Paul D'Amico - Period Design Orange is warm. Works well contrasted against blue like the 5th photo by Rizzoli New York or when it is nearer to red as the last photo by Natural Balance. Orange is happy!

kjdick Ha ha ha! A symbol of activity. No wonder orange was the first color to pop in my head for my son's room!

SPACIALISTS I Love orange, these are beautiful usage of the color. cool stuff..

Luciana How about orange in the bathroom? I'm not bold enough to paint walls or buy orange furniture, but I used orange accents to add colour in my bathroom.
Orange is just so cheerful! I always look for paintings and posters with orange in them, they brighten up a room (see 2nd photo - I know I should put that painting up, but I'm still not sure that that's the best place for it)

Denise Vilim Extroverted, energetic, giving and slapdash, you say? I guess I was just destined to LOVE orange!

shawnaleeah Ooooh, I love it!

channel5 Finally finished the building stage,now its time to choose colors , I've always wanted a red dining room however after visiting many friends homes, there are far too many already ,so I decided to go orange , I mean PUMPKIN patch orange , it is beautifulllllllll !!!!! will gladly post pictures when its complete.

mariposabelle My son gave me an orange Le Creuset kettle for Christmas last year, and my daughter gave me two beautiful orange bowls the previous year. I love orange! The orange kettle pops amazingly in my otherwise neutral kitchen. Sometimes it looks as if it were lit from within. It lifts me up every time I look at it.

scarbowcow One of my best friends likes orange. And cats.

That's as close as I get.

Paul D'Amico - Period Design Luciana You can have an orange bathroom.. well except the sanitaries.

ReStyle Group Great collection Julia. I love orange. It is so energizing. But you are right about that love / hate thing.

lexielyn Love the orange-turquoise combination. I am using these two colors in my new condo in Florida.

Shades IN Place I LOVE orange..It's inspiring and very energizing ! My Living Room is orange, so is my company's colors and my business card!

myboys Orange is my favorite color for design!

Nora Qudus I really hate orange as a color that neon shade but the russet, peach, even the Moroccan red I chose is a warm nice color. If it is the color on the fruit it can stay there. I thought the sun was yellow?

JUL313 Gallery I love bright colors and infuse them into my artwork when I can!! Here are some of my pieces,

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Casart Coverings I really like orange. It was the color of my childhood bedroom -- when I changed it from pink to orange as a teenager. Forward thinking? Not sure, it did help me to get out of bed.

McGuire Family Furniture Makers One of our best selling benches, burnt orange, and comfortable too!!

shellie jernigan i love the pops of orange! especially those cushy chairs. wow. i create pillows, and just finished these great modern orange bolsters. formerly a pair of pants.

Suellen Valetta I love orange and have used it for many years in bold and pastel shades.
Since retirement, we are remodeling and redecorating our townhouse.
Here is the new foyer. We love the round area rug.

Sandra Huge fan of orange, used it quite a bit on last corporate job

phmurray In my Southwestern home, I love the color orange; it echos the beautiful sunsets we have here & makes me smile.

Sandra Forgot to add my favorite area of the corporate deco.

foldlady What is the source of the orange pendant light fixture in the child's playroom?

BMCG Creative Services Though these orange treatments are great and inspiring, I spent a year in a college dorm room that was enamel orange, walls and ceiling. I didn't realize how assaulting and crazed with energy it was until I moved out. Wasn't able to truly relax...

christien I painted the dining area of my great room a terra cotta orange (but use it now for a reading nook) - a stimulated appetite might explain my weight gain! :) Don't really care though. It's beautiful, especially on the wall with the 12 foot windows.

Sarah Schmid Designs Speaking of orange...

sclawson I wanted orange in my half bath and laundry room to make it cheery. Selected a shade of Martha Stewart's called "Punch" and felt punched out when the first coat went on. We quickly ran to the store and got replacement paint in a pastel orange, which is still very cheery. The room is long and narrow and has no windows, which, I guess, ramped up the color. I often wonder if leaving the more intense color on the small wall that you first see when you walk in the half bath would have made the room look less like a bowling alley. i guess i'll just have to wonder because I am too afraid to try it again. Maybe i will use "punch" to paint the base cabinet on the sink, which is an out-of-date pickled oak.

mobaychic I LOVE orange! I have one accent wall in my dining area in burnt orange.... And a reddish orange accent wall in my office. I tone down the orange at home with turquoise accents

hey_hey I love orange! I just bought some orange chairs for my dinning foyer. I'm currently in the hunt for a great complimentary rug, probably light blue or light green with colorful small details. It's been quite a task.

tudormomb I love orange in the dining room! I recently moved to a new home, and the painter is scheduled to paint my new DR -- Benjamin Moore "Audubon Russet". Below, one of my previous DRs.

pjays I love Orange too. With Aqua.

granelle We recently added a sunroom to our house and used orange colors to make the space bright and inviting. We still need to personalize the space to make our room complete.

drmm I love orange also. My bedroom was orange when I was a teenager. I have orange throughout my home. We just decorated our lower level bath in orange .

rdmommycc Love me some orange! I also love seeing everyones pics :) fun!

hollywoodland I love orange--it's such a happy color, and as I grew up in Asia and have a lot of Chinese and Japanese things, it goes well with my belongings. Here is my living room--I painted it salmon upon moving in more than 7 years ago, long before it was chic. Last year I had two sofas reupholstered in taupe raw silk, which harmonizes well with the celadon green loveseat and the warmth of the walls.

frenchdecor I like orange but shades and hues and in textile decor, never true color. I always think why in the dining room we should use "appetizing" color? Rare people have bad appetite, obesity is more a problem and if food not tasty you can't "fix" it with color. About orange being extrovert's color, good to know, but I would go just in opposite direction. In my student years I had a friend with "red" room in the dorm (walls were white, but carpet, bedding, upholstered furniture and draperies were red) I couldn't stay there more than 30 minutes. My friend noticed it too, and was offended and once told me. I had to admit her "I feel anxiety in your room". She was fine with red, but if compare two of us we were both social, but she was a bit chubby not in sports, I was very active and athletic (looks like red just boiled my blood). Even now as I am grandma (young) I enjoy extreme sports and active. Though now energy level a bit down the way calming colors for me were and are a must.

niecie20 I tried a couple different colors... they just didn't feel right. I tried orange and in an instant I knew it was the color for me!

niecie20 I tried a couple different colors. when I tried orange... I knew it was the color for me, it 's a happy color. Yes, it can easily be overdone!

SPACIALISTS Orange is beautiful, check this example we incorporated the color to represent the restroom area.




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Angela Pascoe Love orange too

Mark I don't like orange. Bet that's going to make me popular in this ideabook :D. Really though, I just think red would be a better substitute in every situation. In those few color pairings where orange may be better.. well I don't like the colors it's paired with :).

Laurel Ennis My dining room fireplace wall is in orange and I love it.

pjays To Laurel Ennis What technique did you use to paint this? It is beautiful. I would love to do this on my bathroom walls. See pics back up at pjays.

Laurel Ennis Thank you. I used orange, school bus yellow, and dark orange paint mixed with glaze. I used a sponge, rag, my hands, a brush to apply it, one colour then another, sometimes mixing them, sometimes not, then lightened or darkened it in the corners and over the fireplace to look more realistic by using different tones of paint mixed with less or more glaze. I did dozens of coats over a few days. Finally I took some metallic spray paint and gave it a distant squirt here and there. Once it all dried, I drew on cave paintings in artist pencil (see photo). It was very much an artistic venture not easily replicated, I'm afraid. And if it matters to you, sponge treatments like this are really old-fashioned nowadays. We keep it because we love it.

Lowe's I always paint my laundry room bright orange. I love the color and want it in the room I least like to be working in. It helps!

hollywoodland Laurel, I love the fact that you did cave drawings over your sponge-painted wall! What a stroke of genius that was. The result is wonderful!

pjays Thanks Laurel for the info. I want my bathroom to be a little more the color of the glass sink and the tile but didn't want to repaint the whole room with a different color. Thanks for including the general colors you used.

Julia Pockett Wow... i've just got back from a trip and seen all your wonderful comments and pictures so thank you all!!! It seems orange is indeed a 'love it or hate it' choice. I used it last year as a feature wall in my bedroom (on the wall behind the bed) and en-suite. I was inspired by a trip I had just done to India and it was the perfect backdrop for some of the photos I took! My husband loves the room - in his words "it's warm and spicy".

sparklyduck Orange is one of my favorite colors. I've used it before in larger doses, like on an accent wall--I loved it, but it didn't give everyone else the same happy vibe. I noticed most guests didn't stay very long. In our new house, I kept the walls a calmer color and used my brights as accents, and suddenly everyone who comes over says, "Oh, I love the orange!" Turns out I prefer it this way, too... mostly because I can incorporate MORE color in more ways, where with an intense wall I felt like I had to have calmer, more neutralizing accessories so my brain could rest. (Oh... since this photo, that raggedy, broken down foot stool has been replaced... blah).

tasma I love orange accents! Orange and blue is a great contrast for me as I think it's uplifting without being overwhelming.

Becky Jarold Yes to orange!

camsmiles4u This is not as sharp or has the clean lines as the designs above :) Im sure not a magazine Kitchen lol But I do love my Kitchen :) Venetian plaster + stain walls. a bit of Tuscany i guess. Most of the kitchen is cabinets and back splash. Yes we added Island lighting and lighting over the table. But this is the only picture without us humans in it. One of my favorite views is looking in the kitchen at night from the yard the way the light reflects off the walls, and that warm glow that is so inviting. Yet again no picture with out humans. I do a LOT of cooking so its a good thing I love cooking in here :)

Patti West My house is orange......needless to say, some love it.....some hate it......everyone knows the house.....

windingcreek_creations orange is a wonderful accent color. It works with all the neutrals and opposite accents.
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deniadudley1 I love orange. This is my orange sectional statement piece