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Orange, Pink, and...?

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This room isn't alone with its pink and orange scheme. Apartment Therapy has looked at the color combination both here and here. But what about accenting it with...

 
 

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...green? Is it the just the cool tone that's needed to temper this hot-blooded room? What do you think?

Images: Barry Dixon Inc.

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It's already in the wallpaper, so isn't it sort of perfect? I don't know if it would work if it were just the picture frames and the color wasn't found subtly throughout the room to begin with. Anyway, it's lovely.

posted by TVsJessica on October 9th 2009 at 6:26pm
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Pink, Orange and Green - It's a Palm Beach classic color-combo.

posted by bepsf on October 9th 2009 at 6:29pm
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I'm moving into that room now.

kthnx

posted by heatherdazy on October 9th 2009 at 6:55pm
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very lilly pulitzer old school color combo. I remember the old original Bullocks Wilshire store ladies room was all about this combo.

posted by LoriSF on October 9th 2009 at 7:08pm
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Oh yeah, Bullocks Wilshire! The interior of that building went a long way toward inspiring me to be a designer. Which was inconvenient, since I was in the building to go to law school.

posted by TVsJessica on October 9th 2009 at 7:11pm
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TVsJessica funny! I actually worked there part time in college when it was a store..I sold evening gowns and made good commissions, loved that store and the time I spent there.

Its a beautiful building I hope its still there!

posted by LoriSF on October 9th 2009 at 7:27pm
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It is still there, and much of the interior has been salvaged and restored, even though it's been converted into a law library, courtroom, classrooms, and offices. The tea room is intact, most of the clocks and light fixtures remain, as well as the lobby and elevator doors, restrooms and lounges, and many of the display cases on the first floor. The murals were also salvaged. I became completely obsessed with historic architecture, restoration and design when I was in school there. I wish I could have seen it when it was still a store!

posted by TVsJessica on October 9th 2009 at 7:55pm
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love, love, LOVE it!

posted by rouquinne on October 9th 2009 at 7:59pm
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I write a blog all about pink and orange! Check it out:

http://www.pinkplusorange.blogspot.com/

posted by emilyamelie on October 9th 2009 at 8:54pm
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It's very nice - not garish, as I would have assumed if you had just told me that you were putting these colors together without my actually seeing the result.

posted by mei-ling on October 9th 2009 at 8:57pm
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chartreuse goes well with hot pink as well, and that's not a cool color. it's all in the shades used.

posted by Lady J on October 10th 2009 at 4:49am
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Robin's egg blue for the first pic. The green works well in pic 2, esp. as it also appears in the wallpaper, as TVsjessica notes.

posted by mirandabee on October 10th 2009 at 7:14am
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I think colors themselves don't clash, but different hues can. A neon green or something more of a pea soup color would be ugly there, but the minty green works fine. Can't say I love the overall effect (too heavy and fussy), but the tangerine curtains and pink pendant light are lovely and would look so good in a crisp, white room.

posted by slowdown on October 10th 2009 at 12:28pm
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Where oh where can I find that rad pink pendant lamp?

posted by idea chick on October 10th 2009 at 5:35pm
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Oh, I love that! I am having a fling with pink and orange, but I'm a cool colours gal, too many warm colours in a room make me tense and cranky. Maybe I'll play with those combos, though...

posted by Kaviare on October 11th 2009 at 8:26pm
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