This made me laugh - I have pretty much the same trajectory with the color orange. Didn't like it at one time, pretty much love it now.

Most of my house is neutral/natural tones like grays, greens and tans, but I have orange accents in my office. The brightness kind of kicks me into gear for work.

I'm going to have to second you on this. I used to think I didn't care for orange at all, not for my clothes, and not for my home. Then an ex painted a big orange wall in a mostly wood-paneled apartment years ago, and I reluctantly fell in love. Now it is on top of my list. I use it in my living space and wear it all the time. In fact, I have an orange shirt on now. Go orange! :)

I started with orange accessories in a pale blue room, then experimented with painting over the horrible brown vinyl colonial wallpaper in my dining room with coral until I had the time & energy to take the wallpaper down.

And now we use it full-on... when we renovated our kitchen it was designed around walls painted the most eye-searing shade of coral orange available.

I love the warmth and life it brings to my dark north-facing kitchen & dining room.

I am on orange convert myself. My preference is the reddish orange, not the yellow orange.

Purple. Never could stand purple, especially lavender, but I'm getting so certain shades really appeal. (Not that I have much of it in my life yet, though.)

I think I can enjoy just about any color in the right context. And some I really DON'T like in certain contexts. For instance, I am really picky about blue walls. Standard little-boy bedroom blue, colonial blue, that pastel color from my childhood, I quite dislike on walls. But I wear it as clothing all the time. Even when I didn't like purple much, in an abstract painting with other colors, it's wonderful.

Pink is my least liked color now, but to me that's Barbie pink, and lither versions of that. I still find myself attracted to peachy pinks, salmon pinks, fuschia, coral, etc... and even normally-I-hate-them pinks in Chinese style prints on black backgrounds...

Everything is relative!

I LOVE orange! Though, I think my love of the color is due to an emotional tie to it. I recently purchased my first house and painted the front door orange. Now I find comfort in orange and its a reminder of the house my partner and I (and two adorable Boston Terriers) made into a home. I realized that I slowly began loving this color. This love of orange has spilled into my wardrobe, mostly as accents like a tie or some orange Onitsuka Tigers. I'm in nursing school and I couldn't wait to get an orange stethoscope. I love orange and I'm not scared to show it!

I have the same relationship with orange. Used to hate it. It reminded me of outdated 70's furniture. But then I painted my kitchen a vibrant orange-red and I fell in love. Orange is one of most favorite colors now! Maybe I invited warm colors into my life to balance out rainy Portland weather :)

Also a convert. It used to be my least favorite color and gradually it became my second favorite, after yellow. I think it happened because I live in a Victorian that has a rather gloomy dining room, so I kept gravitating towards orange decorations and accessories there to counter-act that. I now love all kinds of orange, from bright coral to almost-yellow Vueve Clicquot orange, and over the years it has crept out from the dining room into other parts of my house, especially my kitchen, which houses a large collection of Bauer and Fiesta pottery, lots of it in that beautiful red-orange glaze that limits its usefulness since it's radioactive. Right now I am so excited that November is around the corner because that's when I buy huge branches of persimmons from the farmers market and display them around the house (through Christmas if they last that long, and they usually do because my house is on the chilly side.)

Same here. Orange used to remind me of the Brady Bunch kitchen. Seemed very dated to me. And then orange snuck back into my consciousness and into my designs without me being fully aware of what was happening.

I also hated purple for a long time, but I recently noticed that I have a half-dozen purple sweaters and shirts in my closet. Not sure how that happened, either.

I used to hate orange. In fact, I couldn't stand earthtones, especially yellow. I mentioned that fact two weeks into a college watercolor class, and my instructor, Mr. Paul, said, "Really!? I love earthtones, and my favorite color is yellow. For the rest of the quarter, you can use only earthtones." Brilliant on his part. I now love earthtones, especially orange.

Me too! I remember hating all the warm colors. Then red started to creep its way into my loves, and now I like a good deal of oranges and yellows, too. Even pink!

My office is a light orange. At night, I feel like I'm in a sunset.

I love orange. So I thought that painting my living room walls orange was a good move. TOO MUCH! I overdosed. I hope to repaint soon and fall back in love with orange...in moderation.

Pantone saw you comin'.

Orange has been my favorite color since I was 10! Welcome to the dark side.
And to answer your question: I hate the color red, always have. In everything (design, clothing, whatever). I still don't like it, but I do love pink at the moment in any shade (coral, peach, hot pink...). I want to use it everywhere all the time. Maybe someday I'll warm up to red but it makes me cringe thinking about it now.

Welcome, my friend. Welcome... to the orange club.

And pink. I prefer bright, dark, cerise-y types over rose or pastels, but pink has definitely grown on me.

Weird, I also used to not really like orange, but it has grown on me. I know for sure though that I will never like yellow or lavender.

Where is that clock/thermostat thing from? It's beautiful.