What color will you NEVER find in your house?

9 years ago

It's usually pretty easy to tell the colors that people love. You'll see them sprinkled or even poured all over their homes. BUT...what color would someone NEVER find in your home?

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Lindsay MacRae Interiors, LLC

9 years ago

Never say never. I've seen even the ugliest colors done well. But I'd bet on never having hunter green, maroon, or mustard in my house. Ooh - mauve! I can't think of any good reason for mauve.

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Is it possible to be a retired aesthetician shelleyjr?
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shelleyjr
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Ruth, That's the category I put myself into because I injured my back and can no longer do that kind of work.
Lori East
8 years ago
Such a broad question! I love my Extra Virgin Olive Oil accent wall. It's all very subjective. One thing that I will never do: Silly statement pieces, such as "SPARKLE!" Ugh
KD
8 years ago
I'm on the no orange bandwagon. As a primary/focal color, anyway. I can get behind some autumn colored pillows on a rich brown sofa, for example, but a whole room orange? No thanks.

(I'm still traumatized by the orange wallpaper in the 70s era kitchen my parents had. :) )
designklutz
8 years ago
The color purple...any shade. which is rather funny since i look good wearing any shade of purple...Yet it is a color that will not be found in my home decor
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TheFurnitureCollection
8 years ago
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Pastels, coral pink, peach, mid brown, mustard, khaki, beige, teal, mauve that looks brown at night. I am sure that someone can come up with a gorgeous scheme using a combination of at least some of them!
bluedogdecorating
8 years ago
I'd say red, but it seems to keep finding it's way in. Don't really like orange either.
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The color I dislike the most is BLUE (almost all shades); I do have two (small) unique tchotchkes that are in the blue arena, but only because they are very unique. On further thought, I think MAUVE is a hideous color. Our house was MAUVE when we bought it and it made me want to . . . well you know. You may also include PINK; actually most pastels.

GREEN & RED are the colors you will find most in my home. I don't use red on the walls, but there is some red and green (I do use green on the walls) in every room. As a matter of fact, when I pick a wall color I always start with green and work to the left or right of the color chart.
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lynartist
8 years ago
I have always believed there are no bad colors just the bad use of color. While everyone has their favorite colors or an aversion to certain colors that doesn't make them better or worse necessarily! I'm not so fond of trend colors either! They come and go and aren't really that important if they don't make you feel good! This is so much fun to read as Over the years I have most definitely used all the colors mentioned above in someone's house because they loved it !
lynartist
8 years ago
I'm astonished at how many people( and designers no less!) are so prejudiced against Pink! Hmm, that is odd, who doesn't look good in pink?
lynartist
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I'm astonished at how many people( and designers no less!) are so prejudiced against Pink! Hmm, that is odd, who doesn't look good in pink?
lynartist
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Oops, sorry for double post!:(
lynartist
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And the drama of Black!
pdk920
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"I'm astonished at how many people( and designers no less!) are so prejudiced against" just about any color one can possibly imagine! I can understand getting tired of a color, wanting a change, but disliking so many colors so intensely that they can't ever be used in one's house? That seems unnatural to me. But I'm an artist and I LOVE color.
lynartist
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Hee Hee Pdk! You took the words right out of my mouth!:)
Tems
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Almost every color can be done well in the right shade and setting. So the color choices I would make really depend on the situation, I'm not outright ruling anything out.

Except puke, the color of puke I have never seen done well.
joannpb
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Although I've seen a (very) few (almost) exceptions in someone else's decor, I couldn't live with any shade of pink for very long. There is also a color (don't know what to call it) that resembles a baby's diarrhea. I have seen that color on a few cars... eeewwh!
zzmom40
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No Orange!
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8 years ago
Pink. We once painted the kitchen in a beige color with a pink undertone. It was horrid. Actually made me tense and once it was repainted to a true beige I gave a sigh of relief.
Cay De Voort
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ANY cool color-pink, purple, blue, etc.
jmr412
8 years ago
Griege.
greenvalleydesign
8 years ago
Mauve. Never.
brouije
8 years ago
Dusty rose, mauve.
Mary Nigro
8 years ago
I say never say never! I have lived through the mauve and blue through the jewel tones and beyond! Who knows what the future will bring! I always hated yellow till my then toddler son wanted it for his bedroom. I remember when it was done I thought this us the happiest room in the house! Have loved yellow ever since!
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Purple!
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Natuzzi Italia Philadelphia
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Puce... It just seems so old fashioned and bland, a reminder of a time when people displayed doilies over high backed chairs and porcelain doll collections.
joannpb
7 years ago
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Puce is still around, it's just renamed every few years. I generally refer to it as dirty purple.
Peter Finfrock
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anna_682
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gray
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Gray, orange, bright yellow. I used to say any yellow, but a friend put a shade called candlelight in her house, and it's gorgeous. When I had a house in Florida in the mid 80s, we had our walls painted a light gray, so light you would think it was white until you put white against it. I guess we were ahead of the times. Now, I wouldn't do it because EVERYONE does it.
Diana Bradley
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Christmas green
territheresa
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Grey. We have enough grey days here outside, I don't need to invite it in.
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Baby blue or pastel blue..makes me sad.
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Blue...or pink.
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Never now..... rose gold
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Yellow
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I confess to being a clutter bug. So much so that the kids enjoy indoor Easter egg hunting because there is so much colorful clutter to hide the eggs in plain sight that it’s a challenge! :) ha ha ha
Jj J
3 years ago
In 1988 I was all in on French country: medium blue sofa, white washed wood finishes and big Jacobean print on Bergere chairs and yes, I painted the living room mauve. Mauve. On purpose. I apologize. I will never do mauve again. In my defense, I never had wooden ducks with calico ribbons or a lovely print of a basket of twigs, when a real basket of twigs would do. Lol!
I’ll never do mauve again... there are too many gorgeous colors to get to instead.
RedRyder
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JiJ - I did the exact same thing around that time. Luckily, mauve has not reappeared in design. I wouldn’t use it even if it did!

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