Comments on: Blue and Brown: Outdated? http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/ Practical Lifestyle Advice for Homemakers and Home Owners Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Never teh Bride http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/comment-page-1/#comment-6507 Never teh Bride Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:54:44 +0000 http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/#comment-6507 Thanks for calling me out on that, Klee! And here's me, living right by the beach... brown sand, blue(ish) water, both right next to the sky. Funny what you don't notice for seeing it all the time. Thanks for calling me out on that, Klee! And here’s me, living right by the beach… brown sand, blue(ish) water, both right next to the sky. Funny what you don’t notice for seeing it all the time.

]]> By: Klee http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/comment-page-1/#comment-6501 Klee Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:50:51 +0000 http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/#comment-6501 "It’s not like it’s a color combination you’d see in nature, either" I don't know where you live, but where I'm from, you see this combo all the time. Bare trees in the winter silhouetted against the sky, embankments of rivers with the water passing by, blue birds or blue flowers on branches, I could go on and on. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but blue and brown are two very prominent colors in nature, so your statement that it wasn't found there just seemed incorrect to me. “It’s not like it’s a color combination you’d see in nature, either”

I don’t know where you live, but where I’m from, you see this combo all the time. Bare trees in the winter silhouetted against the sky, embankments of rivers with the water passing by, blue birds or blue flowers on branches, I could go on and on.

I don’t mean to sound like a jerk, but blue and brown are two very prominent colors in nature, so your statement that it wasn’t found there just seemed incorrect to me.

]]> By: TeleriB http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/comment-page-1/#comment-5449 TeleriB Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:38:53 +0000 http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/#comment-5449 <i>but where in nature are the dark browns with intense blues we see in these photos?</i> Bald eagle against a robin's egg blue sky? but where in nature are the dark browns with intense blues we see in these photos?

Bald eagle against a robin’s egg blue sky?

]]> By: La Petite Acadienne http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/comment-page-1/#comment-5447 La Petite Acadienne Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:07:29 +0000 http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/#comment-5447 Damn -- I have a lot of blue and brown in my house, just because I love natural wood, and I love blue. It wasn't an attempt to be trendy. All of my bathrooms have dark wood vanities, and the walls are painted a mid-tone aqua. My living room has wood floors, brown sofas (I was trying to be practical), and we went with a slate blue (with a touch of green -- it's basically a dark muted aqua) for the living room and dining room, with accents of cream to keep the room from being too dark. Ah well, if I ever get tired of it, it IS just paint. Damn — I have a lot of blue and brown in my house, just because I love natural wood, and I love blue. It wasn’t an attempt to be trendy. All of my bathrooms have dark wood vanities, and the walls are painted a mid-tone aqua. My living room has wood floors, brown sofas (I was trying to be practical), and we went with a slate blue (with a touch of green — it’s basically a dark muted aqua) for the living room and dining room, with accents of cream to keep the room from being too dark.

Ah well, if I ever get tired of it, it IS just paint.

]]> By: Kai Jones http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/comment-page-1/#comment-5446 Kai Jones Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:27:12 +0000 http://manolohome.com/2009/07/27/blue-and-brown-outdated/#comment-5446 I don't like brown, except in wood, but I love blue, so I hate the trend, because it means whenever I find something I love in blue, it's trimmed in brown or has brown coordinating pieces. It's not like it's a color combination you'd see in nature, either. Ocean blue and the creamy tan of sand, or sky blue and the clean white of clouds...but where in nature are the dark browns with intense blues we see in these photos? I don’t like brown, except in wood, but I love blue, so I hate the trend, because it means whenever I find something I love in blue, it’s trimmed in brown or has brown coordinating pieces.

It’s not like it’s a color combination you’d see in nature, either. Ocean blue and the creamy tan of sand, or sky blue and the clean white of clouds…but where in nature are the dark browns with intense blues we see in these photos?

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