Orange and Green — Not a Pumpkin
I never thought I could like orange and green together until I saw this kitchen in House Beautiful. After all, I am an American, and thus have been trained to associate the two colors with Halloween and its trappings. While the designer of this French country kitchen calls the color on the walls terra-cotta (and it is!) my brain still parses it as orange. But here I am loving this kitchen! Not thinking of pumpkins!

Do you ever have trouble disassociating yourself with common color associations, or is it just me?
Definitely true for me with green and red and Christmas, but red is my favorite color (and the color of my rather bold eyeglasses), and I wear a lot of green. Oh, and I love Christmas. I even have a very select few subtle year-round Christmas decorations.
So I am stuck on that association, and absolutely embracing it!
I can’t distance myself from the red+green=Christmas thing, either, jstar. Then again, for me it’s a certain red and a certain green. Other reds and greens when combined don’t necessarily say HOLIDAY!
I have been playing with the idea of a terra cotta kitchen, but with more of a Tuscan feel (gold and terra cotta base with accents of green and blue), but have been
hesitant due to the ‘pumpkin’ concern.
My bedroom was orange and pea green when I was a baby in the early ’70s and I always hated that color combination…until I realized my home decor wasn’t terra cotta and olive but was really orange and pea green. I got tired of the combo again as an adult and find the kitchen in the photo to be kinda ugly.
Oh man, thinking about your old bedroom makes me want to find snaps of interiors from the 70s… the uglier, the better.
Absolutely beautiful photographs! They make me dream of Italy and my next visit. I love Italy and travel there often and hope to call Rome one day. I have shared this with facebook