When we were pint-sized little rascals and everything was new to us, we would declare a new favorite color every day. We went through the pink phase, the blue phase and in our "dark period", the black phase. These days we like to think that we're beyond picking favorites, but on a challenge from one very inquisitive 8-year old, we took a little investigative tour around the house and discovered that we're no better than we were 20 years ago.
A quick scan around our digs and we started to notice a trend.
Yellow seems to have sneaked its way in to our abode and rooted itself in the little details. We don't have any walls painted yellow or even a towel set, but a book stashed under a lamp here, a tea kettle there and a small collection of coffee mugs betray our colorful secret...
Any secret colors you have hiding out in your house?
-shayna
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Yellow is everywhere today! I love it! At a wedding I attended on Saturday, I caught the bride's bouquet, and I'm seriously using the colors of its yellow daisies to accent my kitchen--it's such a happy, invigorating color. I took it for granted when I was younger--my dad and I painted our family's house a muted yellow--it was the color of an early spring morning!
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Yellow really is everywhere these days...I love it!
http://blackwhiteyellow.blogspot.com/
view Jess2nola's profile
Yellow is my least-favorite color - I won't wear it, so why should I have it in my home?
Give me blues, reds, browns and bright orange.
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Green has always been my favorite color, but in my mid-twenties, I began to like brown, yellow, and orange--colors I'd previously hated. Isn't it funny how our tastes change?
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I'm the same way CaseyB, I would have never said that yellow was my favorite color 5 years ago (mine was always blue) but one day I realized it was now yellow (I'm also in my mid-twenties- maybe everyone has a quarter-century-favorite-color crisis...)
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The reason our tastes change have little to do with our evolution and more to do with the color forecasters. There are a few people around the world who get paid very well to decide what the modern colors will be for every going out a decade plus. High design in furnishings, apparel, cars, etc subscribe to their companies' forecasting services and market them on a high level which then disseminates down. In the '80's, we hated yellow because it was dated-it reminded us of the '60's/'70's...now yellow is being reinvented in new combinations as modern yet approachable. The wall in my son's room/guest room proves I'm falling for it.
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A super-light yellow, vanilla, almost white. Celadon green. They are all over my house. I knew what I really wanted, when I realized that every color chip I picked in the paint department was the same yellow-vanilla-white and celadon green. Accents of peach and a little mocha brown really make it a house to love.
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There's one shade of bright yellow-based pink that I've had in two kitchens, three bedrooms, a closet, a bathroom, and an office over the years, and it's probably about to reappear in a miniature project (since there's nowhere in this apartment to put it). For someone who doesn't like pink, I sure seem to like THAT pink.
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What's the color/maker, wende? I'd like to take a look at that.
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