackets with leopard print collar and matching pillbox hats with the button on top also in leopard. On to my third grade class trip and my green pantsuit that I wore. So green. Not a green with envy green, but a green of nature in every beautiful shade. Grey-green, blue green, I love them all - winter, spring, summer, fall. Also the color of my son's eyes and that's love to me. That's my favorite color. Green.

Green, any green makes me very happy.

My favorite color right now is moss green.

I live in the Pacific Northwest, and with the rain outside right now the moss is growing everywhere, creating lush carpets overnight. The color, when mixed with greys and browns in a room, looks more like a tribute to the outside than a theme. I find the green, like seeing the actual moss, to be somewhat soothing. A chance to reflect on the day and your surroundings.

'Moss green' is truly a mosaic of greens, reflecting the various species that thrive in my little corner of the world. I love the benefits of the moss - a food source, a hiding place, a decaying agent - and seeing the colors together with nature-created objects reminds me of the exciting and delicate web of life.

My Favorite?

Pomegranate.
A rich, saturated hue between burgundy and fuschia, pomegranate is not only a bright, modern color that adds a playful pop to any room, but also a deep red tone that doesn't seem dark, stuffy or traditional.
And, you can't get more seasonal than pomegranates! Perfect for fall clothes, perfect for fall rooms.

And, of course, the fruit itself is aesthetically gorgeous. Not to mention irresistably yummy.

My favorite color is red. Because I love strawberries and the bright color of them.

white! i've been so overwhelmed with other colors lately, its nice to let white take over, and do the work of highlighting the other subtle colors you never really noticed!

Green! I love all shades of green, from pea soup to yellowy to deep dark forest. It always seems fresh and goes so well with other colors.

I would LOVE to win the Nosh dish, btw...

we just painted every room of our little house a different color. one half of the house is the bright side with a lovely turquoise bedroom and a deep blue bathroom. the other half is the muted side: coffee ice cream living room and soft green bedroom. in between the halves, to keep our eyes and minds rested and sane, the kitchen is white. in the morning it's a crisp yellow-tinted white and in the evening, when the sun sets, it's a rosy pink white with golden overtones. the white is doing it for me these days. it so perfectly absorbs and responds to all of the changing colors of the day and the seasons.

shayna
http://www.thecabinhouse.blogspot.com

as a graphic designer and photographer, i _adore_ color. so it's often difficult for me to answer the favorite color question. but right now, two distinct colors come to mind.
we just repainted our bathroom a lovely, soothing warm gray. it's just about the color of wet porcelain. and it's quickly become my favorite room.
and then there's red. the specific red that is my grandmother's red pyrex mixing bowl. through the years of mixing cornbread batter and serving black eyed peas to a table full of grandchildren, all the rest of the set broke. but i still have that lone red bowl. and it's one of my favorite things.

white. plain and simple :)

Persimmon. A rich red color that is goes -pow- and has passion, seducing you with a warmth and simmering possibility.

My favorite color is sky blue!! It's such a yummy color and serene to me.

I like celadon green. I don't know what else to call it. In my mind I call it "fern", but I have some celadon dishes that are just the right shade of green.

I'm loving mustard yellow, which works well with all my other favorite colors, turquoise bathroom, chocolate couch, a soft ocean blue-green. And, of course, tomato red!

A nice bright persimmon. Just makes me feel good to look at it.

My favorite color is red, because its red hot...just like me ;)
(Oh goodness, sweet little baby jesus help me)

I will stop and look at anything a deep pumpkin color. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and helps me to keep in mind the god-awful summers of south Texas won't last forever. I love the fact that almost any other warm color will look terrific with it.