For some reason I’m continually confronted with the color orange lately. Crate and Barrel sent me a catalog the other day featuring orange things (a juicer, dishtowels, colander, etc.). I turned on “Debbie Travis’ Facelift” and she was painting someone’s kitchen orange. In fact, orange is all over TV ads now. Then this morning, a college student walked across the intersection in front of me wearing a bright orange cap.
Is orange the new something?
It does give me an idea, though. In the unlikely event that I redo my own kitchen, I’d like to have light wood cabinets, dark grey countertops and floor, and coppery glass tile for the backsplash (which is really the only wall space in the kitchen, because it’s so tiny). I would also like to have some of the cabinets with glass fronts, to make the kitchen look bigger. And I was thinking it might be cool to paint the back of those cabinets orange. It would be cheerful and not overpowering, since the room is so small.
Not that this is probably ever going to happen, but I can dream.
“Whoever said orange is the ‘new pink’ was seriously disturbed.”
– Elle Woods, ‘Legally Blonde’
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I go now.
Holy crap! Some guy was wearing an orange hat? Puzzling evidence.
Yes, I know an orange hat in the winter isn’t all that unusual, especially in Wisconsin. But it was the preponderance of the evidence that got me.
I have also been wanting to paint our kitchen orange. I started out thinking like a light, peach color would be nice to compliment the light purple in our living room, and have progressed to a sort of rusty color, to go with the wood tone on our cabinets. A cool, energizing color, but rusty and soft enough to be relaxing. That’s why blue and orange trade places as my favorite colors, both can be electric, or relaxing. Very flexible.
I by all means encourage you to throw some orange into your kitchen.
Yeah, orange is the trendy new color. I think it’s been getting big over the last year or so. I give it another year before it goes out of vouge just like forest green did a while back.
My partner and I were discussing orange the other day, and we decided that since tan was the new black a few years ago, then orange must be the new tan.
There is the new out of the closet Adam I’ve been waiting for. Discussing the colors of his kitchn as if it were a life problem. Yeehaw.
Remind me to buy you a Turquoise ring, bro.
(PS I spend more time thinking about my kitchen than you do, I just do’t post it)
In December I went deep in Mexico, a country never afraid of orange and green. But the farther south and west into Michouacan the brighter the oranges were. That kind of paint, probably full of lead, and the brilliance and red-ness of the orange is very powerful. I noticed it at Angangea, the town under the monarch butterfly roosts. Truely made me want to embrace that color. The monarchs are called orange too, but I have always consicered them warm brown. Quite wonderful as well, but that blaring, shrieking orange with its enamaled surface on the adobe and concrete block, the houses have crinolated roofs, sort of paper tile that overhang the streets. and some times the uper floors are recessed and there is an oriental look about them. Come to think of it, the bright Chinese lacquar may be related. I meant to go to a paint store down there and see if i could get a bucket of the stuff!!!! Instead I bought this orange tee shirt. Recommended tourist stop, that part of the state.
Good heavens. I was just discussing the need to put a fresh coat of paint on a few interior walls, and had decided on orange. Damn this unconscious connection to the Zeitgeist!
I guess I’ll have to go back to purple.
You know, Martha Stewart Living had a feature on orange in the October issue. Straight up (sorry to sound like Paula Abdul on ya). As a result, I’m considering buying a nearly-$300 orange bedspread. Seriously. Orange may be the new something, but it’s damn hard still to find orange bedspreads.