ROFLMAO!!!!
Ummm, my favorite color for accent pieces in my home is Toasted Red Chile, the kind of red that has the bright taken out of it, but is still so pretty. Not candy apple red or fire truck red, but the red our ripe chiles take on after they've been toasted in the oven for 30 seconds. Yummmm . . . forgive me, but it's time to get dinner started and I'm hungry ;^P

For my clothes, though, my favorite is the color of French lavender fields. Love it!
Lynn

I have favorite colors for different things, but if I have to pick one, it would be red. If I'm playing a board game I'll always choose the red playing piece. I just bought red dishes for my kitchen and I always have red flowers in my garden. I love all kind of greens (mossy, olive & peridot) too, and I wear brown & black ALL the time. :D

I'm totally impressed with that color description. I must be because I normally would just read this, find it interesting, but not reply (g) I have SO many favorite colors but I'd have to say, having read Celerie Kimble's description, that my all time favorite color is "where BLUE turns to green"...I'm thinking that has more blue than "where GREEN turns to blue". Both of these color descriptions are found in the Bel Sol "Sea Tones" glass tile we used in our master bath remodel. Thank you so much for the lovely description. I can't wait to use it :)
Monica

I always loved "blue" as my best color as it matched my eyes and seemed to be my color. Then I got GREY hair ...and suddenly the illusive black and white became possible. I almost never wear anything now but black and white...good thing that all my running and biking clothes are B&W.

I never really cared about decorating till I got this old house and added to my Native American Art collection and the Persian rugs. All of a sudden color took on a whole new meaning in my house. It is all about nature and natural colors. Everything rich and jewel toned and mossy and deep and ....earthy.

Now all I do is stay in the garden. Never think about anything but my plants and the colors and restoring old "stuff". Purple is IT. I have it everywhere...all of a sudden it is my new neutral. There you have it..color...a wonderful exploration of the senses.

What a great thread. I am looking forward to reading other descriptions. c

I obviously was not reading the OP very well! OK, I change my "red" to something varying from "sun-dried tomato" to "alizarin crimson" to "garnet"

Ohhhhh ... Sea Tones is right up my alley! Love teals on both the green and blue sides!

Maybe it's because I have green eyes (the kind that never change no matter what I wear) and lavender and purple looks really good with green. Like trailrunner, many of my garden plants are purple or violet. Strangely enough, I don't have any purples in my house except in paintings and the flowers I bring in from my garden and on decorative plates. Still, that is the color that makes my heart sing. It sounds trite, but a beautiful gold color, used in the right way, is also a great favorite.

I always said my favorite color is green, but it's not any longer. I have many favorite colors now.

I love white, white sofas, white linen blouses, white crisp sheets even white leather.

I also love black, black cars, black painted furniture, black transferware and is there anything better than a black dress, I think not.

Absolutely right, newdawn. A black dress is a necessity.

These days, I have to say I honestly don't have a favorite color, just mostly a lack of it. That beautiful sagey green was in my home before it even made the pages of a magazine. It was the background color of my floral wallpaper, the check fabric on a favorite upholstered rocker~a bargain at ten bucks that I re-did, the pillows on my sofa, the placemats on the table, the accent color to my cream dishes, and of course it was used with *pink*. I absolutely loved *that* green!

Then everything changed. I moved into a brand new home, and *this* house was a house where I just knew *that* green wouldn't work, as much as I wanted it to. The house was too new, too sophisticated, not cottage-y, too open, too many high ceilings, which would mean an awfully LOT of green, too bright to want to 'tone it down', and I now had glorious fields to look at every day where every shade of green could be seen.

I do have to agree with you Red, there *is* something poetic about a color 'green that turns to blue', but I also like a 'gray that turns to blue', and have decided to use it as my 'summer color' in the master bedroom. For some reason, it just seemed the right color, at least for a season.

Like newdawn, neutral is my 'new favorite color'. Lots, of creams, ivories, warm and deep tans, and spiced up with 'black pepper' and lots of gold metallic frames, candle holders and other glitzy things. I find it as soothing as my long lost green, but a bit more elegant as well as sophisticated, which is what 'the new house' seemed to call out to me. Such a palette surely isn't to everyone's liking, as you probably think it dull and boring. I recently picked up an old book, the cover was black, the edges of the old pages still faint with gold leaf, and the pages tan from age. I love old books, too. ;o)

Celerie is definitely related to my DD...

When she was 4, her Pre-S teacher taught them the song "hello bubble". When they get to the part where they are supposed to name the color of their bubble, my DD would say, "mine is the color between pink & purple but when you look very closely, it turns to hydrangea blue".

The other day she was doing an artwork for her brother, and she asked him, "what color do you want the ocean to be?", he said, "uh-blue?", and she said, "what do you mean, blue? Indigo blue, sapphire blue, or midnight blue? or the color when blue is turning to grey like the way the ocean is when it almost rains?" My DS was like, 'Ugh--whatever". :-)

For Mothers' Day she wanted to pick me some flowers from the garden. So she said, "mom, what color of flower you like". "White, I said." A second later she popped back in and asked, 'what do you mean - gardenia white, rose white, or daisy white"? I said, "aren't they all the same?", She said, "no-gardenia white is white with some yellow, rose white has a bit of pink, and daisy white is like cotton ball white -- really white".

DH blamed it on me, for buying her a box of 64 Crayola too early too soon. Now blues aren't just blue, they are "cerulean", "aquamarine", "Pacific blue"...and yellow became "dandelion", "goldenrod", "canary", *sigh*

Last night she wanted me to paint her room green, and it's not any just any green, it has to be "the color of a yellow bud that barely turns to a green leaf "...

Per my trusty F&B color cards, that would be "churlish green" ;-D

Oh, and my new favorite color is any color that turns into perfect the moment it hits my wall. :-D

Very funny Bella and yes, Red...love the name Celerie! :)
(even though I am def. going thru a neutral phase!)

When filling out those quizzes I always type black but that's my favorite color to wear followed by red. When decorating my favorite right now is a toss up between green (olive end of the spectrum) and gold. (red is third. . .)

I just painted my LR/DR/ kitchen in Olympic's Ponytail. Like a little girl's blonde hair, it shows different shades of yellows and golds, depending on the lighting. I could paint every room this color and love it.

Pink has always been my favorite color. I like different shades. Aqua/turquoise colors are a close second.

I rarely wear a dress - of any color. LOL

tina

Oh Bellaflora, your daughter has the heart and the eye of a true artist! What a wonderful gift . . . her and her talent, I mean :~)
Lynn

trailrunner....dye your hair! Blue is still beautiful!

newdawn....so true. I love white leather, white walls, white towels...

I love dried tomatoe as an accent color! For a chaise lounge cushion outdoors or pottery flair.

In decorating, I am usually yellow, but I have been going through a phase of something between salmon and coral that can be best explained as more pink than a lightly faded orange traffic cone.

You see, I have been keeping an eye open for a bit of fabric to make a new pillow for my leopard chair. My living room evolved into having lots of blue and my wood tones actually touch to orange. All of which has led to my latest obsession.

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When you are alone with your thoughts on a evening of driving to somewhere that isn't important, at the moment when the sun dips low and the sky turns to red, as you artfully dodge a stream of traffic cones that reaches into the horizon, remember me when you see a faded one! :OD
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Sorry Red, that was as lyrical as I could make it!

Bellaflora, I hope you've got all those stories down somewhere for future reference by your DD's biographer :)

and WOW, I feel special--her bedroom color choice is my favorite, almost totem color! It's "the color of leaves as they just bloom in the spring", not exactly chartreuse, as that is a bit acidy, but that particular early spring green.

Green has always been my favorite color. Forever. From my first pair of spring-green patent leather Mary Janes for Easter when I was 7 to now. Hasn't changed. I love every shade of green except kelly (and sometimes forest--I don't love either of those in a house or on someone. I can stand them if they appear in nature :))

Paint chips, your color is second, though -- that's why I'm forever gasping and stopping driving at spectacular sunsets!

And bella, re F&B's name for that color: (which I'm not sure is exactly what I'm talking about -- theirs seems a bit more greyed-out than what I mean) WHY does it have to have a negative association?! How can you possibly give a negative association to the color that signifies rebirth and new beginnings??! Those dysphoric Brits...

I love red - not to wear but just to look at. Rich deep dark red, the color of a glass of red wine or the skin of a ripe cherry when it almost goes red-black...

For decorating, I love anything jewel-toned. I'm in a constant battle with DH when picking paint colors because he goes for subtle tones and I'm all, "if we're doing blue, then darn it, it's going to be BLUE." The woman who's doing design consultation for us has (wisely, probably) steered me away from deep dramatic colors in too many rooms, but I won the battle for a red library in BM Million Dollar Red, and I'm pushing for another room in a deep slate-y gray with blue undertones. Were it up to me, my entire house would be painted and accented with the colors found in Eastern womens' saris - gold, ruby red, emerald, sapphire blue, rich yellow...

ah a thread I can so love. On Saturday, my DH asked me my favorite color and I blurted out blue as I had been saying ever since being kicked out of girl scouts for insisting my favorite color was black( true story I was a brat) And then said, no wait , that's what I say but its not my favorite color, unless you are talking about the twilight sky where day is almost night and the sky is teal almost to black. right there where they meet. and the teal is still back lit by the sun a smidgely.My DD knows exactly where I mean.
And then baby pink roses because they remind me of my babies cheeks. And I wear black a lot and colors that go with. I like white quite a bit too.
In my house I don't have a favorite;color just is.
MY DD is also an artist- so we have had the same color discussions since she was little too.
and I am now hungry for red chiles, thanks Lynn.

What a wonderful thread! I love the poetic joy of some of the colors mentioned. Recently I read a phrase in a gardening book that I muse on as I work outside. The author wanted gardeners to 'water with a cup of sun-warmed water.' Somehow that just thrills my heart. The green turning into blue or color of the yellow bud that just barely turns into a green leag...gives me similar joy.

I've long, long, long been a green girl. The deep rich dark greens...hunter, forest...and I was a sage girl many years before anyone else noticed. I've taken a turn with loving bright, cheerful, bold yellows. My front door is such a color. It positively glows in the gray days of winter.

But, if I had to choose only one color out of all the box of crayons, these days, it would be purple. Rich, royal, deep...Mmmmmmm, if I could eat it I would. I dress in it when I can find suitable styles. My fingernails are painted a soft shade. I've even threatened to dye my hair purple, just for fun.

Purple. I'm so glad it one of the 'new neutrals' (whatever that means in this world of decor). I'm going to be using more and more of it.

Picking a favorite color is like picking a favorite grandson. Cannot do it. I love them all, in the right circumstances. :]
Diane

flyleft: I know what you meant a/b those British names.

Other day I was asking DH if it's okay for me to paint his office "Dix blue" and he said, "what the he--, di-k blue...?"

LOL :-D

Btw, when Celerie was talking a/b a blue that turns to green, she's talking a/b Dix blue but I guess the name wasn't fit for public consumption. ;-D

Nicole: how funny...but I think the connotation of a "blue hair" doesn't quite fit this still young 58 yr old trailrunner ! LOL>

happy I know what you mean . The lyrical descriptions are so wonderful. I can close my eyes and just visualize what some of you are talking about. I will never see those red cones again w/o thinking of paint chips, and sue at sunset and then the green MaryJanes on fly's little girl feet ! The reason I called purple the new neutral is that when I looked at my yard set that I had just painted purple and then looked at all the flowers around it I realized that nothing clashes with purple. If you think about it everything looks wonderful with it. So that was my term for it...maybe it will catch on...you heard it from me 1st LOL. Trail the trend setter...haha.

Redbazel, my gosh I love your post. I was thinking about being at that party and 98% of the people would think you were wacky. The few who didn't would totally connect and have a fabulous conversation for hours on end.

to trailrunner: You are 58?!?!? Omg, I have seen your pics! I need to start running trails and eating celery.

Wow, Patricia. I need to copy your post and study it.

Thank you Patricia....you need to refill my glass too !! I think that is the BEST explanation I have ever heard and beautifully written. I mean it ...thank you.

Kitchenkelly...you are a sweety !! I don't live on celery LOL. It is because I have OCD and am unable to sit still ! I figure if I keep moving they can't cover me with DIRT !! c

LOL Caroline. I always thought having OCD was bad....I might have to get me some. (I see no dirt in your near future.)

So, Redbazel, I'm skimming the internet for some left over Bel Sol "Sea Tones" glass tiles that we used in our master bath remodel in 07 and look what I found :) I'll have you know that when people ask me "what is your favorite color?", I still say (remembering this thread), "where Blue turns into Green" :)
Monica (Class of 2002)