We’re still on holiday and replaying some fun posts. I hope you enjoy THIS replay (originally posted last September)… Kelly explores her Yellow Side!!
And purple flowers…
And really, purple ANYTHING!!
I’ve written posts about purple here and here, and I post a lot of pictures of purple things. It’s easy to find great purple pics, because I’ve never met a purple I didn’t like ;-)
Then I got to thinking… maybe I need to challenge myself and try to find beautiful pictures of my LEAST favourite colour. Because it’s a lot harder to see and appreciate the beauty in something that you don’t like. And for me, that colour is yellow.
I don’t know why I don’t like yellow. It’s bright and happy, and it’s the colour of things I love, like sunshine and daisies and lemonade….
But it also makes me think of non-beautiful things, like sports uniforms…
School buses…
And pus (I won’t gross you out with a picture!)
Although in all fairness to yellow, I did want to buy a yellow kayak for the cottage…
But when I went to the kayak place, they only had red & blue, so I went with blue.
I wonder if the colour wheel explains why I don’t like yellow… look at what colour is opposite from yellow:
Ah-ha!!!! So maybe it’s not my fault I don’t like yellow, it’s yellow’s fault for being the anti-purple!!
OK, enough yellow-bashing — what do you say we get some yellow poisitivity going on!!
Let’s start with this yellow den Sarah Richardson designed on Sarah’s House. Out of all the yellow rooms I’ve found, this one is probably my favourite. I love the swirly pattern on the curtains and the long rectangular cushion on the sofa. And the leopard print cushion adds a touch of funky to the space.
I don’t mind small touches of yellow in a space. From a bedroom Sarah designed on Design Inc…
Pretty much ANY colour with zebra print looks good :-)
The next group of pictures is from Amanda Nisbet Design. If you check out her web site, you’ll see that she really likes yellow!! This yellow pineapple cushion looks great tucked in with the other brightly coloured cushions…
Some pretty yellow flower arrangements. Love the console table and chandeliers in this kitchen…
Yellow, meet purple :-)
From subtle to sock-it-to-ya yellow!! (BTW, I’ve developed a serious addiction to windows framed in black…)
These next two pics are from one of my newest favourite colourful blogs, Color Sizzle. Pink and green are two other not-so-favourite colours of mine, but I like them when they’re bright. And they’re definitely bright in this house!!
A slightly more subdued yellow living room…
And a pretty grey & yellow bedroom designed by Brooke at Velvet & Linen…
Of course, no post about colour is complete without a room or two by the King of Colour, Jamie Drake :-)
How about some yellow artwork… love this scale of this huge yellow & grey abstract painting (you HAVE to check out Abstract Art – Go Big or Go Home on Patricia Gray’s blog).
Some yellow houses…
While we’re outside, maybe we’ll see a Waddling Yellow Eyed Penguin (or maybe not!!)
This has to be one of the cutest birds ever!! He’s a Western Tanager…
And a yellow & blue sky at sunset…
So who wins the Yellow vs. Purple Smackdown?? Purple, of course!!! Was there ever any doubt?! No colour will ever defeat purple!!! Although I have to admit, yellow looks better than purple on one of these:
Now I’m going to challenge you to a colour smackdown — try to find the beauty in a colour that you don’t really like. It’s not so easy!! But it could give you a new appreciation for rooms and designs that you might have otherwise passed over.
Don’t forget to head back to Hooked on Houses to see who else is blog-partying with Julia this week :-)
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