Purple. No — more like an electric lavender. The color of artificial grape-flavored things, wildflowers and little girl toys. That’s what color my childhood room was painted, as well as almost every article of clothing in my childhood wardrobe and nearly every toy that came my way. Last week Kim talked about her ownevolving taste in color and here is mine!
I couldn’t get enough of that lavender color as a kid. And it wasn’t just me bringing in that color — attentive family members dutifully gifted me with all sorts of lavender and purple-hued items for holidays and birthdays. Maybe it was the color, or maybe it was the unicorn motifs that adorned the matching bedspread/wallpaper border/curtain combination, but once I “grew up” it took years to be able to look at any hue of violet again.
Later adolescence and early adulthood saw me experimenting with a warm red phase — I painted nearly every apartment a wild red-orange paint color (which, coincidentally, happened to be the same color as my favorite crayon when I was younger).
But then something strange happened in my mid-twenties. I bought a purple throw pillow. Then — a purple blanket. And slowly but surely, purple began to creep back into my life — began to meld with the red-orange colors (though those diminished to only a few key pieces).
How have your color tastes changed and evolved from childhood to adulthood? Are there colors that you’ve always favored that you still favor? Or are there color skeletons in your closet that you dare not admit you loved as a child/in your past? Let us know!
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Comments (8)
When I was a little girl, my best friend and I decided that we HATED pink! HATED and DETESTED pink. And our favourite colour was BLUE!
Must have been some kind of thing we had against the pink = little girls stereotype? I dunno, this lasted from the age of 6 until about 14/15 where I finally started liking pink.... I even painted my (blue) bedroom at my parents house a nice soft pink once I got over the issue hehehe.
When I was younger, my favorite color was pink. My bedroom was cotton candy pink. And I wore glasses with pink frames so I could be sure to wear pink every day.
I still love pink, though I prefer hot pinks and fuschias to pastels.
But I prefer - for decor - a deep, rich wine red. It's sensual and sexy, but cozy at the same time.
Since 2nd grade, my favorite color was gray. I have a barbie pink room (it matched the large floral print comforter my mother picked out). When I switched rooms, I wanted cream and no more pink (since once again gray didn't match my newly gotten quilt) and my mother said no, I should go with a light pink. I screamed, cried and whined but my room was still pink in the end.
Now 15 + years later, over half of my home is gray and I love it. I still can't stand pink but I plan on letting my childern have more freedom with their room colors choices than I had (when they get old enough, of course!).
i've always been fond of green... any shade of green is lovely to me and can evoke different things. Funny enough red has never been a top pick for me... unless its a deep red. These days given too many color choices I simply cant decide.. i love them all... (except bright red...) sorry red...
I detested pink and purple when I was younger - any shade it seemed - and loved blue. Here lately I keep finding soft pinks and lavenders creeping into my wardrobe (and a couple small accent pieces) where the blue is vanishing.
Ever since I was into saturated purple during difficult years in college, I've thought current favorites tell a story about the invisible.
Our house is white + wood now, after long experience, and our dish towels tell the story instead of walls or couches... easy to let go of when phases end!
I'm into intense hot pink these days, wonder what I'll think of that in five years?
GRAY!
I never would have thought about it as a color to decorate with and if I had it would have been a color that was fine for other people, never me.
Then I moved into this apartment. The landlord seems to have gotten hold of some large quantity of poorly-mixed gray and now I couldn't live without it.
We still have my hideous old denim comforter, though. Yuck.
I changed my favourite colour like the wind when I was younger. It got to the point where I decided that instead of picking a favourite colour and having someone calll me out on constanty changing my mind, I'd just say my favourite colour was "rainbow". Which, in a way, was very true as I was obsessed with rainbows and everything had to be coloured in the order of a rainbow. I've since grown out of that phase, and am a white fanatic. Coincidentally, I can still say "rainbow" is my favourite colour though since white = rainbow. ;)