AB HOME Interiors Pink Ribbon BM 1340
Sometimes being a designer is exhausting, especially considering that our creative minds are always fluttering like A.D.D butterfly’s and to us, it makes perfect sense to wall paper the ceiling or put headlights in the floor. And when our clients look at us like we have lost our marbles, we screech with exhilaration about how great it will be and we are certain that it IS the right thing to do! One of my favorite quotes from the ever dapper and charming Don Draper:
” A new idea is something they don’t know yet, so of course it’s not going to show up as an option!”
~ Don Draper
I’m always trying to throw in a little of the unexpected in my interiors and color is the best way to achieve serious eye candy in a room. Wake up your room with these four colors that behave a lot like neutrals but get overlooked and stereotyped before they make it off the paint chip…try it you’ll see!
1) Pink
The least respected color in the paint deck, and deemed a feminine color, but nothing adds sophistication like a shocking pink. One of my favorite pinks:
2) Acid Green
One of my all time favs. A scandalous green will activate and energize a room. It adds pop to any room and stimulates your senses. One of my favorites to use:
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3) Turquoise
This little gem of a color goes with everything and adds glamour and allure to a room. Mixed with a lovely metallic and your room feels instantly exotic. One of my favs:
4) Purple
Once looked upon as Royalty, this color always gets shoved to the back of the eyeballs and hardly given a chance. Regal, soft and uber chic, this color adds poise and elegance to any room.
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Love all of those colors! I don’t have any walls those colors, but they are definitely in the accessories!
Very nice colors, love me some acid green ! Pretty photos too.
Thanks, Amanda. I love all of these colors, and they are colors that we forget about. I think I am going to add some purple.
Have a nice evening.
Teresa
Simply brilliant. I am so looking for hot pink accessories for my black and white bedroom.
cheers
Susan
Well, it just so happens that acid green, turquoise, and purple are my three favourite colours! And although I’m not a fan of light pink, I love fuchsia pink
So you don’t have to twist my arm to use these four fab colours! 
These are stunning – you showed all of these off so brilliantly, now I’m tempted to paint at least one room one of these shades!
(Btw, your uses-for-vodka post came in super-handy, we were figuring out what to do with a ton of vodka post dinner party, and I remembered your post ! I showed it to my significant other who now thinks you’re a genius 
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Love this post, Amanda! I’m planning to paint my guest bathroom pink, and I’m going to have to look at the Pink Ribbon!
I love what you said about clients thinking you’ve lost your marbles! I get that look too or the comment, “I thought you were crazy but the idea has grown on me and now I want it!” It’s always fun to push that envelope to see what takes hold with a client. Just love those 4 colors.
Amanda! What a fabulous post this is! I love the vivacious colors that you chose!
Also, if I had a dollar for every time one of my clients looked at me like I had a horn growing out of my head for suggesting one of my more “unique” ideas, I would be a very, very wealthy woman! But hey, that’s our creativity emerging, right?! In the end, those crazy ideas usually result in the most fabulous outcomes!
I really love purple, however, talking to the guys who mix paint, it’s one hard color to put in a room because when the natural light hits it – it gets really purple. What’s been your experience, I’d love to use this color more, but I don’t think I would use it in Southern or Western light?
Happy New Year Amanda, glad to hear everything is good with you.