Orange and Green — Not a Pumpkin

August 25, 2009 in Color,The kitchen with 6 Comments

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!

French kitchen

Do you ever have trouble disassociating yourself with common color associations, or is it just me?

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6 Responses to “Orange and Green — Not a Pumpkin”

  1. jstar August 25, 2009 at 7:30 pm #

    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!

  2. Never teh Bride August 26, 2009 at 6:58 am #

    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!

  3. jojokaffe August 26, 2009 at 11:54 am #

    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.

  4. heather November 7, 2009 at 11:06 am #

    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.

  5. Never teh Bride November 7, 2009 at 6:42 pm #

    Oh man, thinking about your old bedroom makes me want to find snaps of interiors from the 70s… the uglier, the better.

  6. Tuscany Villas March 3, 2010 at 10:11 am #

    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