You can chime in! In my neighborhood, the building the post office is in (it's least) just got new awnings, and they posted fabric swatches and paint colors on the outside of the building for two weeks before they picked. Hundreds of people walking by voted! They made it really easy for us, but where there's a will, there's a way, make your voice heard - or better yet, as you have actual credentials, offer your services for the good of the neighborhood :)

excuse me, "it's leased"

They’re not really that bad. I still maintain that there is no such thing as a bad color. It all about light and context. There is a right place for every color.

That said, CIRCUS PEANUT peach may be an exception… damned by association.

Circus Peanut Peach redeployed as "tangerine" or "light coral" might be the right choice for some room.

Ah...it IS all about the name, isn't it?

I'll soon be moving in a next door apt. and will definitely paint everything white.
Previous tenants painted walls and ceilings (even in the bathroom...) in that awful peanut colour. In the kitchen, they painted the walls chartreuse and the cabinets periwinkle blue. Apt has nice original hardwood floors but kitchen floors are faux terracotta tiles.
Now here is a question for readers: Where does bad taste come from?

I guess in popular parlance, this post = your favorite color sucks.

I don't know what you're talking about - I don't hate any of those colors...

...except "Circus Peanut". Yea, that color seems to be on every other building in Tijuana - so if the restaurant is going for that Mexican Dive theme, then that's definitely the color to go for.

Someday we will be talking about the horror of all-white interiors and stainless steel appliances
the same way we talk about avocado green, and I will laugh and laugh...

Why don't I hate most of these colors? I think with the right lighting and design, they have potential (except that peanut color... *shudder*)

Also, my best friend's house has the exterior painted in "little girl's room purple" and it's GORGEOUS!!!! not sure I could justify it as an interior color, though.

I'm with apartmentzombie on this one :)

Actually, the only really horrific colour in the above picture is the olive-brown-dogpoop of that vile chair. With different furnishings and in different context, any of those walls could work.

.... eye of the beholder.....

I once saw a New Orleans shotgun house with avocado green walls, antique botanical prints, and tropical plants everywhere. The furniture was the sort of high-end rattan you'd see in a Caribbean villa. It was stunning.

Colors don't automatically become bad just because they find their way to the suburbs.

I agree with some of the folks on here about there not being bad color - just bad application or use of it.

For example, the circus peanut color looks pretty bad on a large scale but I think it would look good on a smaller scale (say...on an accent pillow) and with seafoam green. But alas, we're talking about large scale here.

I once renovated a home with bright orange and lime green walls - both of these colors have their place, but it looked like Halloween threw up on the walls, which was uber depressing. So we ended up painting everything light gray!

Yeah, I don't love any of those soft colors, but they're really not inherently bad. I do hate that saturated peanut color, though--my kitchen was painted that color when we moved in, and along with the terracotta floor tiles and pine cabinets, I felt like I was cooking in an adobe hut. Ugh. It always felt dirty, even when it wasn't.

it's the chair's color - ick

Second @mtlyorel - I left my job for another one that didn't pan out, and my bosses were kind enough to give it back to me when the other woman quit...right after she repainted my cool blue office what I like to call sick-baby-brown. Hoping to paint it back soon...

All about context. I drive past a true periwinkle blue HOUSE and BARN on my way to work. It's a huge vista of a color I love in small doses, and it just looks wrong.

(Of course, due to my partner's mistaken belief that he could predict from a hexidecimal color made on a computer screen what said color (sort of lichen green) would look like on our former house, I should probably not talk. The new owners repainted a nice dark gray...)

Now I have a craving for circus peanuts. I know that colors come and go in fashion circles, but that periwinkly-lavender color is just icky.

To each his own, I suppose!