Recently I chose a yellow for a bedroom in an on-line consultation (the house was empty).
Then when my client started shopping for the room, everything she found ‘off-the-rack’ was too green compared to the orangy yellow we had chosen (above). She loves strong bright colour and doesn’t want to change it.
This yellow is right on the border of being orange and is too strong for most people (I’m usually choosing yellows like in the images below) so it’s a good point to keep in mind; some colours need custom fabric before you can pull the space together. In the first image the throw is the only element that ties the colour into the room (and it’s even a little more orange than the colour). The bathroom mosaic tile (above) is also very orange yellow and notice the towel is also orange (not yellow, because that one would be more difficult to find).
This Tuscan yellow kitchen is also an orangy yellow but still greener than the above two images.
It would be like trying to find pink and teal drapes (from the 80’s) right now or forest green and burgandy. Impossible. And even designer fabric books (with way more selection, 40,000 vs. 400 in a fabric store) would have an extremely limited selection of dated colours like that simply because no one wants them anymore.
So when you are choosing a new palette for your brand new house, it’s easier to find off-the-shelf merchandise if you use colours that are more current and dare I say it—trendy.
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